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A study of a Mediaeval family

Step back in time and read how Mike Maskrey has pieced together the lives of selected members of the Maskrey family in the 1400s, revealing intriguing insights to the era too.

WHERE WILL YOUR READING TAKE YOU?

Family history books with Helen Tovey & Rachel Bellerby

The Family History Handbook 2023

RECORD -BRE AKING 25,782 DAY REIGN

By the time Queen Elizabeth passed away on Thursday 8 September 2022 her 70-year long reign had become record-breaking for a number of reasons

1921 Scotland census release update

Genealogist and FT regular Chris Paton has been on the case of discovering more about the forthcoming release of the 1921 Census for Scotland

Help wanted for DNA research into Long Covid

Living DNA has issued a call for people who have had Covid-19 to take part in a research project they are running with Sano Genetics to explore whether genetics affect the impact of the disease and the person’s recovery

New Fellow announced by Society of Genealogists

The Society of Genealogists has announced that Roz McCutcheon was named a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists (SOG) at their AGM in July 2022

AncestryDNA® expands to 54 new markets globally

Ancestry has announced it has expanded AncestryDNA® to 54 new markets across North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa

NEW PATRON FOR HOME FRONT HISTORY

The non-profit Home Front History service and website has announced a new patron

100,000 NEW HEADSTONE RECORDS ADDED TO THEGENEALOGIST

The International Headstone Collection at TheGenealogist has been boosted with 100,000 new records, bringing the total collection to nearly 400,000 records

Archives and Records Association announce winners of the 2022 ARA Excellence Awards

The winners of the ARA Excellence Awards were announced at the gala dinner of the Archives and Records Association Conference in Chester

One million more newspaper pages free to access from British Newspaper Archive and British Library

The British Newspaper Archive in partnership with the British Library, has made a further one million historical newspaper pages available completely free to the public, reaching a new total of two million free pages

Appeal to find war hero’s family as his medals are discovered in secret desk compartment

An appeal to find the descendants of a ‘Battle of Balaklava’ war hero has been launched after the soldier’s medals were found in a secret drawer where they had lain hidden for 150 years

130M HISTORICAL RECORDS ADDED TO MYHERITAGE COLLECTIONS

MyHeritage has announced the addition of 130 million historical records to its collections, contained within 74 new collections

PHOTOGENEALOGY: STEP 4 ENHANCE & SHARE YOUR PHOTOS

Welcome to the fourth step of your photogenealogy journey! This article in Ann Larkham’s series will explain how to enhance and share the digital photographs that you have gathered, organised and preserved in Steps 1, 2 & 3.

WHO’S THE DADDY?

Imagine the scenario: you track down the birth record for your ancestor on ScotlandsPeople, you click on the ‘view image’ button, and – alas! – there’s no father’s name given. Is this the brick wall to end all brick walls? Not necessarily. Fergus Smith tells us more…

CONFRONTING THE PAST; ethics of family history

Family historian Adèle Emm shares her thoughts and reflections on how, and whether, to cover the sensitive issues that many of us may find that we encounter in the course of doing our family history.

Things aren’t always WHAT THEY SEEM…

Joan Dexter explains how she solved a family history mystery that appeared to show that her great-grandmother had been baptised a week before her birth

THE FORM RELATIVES DIDN’T WANT TO FILL IN

What’s in a form? Jackie Hendry explores the impact of Form W5080 on families after World War One

LONDON LIVES & DEATHS

This month, Gill Shaw continues her quest to uncover the challenges faced by her Riboldi ancestors as she follows the family of John Anthony Riboldi to Victorian London

YOUR DNA WORKSHOP

This month, Karen Evans helps a reader explore possibilities for finding her missing grandfather, and looks at a beautiful new tool from DNA Painter

TOOL OF THE MONTH: HOW TO USE DNAPAINTER ANCESTRAL TREES

GENEALOGY GADGETS & APPS FOR ALL OCCASIONS!

What tools do you use to help your genealogy life run more smoothly? In this series Helen Tovey shares tools enjoyed by Family Tree readers and looks at some of the software & hardware that’s out there to help you work on your family history more efficiently and enjoyably

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 questions answered

With our experts Mary Evans, Simon Fowler, & Adele Emm

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