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The Shetland FHS monumental inscription project ‘could not have come soon enough’

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Essex Society for Family History celebrates 50th anniversary

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New Chief Executive and Keeper of The National Archives, Kew

For the past decade Dr Jeff James has

10 million new trade directory records at The Genealogist

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Banyan developments

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New Scottish-Australian Convict dataset

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TRACKING DOWN ELUSIVE ANCESTORS

CRIMEAN CONNECTION

A passing mention of her ancestor John Anthony Riboldi sends Gill Shaw on an exciting expedition – well, either that or a wild goose chase…

UPDATE ON THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE’S CONSULTATION: RETENTION OF PROBATE RECORDS

Richard Holt Discusses the latest information regarding the Ministry of Justice’s consultation on the storage and retention of original will documents based on new discoveries and the response to the petition

Dear Paul

This month, Paul Chiddicks goes beyond baptisms, marriages and burials, and has a look at the quirkier details sometimes hidden in the parish records

GETTING STARTED WITH family history

As you may have already realised, family history is absolutely fascinating, but… there’s a lot to learn. Help is at hand, however! Here’s our handy check list to keep you on track:

Sneaking up on a BRICK WALL

Persistence, a new research approach, and a smattering of well-earned genealogical good luck saw family historian Peter Day smashing down a brick wall that he’d been faced with for the past 15 years. Here he shares how he succeeded in the end…

The value of INTERVIEWING OLDER RELATIVES

Mell Turford, the Genealogy Guy UK, and podcaster at www.armchairgenealogy.com , explains why we should consider interviewing older relatives for the benefit of future generations, and gives us a step-by-step guide to doing it well

MELL’S TOP TIPS FOR INTERVIEWING YOUR RELATIVES

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How can WEARE.XYZ help you?

Emerging from the drawing board in the spring of 2020 WeAre.xyz has now notched up four years. We caught up with founder, Simon Davies, to see how it’s developed and how it’s being used by family historians worldwide to record and share their family histories

DEATH AND TAXES Using the death duty registers

This month’s Family Tree Academy introduces us to the fascinating world of the death duty registers. Though a great many of them have been lost or destroyed, those that remain can be a treasure trove for the family historian, as tutor David Annal explains

CREATING ‘QUICK AND DIRTY’ TREES

This month, Karen Evans gives us a guide to building ‘quick and dirty’ trees, and demonstrates how they can help to turbo-charge the results from our DNA matches

Tracing ancestors in the British armed forces in WWII

There’s never been a better time to discover what family members did during the Second World War, as the key records are increasingly going online, nor a more fitting time as we remember this 80th anniversary of the Normandy Landings this June. Simon Fowler suggests ways of tracing your parents’ and grandparents’ service during WWII

THE FOUNDATION FOR EAST EUROPEAN FAMILY HISTORY STUDIES

If you have ancestors in Eastern Europe, you may be surprised that expert help can be found in the US. Milan Pohontsch and Dave Obee tell us more...

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

With our experts Graham Caldwell, Mary Evans & David Frost

Photo corner

Costume historian & photo-dating expert Jayne Shrimpton shares advice to help you date your unidentified pictures and so put names to the faces of the past

Your letters

Tracing a birth certificate, without knowing the surname to search on...

AI CHEATING THE FUTURE?

Diane Lindsay has had fun experimenting with exciting new AI image apps, but offers a word of caution: think twice before airbrushing your family history

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