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FAMILY HISTORY WITH THEGENEALOGIST

TheGenealogist is giving every Family Tree reader a free 14-day Gold Subscription

With this issue, TheGenealogist website is offering readers a free 14-day Gold subscription, where millions of birth, marriage and death records from England, Wales and overseas are accessible, as well as census returns, parish registers, wills, military records, landowner returns, an image archive and many other valuable resources.

The website has everything you need to start building your family tree from scratch and, for seasoned researchers, TheGenealogist’s unique tools help to bust those brick walls, using the Master Search and SmartSearch to home in on elusive forebears.

First steps

With the General Register Office indexes to births, marriages and deaths available on TheGenealogist from 1837-2005, you can build your family tree working back through time. The certificates need to be ordered from www.gro.gov.uk and give both parents’ names on birth certificates (including the mother’s maiden name), father’s names on marriage certificates and often next-of-kin on death certificates. They also describe your ancestors’ occupations and tell you where they lived.