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Unravelling the EPIGENETIC TAPESTRY: illuminating prospects for family historians

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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

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World Heritage status for 51 Commonwealth war cemeteries and memorials

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has expressed its delight at the decision of the UNESCO World Heritage Council to inscribe 51 Commonwealth war cemeteries and memorials with World Heritage Status

‘Stolen’ adoptee reunites with his birth family thanks to DNA

A Chilean-American man has been reunited with his birth mother after 42 years, after MyHeritage DNA confirmed the relationship between parent and son

RootsTech 2024 registration is now open

RootsTech, the world’s largest genealogy conference, has announced that registration for RootsTech 2024 is now open – and also revealed the theme of the conference

How comfortable are we discussing death with family members?

New research commissioned by Legal & General shows that over 40 percent of adults are uncomfortable discussing death with loved ones

Herculaneum scrolls: A 20-year journey to read the unreadable

Brent Seales, computer science professor at the University

RQG: call for papers

‘Sharing Memories: Uncovering your Family History through Storytelling’

New archives partnership releases two million Worcestershire records

Over five centuries worth of records have been released online thanks to a new partnership between Worcestershire County Council’s Archive and Archaeology Service and Ancestry

SOURCES, EVIDENCE & PROOF: What is proof?

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Family history books with Helen Tovey & Rachel Bellerby

TALES OF A TEENAGE HEIRESS CONTINUED

Orphaned, sold and fought over; teenager Catherine Mary Riboldi’s change in fortune is as fascinating as it is confusing... Gill Shaw explains

THE GRANDDAD I NEVER KNEW

Stephen Roberts is a passionate researcher of the past, yet it was only last year – when he came to clear his mother’s home – that he uncovered a time-capsule of papers that revealed to him the life of the granddad he never knew

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THE 1868 BRADFORD ELECTION

The Bradford election November 1868: a tale of bribery, corruption, petition and trial

PRESERVING YOUR FAMILY’S ORAL HISTORY

PART II – Digitising Magnetic Tapes

YOUR DNA WORKSHOP

Crunching the numbers

Photo-dating study hints

Focus on Fashion Clues: 5. Men’s Neckwear: Collars & neckties 1890s-1930s

How to undertake a SUCCESSFUL GRAVEYARD RESEARCH TRIP

Alison Spring takes a look at getting the most out of visiting your ancestor’s final resting place, sharing some ideas to get you thinking about how to tackle what can be a challenging task for genealogists

SPOTLIGHT ON… The Romany and Traveller Family History Society

Sharon Heppell, founder member and journal editor of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society takes a look at the group’s thirty-year history and explains how it can help anyone who discovers a travelling ancestor in their family tree

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Why you need to look between the censuses...

Stories around every corner

Diane Lindsay takes a quick peek at a Facebook nostalgia group from her home city and quickly finds herself drawn down a rabbit hole of delightful memories

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