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UNIQUE AERIAL ARCHIVE SHEDS LIGHT ON LIFE IN 1930S AND 40S BRITAIN

Rachel Bellerby reports on the latest genealogy news. Got a story to share? Email editorial@family-tree.co.uk

Census Helper from MyHeritage now includes England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and more

MyHeritage have announced that their Census Helper tool, which initially covered just the US, has been expanded to include the censuses of many more countries

# everynamecounts project uses artificial intelligence to help uncover information on Nazi persecution victims

A team of volunteers from Accenture has built an artificial intelligence (AI)-based solution that helps extract information – on victims of Nazi persecution from documents in the Arolsen Archives 40 times faster than previously possible

Less than a quar ter of Brits display photos at home, new research from Ancestr y reveals

The findings come as Ancestry calls on the nation to submit family photos to The Nation’s Family Album – asearch for undiscovered portraits of everyday British people

Society of Genealogists welcomes members to its temporar y home

The Society of Genealogists has announced that its library will once again be open to members every Wednesday at its temporary office on Holloway Road, London

UK garden launches appeal for information abouts its French founding father

Heritage attraction Levens Hall and Gardens has issued an appeal for more information about its founder, Monsieur Guillaume Beaumont

47,000 non-conformist church records for Lancashire added to FamilySearch

Discover new details about the lives of your Lancashire ancestors with the addition of 47,795 free to access records at FamilySearch

Free to view photos of early 20th-century England and Wales released by FindMyPast

Discover remarkable pictures of England and Wales in a time gone by with a new collection from FindMyPast

150,000 Oldham workhouse records published online

More than 150,000 records from Oldham workhouse, Lancashire, have been published by FindMyPast, offering an insight into the diet, religion, appearance and eventual reason for discharge of inmates, 1800 to 1936.

Heritage Open Days celebrates astounding inventions

England’s largest festival of history and culture returns from 9 to 18 September, with an ‘astounding inventions’ theme

Naval strength in reserve

Was your naval ancestor actually a reservist? Simon Wills looks at what this means and how to find out more

A ‘RETAILING REVOLUTION’

Dress historian Jayne Shrimpton looks at the radical retail transformation of the shopping scene in Britain between the wars, and the impact on how our families at the time shopped for their clothes

DEATH DUTY REGISTERS: A MASTERCLASS

ESSENTIAL SEARCH SKILLS TO MASTER

WAS YOUR ANCESTOR SCHOOLED IN THE BCATP?

Scroll back to the time of the Second World War and the contested skies above Britain were no place for neophyte pilots and aircrew. Thus a safer learning zone was required. John D. Reid explores the role of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan

WHAT MIGHT A RING SIGNIFY?

Charlotte Soares reflects on the rings that our ancestors may once have worn, and the significance, sentiment and stories behind them

SETTING UP BUSINESS STATESIDE

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PHOTOGENEALOGY: AN INTRODUCTION

Genealogist Ann Larkham is passionate about preserving and sharing her family photo collections. In this introductory piece, Ann provides an overview of a set of five steps for you to follow. Over the coming 5 months she will be covering each step in greater detail so that you can follow alongside, and create your own awesome home photo archive too

Books & co

WHERE WILL YOUR READING TAKE YOU?

A novel connection

It’s a truth universally acknowledged* that tracing your family history can be time consuming and lead to blind alleys and dead ends. In Julie Norton’s case it took 40 years before her family could say with certainty that they were related to the novelist Jane Austen. To be precise, she is fifth cousin, six times removed

YOUR DNA WORKSHOP

ENLISTING DNA ON YOUR FAMILY HISTORY QUEST

Remembering the pioneer of the package holiday

Nicola Lisle recalls the achievements of travel pioneer Thomas Cook, who died 130 years ago this month, and looks at the rise and fall of the company he founded

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

What uniform is this boy wearing? Q Can

Your letters

Genealogical challenges ... Although genealogy has a well-respected

GENEALOGY GADGETS & APPS FOR ALL OCCASIONS!

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How It Was

WHAT STORY WOULD YOUR TIME CAPSULE TELL?