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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Family Tree Family Tree April 2019.
Welcome
What is it that you love about family history? Whether it’s the thrill of a new discovery, the joy of listening to a tale of lives once lived, or the satisfaction of improving your research sk...
The Hill that scaled a mountain to get home
Family historian Theresa Green was astonished to chance upon the case of a young Derbyshire orphan who was cruelly banished to a life of slavery in the New World by his fraudulent great-uncle, a man o...
A Freemason in the family
Do you have relatives who were Freemasons? John Crawford explains how to find out about their involvement in the centuries-old society
Last spring I completed the online Future Learn cou...
Our genealogical Stone Age ancestor
Dr Tom Booth, Visiting Researcher in the ancient DNA team at the Natural History Museum, has been analysing hundreds of skeletons, including that of Cheddar Man. Here he tells us about the importance ...
Good housekeeping, Georgian style
In family history, our time spent poring over old books is always well used. Here Ruth A Symes (pictured) tells Helen Tovey about a pioneering Georgian author, Elizabeth Raffald, whose inventive publi...