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Researching and remembering our WWI ancestors’ lives

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Karen Clare reports on the latest genealogy news, including highlighting a selection of projects and events that commemorate the lives of our WW1 ancestors. Got a story to share? Email editorial@family-tree.co.uk

Life after Armistice A century ago the First World War came to an end, but this war has cast a long shadow over history and over the lives of every one of our families. Keith Gregson reports on what he has learned from his own First World War researches

Life after Armistice A century ago the First World

Telling stories of the past f or future generations

At the close of the First World War centenary commemorations, Family Tree was honoured to catch up with Diane Lees CBE, Director-General of the Imperial War Museums. Here she shares her views on the nation’s remembrance

RESEARCHING YOUR WW1 ANCESTORS HOW TO BEGIN

Soon the WW1 centenary Last Post will sound, 100 years on from the Armistice, 1918. At memorials in town squares and churches all over the world, many of us will say the words ‘we will remember them’. If you would like to find out how to begin tracing your ancestors’ war years, it’s not too late to start. Helen Tovey outlines some ways to track down clues about your family’s experiences

First World War centenary

Genealogist Chris Paton reflects on how the First World War centenary has created a wealth of new resources for family historians and opportunities to help commemorate the lives of our WW1 ancestors

Twiglets

Diarist Gill Shaw charts the rollercoaster ride of researching her family history

No grave but the sea

Could a death at sea solve your World War I brickwall? Find out with maritime genealogy expert Simon Wills

Spotlight on… Suffolk Family History Society

With more than 40 years of history and a healthy membership of over 2,000 people, Suffolk Family History Society is well placed to assist anyone tracing kin in this county, as Joan Horton explains

The Great War changed everything about people’s lives, not least attitudes and commitment to charitable work, as Amanda Randall discovers

The Great War changed everything about people’s lives

New directions in fashion

Jayne Shrimpton looks through the wardrobes of our female folk in the First World War era, studying the practical and vogueish garments favoured at the time

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Books

Karen Clare reads up on a selection of titles commemorating the First World War centenary

Working together for family history

Family history research is all about collaboration

The lunch hour genealogist

Being busy doesn’t mean you have to neglect your favourite hobby, you can still learn in your lunch break! Squeeze just 60 minutes of family history into your daily routine and you’ll soon start to see your tree blossom. It’s time to tuck into Rachel Bellerby’s genealogy treats

DEAR TOM

Explore the serious, sublime and the ridiculous facets of family history in this genealogical miscellany. This issue, Tom Wood considers a wonderful array of same-named children through successive generations of different readers’ families

Studying Italy in The Great War

Each issue Julie Goucher spotlights an unusual website to help you take your research in a new direction

Your questions answered

With our panel of experts Jayne Shrimpton, David Frost, Mary Evans, Emma Jolly, Mike Sharpe and Tim Lovering

DIARY DATES

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Your letters

The Armistice remembered in the words of one who was there

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Check list for success 10 useful points to remember

Family history in my heart

Diane Lindsay ponders on the Grandads of yesteryear, her family today, and the precious threads that weave through time, connecting past and future

Discover the answers to last issue’s challenges How did you do?

Read on to find out the answers to last issue’s Family Tree Academy challenges. Our Academy tutor David Annal explains all.

Join the Family Tree Academy & become a skilled family historian

Running all through 2018, the Academy learning experience will help you discover more about the records, resources and research skills you need to become the best genealogist you can be. We have case studies for you to pit your wits against, documents for you to decipher, old handwriting for you to tackle, and more…

Heroes at sea

There is an argument for saying that the Royal Navy’s role during the WW1 was as important as that of the brave men in the trenches. This will come as a surprise to some people, yet Jim Ring, author of a new book ‘How the Navy Won the War’, explains to Simon Wills

Taken a DNA test? Now what? DNA SERIES

DNA tests are becoming ever more popular but the results can seem bewildering can’t they? Help is at hand, however, with family historian Karen Evans’s practical advice for making sense of your DNA test results for your family history research

TECHY TIPS for family historians

Make the most of digital devices, websites, apps and gadgets, with genealogical web guru Paul Carter