Let’s toast our ancestors, cherish the memories, think of all we’ve learned about our family histories in 2019 – and start making exciting genealogy plans for the year to come too….
What a year it’s been for tracing our family trees! We’ve held the first-ever Family Tree Live in partnership with the Family History Federation and the show’s returning to Alexandra Palace April 2020 (Hurray! Get that date in your diary for two days immersed in all things family history). RootsTech crossed the Atlantic and was thoroughly enjoyed by many at ExCel, DNA tests continue to sell like hotcakes and websites impressively add millions and millions of new family history records to their collections for us to explore. What’s more, this is the year that Family Tree celebrates its 35th birthday – thank you so much to everyone for reading and supporting the magazine. It’s quite astonishing to think of the riches of records and resources we’ve all got to relish nowadays – so many connections to make, ancestors to discover, new-found cousins to get to know and stories to tell.