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Selected digital English and Welsh birth and death records now available from the GRO

Those researching births and deaths in England and Wales have now come a step closer to their Irish and Scottish counterparts with a move towards making these records available digitally.

Pioneering re-weave for Georgian carpet: 250 years on

For the first time in more than 40 years, visitors can enjoy one of Britain’s finest early Georgian interiors as its designer intended, after its Axminster was recreated by the firm whose founder wove the original in the same Devon town in 1770

£3.5M makeover for iconic Menin Gate

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) has started restoration work on the iconic Ypres memorial which commemorates more than 54,000 missing Commonwealth service personnel from the First World War

Women’s lockdown experience exhibition

Women’s written experiences of the first phase of the UK’s lockdown are at the heart of ‘Rooms of Our Own’: the lockdown house at the House of Commons in London

Sussex record offices celebrate 10 million record views

Over the last three years West Sussex Record Office and East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office have been working in partnership with Ancestry to put millions of historic records online and are celebrating a landmark 10 million views of their historic records

Nationwide history project discovers rare stories and objects

Their Finest Hour is a nationwide project safeguarding the memories of the Second World War for future generations through mass digitisation of Second World War stories and objects

Cemetery group remembers the ‘forgotten’ dead

Friends of Horton Cemetery is working to ensure that the lives of those who were patients in the Epsom cluster of asylums, many of whom were buried in unmarked graves, are not forgotten

Can you help the Ministry of Defence shape their medal services?

The Ministry of Defence are working on a digital service that will issue previously unclaimed medals and are looking for people to take part in their research

Find your ancestors on the 1931 Canada census

FindMyPast & Ancestry have announced the addition of the 1931 Canada Census to their record collections, with 234,606 images now available to browse on FindMyPast, while the collection is browsable and searchable on Ancestry.

SLOW DOWN & Plan Your Research

HOW TO GET & KEEP ORGANISED

UNDERSTANDING GENEALOGICAL SOURCES & why it matters

SHARPENING UP OUR RESEARCH SKILLS

STILL MANY MORE PLACES TO TRY...

Revisiting a record she first bumped into some time ago, Gill Shaw sets off on the trail of her 2x great-aunt Catherine Mary Riboldi

HOW FAMILY HISTORY CAN PROVIDE CHILDREN WITH LIFE SKILLS & RESILIENCE

Looking at the Applications of Family History for our Health and Well-being: PART 2

GETTING THE BEST FROM ANCESTRY FOR YOUR FAMILY HISTORY

Genealogist Chris Paton navigates Ancestry.co.uk to share with you some of the useful tools and research practices to help you get the most from this genealogy giant for your family history.

MY a story of a Land Girl and the Women’s Land Army

PEGGY’S WAR:

Keeping it in the family

Katharine McKinnon had traced her family history many generations back, but it was when she received a chance phone call about a forthcoming auction that the importance of tracing family sideways and forwards in time really struck her. Read on for Katharine’s cautionary tale.

GENEALOGY GADGETS & APPS FOR ALL OCCASIONS!

WEATHER EXTREMES IN ENGLAND’S LITTLE ICE AGE

A WOMAN CALLED Kate...

This month Family Tree Academy Tutor, David Annal, demonstrates how, by digging deeper than solely the 'vital' events, we begin to learn really interesting life stories'

SPOTLIGHT ON… Ryedale Family History Group

Philippa Jarvis introduces a thriving Yorkshire family history group that covers a wide geographical area and has members across the country and further afield

HOW TO PREPARE FOR YOUR DNA TEST RESULTS

This month, to help you, Karen Evans shares invaluable insights to the information, tips and tactics that she wishes she'd known when she first took a DNA test

HOW TO CLUSTER YOUR DNA MATCHES

TASK OF THE MONTH

WHERE WILL YOUR READING TAKE YOU?

Isle of Hope Michael Hawkes & Susan Hawkes,

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

When one thing leads to another... QI am wondering

Your LETTERS

Working with wills, wrestling with erroneous trees, making the most of memories, & an usual studio prop

DIARY DATES

DISCOVER LEARNING EXPERIENCES TO ENJOY FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, PLUS

JOIN THE CLUB!

With expert presenters and a really friendly crowd The Family Tree Study Club is a great place to learn more about family history with like-minded enthusiasts. So, come along!

Reunion Heroine

Diane Lindsay rises to the challenge and upgrades her family history software... a task she’s been putting off since the pandemic, so we rather think she’s an upgrade heroine. Happy Mystery Birthday!

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