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As I write this, I reflect back two years. I’d just been to RootsTech Utah for the first time in my life and was bowled over by it –a totally fascinating and exciting genealogy experience. ‘The Corona-virus’ was taking up a lot of air-time on the rad

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Does your local railway, mine or factory have a fascinating story to be told? Is your coastal or rural town filled with tales about the people who previously lived and worked there? Have you always wanted to celebrate the cool architecture of the pla

Every year the Community Archives and Heritage Group (CAHG) gives awards to outstanding groups and projects. Last year it presented awards to three groups under the categories of: • Community Engagement (2021 winner Clements Hall Local History Group,

Genealogist Chris Paton revealed the news on his blog (scottishgenes.blogspot.com) that the contract to provide the 1921 Scottish census transcription has been awarded to Queen’s University Belfast. According to the National Records of Scotland websi

The toolkit aims to give archives the tools to help ensure that children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) can engage meaningfully with archives. The kit has information, ideas, tools and language to help increas

Family Tree was saddened to hear of the death, on 14 January, of Eric Probert, one-time editor of the computer section of the magazine from 1996 to 2001, and also answered reader queries in our Q&A section. Eric’s obituary was featured in the Essex C

Nearly 1 million transcripts make up this baptism record collection, spanning almost 400 years of history. Rich biographical details even occasionally note the father’s occupation or the mother’s marital status. Examples of foundlings, orphans and ch

FamilySearch have added 10 million new indexed records from United States City and Business Directories (c.1749 to c.1990), and 10 million Church records from Switzerland (1418-1996). This collection spans the years 1418-1996 and includes baptism, ma

The results of the survey highlight the British public’s view of 2022 as a key year in history, with over 40% of those surveyed believing that the global pandemic will be the defining issue for historians when they study this period in the future. To

Sewing at once, with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt. (Thomas Hood 1843) With 267,791 people plying their trade of dressmaker/ milliner in 1851, this made it the seventh most populous occupation. Beaten into eleventh position were 152,67

The theme to this month’s edition is code breakers, as we take a look at some secret coded messages written on postcards, along with some that tell a wonderful story of ambition and achievement. We also have the usual mix of the unexpected, the unusu

The use of surnames is a relatively recent circumstance in human history. Many past societies have used second names to distinguish people and families, but the modern world’s adoption of formal last names only dates back about 700 years. I first wro

Until signing up for the DNA Bootcamp (February-March 2021), I didn’t realise how little I knew about Ancestry – very alarming as I’ve been using it for nearly 20 years! I have made good progress, however, and I have a number of questions that I woul

QMy earliest memories of family history include being told that my great-great-grandfather, Francis Mills (1843-1908) was the illegitimate son of Sir Francis Burdett. The story was often repeated at family events that he did little work and collected

Deserters of the First World War: The Home Front by Andrea Hetherington Th deserters who were shot at dawn and pardoned a century later is a familiar one. But alongside these 306 UK soldiers are the stories of another 80,000 men charged with deserti