As a child, George Smith had been rushed to hospital with a burst appendix and was left suffering from septicaemia. For many weeks he had not been expected to survive, but survive he did. As a result of these experiences, when war was declared he was

Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, each household and institution were issued with a schedule which they were required to complete on 29 September 1939. These schedules were collected in by enumerators and the information was compile

The Archives and Records Association UK & Ireland (ARA) has awarded two grants of £10,000 to projects investigating AI (and other emerging technologies) and their application within the record-keeping sector. The grants have been awarded to: • Dr Lis

This autumn Family Tree celebrates 40 years of publication. Former paramedic and fish & chip shop owner Michael Armstrong, founder of Family Tree, had thought long and hard about starting a family history magazine. He was a keen family historian hims

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31 October, 6.30pm Discover tools and techniques to help you push through the obstacles to your research progress and find the family history discoveries you seek, with professional genealogist and tutor Michelle Patient £10 (FREE for Family Tree Plu

Many family historians avoid social media – but did you know that you can get a great deal of help from other genealogists on Facebook or Twitter (X), for instance? And don’t just skip over this bit because you’re not keen on the idea! A few years ag

28 August 2024 saw a 40% increase in the number of Theories of Family Relativity available to customers at MyHeritageDNA, bringing the total to 233,400,486 theories. This means that of the 8.5 million people who have DNA test information with MyHerit

On 22 February 1856, a man called George Cooper died at Zeal in the parish of South Tawton in Devon. According to his death certificate, he was 88 years old and had died of ‘Paralysis’ – a vague, non-scientific cause of death, typical of the time, pr

In my experience of teaching family history I find that the majority of researchers starting out in their ancestral searches use only the Ancestry database. Like many genealogists I subscribe to multiple genealogy databases, including Ancestry, Findm

None of the following suggestions should cost you much money, or any money, at all, other than possibly the cost of travelling to a public library, making a phone call, or connecting to the Internet. Possibly the most important question you, as a fam

Over a lifetime, we wear many ‘hats’, sometimes piled precariously on top of each other like the animals in The Musicians of Bremen. My hats, in no particular order, are daughter, pupil, wife, mother, teacher, potter, historian, genealogist, writer,

Tracing a friend’s tree: advice needed on Jewish family history leads please Q I’m researching a friend’s tree, and the issues relate to his great-great-grandparents, Julia Jacobs and Lewis Barnett, who married on 16 September 1856. The marriage cert

Learn how to keep track of your DNA matches and become a super-smart researcher with DNA advisor Karen Evans Dr Alan Smith investigates, and uncovers some surprising facts about our extended family Exploring antiquarian sources for genealogy deep div

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