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What are the stories of your ancestors’ homes?

We often think of our ancestors’ homes. Their

REDEMPTION SONG: THE TRANSFORMATIVE NATURE OF CARIBBEAN GENEALOGY

GENEALOGY: A SPACEF OR RECONCILIATION

A House Through Time: Behind The scenes

SNEAK PEEK: HOW IT’S MADE

STARTER FOR 10: Useful records for house history

A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO RESEARCH

HOW TO KEEP YOUR HOUSE HISTORY Organised

We know – your time is precious – and one of the best ways of making the most of it, is to keep organised. As with genealogy, house history research is much better undertaken with a solid system to keep your findings recorded well. Here are a few suggestions to help you do just this

DEAR PAUL

In the latest instalment of his ‘Dear Paul series, Paul Chiddicks presents the theme, ‘A Tomb with a view’, as he looks at some unusual tombs and burials, as well as unsolved mysteries surrounding the deaths of our ancestors

House history: discovering stories

CASE STUDIES & KEY RESEARCH MOMENTS

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CASE STUDIES & KEY RESEARCH MOMENTS

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CASE STUDIES & KEY RESEARCH MOMENTS

Challenging history

GIVING VOICE TO EVERYONE’S STORIES

THE PRINCIPLES OF Writing Ancestor Stories

THOUGHTS ON WRITING FAMILY HISTORIES

Your DNA Workshop

UNLOCK THE STORY OF YOUR GENES

WHAT'S NEW IN DNA?

When you first log in to the updated

Spotlight on...

OXFORDSHIRE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

Books & co

A small selection of intriguing reads, with Helen Tovey & Rachel Bellerby

Your questions answered

DISCOVER RESEARCH SOLUTIONS

How many houses have you called

THOUGHTS ON... HOMES OF YESTERYEAR home? Diane Lindsay

Us and Canada Newspaper Removed FindMyPast

An enquiry from Shropshire-based researcher Martin James to

MyHeritage acquire French genealogy company Filae

MyHeritage has signed agreements to acquire 90.91% of the share capital and 89.11% of the voting rights of Filae, a leading genealogy service in France

CALL FOR ‘CITIZEN SCIENTISTS’ TO HELP UNLOCK THE SECRETS OF ST JAMES’S BURIAL GROUND

A group of archaeologists working on the High Speed 2 project are inviting people to take part in a huge citizen science project: digitising 57,639 burial records that hold key details about the lives of Londoners in the 18th and 19th centuries

1.1M ENGLAND FAMILY HISTORY RECORDS ADDED TO FAMILYSEARCH

FamilySearch has announced the addition of more than one million records for England to its collections

New Online tree designe at MyHeritage

The most popular online family tree design at

OLDEST STONEHENGE FAMILY PHOTO DISCOVERED IN COLLECTION OF QUEEN ROCK LEGEND DR BRIAN MAY

Stonehenge’s oldest family photo has been discovered in the collection of Dr Brian May, guitarist of rock band Queen, English Heritage has announced

1M pages of historical British newspaper free to explore online

158 historical newspapers spanning 1720 to 1880 are now free to search and explore online, with 2.7 million more pages to be added by 2025158 historical newspapers spanning 1720 to 1880 are now free to search and explore online, with 2.7 million more pages to be added by 2025

3 million Ireland prison records added to FamilySearch

A collection of more than 3 million prison records for Ireland from the 18th to 20th centuries has been added to the FamilySearch genealogy website

ISRAEL GENEALOGY ASSOCIATION REACHES 2 MILLION RECORDS LANDMARK

More than 100 volunteers have worked on the Association’s collection in the last 10 years and it now includes records relating to communities in countries of the Middle East such as Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and others

300,000+ individuals added to parish records collection at TheGenealogist

TheGenealogist has added a further 322,894 individuals to its parish records collection with the release of a set from the English county of Suffolk

Four new counties added to Map Explorer at TheGenealogist

Diamond subscribers of TheGenealogist can now view Victorian

4.7 million New Zealand records added to MyHeritage

Millions of birth, marriage and death indexes have been added to the MyHeritage database recently

New documentary explores the photography of ordinary life

Picture Stories celebrates the wide-ranging influence of Picture

Discover the Freedmen’s Bureau record collection

Containing more records than the 1880 United States

Mapping

our ancestors' lives

A home on the waves

If your genealogy research calls on you to play ‘ship detective’, Simon Wills introduces you to some helpful sources

ONE YEAR, ONE DAY, ONE PLACE

THE PLACE WHERE I GREW UP

SUPERLATIVE FINDINGS

Digging Deeper