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ARE YOU READY TO CONNECT WITH THE GENEALOGY WORLD?
Over the past ten years, RootsTech has brought exciting elements of the genealogy and technology worlds together, transforming the genealogy show-going scene, and celebrating new IT based developments that we, the end users, benefit from when doing our family histories at home, online. Helen Tovey takes a look at what we can look forward to from RootsTech in 2021
PARISH REGISTERS A MINI TIMELINE HISTORY
The records of our ancestors as found in the parish registers give us the opportunity, potentially, to trace our family trees over several centuries to the 1500s. Helen Tovey walks us through a timeline to show just how useful they can be in researching our families back to the time of King Henry VIII
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New CEO at SoG
Chief Executive Officer at the Society of Genealogists June Perrin retired in December 2020 after 20 years at the helm
New statistics reveal the most common age for childbirth for women born in 1974
Women in England and Wales born in 1974 had their first child on average eight years later than those born in 1948, new data from the Office for National Statistics has revealed
A monumental achievement in Banffshire heritage
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