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AGRA conference speaker line-up announced

The Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives (AGRA) has announced the 2023 AGRA conference line up for Navigating Your Family History: Journeys with Ancestors.

Remembrance ceremony for Flying Tiger passengers

A live remembrance ceremony screened around the world on Facebook has paid tribute to those who lost their lives when the Flying Tiger plane went missing in Vietnam

Legacy of railway stationmaster marked through new housing development

The memory of a 19th-century stationmaster will live on through the creation of a new housing development in Cumbria

Countdown to 1931 Canada census release

The 1931 Canada census will become available to the public on 1 June, Library and Archives Canada has announced

A NEW WAY TO SHARE YOUR TREE

FindMyPast has launched a new tree sharing feature, allowing subscribers to share their research with family and friends

Add the power of audio to your family history photos

Add multiple audio memories to family history images and videos with a new feature at FileShadow

Over 132,000 Dublin diocese marriage and will records added to FindMyPast

FindMyPast has announced the release of thousands of family history records relating to the diocese of Dublin.

Explore local history at the new Wales Broadcast Archive

The National Library of Wales has brought together the archives of BBC Wales, ITV Wales and S4C to give access more than a century of television and radio, creating the Wales Broadcast Archive

Wallace Clare Award 2023

The Council of the Irish Genealogical Research Society has announced that the latest recipient of the Wallace Clare Award is Dr Jennifer Harrison, a genealogist and historian from Queensland, Australia, where she is an honorary research fellow in history at the University of Queensland

Was your ancestor on a 'wanted' list?

Wanted persons, absentees and deserter records spanning a period of thirty years are included in The Genealogist’s latest release

From London to Scotland by steam

Channel 5 is screening a four-part series Britain By Steam this spring, in which journalist and presenter John Sergeant, actor Peter Davison and Paul ‘Piglet’ Middleton will travel from London to Scotland using only the power of steam

Dear Paul

In this coronation month Paul Chiddicks reflects on how the crowning of a new monarch previously affected family naming patterns, looks at some grisly deaths, and explores what secrets lie beyond the grave…

Free Birth, Marriage and Death Records

Alison Spring takes us on a tour of the many different places, both online and in-person, where we can find a wealth of birth, marriage and death records without paying a penny

WHERE THERE’S A WILL…

Here Wayne Shepheard demonstrates an intriguing selection of insights that may be gained by the careful study of our ancestors’ wills.

AS A FAMILY LINE

Show & tell your family history

FOLLOWING THE RIBOLDI BROTHERS

This month, Gill Shaw delves into census and orphanage records to discover whether a long-term family legend has any basis in truth

WHERE WILL YOUR READING TAKE YOU?

Family history books with Helen Tovey & Rachel Bellerby

RECORDS OF OUR ANCESTORS marriages

This month Family Tree Academy Tutor, David Annal, walks us through a history of marriage records for England and Wales

Have you heard of website www.weare.xyz?

Every cloud has a silver lining, and one such very good thing to come out of Covid is WeAre.xyz – an innovative online family archive builder by Simon Davies. Read on to discover what it can do for your family history

YOUR DNA WORKSHOP

This month, Karen Evans helps a reader to narrow down possible geographical locations for one of his 2x great-grandparents

Armourer sergeant Edward Webb AND HIS HIDDEN MEDALS

Judith Batchelor tells the story of her quest to trace the descendants of Crimean War hero Sergeant Edward Webb, using the census, parish registers and military records to build up a picture of his journey from a London workhouse to the battlefields of the Crimea

Inside the Local BMD Project

Local birth, marriage and death project specialists Ian Hartas, John Marsden & Steve Stutcinskas explain how the Local BMD Project works, how it can help your family history, and how you might like to get involved too…

SPOTLIGHT ON… The Friends of Perth & Kinross Archive

The Friends is a group with volunteering at its heart, with members supporting the work of Perth & Kinross Archive, and producing a variety of databases and pubilcations for family historians

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

A frustratingly dead end in the search for

Whistle while you work

This month, Diane Lindsay ponders on whether our ancestors would have whistled, and why this might have been discouraged for members of the ‘fairer sex’

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