March 2020

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Welcome
Spring is in the air and Family Tree Live is fast approaching! Are you curious to find out about the genealogy treats and learning experiences we’ve got lined up for you? Turn to page 47 without further ado… Within the pages of Family Tree magazine,
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News
Email editorial@family-tree.co.uk Two researchers are appealing for help in tracing the names of thousands of people who passed through the doors of a military hospital in Hampshire during its 115-year history. Julie Green and Brenda Findlay, of Netl
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Your Free Records
At Family Tree we’ve teamed up with UK family history website TheGenealogist.co.uk to offer you selected free sources from its extensive online collections. Read on to learn about the census and other genealogy records you can search today for free…
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Dear Karen
Writing this while looking out of my window at an ominously grey and gloomy sky, I’m rather in need of cheering up. Thankfully reader Amanda West has come to the rescue with a glorious find she made in the General Register Office marriage indexes tha
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Is There Such A Thing As Ancestral Memory?
Have you ever visited somewhere for the first time and felt a sense of déjà vu? Perhaps you turned a corner and found that the view was, oddly, just what you expected, even though you’d never been there before. Has someone in your family taken up a h
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Get The Best Out Of The GRO Website
Search smarter! Since 2003, family historians have been using the General Register Office (GRO) website to order certificates online. The GRO is part of Her Majesty’s Passport Office and oversees civil registration in England and Wales. It maintains
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How To Start A ONE-NAME STUDY
Setting the scene For most people, starting a surname study or one-name study stems from their own ancestry – a family name that piques your curiosity. It is either an unusual surname, perhaps a ‘foreign’ one, or one where there is a brick wall, wher
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Discover The Mental Health Benefits Of Family History Research
Often when people start researching their family tree, they are warned that they might encounter facts about their ancestors that will upset or alarm them, such as ancestors who lived in workhouses, suffered illnesses and poverty, or were criminals o
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Your FREE Family Tree Ultimate Kit
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Twiglets
In that little lull between ordering a BMD certificate and its arrival, random loose ends often pop into my mind. What about such-and-such, what happened to so-and-so, how come I overlooked that record set? Now, waiting for the death certificates of
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Working In The Outposts Of Empire
In 1855 the painter Ford Madox Brown produced The Last of England, a picture showing a young couple on board ship, wrapped in thick winter clothing, looking back at the receding shores of their native land. The work was influenced by the emigration o
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Your DNA Workshop
TAKEN A DNA TEST? Now what? Welcome to the DNA Workshop! In every issue of Family Tree, DNA adviser Karen Evans will be helping you gen up on your genes, so you can: • Learn practical skills with the DNA case studies • Try it out for yourself with ou
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Task Of The Month
If you have your DNA on 23andMe, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA or GEDMatch then you have access to a chromosome browser that allows you to ‘see’ the segments you and your matches share. DNA Painter https://dnapainter.com/ allows you to create a profile t
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Jargon Busted
Whether your testing company calls it ‘predicted relationship’ or ‘relationship range’, it is important to understand exactly how you are related to a match. And the thing is… the companies can’t give an exact relationship, except for the parent/chil
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Pull-out Guide
HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS SHOP THE STALLS TAKE A DNA TEST MAKE FRIENDS AT THE VILLAGE GREEN INSPIRING LECTURES ONE-TO-ONE ADVICE VINTAGE GAMES DRESS UP IN COSTUME CHAT TO A SOCIETY KIDS ARE FREE FREE CAR PARKING FREE SHUTTLE BUS BOOK NOW: www.familytreeliv
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Keen To Become (even) Better At Family History? Of Course You Are!
What are you looking forward to learning about at Family Tree Live 2020? Your genes? Perhaps you’re on a mission to learn more about DNA? If so, take a seat at the lectures in the FamilyTreeDNA Hub and make new discoveries about this fascinating aspe
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In 4 Steps
1 Simply go to https://familytr.ee/ftlivebook – which will take you to the Ticket Factory website 2 Search for ‘Family Tree Live’. Choose the day(s) you wish to attend. Click ‘GET TICKETS’. Select how many you want, enter subscriber discount code if
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Family Tree Live lectures & workshops Friday 17 April 2020
A glimpse down memory lane To view video chats with some of last year’s experts, follow the steps below: • STEP 1 – Visit https://familytr.ee/ftliveinterviews • STEP 2 – Simply enter your name and email address and think of a password • STEP 3 – Enjo
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Family Tree Live lectures & workshops Saturday 18 April 2020
Shop til you drop, genealogy style! The opportunities to stock up on family history supplies and advice are endless at Family Tree Live. From essentials for your home archive, to books, apps, courses, DNA kits, professional researchers and family his
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Techy Tips For Family Historians
The motivation for starting a website project can come in many forms, much like why we each took that first step on our family history journey. While there will be commonality in our stories, each is unique and special to us. This is why we chose Kar
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Join The Family Tree Academy & Become A Skilled Family Historian
How does it work? With professional researcher David Annal as tutor in Family Tree, we give you the chance to: 1. Tackle research case studies2. Learn about a broad range of records3. Take your research to the next level. In each issue of Family Tree
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Tips For Searching Genealogy Websites Researching Online: Part 1
Once we’ve established a firm base for our research by getting as much information as possible from old family documents and relatives we can begin to embark on our journey of discovery. While you definitely can’t do it all online, it’s undeniable th
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Documents In Depth - #2 marriage certificates
There was no change to the information recorded on English and Welsh marriage certificates between 1 July 1837 and 25 May 2019. The certificate is divided into three sections; the first giving details of where the marriage took place, the second reco
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Your Family Tree Academy Document Challenges
Now it’s time to put your research skills to the test. Each issue we’ll show you some documents and ask you a variety of questions relating to them. The documents themselves are just the starting points and you’ll need to look at other sources to fin
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How Did You Do?
LEARN THE ANSWERS TO LAST ISSUE’S CHALLENGES Last month (in the February issue of Family Tree) we showed you three documents from Family Tree Academy tutor David Annal’s family ‘treasure chests’ and set you some challenges. John Hulme – birth certifi
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Family History Software: An Introduction
Family history software exists for a reason – to help keep our research in an organised, shareable format. If you’re looking for something to help you: • grow a family tree, complete with ancestor pictures and stories;• keep track of your documents a
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Honouring Family Heroes
RESEARCH ZONE In 1881, Abraham Hart Youngs from Brighton dived fully-clothed from an open boat to save a young man who was drowning in a rough sea. Abraham had been a coastguard and was used to rescuing people. He was an expert swimmer at a time when
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The Lunch Hour Genealogist
If you have Scottish (or sometimes Irish) ancestry, sooner or later you’re likely to come across reference to your family belonging to a clan. A clan is a kinship group, sometimes (but not always) with shared descent from a founder member, whose desc
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Digging Up Mining Stories
T 1921 Census records 990,400 of our ancestors in England and Wales as working in coal mining – at a time when the population was 38 million. This gives you an idea how high the chances are that you might have a miner ancestor (or more likely, if you
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Your Questions Answered
Q I am very keen to learn more about my father’s WW1 war years. I have a photo of him that I hope may hold clues. Jean Sutherland A Roderick Fraser Sutherland is wearing the cap badge of the Royal Regiment of Artillery and his attire tells us that he
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Books
‘This book is an impressionistic history – a patchwork of lives,’ so writes Lucy Adlington in her introduction. But what pieces of the patchwork. Each fragment, each memory or anecdote has such resonance, set against the backdrop of war. Spanning the
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Become Part Of The Family Tree Family!
On 12 March, just in time for St Patrick’s Day, Thames & Hudson is publishing Ireland’s Forgotten Past: A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered, the new book by best-selling author and historian Turtle Bunbury. This witty and irreverent book wi
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Somerset & Dorset Family History Society
Like many other family history societies, the Somerset and Dorset Family History Society (SDFHS) was founded in the mid-1970s. The group was formed after several like-minded people first came together to record gravestones and other monumental inscri
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Discover Pioneering Women In The Archives
The National Archives (TNA) is marking International Women’s Day on 8 March with a series of talks and document displays focusing on pioneering women in history. Bloody Brilliant Women (5 March) is a talk, display and book signing in which journalist
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Diary Dates
Find or post diary dates at www.family-tree.co.uk/Events for FREE or email them to editorial@family-tree.co.uk Start 2 March e-Courses Online: Pharos Tutors’ courses starting in March with places remaining begin with Chris Paton’s Scottish Research O
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Your Letters
I was fascinated seeing the full page reproduction dated 1815 of Dartmoor Prison (FT January 2020). It reminded me that sometimes the prominent figures and events of the past can touch our everyday lives. Let me explain. Daniel Asher Alexander was th
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Coming Next In FamilyTree
Learn how these essential records can help you trace your family tree back centuries PLUS: How to write your family history Top tips on making that dream of a family history publication a reality Free family history ideas 20 things you need to know F
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Editor - Helen Tovey helen.t@family-tree.co.uk Assistant Editor - Karen Clare karen.c@family-tree.co.uk Digital Editor - Rachel Bellerby rachelb@warnersgroup.co.uk Editorial 01778 395050 editorial@family-tree.co.uk Senior Designer - Nathan Ward natha
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The Family Tree Notice Board
The first step to encouraging your family and friends into family history is talking about it – keep it general, fun and get the memories flowing. With Mothering Sunday coming along soon (22 March) this month’s topic has got to be the women in the fa
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Gift That Keeps Giving
I often refer to family history as the hobby (call that lifestyle!) that never stops giving. No matter how long you’ve been researching, and how thorough you think you’ve been, going back over the same ground is never wasted time. Take parish registe

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