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ISSUE 154 SUMMER 2019 ISSUE 153 JULY 2019 News RootsTech London schedule announced – P9 News Records of familes in China go online – P9 Feature New series preview – P14 Off the record Family rifts revealed in wills – P15 Off the record Summers gone by – P17 Feature Parish registers online – P16 Feature Discover childhood records – P18 The Big Picture The Tower of London opening, 1894 – P24 Feature Clues in garden photographs – P28 Feature D-Day Landings 75th anniversary – P26 Reader Story David Cooper Holmes: My 5x grandmother Reader Story Adrian Stone: My family came here with the was a career criminal and folklore heroine – P32 Windrush Generation – P30 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P37 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P37 My Family Album Ann Simcock – P46 My Family Album Linda Penhall – P46 Your Projects Photos of the Past, Herefordshire – P48 Your Projects We Were There Too (UK Jews in WW1) – P48 Best Websites Film Archives – P49 Best Websites Shops and retail ancestors – P49 Gem from the Archive Leicestershire Records Office: parish Gem from the Archive British Red Cross Museum and register, 16th century – P52 Archives – VAD card, 1914 – P52 Record Masterclass Regimental and Unit histories – P54 Record Masterclass Probate Calendar – P54 Ancestors at Work Military Police – P57 Ancestors at Work Veterinarians – P57 Tech Tips How to create a family tree timeline – P60 Tech Tips How to grow your tree on Findmypast – P60 Focus On Scottish Illegitimacy – P63 Focus On Trade Unions – P63 Eureka Moment Mick Crick: Ellis Island held the key to my Eureka Moment Richard West: Nursery and Land Registry ancestor’s death – P68 records revealed his ancestor’s nursery business – P68 Social Story The Victorian penal system – P70 Social Story History of public swimming pools – P70 Behind the Headlines 1790s: France declares war on Behind the Headlines 1780s: Australia’s penal colony Britain – P75 founded – P75 Around Britain Nottinghamshire – P77 Around Britain Edinburgh and the Lothians – P77 Reviews Includes Tracing your insolvent ancestors and Reviews Includes Tracing your Potteries Ancestors and interview with Margarette Lincoln – P83 interview with Kristen den Hartog – P85 Behind the Scenes Len Goodman– P87 Behind the Scenes Una Stubbs – P87 Family Hero Anne Clark: Ancestor was the first black Family Hero Brian Penn: Great grandmother Eliza Merrin player at Wimbledon – P90 survived the London slums – P90
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ISSUE 152 JUNE 2019 ISSUE 151 MAY 2019 News TheGenealogist adds map feature – P9 News FamilySearch shuts down TNA centre – P9 Off the record Goose feathers – P15 Off the record Wedgwood connection – P14 Feature Make the most of your DNA matches – P17 Feature Newspaper archives – P15 The Big Picture Corby, Whit Monday, 1902 – P24 The Big Picture Easter eggs, 1937 – P22 Feature National Library of Scotland maps – P26 Feature DNA dilemmas – P25 Reader Story Bridget Yates: My ancestor’s letters are a Reader Story David Riley: My family came from Bronte poem from the past – P30 country – P30 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P41 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P41 My Family Album Anthony Wilson – P46 My Family Album Susan Martin – P46 Your Projects Living Memory Association, Edinburgh – P48 Your Projects Newport Chartist walking trail – P48 Best Websites Genealogy Blogs – P49 Best Websites Medieval genealogy – P49 Gem from the Archive Denbighshire Archives: Denbigh Gem from the Archive International Slavery Museum, Charters, 1290-1662 – P52 Liverpool: Letter from an abolitionist, 1837 – P52 Record Masterclass Freeman Appointments – P54 Record Masterclass Griffith’s Valuation – P54 Ancestors at Work Milkmen – P57 Ancestors at Work Maids of All Work – P57 Tech Tips How to share our family tree online – P60 Tech Tips How to make the most of MyTreeTags – P60 Focus On Records of Empire – P63 Focus On WW1 disabled soldiers – P63 Eureka Moment David Walshe: Discovers the truth behind Eureka Moment Stuart Bursill: Workhouse records a family tale of murder – P68 revealed a life of Dickensian poverty – P68 Social Story Lotteries – P70 Social Story History of maypole dancing – P70 Behind the Headlines 1770s: Boston Tea Party – P75 Behind the Headlines 1760s: The invention of the Spinning Jenny – P75 Around Britain Dorset – P77 Around Britain Leicestershire and Rutland – P77 Reviews Includes MobileFamilyTree 8.5 and interview with Margaret Hedley – P85 Reviews Includes 1919 A Land Fit For Heroes and interview with Aanchal Malhotra – P85 Behind the Scenes Emma Willis – P87 Behind the Scenes Billy Connolly – P87 Family Hero Janet Anderson: Great grandmother fiercely independent and built houses – P90 Family Hero Linda Bennett: Great grandfather Thomas Pritchard survived the Battle of Jutland – P90
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ISSUE 150 APRIL 2019 ISSUE 149 MARCH 2019 News Transcription Tuesday, London Poor Law hospital Online bonus content North Yorkshire (Ward’s Directory of records indexed on Ancestry – P9 Redcar, Middlesbrough & Stockton, 1938-9; Cooke’s Almanack Off the record Graffiti by French prisoners – P15 & Directory of Richmond, Swaledale, 1911; images from North Yorkshire CRO and Borthwick Institute) Feature Understanding parish registers online – P16 News GRO increases charges for BMD records – P9 The Big Picture Pupils follow the Oxford and Cambridge boat race – P24 Off the record Field names – P14 Feature Jewish DNA – P26 Feature Break down your brick walls – P15 Feature Countdown to 1921 census – P30 The Big Picture Shrove Tuesday football – P22 Reader Story Rosemary Johnston: A DNA test revealed an Feature Royal and gateway ancestors – P25 unknown branch of her family – P32 Reader Story Lynda Giller: Love affair and scandal – P30 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P39 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P41 My Family Album Victoria Horton – P48 My Family Album David Fuller – P46 Your Projects Ian Castle’s WW1 Zeppelin project – P50 Your Projects Littleport Society – P48 Best Websites Orphanages and children’s homes – P51 Best Websites War memorials – P49 Gem from the Archive Lancashire Archives: An 18th century Gem from the Archive National Fairground and Circus gentleman’s diary – P54 Archive: Circus performers passport, 1914 – P52 Record Masterclass Passenger Lists – P56 Record Masterclass Muster rolls – P54 Ancestors at Work Coal miners – P59 Ancestors at Work Laundresses – P57 Focus On Taxation records – P63 Tech Tips Reverse image searching – P60 Eureka Moment Enda McEvoy: A newspaper revealed the Focus On Apprentices – P63 secret life of a Victorian gamekeeper – P68 Eureka Moment Erica Moores: An Ancestry hint helped Social Story Marriage bar – P70 solve an Italian mystery – P68 Behind the Headlines 1750s: The Black Hole of Calcutta – P75 Social Story Public parks – P70 Around Britain Hertfordshire – P77 Behind the Headlines 1740s: The ‘45 rebellion – P75 Reviews Includes Maybe Esther and interview with Around Britain North Yorkshire – P77 Eleanor Anstruther – P83 Reviews Includes Portillo’s Hidden History of Britain and Behind the Scenes Lulu – P87 interview with David Bremner – P83 Family Hero Ita Lawson: Great aunt Cissy Lecky was a Behind the Scenes Lisa Hammond – P87 WW1 nurse – P90 Family Hero Tony Higgs: Great great grandmother Emma Overton kept her family out of the workhouse – P90
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ISSUE 148 FEBRUARY 2019 ISSUE 147 JANUARY 2019 Online bonus content Surrey (Ward’s Croydon Directory, 1894; Online bonus content Highlands and Islands (Lerwick Pullinger’s Epsom, Ewell and Ashtead Directory, 1922; East Surrey Monumental Inscriptions; Shetland war memorials; journals from FHS journal, Kingston District Electoral Register Autumn 1921, Shetland FHS, Orkney FHS and Caithness FHS) Surrey Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919, Shere Indexed Parish Register Transcriptions) News Missing records in new GRO indexes – P9 News Database of Scottish surgeons goes online – P9 Off the record New Year calendar change – P15 Off the record Beards – P15 Feature 50 websites to watch in 2019 – P17 Feature Transcription Tuesday – P16 The Big Picture Siege of Sidney Street – P28 Feature Find your family in every census – P18 Feature How to share family history with children – P31 The Big Picture Queen Victoria’s funeral – P24 Reader Story Amelia Thorogood: A DNA test solved an adoption mystery – P36 Feature Understanding your DNA ethnicity results – P26 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P43 Reader Story Alan Fraser: Online family album connected him to newfound relations – P30 Gem from the Archive Working Class Movement Archive: Conscientious objector’s scrapbook – P52 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P37 Best Websites Surnames – P55 My Family Album Carol Suddes – P46 Record Masterclass Temperance Pledges – P58 Your Projects Isleworth 390 WW1 project – P48 Ancestors at Work Shoemakers – P61 Best Websites Prisons – P49 Tech Tips How to use Find A Grave – P64 Gem from the Archive Essex Record Office: Industrial School Register, 1872-1883 – P52 Focus On Nonconformists – P67 Record Masterclass Tithe maps – P54 Eureka Moment Mike Pearson: ‘I went to Ireland and found my great grandfather’s field’ – P72 Ancestors at Work Cabmen – P57 Social Story Women at sea – P74 Tech Tips How to get better scans of your photos – P60 Behind the Headlines 1720s: Jack Sheppard hanged – P79 Focus On Performers – P63 Around Britain Highlands & Islands – P81 Eureka Moment Peter Thompson: ‘Geneanet revealed my French ancestry in seconds’ – P68 My Family Album Jane Hough – P88 Social Story Valentine’s Day cards – P70 Your Projects Medway Queen Preservation Society – P90 Behind the Headlines 1730s: The War of Jenkin’s Ear – P75 Reviews Includes Criminal Children and interview with Lucy Williams – P91 Around Britain Surrey – P77 Behind the Scenes Esther Rantzen – P95 Reviews Includes Tracing Your Oxfordshire Ancestors and interview with Stephen Carver – P83 Family Hero Olwyn Venn: George Robins flamboyant Victorian auctioneer – P98 Behind the Scenes Danny Dyer – P87 Family Hero Douglas Edwards: Robert Klamroth cycled from London to Edinburgh – P90 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
ISSUE 146 DECEMBER 2018 ISSUE 145 NOVEMBER 2018 Online bonus content North Wales (Slater’s Directory of North Online bonus content Essex (White’s Gazetteer of Essex, 1863; Wales, 1868; Abel Heywood’s Llandudno Illustrated, 1904; Official Guide to Ilford, 1930; Kelly’s Directory of Southend-on-Sea, Thorough Guide to North Wales (Parts 1 & 2); Llanarmon-yn- 1931; Essex Record Office image set) Iâl Parish Registers, Vol. 1; Conwy Archive Service image set; Denbighshire Archives image set; Flintshire Record Office image set) News WW1 pension records go live on Ancestry – P9 News Map of WW1 shipwrecks goes online – P9 Off the record End of the WW1 Centenary – P15 Off the record Decorating Christmas trees – P15 Feature Find your WW1 Army ancestors online – P17 Feature The complete guide to DNA testing kits – P17 Feature Made in Great Britain TV preview – P26 The Big Picture East End Mission Christmas lunch – P24 The Big Picture Armistice at Buckingham Palace – P30 Feature Christmas family photographs – P24 Reader Story Julie Ann Godson: The WW1 fallen of the Windrush Valley, Oxfordshire – P34 Feature MyHeritage and TheGenealogist – P30 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P41 Reader Story Linda Hill: Relative bought The Fighting Temeraire, made famous by JMW Turner – P34 Gem from the Archive Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies: WW1 casualty books, 1915–1918 – P50 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P41 Best Websites Historic maps – P53 Gem from the Archive East London Mosque Archives: London Mosque Fund minute book, 1910 – P50 Record Masterclass Electoral registers – P56 Best Websites East End ancestors – P53 Ancestors at Work Teachers – P59 Record Masterclass Trade directories – P56 Tech Tips How to read WDYTYA? Magazine on iOS – P62 Ancestors at Work Public houses – P59 Focus On Asylum records – P65 Tech Tips How to add stories to Layers of London – P62 Eureka Moment Pauline Larder: How the GRO birth index led to a major breakthrough – P70 Focus On Trinity House records – P65 Social Story Battlefield tourism – P72 Eureka Moment Penny Munden: How an electoral register revealed the life of a Portsmouth businessman – P70 Behind the Headlines 1700s: Great Britain is created – P77 Social Story Pantomime – P72 Around Britain Essex – P79 Behind the Headlines 1710s: St Paul’s completed – P77 Your Projects Stalbridge History Society – P87 Around Britain North Wales – P79 My Family Album WDYTYA? Magazine editor Sarah Williams – P88 Your Projects Aberdeen & North-East Scotland FHS – P87 Reviews Includes Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice My Family Album Julie Walker – P88 Day, 11 November 1918 and interview with Lucinda Reviews Includes Tracing Your Roman Catholic Ancestors Hawksley – P91 and interview with Louisa Deasey – P91 Behind the Scenes Robert Rinder – P95 Behind the Scenes Brian Blessed – P95 Family Hero Sylvia Collins: Grandfather John Thompson Family Hero Becky Bishop: Relative Emily Hobhouse was a Wright saved a platoon during WW1 – P98 pioneering peace campaigner – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
ISSUE 144 OCTOBER 2018 ISSUE 143 SEPTEMBER 2018 Bonus online content Northern Ireland (Irish Libraries, Archives, Bonus online content Northumberland (Ward’s Directory of Museums & Genealogical Centres; Old Families of Larne & District; Newcastle & Wallsend, 1912; Pigot’s Directory of Northumberland, Men and Arms: The Ulster Settlers, c1630; Public Record Office of 1834; Tynemouth 1891 Census Index; North Shields Presbyterian Northern Ireland image set; Libraries NI image set) Baptisms, 1800–1812; Bankside Dissenters’ Chapel Baptisms, On the record Royal Scots Regiment Roll of Honour 1789–1820; FBDMA newsletter, June 2018; Berwick-upon-Tweed published online – P10 Record Office image set; Northumberland Archives image set) Off the record Ancestral homes – P14 On the record Researchers track Victorian population using census areas – P10 Feature Go beyond 1837 – P15 Off the record Life before alarm clocks – P14 Feature Huguenots in Britain – P22 Feature Wills – P15 Feature Getting started part three: archives – P28 Feature Getting started part two: online resources – P22 Past in Pictures Circus! Show of Shows – P32 Feature Going beyond ScotlandsPeople – P25 Reader Story Valerie Corby unearthed a story of sinister Victorian crimes – P34 Past in Pictures Barnet Fair – P30 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Reader Story Frances Richardson discovered an uncle her father never knew – P34 Gem from the Archive Historic Environment Scotland photo album, 1893 – P48 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Best websites Merchant Navy – P51 Gem from the Archive Report into an accident on Regent’s Canal, 1874 – P48 Focus on The Court of King’s Bench – P54 Best websites Local and village history – P51 How to... Use Evidentree – P60 Focus on Scottish criminal records – P54 Your Projects WW2 civilian internment camp digitisation project – P62 How to... Catalogue items with Tropy – P60 Focus on 1911 overseas military census – P63 Your Projects Laurentic Legacy – P62 Social Story Victorian spiritualism – P66 Focus On Irish Registry of Dees – P63 My Ancestor Was A... Cook – P71 Social Story WW2 overseas evacuees – P66 Eureka Moment Mike Greatorex discovered American My Ancestor Was A... Female railway clerk – P71 relatives he never knew existed – P74 Eureka Moment Lesley Keir tracked down her father’s Behind the Headlines 1869: The First Sainsbury’s – P77 orphanage records – P74 Around Britain Northern Ireland – P81 Behind the Headlines 1811: The Madness of George III – P77 Reviews Including The British in India: Three Centuries of Around Britain Northumberland – P81 Ambition and Experience – P89 Reviews Including Orphans: A History – P89 30-minute Genealogist IrishGenealogy.ie – P94 30-minute Genealogist South African Genealogy – P94 My Family Hero Dr Elizabeth Carrey’s aunt, Marjory Carrey, My Family Hero Derek Turner’s grandmother Annie Gulvin was a dedicated family historian – P98 was one of the first professional female gardeners – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
ISSUE 142 AUGUST 2018 ISSUE 141 SUMMER 2018 Bonus online content Oxfordshire (Kelly’s Directory of Oxfordshire, Bonus online content Cumbria (Kelly’s Directory of Cumberland 1887; Kelly’s Directory of Henley-On-Thames & Neighbourhood, and Westmorland, 1933; The Parish Registers of Watermillock and 1938; Witney St Mary Monumental Inscriptions; Witney St Mary Matterdale; Registers of St Mary the Virgin, Kirkby Lonsdale; MIs Burial Registers, 1583-1872; Oxfordshire Surnames Project list from of the Old Church and St Martin’s Church, Brampton, 1777–1812; OFHS; Oxfordshire History Centre image set) Cumbria FHS Newsletter, May 2018; Cumbria Archives image set) On the record Volunteer transcription project celebrated On the record Website collates data on 19th-century – P10 prisons – P10 Off the record Victorian dentistry – P14 Off the record Harvest time – P14 Feature 20 essential tips for 20th century research – P15 Feature Find free records on FamilySearch – P15 Feature First steps to uncovering ancestral history – P23 Feature DNA Painter – P23 Feature Local BMD certificates – P28 Feature How to trace your Irish family – P29 Past in Pictures Fruit picking – P32 Past in Pictures Healthcare in wartime – P32 Reader Story Michelle Ballard discovers how her great Reader Story Julie Aspen uncovers a badly-behaved great aunt was a suffragette and close friends with the ancestor during the Lancashire Cotton Famine – P34 Pankhursts – P34 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Gem from the Archive ‘Big Bertha’ police register, 1893– Gem from the Archive Cyclist’s diary, 1898–1935 – P48 1926 – P48 Best websites Caribbean research – P51 Best websites Boer War – P51 Focus on The Irish Revolution – P54 Focus on Beach photographs – P55 How to... Transform your research into a family memoir How to... Scan documents with Office Lens – P60 – P60 Focus on Creed registers – P63 Focus on Patent records – P63 Social Story Victorian pleasure boating – P66 Social Story Worker’s Educational Association – P67 My Ancestor Was A.... Paper-maker – P71 My Ancestor Was A... Councillor – P71 Eureka Moment Keith Stanton tracked down the fate of Eureka Moment A simple transaction error enabled Robert an ancestor in Australia – P74 Ward to trace his family to the Domesday Period – P74 Behind the Headlines India gains independence, 1947 – P77 Behind the Headlines The children’s charter, 1889 – P77 Around Britain Cumbria – P81 Around Britain Oxfordshire – P81 Reviews Including London’s East End: A Guide for Family Reviews Including Criminal Women 1850-1920: and Local Historians – P89 Researching the Lives of Britain’s Female Offenders – P89 30-minute Genealogist Gibraltarian kin – P94 30-minute Genealogist Irish census records – P94 My Family Hero Jane Sherwood celebrates Charlie Plant, who spent his early years in a workhouse but built a My Family Hero Mary Horlock’s ancestor, Joseph Gray, was happy life for his family – P98 a war artist – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
ISSUE 140 JULY 2018 ISSUE 139 JUNE 2018 Bonus online content Worcestershire (Kelly’s Directory Bonus online content Buckinghamshire (Kelly’s Directory of of Worcestershire, 1888; Kelly’s Directory of Worcester & Buckinghamshire, 1920; Highways and Byways in Buckinghamshire, Neighbourhood, 1930; Registers of St Michael’s in Bedwardine, Registers of the Parish of Chesham; Registers of the Parish of 1546-1812; Bromsgrove Miscellany; Tree Tappers journal; Discover Stewkley; Registers of the Parish of Great Hampden; Centre for Your Past research guide (sample); The Hive image set) Buckinghamshire Studies image set) On the record Free criminal ancestors website launched – On the record International Bomber Command Centre P10 opens – P10 Off the record Suicide and the family tree – P14 Off the record Royal weddings – P14 Feature Digitised parish registers in 2018 – P15 Feature Civil registration – P15 Feature The Channel Islands under Nazi occupation – P22 Feature POWs in the Far East, a family history – P22 Feature The state of archives – P27 Feature Protect your archives - P28 Past in Pictures The Royal National Lifeboat Institution – Past in Pictures Rural Norfolk – P32 P32 Reader Story John Walker discovers a history of hardship, Reader Story Jan Saunders unearths a treasure trove of poverty and a distant ancestor torn away from her information detailing her grandmother’s service as a family. – P34 wartime nurse – P34 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Gem from the Archive Girlguiding logbooks, 1920-1989, Gem from the Archive Letter from an immigrant, 1818-19 – Norfolk – P48 P48 Best websites WW1 volunteers and charities – P51 Best websites American genealogy – P51 Focus on Reformatory and industrial schools – P54 Focus on Naval reservists – P54 How to... Fill in the gaps in your family tree – P60 How to... Use GenScriber to transcribe documents – P60 Focus on University registers – P63 Focus on Women’s suffrage records – P63 Social Story Working in the Royal Service – P66 Social Story Exams, a Victorian legacy – P67 My Ancestor Was A.... Apothecary – P71 My Ancestor Was An... Lady’s maid – P71 Eureka Moment Mary Bodfish discovers the marriage Eureka Moment A third marriage helps Mick Henry break licence of her 4x great grandmother – P74 down a 30-year brick wall – P74 Behind the Headlines The Passing of the Mines Act, 1942 – Behind the Headlines Hardwicke’s Marriage Act, 1753 – P77 P77 Around Britain Worcestershire – P81 Around Britain Buckinghamshire – P81 Reviews The Street-wise Guide to Doing Your Family Reviews Tracing your Georgian Ancestors, 1714-1837 – P89 History – P89 30-minute Genealogist 1851 Anglo Jewry Database – P94 30-minute Genealogist Norfolk Record Office – P94 My Family Hero Nicola Waterfall discovers a great My Family Hero Ivan Watson explores the life of his great grandmother torn from her family in war but unearths great aunt, the private nurse of Queen Mary – P98 strength and resilience – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
ISSUE 138 MAY 2018 ISSUE 137 APRIL 2018 Bonus online content Suffolk (Jewell’s Ipswich Directory, 1898; Bonus online content Gloucestershire (Kelly’s Directory of Kelly’s Directory of Lowestoft, Beccles & Neighbourhood, 1934; Gloucestershire, 1910; Built-Leonard’s Directory of Cheltenham for Chillesford Parish Registers; Bungay Holy Trinity Parish Register 1935, Elkstone: Its Manors, Church & Registers; Gloucestershire Transcriptions; West Stow & Wordwell Parish Registers; Creeting St Poor Law Index; Memorials and Citizens of Gloucester; Freemen of Peter Memorial Inscriptions; Creeting St Peter Memorial Inscriptions; the City of Gloucester, 1838–2013 (extract); Port of Gloucestershire Suffolk Record Office image set) Pilotage Inwards, 1874–1886 (extract); Gloucestershire Archives image set) On the record Imperial War Museums creates database of UK’s war memorials – P10 On the record Lost public record office of Ireland – P10 Off the record Deepest roots of the family tree – P14 Off the record Ancestors before photography – P14 Feature Love the challenge of finding family history – P15 Feature 1939 Register – P15 Feature Taking a course in genealogy – P22 Feature Air Force women – P20 Feature Glasgow’s gangs– P28 Feature Spring clean your family history - P26 Past in Pictures Edwardian East Riding – P32 Past in Pictures Airfields in the World Wars – P32 Reader Story Colin Ward’s tree includes successful Reader Story “My Ancestor was in the navy at the battle performers and composers, unravelling their secrets of Trafalgar” – Gordon Martin – P34 required detective work – P34 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 Gem from the Archive Dictation by the seer Joanna Gem from the Archive Letter from a headmaster, 1922 – P48 Southcott, 1813 – P48 Best websites European genealogy – P51 Best websites Medical ancestors – P51 Focus on Tudor ancestors – P54 Focus on Scottish church records – P54 How to... Take a trip back in time with HistoryPin – P60 How to... Use the Lives of the First World War website – P61 Focus on Army description books – P63 Focus on Convict records – P63 Social Story 19th century feather trade – P67 Social Story Brewing beer in the country – P67 My Ancestor Was An... Gardener – P71 My Ancestor Was A.... Locksmith – P71 Eureka Moment Sheila Foreman finally tracked down her father’s birth certificate – P74 Eureka Moment Andy Page turned to our forum for help tracing his wife’s grandfather – P74 Behind the Headlines 1938 FA Cup final televised – P77 Behind the Headlines The Rule of Law is Established – P77 Around Britain Suffolk – P81 Around Britain Gloucestershire – P81 Reviews Ordinary Heroes: The Story of civilian volunteers in the First World War – P89 Reviews Tracing History Through Title Deeds – P89 30-minute Genealogist Cumbria Archive Service – P94 30-minute Genealogist Wiltshire in the First World War– P94 My Family Hero Dr Marion Nash pays tribute to the orphan My Family Hero Bill Anderson’s relative was a fearless Joseph Quillan – P98 hero in the Crimean War – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
ISSUE 136 MARCH 2018 ISSUE 135 FEBRUARY 2018 Bonus online content West Sussex (Directory of Shoreham-by- Bonus online content Warwickshire (Black’s Guide to Sea, Bungalow Town and Lancing, 1935-36; The Parish Registers of Warwickshire, 1879; Kelly’s Directory of Warwickshire, 1928; History Woodmancote, 1582-1812; East Grinstead Early Census samples; of Coventry; Coventry Holy Trinity Parish Registers; Nuneaton Street North Mundham Monumental Inscriptions, 1583-2010; The Sussex Index, 1901; Warwickshire County Record Office image set) Family Historian, December 2017; West Sussex Record Office image On the record Irish genealogists call for 1926 census set) release – P10 On the record Thousands of records put online during Off the record The struggle for suffrage – P14 Transcription Tuesday – P10 Feature Research your family for free online – P15 Off the record Impatient for peace – P14 Feature 6 genealogy pitfalls to avoid – P28 Feature Ancestry and Findmypast tested – P15 Past in Pictures Life on the home front in 1917 – P32 Feature From rags to riches: understanding social mobility – P29 Reader Story How lateral thinking helped Judith Bennett uncover her family’s secrets – P34 Past in Pictures Women in trousers – P34 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Reader Story Edward Knowles reveals how a shared passion for genealogy introduced him to a large Gem from the Archive An East End detective’s notebooks, network of kin – P36 1902-1909 – P48 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 Best websites Dating your photographs – P51 Gem from the Archive First World War memory book, 1915- Focus on Medical ancestors – P54 17 – P50 How to... Tell your family stories with Timeline 3D – P60 Best websites Family in India – P53 Focus on Parish census records – P63 Focus on Settlement and removal – P56 Social Story Battle for the ballot box – P67 How to... Use XY Family Tree to record relationships – P62 My Ancestor Was A.... Soapmaker – P71 Focus on 1910 land survey – P65 Eureka Moment How a Methodist connection helped Peter Social Story Learning disabilities and Victorian asylums – Craggs unlock his tree – P74 P68 Behind the Headlines 1952: The Great Smog – P77 My Ancestor Was An... Antique dealer – P73 Around Britain Warwickshire – P81 Eureka Moment Tim Butters recalls how he tracked down his mother-in-law’s family cottage in Ireland – P76 Reviews Includes Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote – Behind the Headlines 1918: The Flu Pandemic – P79 P89 Around Britain West Sussex – P83 30-minute Genealogist World Jewish Relief archives – P94 Reviews Includes Dark Days of Georgian Britain: My Family Hero Max Higgins’ grandmother was a midwife Rethinking the Regency – P92 in the Second World War – P98 30-minute Genealogist Birmingham burial records – P96 My Family Hero How David Porter found a principled 19th- century politician in his wife’s tree – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
ISSUE 134 JANUARY 2018 ISSUE 133 DECEMBER 2017 Bonus online content Cheshire (White’s Directory of Cheshire, Bonus online content Berkshire (Kelly’s Directory of Berkshire, 1860; Kelly’s Directory of Cheshire, 1939; The Parish of Eastham; 1895; Kelly’s Directory of Berkshire, 1920; Paris Registers of St Monumental Inscriptions for St Mary & All Saints, Great Budworth; Mary, Reading, Vols. I and II, 1538-1812; Berkshire Poll Book, 1796; Old Chapel Dukinfield books; Cheshire Ancestors, December 2017; Berkshire FHS samples; Berkshire Record Office image set) Cheshire Archives and Local Studies image set) On the record GRO releases birth and death records as On the record Irish GRO releases new records after delays; PDFs; SoG welcomes associate members – P10 Findmypast revamps subs system – P10 Off the record Tanks for the money – P14 Off the record Addicted to the thrill of detection – P14 Feature 10 essential records for family historians – P17 Feature 50 websites to watch in 2018 – P17 Feature Greek tragedy: the British soldiers defending the Feature Time to share your family tree – P27 Aegean Island of Leros from the Germans, 1943 – P27 Past in Pictures Life in the East End – P32 Past in Pictures Christmas traditions – P32 Reader Story Hilary Ford’s Victorian shoemaker ancestor Reader Story Simon Marley shares the challenges his ‘pit came from nothing but enjoyed great success – P34 lass’ ancestor faced in the early 19th century – P34 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Gem from the Archive Cutting from a local newspaper Gem from the Archive Children’s hospital case notes, 1871 (London Transport Museum), 1918 – P48 – P48 Best websites House history – P51 Best websites WW1 airmen and ground crew – P51 Focus on Burial records – P54 Focus on Studio portraits – P55 How to... Sync up Family Tree Maker 2017 and Ancestry How to... Map your family tree for free with NLS’s site – – P60 P60 Focus on Manorial court rolls – P63 Focus on Servant’s wages books – P63 Social Story Ice skating through the ages – P66 Social Story Victorian toys – P67 My Ancestor Was A... Brushmaker – P71 My Ancestor Was A.... Glover – P71 Eureka Moment FIBIS helped Edwina Bentley discover her Eureka Moment Tim Cook consulted local newspapers father’s family in British India – P74 to uncover the mysterious circumstances around a forebear’s death – P74 Behind the Headlines 1876: The first telephone call – P77 Behind the Headlines 1826: The opening of the Menai Around Britain Cheshire – P81 Bridge – P77 Reviews Includes Tracing Your Ancestors Through the Around Britain Berkshire – P81 Equity Courts – P89 Reviews Includes Family Tree Maker 2017 – P89 30-minute Genealogist Welsh newspapers online – P94 30-minute Genealogist Australian newspapers – P94 My Family Hero Pauline Godsall’s family connection popularised recreational camping at the turn of the My Family Hero Gillian Sandle’s grandfather was a 20th century – P98 interpreter and linguist on Christmas Island – P98
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ISSUE 132 NOVEMBER 2017 ISSUE 131 OCTOBER 2017 Bonus online content Lincolnshire (Eastern Counties of England Bonus online content Liverpool (Gore’s Directory of Liverpool, Trades’ Directory, 1934-35; General Loft’s Lincolnshire Notes; 1867; Gore’s Directory of Liverpool & Its Environs, 1873; County Lincolnshire Inquests Volume 1; Lincolnshire FHS Magazine; North Book of England and Official List (Lancashire), 1875; Liverpool East Lincolnshire Archives image set) Record Office image set) On the record 90,000 convict records available for free; On the record Free collection of historic Scottish OS maps; New Catholic database launched – P10 DNA tests reveal village diversity – P10 Off the record Smile for the camera – P14 Off the record A decade of discoveries – P14 Feature Track down your army ancestors – P17 Feature Discover your London ancestors – P17 Feature Explore your local archive – P28 Feature 10 tips for smarter census researching – P29 Past in Pictures Gunpowder, treason and plot – P32 Past in Pictures Mascots, messengers and pets – P33 Reader Story Wycliffe School pupils commemorate the Reader Story Allan Palmer discovers mystery, bigamy and Old Boys who died in the First World War – P34 two young boys sent overseas alone in his family – P34 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Gem from the Archive Boot’s employee magazine: Gem from the Archive Letter to a Spanish refugee, 1940 – Comrades in Khaki, 1915 – P48 P48 Best websites Medals and awards – P51 Best websites Free databases – P51 Focus on Postal ancestors – P54 Focus on Holocaust records – P54 How to... Record audio memories with Storyglory – P60 How to Share your family tree with others– P54 Your Projects Blood of the Valleys – P62 Focus on Irish newspapers – P63 Focus on Churchwarden’s counts – P63 Social Story London’s street children – P67 Social Story Queens of the factories – P67 My Ancestor Was A... Gamekeeper – P71 My Ancestor Was A.... Railway navvy – P71 Eureka Moment Phil Challis and Frances Abrook found journals that revealed an emigrant’s true identity – P74 Eureka Moment Margaret Robinson’s father’s final request solved missing birth certificate mystery – P74 Behind the Headlines 1891: Sherlock Holmes appears in the Strand magazine – P77 Behind the Headlines 1903: Penrhyn Slate Strike ends – P77 How to... Create family stories using Adobe Spark – P60 Around Britain Lincolnshire – P81 Around Britain Liverpool – P81 Reviews Includes Children’s Homes: A History of Institutional Care for Britain’s Young – P89 Reviews Includes Tracing Your Church of England Ancestors – P89 30-minute Genealogist Irish connections – P94 30-minute Genealogist National Library of Wales – P94 My Family Hero Cheb Campbell’s father Roy battled incredible odds to survive both Dunkirk and the Death My Family Hero Debbie Flint’s ancestor was John McKane, Railway during the Second World War – P98 prominent Belfast barrister and politician – P98
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ISSUE 130 SEPTEMBER 2017 ISSUE 129 AUGUST 2017 Bonus online content Norfolk (Pigot’s Directory of Norfolk, 1830; Bonus online content Sheffield (White’s Directory of Sheffield Kelly’s Directory of Norfolk, 1908; Kelly’s Directory of Norfolk, 1922; & 20 Miles Round, 1862; White’s Directory of Sheffield, 1891; Norfolk FHS journal; Norfolk Record Office image set) Transcripts of the Parish Registers of Sheffield, 1560-1719; A Descriptive Catalogue of Sheffield Manorial Records; Sheffield & On the record Northamptonshire County Council abandons cuts to archive hours; Jewish cemetery seeks District FHS journal; Sheffield Archives image set) funding – P10 On the record The Postal Museum opens; Colchester oral history project under threat – P10 Off the record Bygone holidays – P14 Off the record Home ownership – P14 Feature 17 ways to search like an expert – P16 Feature 19th-century Birmingham – P16 Feature The Great Siege of Gibraltar – P22 Feature Meet the WDYTYA? TV series genealogists – P20 Feature How to set up a specialist website – P27 Feature Circus ancestors – P22 Past in Pictures WW2 children at harvest time – P32 Feature How to avoid genealogy pitfalls – P29 Reader Story Heather Potter’s Victorian slum ancestors became political leaders – P34 Past in Pictures Camping – P32 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Reader Story Ian Smith’s Anglo-Indian heritage – P34 Gem from the Archive Schedule of Steam Engineer Makers’ Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Society – P48 Gem from the Archive Priory Street forces canteen visitors’ Best websites 17th-century ancestors – P51 book, 1942-45 – P48 Focus on Scottish death records – P54 Best websites Trade and in-company magazines – P51 How to... Get started with Legacy 9.0 – P60 Focus on Gold Rush Australia – P54 Celebrating Your Projects Cromwell’s Army Officers – P62 How to... Create family stories using Adobe Spark – P60 Focus on WW2 prisoners of war – P63 Celebrating Your Projects Florence Nightingale Centre – P62 Feature Home sewing – P66 Focus on Bastardy bonds – P63 My Ancestor Was A.... Glassmaker – P71 Feature Victorian piers – P66 Eureka Moment DNA tests solved Ron Ragsdale’s brick My Ancestor Was A... Confectioner – P71 wall – P74 Eureka Moment Jean Evans found an article that revealed Behind the Headlines 1917: The Bolshevik Revolution – P77 the story of a lost family fortune – P74 Around Britain Norfolk – P81 Behind the Headlines 1882: Married Women’s Property Act is introduced – P77 Reviews Includes Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Maladies – P89 Around Britain Sheffield – P81 30-minute Genealogist Passenger lists – P94 Reviews Includes Tracing Villains and Their Victims – P89 My Family Hero Peter Braithwaite’s grandfather fought in 30-minute Genealogist The New York Times Archive – P94 South Africa and on the Somme – P98 My Family Hero Liz Stewart-Smith’s family tree features Britain’s oldest postmistress – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
ISSUE 128 SUMMER 2017 ISSUE 127 JULY 2017 Bonus online content Hampshire (Portsmouth MIs, 1837-1978; Bonus online content Devonshire (White’s Directory of Devonshire Steventon MIs, 1768-1987; Chawton MIs, 1679-1980; Chawton 1878-79; Devonshire Trades Directory, 1930; The Tourist’s Village Booklet; Memorials of Christchurch-Twynham; Hampshire Companion to Plymouth, 1823; Eyre’s Post Office Directory of Archives and Local Studies image set) Plymouth, Devonport and District, 1897; PWDRO Record Office image set) On the record Women’s Volunteers’ wartime diaries go online; Digital Boots Archive launched – P10 On the record WDYTYA? Live to close its doors; Scotland’s War reopens as charity– P10 Off the record Jane Austen’s novels – P14 Off the record Oldham’s industrial past – P14 Feature 18th century records – P16 Feature 50 Scottish resources – P16 Feature WDYTYA? Series 14 celebrities revealed – P24 Feature The Name Game– P23 Feature Passchendaele Remembered – P27 Past in Pictures Second World War in Colour – P32 Past in Pictures Ice cream sellers – P32 Reader Story Debra Charnley traces the mystery of her Reader Story Bob Shaw created a fitting tribute to his Grandfather’s post-First World War disappearance – P34 Grandfather who died on the Somme – P34 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Gem from the Archive Southwell Workhouse isolation Gem from the Archive Steventon marriage register, 1755- hospital letters, 1929 – P48 1812 – P48 Best websites Canada – P51 Best websites Wills – P51 Focus on Travel – P54 Focus on Nelson’s Navy – P54 How to... Record Kindeo family video diary – P60 How to... Create your own genealogical dictionary with Heredis 2017 – P60 Celebrating Your Projects Bryan Mawer’s sugar website – P62 Celebrating Your Projects Jane Austen remembered – P62 Focus on Police Pensions – P63 Focus on Militia – P63 Feature GMT and Changing Times – P66 Feature Jane Austen and Regency England marriage – P66 My Ancestor Was A... Framework Knitter – P71 My Ancestor Was A.... Lawyer – P71 Eureka Moment Michael Brennan tracked down an ancestor with a common name – P74 Eureka Moment Andrew Alston found a missing ancestor – P74 Behind the Headlines 1937 Amelia Earhart disappears – P77 Behind the Headlines 1817: Death of Jane Austen – P77 Around Britain Plymouth – P81 Around Britain Austen’s Hampshire – P81 Reviews Includes Tracing Your Manchester and Salford Ancestors: A Guide for Family and Local Historians – P89 Reviews Includes Tracing Your Ancestors’ Lives – P89 30-minute Genealogist Nonconformists – P94 30-minute Genealogist The Old Bailey – P94 My Family Hero Will Wainewright is a relation of Rothay My Family Hero Ron Bygate’s grandfather fought in the Reynolds, who interviewed Adolf Hitler– P98 American Civil War – P98
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ISSUE 126 JUNE 2017 ISSUE 125 MAY 2017 Bonus online content Borders (Sasines for Berwick and Lauderdale, Bonus online content The Potteries (Kelly’s Directory of 1617-1780; Register of Remarkable Events; Tales of the Borders & Staffordshire, 1888; Cope’s Staffordshire Directory & Buyer’s Guide, Scotland; Scottish Borders Heritage Hub image set) 1913; Longton St John burial transcripts, 1764-1975; BMSGH North Staffordshire newsletter; Stoke-on-Trent City Archives image set) On the record Metropolitan Police pension files go online; Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE 2017 roundup – P10 On the record London FamilySearch Centre films on the move; New look for the National Army Museum – P10 Off the record A Quaker memorial meeting – P14 Off the record Victorian reporters – P14 Feature Parish registers online 2017 – P15 Feature DNA testing guide – P17 Feature Bomber Command – P22 Feature 120 years of film heritage – P25 Feature Anglo-Indian cookbook – P28 Past in Pictures William Henry Fox Talbot online Past in Pictures The WW Winter Archive – P32 photographic archive – P30 Reader Story Dennis Hepworth’s graveyard find opened Reader Story Joyce Fennell’s ancestors took part in the up a new branch of his tree – P34 California Gold Rush – P32 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Gem from the Archive Register of Women Postal Workers, Gem from the Archive Travel documents of evacuated 1915-16 – P48 Jewish children – P46 Best websites Photographic archives – P51 Best websites Apprentices – P49 Focus on Catholic ancestors – P54 Focus on Scottish medical records – P52 How to... Use the WDYTYA? Forum Mobile App – P60 How to... Merge GEDCOM files into your research – P58 Celebrating Your Projects Militia Ballot Lists – P62 Celebrating Your Projects The London Welsh – P60 Focus on Early censuses, 1801-1831 – P63 Focus On 1841 census – P61 Feature Garden Cities – P66 Feature WW1 tribunals – P67 My Ancestor Was A... Midwife – P71 My Ancestor Was A... Boatman – P71 Eureka Moment Karen Rye discovered Canadian kin she Eureka Moment When Trevor Green hit a brick wall trying never knew existed – P74 to find his great uncle’s wife, he enlisted the help of a Behind the Headlines 1852: Wellington’s funeral – P77 nun and WDYTYA? Magazine – P74 Around Britain The Borders – P81 Behind the Headlines 1796: Jenner innoculates against smallpox – P77 Reviews Includes Tracing Your Glasgow Ancestors: A Guide for Family and Local Historians – P89 Around Britain The Potteries – P81 30-minute Genealogist workhouses.org.uk – P94 Reviews Includes Tracing Your Pre-Victorian Ancestors – P89 My Family Hero DNA revealed Dawn Pollard’s link to Pocahontas – P98 30-minute Genealogist The revamped ScotlandsPeople – P94 My Family Hero Marion Edwards’ ancestor was a talented Yorkshire artist – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
ISSUE 124 APRIL 2017 ISSUE 123 MARCH 2017 Bonus online content Wiltshire (Records of The County of Wilts; Bonus online content Kent (Kelly’s Directory of Kent, 1895; Kelly’s Kelly’s Directory of Wiltshire, 1923; Wiltshire & Swindon History Directory of Rochester &c, 1925; Kelly’s Directory of Bromley &c, Centre image set) 1932; Kent MIs; The Parish Registers and Records in the Diocese of Rochester, Kent History and Library Centre image set) On the record Catholic records go online for the first time; Marriage registers face changes – P10 On the record Findmypast launches Leicestershire Collection; Ancestry adds new London material – P10 Off the record Victorian inventories – P14 Off the record Timothy Cragg’s journey to America – P14 Feature Maps – P17 Feature Newspaper sources – P17 Feature WDYTYA? LIVE 2017 preview – P25 Feature Transcription Tuesday roundup – P22 Past in Pictures Butlin’s seaside breaks – P30 Feature Sir Ian McKellen’s episode – P24 Reader Story Alison Burtt grew up with a sense of mystery as her father was unable to tell her much Past in Pictures Battersby Hats of Stockport – P30 about his roots – the truth was shocking – P32 Reader Story Laura Hickman found a fugitive who was Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 implicated in the deaths of several women – P32 Gem from the Archive Diary of voyage on board the ss Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Great Britain, 1852 – P46 Gem from the Archive Fulbourn Asylum records, 1906-1930 Best websites Nonconformity – P49 – P46 Focus on Childhood records – P52 Best websites Wales – P49 How to... Create a timeline with Twile – P58 Focus on Gypsy ancestors – P52 Focus on 1851-1901 censuses – P61 How to... Scan photos and documents on the go – P58 Social Story Public libraries – P64 Focus on 1911 census – P61 Celebrating Your Projects Stamford Boys – P70 Social Story Little Ireland – P64 My Ancestor Was A... Ship’s stoker – P71 Celebrating Your Projects Norton Conyers archive – P70 Eureka Moment When Adrian Wander found a mysterious My Ancestor Was A... Baker – P71 death, he thought he’d never know the truth, but help came from the WDYTYA? Magazine forum – P74 Eureka Moment When Alan Hillier visited his great grandfather’s grave, he was shocked to solve a 20-year Behind the Headlines 1846: The Potato Famine – P77 puzzle about another ancestor – P74 Around Britain Wiltshire – P81 Behind the Headlines 1838: Queen Victoria is crowned – P77 Reviews Includes A History of Courtship and Mad or Bad: Around Britain Kent – P81 Crime and Insanity in Victorian Britain – P89 Reviews Includes The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick 30-minute Genealogist Welsh wills – P94 Maker and Voices from the Past – P89 My Family Hero Jane Dover has discovered a wealth of 30-minute Genealogist Caribbean islands – P94 detail about Simon Tonge, an illustrious man who My Family Hero Jane Gill’s ancestor was an author and served Richard II – P98 Fleet Street journalist – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
ISSUE 122 FEBRUARY 2017 ISSUE 121 JANUARY 2017 Bonus online content Derbyshire (Kelly’s Directory of Derbyshire Bonus online content City of London (Notable Middle Templars, and Nottinghamshire, 1895; Derby School Register, 1570-1901; The 1501-1901; Register of the Freemen of the City of London in the Brave Men of Eyam; Derbyshire Record Office image set) Reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI; Aldermen of the City of London 1276-1912; Registers of St Nicholas Acons, 1539-1812; London On the record 2.1 million Hampshire records released; Metropolitan Archives image set) Success for Explore Your Archive campaign – P10 On the record Dictionary reveals stories behind 45,600 Off the record Godparents – P14 surnames; More 1939 Register entries go online – P10 Feature Go back further at The National Archives – P17 Off the record The history of Pontcysyllte Aqueduct – P14 Feature Shipwrecked ancestors – P22 Feature 50 hottest websites for 2017 – P17 Feature The case of the philandering opera singer – P25 Feature Finding Private Carter – P27 Past in Pictures Shrove Tuesday – P30 Feature Amanda Holden’s episode – P30 Reader Story Corinna Meiss’s discovery of an Anglo- Past in Pictures Philip Davies: Lost England, 1870-1930 – P34 German relative revealed a story of wartime suffering – P32 Reader Story Maureen Evans discovered some dark secrets involving Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum – P36 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 Gem from the Archive WW2 child evacuee memoirs – P46 Gem from the Archive The Bromsgrovian, 1881-2016 – P50 Best websites Victorian soldiers – P49 Focus on Poor Law records – P52 Focus on Council records – P52 How to... Transcribe your audio interviews – P58 How to... Manage family history with Ancestris – P58 Focus on Death duties – P61 Focus on Scottish WW1 pension appeals – P61 Social Story Put up for adoption – P64 Social Story Lonely hearts columns – P64 Celebrating Your Projects Absent voters lists, 1919 – P70 Celebrating Your Projects Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society crew lists – P70 My Ancestor Was A... Nanny – P71 My Ancestor Was A... Police detective – P71 Eureka Moment After researching the wrong family for ten years, a chance find set Lorraine Tomlinson back on Eureka Moment Brian Mayne spearheaded a team that the right track – P74 solved a 130-year-old adoption mystery– P74 Behind the Headlines 1865: Britain’s First Female Doctor– Behind the Headlines 1936: The Jarrow March – P77 P77 Around Britain Derbyshire – P81 Around Britain City of London – P81 Reviews Includes Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters Reviews Includes Tracing Your Boer War Ancestors: and Personal Writings and The Manchester Bantams – Soldiers of a Forgotten War and Miss Weeton: P89 Governess and Traveller – P89 30-minute Genealogist geneanet.org – P94 30-minute Genealogist Historic Liverpool – P94 My Family Hero Glynis Haynes’ relative was a professional My Family Hero Tony Cole’s great 3x great grandfather parachutist at the turn of the 20th century – P98 saved a ship and all aboard – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
ISSUE 120 DECEMBER 2016 ISSUE 119 NOVEMBER 2016 Bonus online content South Wales (Butcher’s Cardiff District Bonus online content Brighton (Kelly’s Directory of Sussex, 1903; Directory, 1880-81; Johns’s Directory of Newport, 1936; Slater’s Kelly’s Directory of Brighton & Hove, 1939; The Keep image set) Directory of Monmouthshire, 1868; Episcopal Registers of St David’s, On the record New ScotlandsPeople website launches 1397-1518; Parish Registers of Caerwent and Llanfair Discoed, online; DNA test “pinpoints British ancestry” – P10 1568-1812; National Library of Wales image set) Off the record Hull Holy Trinity Church – P14 On the record GRO reveals changes to digital services; ScotlandsPlaces records now free – P10 Feature 12-Week Challenge: Part 2 – P17 Off the record Festive place names – P14 Feature Children in the workhouse – P24 Feature The Oaks Colliery Disaster – P17 Past in Pictures Joseph Hardman: People on Film – P30 Feature 12-Week Challenge: Part 3 – P25 Reader Story David Atkinson stumbled upon a dark family secret around bonfire night when researching his Past in Pictures WW2 Christmas – P32 Dorset roots – P32 Reader Story Shirley Gibbs discovered that 15 members of Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 her family vanished in a lifeboat disaster – P34 Gem from the Archive Jersey Police photo album, 1901- Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 1920 – P46 Gem from the Archive Tank Corps documents, WW1 – P48 Best websites National Service – P49 Best websites Trade unions – P51 Focus on Rural ancestors – P52 Focus on Land records – P54 How to... Share family history news with Blogger – P58 How to... Connect RootsMagic with FamilySearch – P60 Focus on WW1 courts martial – P61 Celebrating Your Projects Caerphilly Miners’ Centre for the Social Story Forgotten WW1 Land Girls – P64 Community project – P62 Celebrating Your Projects Tweedsmuir Polish Resettlement Focus on Scottish nonconformists – P63 Camp project – P70 Social Story Hiring fairs – P66 My Ancestor Was A... Dentist – P71 My Ancestor Was A... Workhouse employee – P71 Eureka Moment A chance discovery of an unknown Eureka Moment When Godfrey Duffy picked up a book relative in a Victorian photo led Liz Taylor to uncover a on Victorian crime, he was shocked to find one of his fascinating family showbiz connection – P74 ancestors in its pages – P74 Behind the Headlines 1829: The Rainhill Trials – P77 Behind the Headlines 1783: American Treaty of Around Britain Brighton – P81 Independence – P77 Reviews Includes Tracing Your Twentieth Century Around Britain South Wales – P81 Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians and The Reviews Includes The Servants’ Story and Cardiff in the Winchester: Legend of the West – P89 Headlines – P89 30-minute Genealogist Irish Civil records – P94 30-minute Genealogist Measuring Worth – P94 My Family Hero Karen Millie-James’ father escaped the My Family Hero Robin Richards’ ancestor was a sailor, a Nazis on Kindertransport – P98 journalist and a minister – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
ISSUE 118 OCTOBER 2016 ISSUE 117 SEPTEMBER 2016 Bonus online content Newcastle (A History of Newcastle, 1887; Bonus online content Southampton (Kelly’s Directory of Ward’s Directory of Newcastle, Gateshead, North and South Shields, Southampton and Neighbourhood, 1935-1935; Kelly’s Directory Jarrow and Sunderland, 1889-90; Ward’s Directory of Sunderland, of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, 1867; Kelly’s Directory of Wallsend, Newcastle, Gateshead &c, 1937; Newcastle Local Studies Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, 1920; Hampshire Archives and image set) Southampton Local Studies and Maritime Library image sets) On the record Ireland’s BMD records now free online; New On the record Over 1.6 million nursing records hit the ScotlandsPeople site set to launch – P10 web; Free catalogues reveal Cambs gems – P10 Off the record In-laws – P14 Off the record Solving your daddy issues – P14 Feature 12-week Challenge: Part 1 – P17 Feature Female criminals – P17 Feature New WDYTYA? series preview – P25 Feature Write your own family tree – P24 Feature Trace your royal ancestors – P30 Feature War memorials – P29 Reader Story Linda Quilley unearthed a graverobber in Past in Pictures Churchill’s Navy – P32 her family tree – P32 Reader Story Beryl Stanley was sent a fascinating diary Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 detailing her family’s adventure to Australia – P34 Gem from the Archive War hospital magazine, 1918 – P46 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Best websites Obscure occupations – P49 Gem from the Archive Birmingham Quakers image collection, 19th century – P48 Focus on 19th-century Irish kin – P52 Best websites Debtors and bankrupts – P51 How to... Organise your photos with Adobe Bridge – P58 Focus on Nursing records – P54 Focus on Napoleonic soldiers – P61 How to... Organise your search with Wunderlist – P60 Social Story Cafe culture – P64 Celebrating Your Projects Cambrai connections– P62 Celebrating Your Projects Clements Hall Local History Group’s WW1 Home Front project – P70 Focus on Rate books – P63 My Ancestor Was A... Fisherman – P71 Social Story Trouble on the WW1 Home Front – P66 Eureka Moment Lisa White searched for her ancestor for My Ancestor Was A... Dairy worker – P71 10 years before an online forum came up trumps – P74 Eureka Moment Mark Peters was struggling to discover Behind the Headlines 1660: The Restoration – P77 what happened to his Hong Kong ancestors, until Rupert Everett’s WDYTYA? took his breath away – P74 Around Britain Newcastle – P81 Behind the Headlines 1900: Birth of the Labour Party – P77 Reviews Includes Tracing Your British and Irish Ancestors and The Royal Irish Constabulary: A Short History – P89 Around Britain Southampton – P81 30-minute Genealogist New York censuses – P94 Reviews Includes Tracing Your Kent Ancestors – P89 My Family Hero Richard Moore’s father was the proud 30-minute Genealogist Victoria probate records – P94 recipient of the George Cross after defusing mines My Family Hero Robert Griffiths discovered a Civil War during the Second World War – P98 general in his family tree – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
ISSUE 116 SUMMER 2016 ISSUE 115 AUGUST 2016 Bonus online content Shropshire (Nonconformist and Roman Bonus online content Isle of Man (Free access to iMuseum Catholic Registers, 1657-1837; Parish Registers of Ludlow, 1558- Newspapers; Burials from Santon Parish, 1656-2005; Isle of Man 1812; Churchwardens’ Accounts of Ludlow, 1540-1600; Shropshire FHS Names Index, 1979-2006; Isle of Man FHS Journal, May 2016; Quarter Sessions, 1660-1889; Shropshire Archives image set) Manx National Heritage Library and Archives image set) On the record WW1 mapping tool launched online; Essex On the record First World War naval database launches; teens revamp popular website – P10 Web archive remembers US air heroes – P10 Off the record Richard III and DNA – P14 Off the record The evils of child labour – P14 Feature New WDYTYA? series celebrities revealed – P17 Feature 10 top tips and tricks – P17 Feature FamilySearch secrets – P21 Feature Sporting ancestors – P23 Feature Bridging the ‘Commonwealth Gap’ – P26 Past in Pictures Photographs from the Front – P30 Past in Pictures A Life on the Line – P30 Reader Story Barclay Price has discovered colourful characters and famous names among his 19th-century Reader Story When Robert Gilchrist delved into the life of Edinburgh ‘neighbours’ – P32 his daughter-in-law’s ancestor, he found a remarkable tale of a life lived on the edge – P32 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Gem from the Archive The Finchley Manuals of Industry, No. 1, 1849 – P46 Gem from the Archive Child emigrant file, 1909-1912 – P46 Best websites Evacuees – P49 Best websites Forgotten taxation – P49 Focus on WW1 battlefields – P52 Focus on WW1 naval records – P52 How to... Get started with TreeView – P58 How to... Record family history on your mobile – P58 Focus on Scottish Valuation Rolls – P61 Focus on Inquest records – P60 Social Story Industrial accidents and disability – P64 Social Story Victorian railway excursions – P64 Celebrating Your Projects Somerset & Dorset FHS – P70 Celebrating Your Projects Mickleham & Westhumble – P70 My Ancestor Was A... Prison worker – P71 My Ancestor Was An... Engineer – P71 Eureka Moment Michael Nadin’s search for his namesake Eureka Moment Cheryl Nicol had a hunch that she was ancestor revealed the tragic tale of a millworker who descended from the infamous Sir Berney Brograve. A lived through the Lancashire Cotton Famine – P74 19th-century document cleared up that mystery – P74 Behind the Headlines 1616: The death of Shakespeare – P77 Behind the Headlines 1752: The missing 11 days – P77 Around Britain Isle of Man – P81 Around Britain Shropshire – P81 Reviews Includes Tracing Your Edinburgh Ancestors – P89 Reviews Includes Tracing Your Ancestors Through County Records – P89 30-minute Genealogist London Lives – P94 30-minute Genealogist Cornwall OPC – P94 My Family Hero Rachel Gerrard has found an important scientist in her family tree, who experimented with My Family Hero Barbara Tilbury’s ancestor was banned deadly plants to create essential drugs – P98 from enlisting, but he joined a special regiment and became the equal of his brothers in arms – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
ISSUE 114 JULY 2016 ISSUE 113 JUNE 2016 Bonus online content Leeds (The Leeds and District Trades’ Bonus online content North London (Kelly’s Directory of Camden, Directory, 1901-1902; Leeds in the Great War, 1914-1918; 1926-27; Kelly’s Directory of Enfield, Winchmore Hill etc, 1930; McCorquodale & Co.’s Topographical Directory of Leeds, 1876; Kelly’s Directory of Hampstead & Child’s Hill, 1936; Enfield Local Registers of Leeds Parish Church, 1572-1776; West Yorkshire Studies Library and Archive image set; Hackney Archives image set) Archive Service (Leeds) image set; Leeds Local and Family History On the record Easter Rising records revealed on the web; Library image set) London archive faces uncertain future – P10 On the record WW1 Red Cross project reaches completion; Off the record Great Aunt Edith’s disappearance – P14 Researchers uncover mining disaster secrets – P10 Feature Parish registers – P16 Off the record Great Aunt Edith part two – P14 Feature 300 years of the Royal Artillery – P25 Feature Family tree builders – P16 Past in Pictures Horsham memories – P30 Feature Georgian prostitutes – P25 Reader Story Peter Hammond turned detective to uncover Past in Pictures London: Portrait of a City – P30 the lives of his Methodist kin – P32 Reader Story Iain Taylor uncovered generations of Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 successful landscape painters in his tree – P32 Gem from the Archive Letter of tender for a roller mill Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 plant, 1894 – P46 Gem from the Archive Young Jewish refugees’ diary, Best websites Estate records – P49 1940 – P46 Focus on Overseas BMDs – P52 Best websites Regimental archives – P49 How to... Write a family history memoir – P58 Focus on Dating photographs of children – P52 Focus on The Police Gazette – P61 How to... Create a family history slideshow – P58 Social Story Preparing for the Battle of the Somme – P64 Focus on WW1 Red Cross volunteers – P61 Celebrating Your Projects West Sussex Record Office Social Story WW1 cinema-going – P64 probate inventories project – P70 Celebrating Your Projects Cousland Smiddy – P70 My Ancestor Was A... Stonemason – P71 My Ancestor Was A... Clergyman – P71 Eureka Moment Alan Fraser broke through a brick wall to Eureka Moment Andy Caddick’s ancestor was a mystery discover a family tale of adultery, domestic abuse and until a relative helped reveal royal connections – P74 illegitimacy – P74 Behind the Headlines 1916: Battle of the Somme – P77 Behind the Headlines 1858: Transatlantic telegraph cable laid – P77 Around Britain Leeds – P81 Around Britain North London – P81 Reviews Includes Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries – P89 Reviews Includes TreeView: Premium Edition – P89 30-minute Genealogist Deceased Online – P94 30-minute Genealogist Aberdeen and NE Scotland FHS – P94 My Family Hero Jade Gill explores her Indian ancestry, including her remarkable grandmother – P98 My Family Hero Sarah Harding’s mother worked on Morse code at Bletchley Park – P98
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ISSUE 112 MAY 2016 ISSUE 111 APRIL 2016 Bonus online content West Midlands (Kelly’s Directory of Bonus online content Pembrokeshire (Haverfordwest Census Birmingham and Suburbs, 1879; Cope’s Staffordshire Directory Index, 1851; Pembroke Census Index, 1851; Survey of ‘George’ & Buyers’ Guide, 1913; Littlebury’s Directory and Gazetteer of Family Internments in North Pembrokeshire, 1654-2012; Index Worcestershire, 1873; Kelly’s Directory of Warwickshire, 1928; Black to Pembroke People, 1818-1837; Dyfed Family History Journal, Country Living Museum image set) December 2015; Pembrokeshire Archives image set) Off the record Ancestry adds trio of West Yorkshire On the record Irish Catholic record release now collections; Volunteers help unlock access to wills – P10 searchable; Family Tree Maker given a reprieve – P10 On the record Finding Mancunian family on the 1939 Off the record The arrival of electricity – P14 Register – P14 Feature Census records – P17 Feature WW1 group photographs – P16 Feature WDYTYA? Live 2016 preview – P25 Feature False paternity – P24 Past in Pictures The Lancaster Bomber – P30 Past in Pictures WW2 US airmen in Britain – P30 Reader Story Carolyn Roberts uncovered a possible Reader Story Dean Kirby’s ancestors’ home was literally connection to the royal family – P32 uncovered by archaeologists – P32 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Gem from the Archive Police record book, 1845-1887 – P46 Gem from the Archive Welsh Methodist magazines, 1888- Best websites Passenger lists – P49 1967 – P46 Focus on Quarter Sessions records – P52 Best websites War diaries – P49 How to... Get the most from My Family Tree – P60 Focus on 20th-century Irish records – P52 Focus on Tithe records – P63 How to... Create a family history podcast – P58 Social Story Britain’s first bicycle boom– P66 Focus on Royal Navy records – P61 Celebrating Your Projects Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service Social Story Victorian hydrotherapy – P64 History Society – P72 Celebrating Your Projects Oswestry Cemetery burials – P70 My Ancestor Was A... Costermonger – P73 My Ancestor Was A... Pawnbroker – P71 Eureka Moment A chance encounter with an American Eureka Moment Rachel Duerden finally tracked down her visitor unlocked a mystery for Laura Cox – P76 Victorian naval ancestor thanks to the help of TNA – P74 Behind the Headlines 1943: Alan Turing creates first Behind the Headlines 1805: The death of Lord Nelson – P77 electronic programmable computer – P79 Around Britain West Midlands – P81 Around Britain Pembrokeshire – P83 Reviews Includes Tracing Your Ancestors Through Local 30-minute Genealogist New Zealand BMD records – P90 History Records: A Guide for Family Historians – P89 Reviews Includes Remember Them: Women’s Memories 30-minute Genealogist The Halifax Guardian archive – P94 of 1946-1969 and How to Write Your Own – P91 My Family Hero Lesley Batt’s WW1 ancestor helped My Family Hero Kathryn Webber’s great grandfather was a establish a famous club for his comrades – P98 mining hero and campaigner – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
ISSUE 110 MARCH 2016 ISSUE 109 FEBRUARY 2016 Bonus online content Manchester (Pigot & Dean’s Directory for Bonus online content Aberdeenshire (Aberdeen Almanac, 1839; Manchester & Salford, 1824-25; Memorials of Manchester Streets, Post Office Directory of Aberdeen, 1900-01; Aberdeen, Banff, 1874; Baine’s History, Directory and Gazetteer of Lancashire, 1825; Kincardine, Moray & Nairn Trades Directory, 1937-38; Aberdeen Manchester Archives+ image set) Archives image set) Off the record Norfolk parish records go online; WW1 On the record Ancestry to retire Family Tree Maker; Jewish stories to be saved on web – P10 Westland factory project takes off – P12 On the record The magic of family reunions – P14 Off the record Pounds, shillings and pence – P16 Feature Find missing births – P16 Feature 25 reasons to visit the archives – P18 Feature The death of Family Tree Maker – P23 Feature John Archer’s ancestor and motor cars – P25 Past in Pictures 100 years of nursing – P28 Past in Pictures Cornish memories – P30 Reader Story Maureen Jones tells the sad story of her Reader Story Dr David Mervin’s link to a famous American Victorian ancestor’s suicide – P30 was a thrilling discovery – P32 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P36 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Gem from the Archive Army Register of Recruits, 1915-20 – Gem from the Archive Redding Pit disaster letters, 1923 – P44 P46 Best websites Parish chest records – P47 Best websites 19th-century naval records – P49 Focus on French ancestors – P50 Focus on Children’s homes – P52 Focus on Medal rolls and medal index cards – P55 How to... Clean up your family tree – P58 How to... Set up a WordPress blog – P58 Focus on Freemasons records – P61 Social Story Malthus and the population problem – P60 Social Story Bodysnatchers – P64 My Ancestor Was A... Millworker – P65 Celebrating Your Projects American Air Museum online – P70 Eureka Moment A trip to Sweden broke down a brick wall My Ancestor Was A... Blacksmith – P71 for Jan Mulreany – P68 Eureka Moment The 1911 census was a breakthrough for Celebrating Your Projects Malhamdale History Group – P70 genealogist Robert Parker – P74 Behind the Headlines 1703: The Great Storm – P71 Behind the Headlines 1895: The birth of psychoanalysis – P77 Around Britain Manchester – P75 Around Britain Aberdeenshire – P81 Reviews Includes The Railway Conquest of the World and Voices of the First World War: Merseyside’s War – P83 Reviews Includes Family First: Tracing Relationships in the Past and Irishmen in the Great War: Reports from 30-minute Genealogist Canadian Expeditionary Force the Front 1915 – P89 service files – P88 30-minute Genealogist Essex Archives Online (Seax) – P94 My Family Hero Mark Dawson’s ancestor bravely survived persecution by the Nazis – P90 My Family Hero Wartime diaries revealed the father that Janet Denny never knew – P98
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ISSUE 108 JANUARY 2016 ISSUE 107 DECEMBER 2015 Bonus online content Herefordshire (Kelly’s Directory of Bonus online content Swansea (Swansea Town Surveys, 1837 Herefordshire, 1891; Jakeman & Carver’s Directory of Herefordshire, and 1839; Pigot’s Directory of South Wales, 1838; Kelly’s Directory 1914; Kelly’s Directory of Herefordshire, 1937; Herefordshire Archive of South Wales, 1884; West Glamorgan Archive Service image set; and Records Centre image set) National Library of Wales image set) Off the record Ridge and furrow – P11 On the record Genealogists gain web access to 1939 Register; Bright future for former PoW camp – P12 On the record Freemasonry records revealed online; Archives mark annual campaign – P14 Off the record Choosing a favourite ancestor – P16 Feature 50 family history sites to watch in 2016 – P19 Feature The 1939 Register – P18 Feature Add a generation to your tree – P29 Feature Top 10 records from WDYTYA? 2015 – P25 Past in Pictures First World War on the Western Front – P34 Past in Pictures Christmas at department stores – P30 Reader Story Ray and Diane McClure found family links to Reader Story Nicola Cooper’s research uncovered a much-loved Victorian comedian and composer – P36 minstrels and Methodists – P32 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Gem from the Archive Great Siege of Gibraltar Diary, 1779- Gem from the Archive Shetland lug-mark book, 19th 1781 – P50 century – P46 Focus on Railway workers – P52 Best websites WW2 Blitz – P49 Feature Delving into DNA – P57 Focus on 18th-century ancestors – P52 Focus on Suffragettes – P61 Masterclass What to do when records run out – P58 Social Story Mass Observation – P64 Focus on Civilians honours and awards – P61 Celebrating Your Projects Knockaloe Camp – P70 Social Story Christmas carols – P64 My Ancestor Was A... Cabinet maker – P71 Celebrating Your Projects Ryedale Family History Group – P70 Eureka Moment... A sworn testament tore down a brick My Ancestor Was A... Seamstress – P71 wall in Christa Stephens’s family tree – P74 Eureka Moment A private member tree solved Sally Behind the Headlines 1801: General Enclosure Act – P77 Meek’s mystery – P74 Around Britain Herefordshire – P81 Behind the Headlines 1665: The Great Plague – P77 Reviews Includes Family History Web Directory: The Around Britain Swansea – P81 Genealogical Websites You Can’t Do Without and Reviews Includes Mapping the Second World War and Stitches in Time: The Story of the Clothes We Wear – P91 Worktown: The Astonishing Story of the Project that 30-minute Genealogist Statistical Accounts of Scotland – P94 Launched Mass-Observation – P89 My Family Hero A spooky coincidence led to James 30-minute Genealogist FreeReg – P94 Phillips-Evans encountering a WW1 ancestor – P98 My Family Hero Sharon Newson’s ancestor was a pioneer of a pioneer of the blood transfusion service – P98
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ISSUE 106 NOVEMBER 2015 ISSUE 105 OCTOBER 2015 Bonus online content Glasgow (Glasgow Post Office Directory, Bonus online content Northamptonshire (Whellan’s Directory 1912-1913; Jones’s Directory of Glasgow, 1787; Diocesan Registers of Northamptonshire, 1849; Northampton & District Trades of Glasgow, 1499-1570; Glasgow City Archive image set) Directory, 1916-1917; Parish Registers of Maxey, 1538-1713; Northamptonshire Record Office image set) On the record 220 million voter records hit the web; Shipping project nears completion – P12 On the record WW2 prisoner of war records hit the web; Targets of Nazi ‘Black Book’ Revealed – P12 Off the record A stampede to Calgary – P16 Off the record Tiny drops of royal blood – P16 Feature Behind the scenes on Mark Gatiss’s episode – P18 Feature Behind the scenes on Anne Reid’s episode – P18 Feature Find your Ulster ancestors – P22 Feature Find your Australian convict ancestors – P22 Feature Britain Remembers... revisited – P25 Feature Are you descended from nobility? – P25 Past in Pictures Lee Miller: A Woman’s War – P30 Past in Pictures Merseyside memories – P30 Reader Story Dr Michael Barnish discovers the tangled lives of his ancestors – P32 Reader Story Robert Ward discovered a criminal dynasty in his family tree – P32 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Gem from the Archive WI logbook, late 1940s – P46 Gem from the Archive Isle of Man volunteer cavalry list, Best websites Forgotten fronts of WW1 – P49 1799 – P46 Focus on Electoral records – P52 Best websites Free books – P49 Masterclass Using evidence to build a case (II) – P58 Focus on Chancery Court records – P52 Focus on Scottish confirmation calendars – P61 Masterclass Using evidence to build a case (I) – P58 Social Story Domestic servants – P65 Focus on Irish Roman Catholic parish registers – P61 Celebrating Your Projects Huguenot Museum – P70 Social Story Gardening clubs and societies – P64 My Ancestor Was A... Studio photographer – P71 Celebrating Your Projects Sacrament certificates – P70 Eureka Moment... Jill Wright solved the case of a missing My Ancestor Was An... Undertaker – P71 fortune thanks to a will – P74 Eureka Moment A hint on the WDYTYA? Magazine Forum Behind the Headlines 1785: First edition of The Times – P77 helped solve Lynne Ludlow’s mystery – P74 Around Britain Glasgow – P81 Behind the Headlines 1925: John Logie Baird turns on Reviews Includes Canals: The Making of a Nation and The television – P77 Iron Men: The Workers Who Created the New Iron Age Around Britain Northamptonshire – P81 – P89 Reviews Includes The Railways: Nation, Network and 30-minute Genealogist Chief Rabbi Office marriages – P94 People and 10 Greatest Ships of the Royal Navy – P89 My Family Hero John Watson’s ancestor became an 30-minute Genealogist Scottish wills – P94 Australian MP – P98 My Family Hero Sue Browell’s ancestors survived the Stargate Colliery explosion – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
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ISSUE 102 AUGUST 2015 ISSUE 101 JULY 2015 Bonus online content Nottinghamshire (Registers from the Bonus online content East Riding of Yorkshire (Hull Poll book, Peculiar of Southwell, 1614-1641; Nottingham Date Book; Kelly’s 1868; Bulmer’s Directory of East Yorkshire, 1892; Howden Parish Directory of Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire, 1895; Nottinghamshire Registers, 1542-1775; East Yorkshire Maps; East Riding Archive Marriage Licences, 1701-1853; Nottinghamshire Archives image set) Service image set) On the record Web records reveal Waterloo heroes; On the record Irish workhouse records hit the web; West Railway employee records go online – P10 Yorkshire workers revealed– P10 Off the record When the dating game goes awry – P16 Off the record Unspoken Stories – P14 Feature Meet the celebrities: meet the cast of the next Feature Marriage records: tips on tricky couplings – P17 series – P19 Feature Women in Uniform – P22 Feature Death records – P23 Past in Pictures Postcards of Bristol – P28 Past in Pictures The photos of Christina Broom– P28 Reader Story Lynne Dixon and Pam Smith find abuse, Reader Story An explosion outside a Victorian prison had scandal and suicide in their family history – P30 a devastating effect on Anita Horne’s forebears – P30 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P36 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P36 Gem from the Archive Caernarfon Quarter Sessions record, Gem from the Archive Map of the Manor of Dringhouses, 1566 – P44 1624-29– P44 Best websites The Battle of Britain – P47 Best websites Family History Forums – P47 Focus on Lunatic asylum records– P50 Masterclass Understanding gaps in parish registers – P50 Focus on Muster rolls – P59 Focus on American Records – P52 Social Story Salvation Army – P62 Focus on Land Registry Digital Archive – P61 Celebrating Your Projects Preservation on local shops and Social Story First World War fatherhood – P64 buisinesses web project – P68 Celebrating Your Projects The Jerome Gatehouse Collection My Ancestor Was A... Candlemaker – P71 – P68 Eureka Moment Richard Frost discovers his 3x great My Ancestor Was A... Milliner – P71 grandparents’ family were left devastated by an accident – P74 Eureka Moment... Vivienne Luke broke down a brick wall when she discovered an ancestors signature was the Behind the Headlines 1815 The Battle of Waterloo – P77 key to his identity- P74 Around Britain East Riding of Yorkshire – P81 Behind the Headlines 1908: Old Age Pensions Act – P77 Reviews Includes Tracing Your Welsh Ancestors and Around Britain Nottinghamshire – P81 Liverpool Pals – P91 Reviews Includes World War II: The Definitive Guide from 30-minute Genealogist Historic Maps – P94 Blitzkreig to Hiroshima – P91 My Family Hero Dr David Moore’s 3x great grandfather 30-minute Genealogist Digitised Welsh Wills – P94 Thomas Christie risked his life in battle 200 years ago – My Family Hero Anne Louise-Jones’ great great aunt Eva P98 Woodthorpe was a brave suffragette – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
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ISSUE 98 APRIL 2015 ISSUE 97 MARCH 2015 Bonus online content Dorset (Sherborne School Register, 1823- Bonus online content Mid Wales (Parish Registers of Llanymynech, 1892; Kelly’s Directory of Dorsetshire, 1886; Registers of Beer 1678-1812; History of the County of Brecknock, 1909; Return of Hackett & Lydlynch, 1559-1812; Dorset History Centre image set) Owners of Land, 1873; Pigot’s Directories of Wales, 1835; West Wales Historical Society records, 1913-1929; Rhostie Monumental On the record Amendment paves way for BMD changes; World’s endangered records go online – P10 Inscriptions; National Library of Wales image set) Off the record Curious classifieds – P14 On the record TheGenealogist adds tithe maps collection; Soldiers’ final effects revealed online – P10 Feature Pre-1837 records – P17 Off the record Male bias is a thing of the past – P14 Feature The DNA revolution – P25 Feature Go beyond the census – P17 Past in Pictures Britain’s wartime milkmen – P30 Feature London’s hearth tax records – P23 Reader Story Roy Kneath was amazed to find his wife had circus performers in the family – P32 Feature Preserve your archive – P27 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Past in Pictures Salt and Silver: Early Photography – P32 Gem from the Archive Tyne flood relief papers, 1770s – P46 Reader Story Christine Searle traces her ancestors back to 14th-century Scotland – P34 Feature WDYTYA? Live 2015 preview – P49 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Best websites Aristocratic ancestors – P57 Gem from the Archive Hampshire mariner’s manuscripts, Focus on Tax records – P60 1796-1814 – P48 Focus on Churchwardens’ accounts – P69 Best websites Brewers and publicans – P51 Social Story Victorian surgery – P72 Focus on Poor Law records – P54 Celebrating Your Projects Llanhilleth Heritage Centre – P78 Focus on Trade unions – P61 Local Industries Gunpowder manufacturers of Kent – P79 Social Story Lifeboatmen – P64 Eureka Moment Jeffrey Taylor broke through a research Celebrating Your Projects Bevendean History Project – P70 brick wall to find a suicide in the family – P82 Local Industries Railway engineers of Crewe – P71 Behind the Headlines 1831: Faraday shocks the world – P85 Eureka Moment Liz McPherson used a DNA test to reveal Around Britain Dorset – P89 details about her great great grandfather – P74 Reviews Includes Tracing Your Ancestors’ Parish Records Behind the Headlines 1906: San Francisco Earthquake – P77 and The WI: A Centenary History – P97 Around Britain Mid Wales – P81 30-minute Genealogist Ancestry passenger lists – P102 Reviews Includes Family Historian 6 and A History of My Family Hero Alex Foot is proud to have found the Adoption in England and Wales – P89 remarkable novelist and pamphleteer Daniel Defoe in 30-minute Genealogist Get more from FreeREG – P94 his family tree – P106 My Family Hero Robert Campbell’s forebear Stephen L’Africain survived a shipwreck to become a soldier, adventurer and trader – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
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ISSUE 96 FEBRUARY 2015 ISSUE 95 JANUARY 2015 Bonus online content Tyne & Wear (Ward’s Directory of North Bonus online content Argyll & Bute (Ardchattan Monumental Shields, South Shields, Jarrow, Sunderland, Wallsend, Newcastle- Inscriptions, 1839-2013; Glenorchy Monumental Inscriptions, 1764- upon-Tyne and Gateshead, 1915-16; Reid’s Handbook to Newcastle, 2013; Black’s Guide to Scotland, 1883; Scottish Maps; Argyll & Bute 1863; Early Newcastle Deeds; Kelly’s Directory of Northumberland, Archives image set) 1921; Tyne & Wear Archives image set) On the record New wills service launches online; Outcry On the record Findmypast releases trade union records; over cuts to IWM library – P10 Irish Catholic records to be digitised – P10 Off the record Friends organisations – P14 Off the record The dawn of the railway age – P14 Feature 50 Family History sites to watch in 2015 – P17 Feature How to find parish registers online – P17 Feature Start your Family Tree for the New Year – P24 Feature Mapping your family – P24 Past in Pictures Britons unite in the Second World War – P32 Past in Pictures Circuses: The Greatest Show on Earth – P30 Reader Story John Morris uncovers the story of his Reader Story Peter Stevens’s ancestor was convicted of grandfather, a Pow in WW1 – P34 arson in his parish – P32 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Gem from the Archive Swansea Board of Health Maps, 1851 Gem from the Archive Jewish records from WW1 Glasgow – P48 – P46 Best websites One-Name Studies – P51 Best websites Argicultural and Rural Workers – P49 Focus on House History – P54 Focus on Royal Navy – P52 Focus on Debtors’ Prisons – P59 Focus on Phone Books – P59 Social Story Canada’s Railway Migrants – P62 Social Story Bread Riots – P62 Celebrating Your Projects Alan Crosby looks at links Celebrating Your Projects The legacy of Dr John Langdon between Scotland and the Flemish – P68 Down – P68 Local Industries Cornish Metal Miners – P71 Local Industries Tile-Makers of Somerset – P71 Eureka Moment Elizabeth Lual uncovers a hidden Eureka Moment Linda Brookes tells us how she broke adoption in the family and an ancestor confined to a through an 18-year brick wall on the marriage of her lunatic asylum – P74 great grandparents – P74 Behind the Headlines 1940: Churchill becomes PM – P77 Behind the Headlines 1885: Age of consent is raised to 16 – P77 Around Britain Argyll & Bute – P81 Around Britain Tyne & Wear – P81 Reviews Writing Your Family History: A Guide for Family Historians – P89 Reviews Voyages from the Past: A History of Passengers at Sea – P89 30-minute Genealogist Trawl through newspaper reports using the ConnectedHistories website – P94 30-minute Genealogist How to use the FIBIS website – P94 My Family Hero James Parkinson discovered the deadly My Family Hero Susan Rose’s great aunt Evelyn Pike made condition which later bore his name – P98 a real mark on the nursing profession – P98
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ISSUE 94 DECEMBER 2014 ISSUE 93 NOVEMBER 2014 Bonus online content Surrey (Surrey Musters, 1558-1684; Parish Bonus online content Staffordshire (White’s Directory of Registers of Putney, 1620-1870; Parish Registers of Haslemere, Staffordshire, 1851; Anicent Corporation of Hanley, 1783-1900; 1573-1812; East and West Surrey FHS journals; Surrey History Parish Registers of Stoke-upon-Trent, 1629-1812; Parish Registers Centre image set) of Blymhill, 1561-1812; Parish Registers of Berkswich, 1601-1812; On the record Red Cross releases WW1 volunteer records; Staffordshire Archives image set) Mental health records to go online – P10 On the record WW1 medical records revealed for the first Off the record Divorce in the 1800s – P14 time; Adoption rule change to aid researchers – P10 Feature FamilySearch – P17 Off the record Battles between England and France – P14 Feature Competition winner spends a day with the Who Feature Wills – P17 Do You Think You Are? genealogist – P24 Feature Booth’s Poverty Survey of London – P25 Feature Performers in the 19th century – P27 Past in Pictures Sport in London – P30 Past in Pictures 160 years of life in Lewes, East Sussex – P32 Reader Story Jane Spencer’s18th-century heirloom helped Reader Story Lorna Conaghan’s family member went from unearth family tragedy – P34 football legend to convict – P32 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Gem from the Archive East End midwife’s casebook, 1850- Gem from the Archive Police charge book, 1881-96 – P46 1875 – P48 Best websites Navy in the First World War– P49 Best websites Italian ancestors – P51 Focus on School records – P52 Focus on Marriage records – P54 How to First World War trench maps P58 Focus on The Summary Courts of the City of London – P59 Focus on Trade directories – P61 Social Story Christmas in the trenches – P63 Social Story Conscientious objectors – P64 Your Projects Wiltshire’s wartime past – P70 Your Projects Tilty during the Second World War – P70 Local Industries Brass-makers of Birmingham – P71 Eureka Moment – An online message board helped Sarah Local Industries Needle-makers of Redditch – P71 Armstrong uncover her ancestor’s troubled life – P74 Eureka Moment – A newspaper article helped Amos Behind the Headlines 1836: The Lewes Avalanche – P77 Bannister solve the mystery of a tragic death – P74 Around Britain Somerset – P81 Behind the Headlines 1871: Dr Livingstone found – P77 Reviews Including Common People: A History of an Around Britain Staffordshire – P81 English Family – P89 Reviews Including Census: The Family Historian’s Guide 30-minute Genealogist Bristish industrial history – P94 (2nd edition) and Secrets of The National Archives – P89 My Family Hero Roger Gosling’s ancestor rose from convict 30-minute Genealogist Irish Bureau of Military History – P94 to the richest man in the colony – P98 My Family Hero Peter Clarke’s uncle took part in the world’s first carrier strike, the Cuxhaven Raid – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
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ISSUE 92 OCTOBER 2014 ISSUE 91 SEPTEMBER 2014 Bonus online content Somerset (Wells Cathedral: Its Monumental Bonus online content North Yorkshire (North Riding Quarter Inscriptions and Herladry, 1892; History of Kingswoode School, Sessions; Kilburn Parish Registers, 1600-1812; Kelly’s Directory of Bath, Somerset, 1898; The Parish Registers of Wilton, 1558-1837; the North & East Ridings, 1889; Kelly’s Directory of the North & East Somerset Heritage Centre image set) Ridings, 1925; Borthwick Institute for Archives image set) On the record Millions of school records hit Findmypast; On the record Prisoners of the First World War revealed; New boost for Herefordshire munitions campaign – P10 New Zealand service files go online – P10 Off the record Glasses – P14 Off the record Ancestors on the move – P14 Feature Subscription websites tried and tested – P17 Feature Researching Scottish ancestors – P17 Feature Celebrating 10 years of WDYTYA? – P29 Feature The Post Office Rifles in WW1 – P25 Past in Pictures The First World War in Colour – P32 Feature Get more from local archives – P31 Reader Story Both of Dave Hutchings’ grandfathers met Past in Pictures Edinburgh in the 1950s – P34 tragic ends – P34 Reader Story Blair Southerden’s Parsi ancestor was a Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 celebrated engineer in India – P36 Gem from the Archive Military Service Tribunal Records, Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 1916-1918 – P48 Gem from the Archive Air raid lost and found book – P50 Best websites British in India – P51 Best websites Territorial Army – P53 Focus on First World War PoWs – P54 Focus on WW1 RAF – P56 Focus on Thames Marine Police – P61 Focus on Parish emigration – P61 Social Story Milk – P64 Social Story Child chimney sweeps – P64 Your Projects Bath Abbey oral history – P70 Your Projects The 1910 Domesday project – P70 Local Industries Calico printers of Lancashire – P71 Local Industries Whisky distillers of the Highlands and Eureka Moment – The WDYTYA? Forum solved Marlene Islands – P71 Dance’s mystery – P74 Eureka Moment – Beryl Robinson uncovered the tale of a Behind the Headlines 1929: The Wall Street Crash – P77 mysterious Victorian death – P74 Around Britain Somerset – P81 Behind the Headlines 1707: The Act of Union – P77 Reviews Including Ancestors on the Move – P89 Around Britain North Yorkshire – P81 30-minute Genealogist Irish newspapers – P94 Reviews Including Who Do You Think You Are? The Genealogy Handbook – P89 My Family Hero Carole Lewis’ ancestor was born into poverty and suffered cruel punishment, but turned his 30-minute Genealogist 19th-century photographers – P94 life around – P98 My Family Hero James Phillip-Evans’ ancestor was a great social reformer – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
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ISSUE 90 SUMMER 2014 ISSUE 89 AUGUST 2014 Bonus online content Mid and West Lothian (Currie Memorial Bonus online content Birmingham (Birmingham Memorial Inscriptions, 1675-2012; Merchiston Castle School Register, 1833- Inscriptions; Rowley Regis Parish Registers, 1539-1812; West 1903; Fettes College Register, 1870-1932; Social Life of Scotland Bromwich & Stowe Parish Registers, 1606-1679; Old & New in the Eighteenth Century, 1901; West Lothian Archives and Birmingham, 1880; History of Birminfham, 1819; Birmingham Midlothian Archives images sets) Archives image set) On the record Findmypast reveals flying forebears; Isle of On the record Imperial War Museum reopens; Call to Jura project scoops award – P10 update marriage certificates – P10 Off the record Flint – P14 Off the record Norfolk’s best churches – P14 Feature WDYTYA? Series 11 preview – P17 Feature New WDYTYA? celebrities revealed – P17 Past in Pictures Preston in the First World War – P26 Feature WDYTYA? Live Scotland preview – P21 Reader Story Anne Perkins uncovered a suspicious death Feature Making the most of family photos – P25 in an asylum – P28 Past in Pictures WW1 in Bradford – P32 Feature Oxford Dictionary of National Biography – P33 Reader Story Maureen Musson’s ancestors had a dramatic Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 change of fortune – P34 Gem from the Archive Jewish refugee casebook, c1938 – P46 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Best websites 18th-century ancestors – P49 Gem from the Archive Inspector of the Poor’s letter books 1864-76 – P48 Focus on Canal boat ancestors – P52 Best websites Railway ancestors – P51 Focus on Teachers – P59 Focus on WW1 Merchant Navy – P54 Social Story Adulterated food – P62 Focus on Medical ancestors – P61 Your Projects The Great Fen project – P68 Social Story Board schools – P65 Local Industries Tobacco workers of Bristol – P71 Your Projects Library of Innerpeffray – P70 Eureka Moment – Canadian photos broke down Lesley Grundy’s brick wall – P74 Local Industries Tinplate workers of South Wales – P71 Behind the Headlines 1851: The Great Exhibition opens – P77 Eureka Moment – A chance search on a maritime website helped Tony Berry find an ancestor – P74 Around Britain Mid and West Lothian – P81 Behind the Headlines 1910: Dr Crippen apprehended – P77 Reviews Including The First World War on the Home Front – P89 Around Britain Birmingham – P81 30-minute Genealogist Tasmania convict index – P94 Reviews Including Peace and War: Britain in 1914 – P89 My Family Hero Denise Ward’s ancestor was a 30-minute Genealogist Royal Navy officers – P94 groundbreaking feminist lawyer – P98 My Family Hero Patsy Trench’s 4 x great grandmother emigrated to the Australian wilderness – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
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ISSUE 88 JULY 2014 ISSUE 87 JUNE 2014 Bonus online content Essex (Waltham Abbey Extracts, 1826-1840; Bonus online content Cambridgeshire (King’s College Register, Kelly’s Directory of Essex, 1929; Fyfield Parish Registers, 1538-1700; 1797-1925; Leys School Directory, 1912; Cambridgeshire Quarter Lambourne Parish Registers, 1582-1708; highlights from Essex Sessions, 1759-1786; Caxton 1841 Census; Cambridge Marriage Record Office) Notice Book, 1837-1949; Westley Waterless Registers, 1557-1950; highlights from Cambridgeshire Archives) On the record Record sets reveal West Yorkshire rogues; Exhibition to tell Bannockburn story – P10 On the record Manchester nonconformist records hit Ancestry.co.uk; Top-secret WW1 files revealed – P10 Off the record Legacy of a global conflict – P14 Off the record Help from the Home Front – P14 Feature Find WW1 ancestors – P16 Feature Apps for family historians – P17 Feature Your favourite WDYTYA? episode – P26 Feature 10 tips for finding death records – P23 Feature Visit WW1 battlefields – P29 Past in Pictures London buses during WW1 – P28 Feature 10 hidden resources not to be missed – P35 Reader Story Glynis Markham’s research revealed the Feature Women in India – P41 actual car her ancestor raced in the early 1900s – P30 Past in Pictures Postal workers of WW1 – P46 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P36 Reader Story A letter revealed a poignant human story Gem from the Archive Almshouse register, 1586-1866 – P44 behind the Western Front for Dr David Moore – P48 Best websites Theatre records – P47 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P54 Focus on Criminal records – P50 Gem from the Archive Guild minute book, 1600s – P62 How to... Use Evernote to organise your files – P56 Best websites Jewish ancestors – P65 Focus on Trinity House petitions – P59 Focus on Asylums – P68 Social Story London’s dustmen – P62 How to... Use Lives of the First World War – P74 Your Projects Muslim burial ground – P68 Focus on Literary ancestors – P77 Local Industries Clyde ship-workers – P71 Social Story Canary girls – P80 Eureka Moment – Sarah Taplin Walker unravelled the Your Projects Oxfordshire FHS wins journal prize – P86 mystery of her shipwrecked ancestor – P74 Local Industries Walsall saddle-makers – P87 Behind the Headlines 1895: Oscar Wilde convicted – P77 Eureka Moment – Paul Kelly solves a name problem – P90 Around Britain Cambridgeshire – P81 Behind the Headlines 1864: The Great Sheffield Flood – P93 Reviews Including My Ancestor was in the Royal Navy – Around Britain Essex – P97 P89 Reviews Including Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors – P105 30-minute Genealogist Clergy database – P94 30-minute Genealogist Scottish directories – P110 My Family Hero Janet Jones’s ancestor emigrated to the US to join the Mormons – P98 My Family Hero David Mervin’s WW1 kin – P114 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
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ISSUE 86 MAY 2014 ISSUE 85 APRIL 2014 Bonus online content West Yorkshire (Kelly’s Directory of Leeds, Bonus online content West London (Boyle’s Fashionable Guide, 1916; The Wakefield Express Directory, 1901; Poll for the West 1924; Harrow School Register, 1801; Kensington Parish Registers, Riding of Yorkshire, 1835; Ossett Baptist Chapel burials; West 1539-1675; Greater London Illustrated, 1882; highlights from Yorkshire Archive Service highlights) Richmond Local Studies and Hillingdon Local Studies) On the record Northern Ireland BMDs go online; On the record Tithe records added to TheGenealogist; Ordnance Survey maps go digital – P10 Family historians unite for WDYTYA? Live – P10 Off the record Victorian genealogists and cricket – P14 Off the record Black sheep in the family – P14 Feature Get more from free websites – P16 Feature 10 tips for finding missing ancestors – P17 Feature First World War projects – P23 Feature Tithe maps – P24 Past in Pictures The Emerald Isle in turmoil – P28 Past in Pictures The North West during WW1 – P30 Reader Story Derek Penrose’s ancestor survived a Reader Story Linda Brookes solves the mystery of a brutally cold winter in Canada – P30 relative’s curious career change – P32 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P36 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Gem from the Archive Servants’ wages book, 1800s – P44 Gem from the Archive Prosecution papers, 1870 – P46 Best Websites Police ancestors – P47 Best websites Coal mining – P49 Focus On Parish records – P50 Focus on Scottish marriages – P52 How to... Back up and share with OneDrive – P56 How to... Add sources to your family tree – P58 Focus On Absent voters – P59 Focus on War diaries – P61 Social Story Lodging houses – P62 Social Story Morality in the dock – P64 Your Projects Dukesfield Smelters project – P68 Your Projects Experience Ashbourne – P68 Local Industries Macclesfield silk weavers – P71 Local Industries Dundee jute makers – P71 Eureka Moment Tom Hayes’ discovery reveals a tragic Eureka Moment – Jenni Dobson’s breakthrough revealed family story and some heroic acts – P74 her grandfather’s WW1 experiences – P74 Behind the Headlines 1814: Napoleon exiled to Elba – P77 Behind the Headlines 1956: The invasion of Suez – P77 Around Britain West Yorkshire – P81 Around Britain West London – P81 Reviews Including Tracing Your Air Force Ancestors Reviews Including Tracing Your Family History on the (second edition) and Glasgow: A History – P89 Internet (Second Edition) – P89 30-minute Genealogist Welsh newspapers – P94 30-minute Genealogist Find out whether your ancestor owned slaves – P94 My Family Hero John Swynfen lived through the Great Fire of London and a king’s execution – P98 My Family Hero Nancy Atkinson’s grandfather was one of Jamaica’s finest sons – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
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ISSUE 84 MARCH 2014 ISSUE 83 FEBRUARY 2014 Bonus online content East London (Stepney baptisms, 1798- Bonus online content Leicestershire & Rutland (Accounts of 1816; Wapping baptisms, 1878-1933; London Views, 1909; Black’s the Churchwardens of St Martin’s Church, Leicester; Leicestershire Guide to London, 1920; highlights from local archives) Marriage Registers; Ancient Leicester; Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland images) On the record Over 2.5 million British India records go online; Unit diaries reveal WW1 experiences – P10 On the record Website reveals Wales during WW1; British Library uploads images to Flickr – P10 Off the record House history – P14 Off the record The cost of cuts to archives – P14 Feature Crowdsourcing – P17 Feature 25 Expert Search Tips – P17 Feature British India – P22 Feature Jewish Bradford – P23 Feature Home Front heroes – P28 Feature Sudden Death – P28 Past in Pictures 150 years of the Co-op movement – P30 Past in Pictures Coalmining – P30 Reader Story Angela Aldridge-Tucker’s ancestor survived a shipwreck and an earthquake – P32 Reader Story Stephen Lally discovers a tale of murder and insanity in his family – P32 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Gem from the Archive Pauper’s letters, early 1800s – P46 Gem from the Archive Land Tax Assessments, 1786-1831 – Best Websites Nonconformists – P49 P46 Focus On Freemasons – P52 Best Websites Royal Air Force – P49 Focus On Foundling Hospital – P61 Focus on Apprentices – P52 Social Story Spa Fields Burial Ground – P64 Focus on Youth Movements – P61 Your Projects Mill Road History Project – P70 Social Story Friendly Societies – P61 Local Industries Kidderminster carpet-makers – P71 Your Projects St Helens Pals – P70 Eureka Moment Myra Lawson’s African adventure – P74 Local Industries Wycombe chairmakers – P71 Behind the Headlines 1900: The Relief of Mafeking – P77 Eureka Moment How a single newspaper clipping solved a Around Britain East London – P81 15-year mystery for Trevor Escott – P74 Reviews Including Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors Behind the Headlines 1840: New Zealand is annexed – P77 and Heredis 2014 for Windows – P89 Around Britain Leicestershire & Rutland – P81 30-minute Genealogist Criminal registers – P94 Reviews Including Tracing Your Ancestors through Family My Family Hero The grandfather of Barry Rees survived Photographs and London’s Rubbish – P89 Gallipoli, the Somme and the Blitz – P98 30-minute Genealogist Overseas passenger lists – P94 My Family Hero Steve Taylor’s great grandfather gave his life to save a drowning girl – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
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ISSUE 82 JANUARY 2014 ISSUE 81 CHRISTMAS 2013 Bonus online content Cornwall (Pigot’s Cornwall Directory, 1830; Bonus online content Oxfordshire (Balliol College Register, Kelly’s Cornwall Directory, 1893; South Devon and Cornwall, 1892; 1832-1914; Keble College Register, 1870-1925; Oxfordshire History Cornwall Record Office images) Centre documents and images; Paupers in Workhouses, 1861) On the record Explore Your Archive campaign launches; On the record FamilySearch launches new collaborative The Keep opens doors to researchers – P10 projects; London’s Pulse goes live – P10 Off the record How far back can you go? – P14 Off the record Christmas pudding – P14 Feature 50 websites to watch in 2014 – P17 Feature Getting the most from Parish Registers – P16 Feature Get more from the WDYTYA? Live – P26 Feature Get more from the WDYTYA? Forum – P25 Feature Get started on your family tree – P29 Past in Pictures The whalers of Dundee – P30 Past in Pictures Hampshire’s coastline – P32 Reader Story A mystery wedding led Michael Burke on an astonishing family history journey – P32 Reader Story Antonia Alexander’s chilling link to the final victim of Jack the Ripper – P34 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Gem from the Archive Workhouse journal, 1870s – P46 Gem from the Archive Sexton’s notebooks, 1802-1933 – P48 Best Websites Gypsy and Traveller Records – P49 Best Websites Newspapers – P51 Focus on Postcards from the past – P53 Focus on Births in Scotland – P54 Focus on School Registers – P59 Focus on Hearth Tax – P59 Social Story Christmas A-Z – P62 Social Story Illegitimacy – P62 Your Projects Castleton and Hope societies join forces – P68 Your Projects Clipstone Camp – P68 Local Industries Worcestershire potters – P71 Local Industries Gloucestershire wool – P71 Eureka Moment – Anne Grimshaw’s links to the celebrated Rochdale Pioneers includes an ancestor named after a Eureka Moment - Aidan Goodall and the mystery of the political figure in Italy – P74 missing census page – P74 Behind the Headlines 1894: Blackpool Tower opens – P77 Behind the Headlines 1720: The South Sea Bubble Bursts – P77 Around Britain Oxfordshire – P81 Around Britain Cornwall – P81 Reviews Including Family Tree Maker 2014 and Great Britain’s Great War – P89 Reviews Including Fighting on the Home Front and Ate the Dog Yesterday – P89 30-minute Genealogist Find out whether your ancestor went bankrupt in the London Gazette – P94 30-minute Genealogist Irish census records – P94 My Family Hero Sue Moorcroft and her links to the My Family Hero Graham Seymour’s ancestor risked his life Thornton family of chocolatiers – P98 for famine victims – P98
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ISSUE 80 DECEMBER 2013 ISSUE 79 NOVEMBER 2013 Bonus online content Hampshire (Directory of Hampshire & Bonus online content North Wales (Highways & Byways in the Isle of Wight, 1935; Hampshire Marriage Registers; Highways North Wales; The Registers of Conwy; Pedigrees of Anglesey and & Byways in Hampshire; Commoners of Winchester College; Carnarvonshire Families; National Library of Wales images) Portsmouth and Southampton archives images) On the record WW1 wills go online; Society for One-Place On the record Birmingham Collection added to Ancestry. Studies launches – P10 co.uk; Genealogists join the census debate – P10 Off the record Britain’s worst coal mining disaster – P14 Off the record Memories of my grandfather-in-law – P14 Feature Migration – P16 Feature Family History Centres – P17 Feature Series 10 in 10 documents – P23 Feature WW2 GI Brides – P22 Feature Surnames – P29 Past in Pictures Great War Fashion – P28 Past in Pictures 100 years of Sheffield stainless steel – P32 Reader Story Heather Campbell’s ancestor carved out a Reader Story Alan Harrington’s family research reveals new life on the American frontier – P30 the differing fortunes of an asylum inmate and an Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P36 apothecary – P34 Gem from the Archive Congregationalist minute book, Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 1800s – P44 Gem from the Archive First World War telegrams, 1916 – P48 Best Websites Nelson’s Navy – P47 Best Websites Northern Ireland – P51 Focus on Death in Scotland – P50 Focus on Library of Birmingham – P54 How To Family Tree Mapping – P56 Focus on Manorial rolls – P59 Focus on Lying-in Hospitals – P59 Social Story 150 years of the Co-op – P62 Social Story Prostitution – P62 Your Projects Balsall Heath Family History Society – P68 Your Projects Castleton Lanterns – P68 Local Industries Devon lacemakers – P71 Local Industries Stockport hatters – P71 Eureka Moment - Rosemary Hannah used a family bible to Eureka Moment - How I broke my brick wall thanks to the help trace her ancestors – P74 marriage of a single mother and a vagabond – P74 Behind the Headlines 1861: The death of Prince Albert – P77 Behind the Headlines 1832: The Great Reform Bill – P77 Around Britain North Wales – P81 Around Britain Hampshire – P81 Reviews Including Tracing Your Ancestors’ Childhood and Reviews Including Tracing Your Ancestors Using the Census Georgian London – P90 and Nanny Knows Best – P89 30-minute Genealogist Merchant Navy crew lists – P94 30-minute Genealogist Probate Calendar – P94 My Family Hero Jessica Markwell’s ancestor was a pioneer My Family Hero Was David Brown’s ancestor the for racial equality in Africa – P98 inspiration for Frankenstein? – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
ISSUE 78 OCTOBER 2013 ISSUE 77 SEPTEMBER 2013 Bonus online content Suffolk (Bury St Edmunds Wills and Bonus online content East Lothian (Loretto School Register Inventories, 1379-1650; Denham Parish Registers, 1539-1850; 1825-1925; The Edinburgh Academy Register 1824-1914; Royal Whites Directory of Suffolk, 1814; Suffolk Strays; Suffolk Archives Scots Lothian Regiment; East Lothian Archives) images) On the record London cemetery records available online; On the record Library of Birmingham unveiled; Lowestoft Free folk music and dance digital archive – P10 Living Archive launches – P10 Off the record Ancestors’ accents – P14 Off the record The benefits of parchment – P14 Feature 10 best family tree builders – P17 Feature 100 free websites – P17 Feature Una Stubbs – P24 Feature Minnie Driver – P24 Past in Pictures West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum – P30 Past in Pictures BT Digital Archives – P30 Reader Story Kate Mears’ maritime chest– P32 Reader Story Sarah Smith’s German ancestry – P32 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Gem from the Archive Policeman’s notebook, 1892 – P46 Gem from the Archive Clerkenwell Relief Books, 1860s – P46 Best Websites Poor Law records – P49 Best Websites Canadian resources – P49 Focus on The National Archives – P52 Focus on Causes of death – P52 Focus on Naval next-of-kin claims – P57 Focus on Soldiers’ wills – P59 Social Story Victorian industrial schools – P60 Social Story Victorian charities – P62 Your Projects Redditch local history – P66 Your Projects Raglanpedia – P68 Local Industries Kent hop pickers – P69 Local Industries Black Country chainmakers – P71 Eureka Moment Lauren and Karen Godfrey’s family Bible Eureka Moment Anne Sherman discovers why her helped break down a brick wall – P72 ancestors seemed to disappear from all records – P74 Behind the Headlines 1951: The Festival of Britain – P75 Behind the Headlines 1824: The Society for the Prevention Around Britain East Lothian – P79 of Cruelty to Animals is founded – P77 Reviews Including Who Do You Think You Are? Series Nine Around Britain Suffolk – P81 and Iron, Steam and Money– P88 Reviews Including Empire of the Deep, How to Trace your 30-minute Genealogist West Yorkshire Marriages – P92 Family Tree and What’s in a Surname? – P89 My Family Hero... Was England’s first female doctor and a 30-minute Genealogist National Register of Archives – P94 pioneer of medicine – P98 My Family Hero Beverley Eikli’s ancestor was the only British prime minister to be assassinated – P98
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ISSUE 76 AUGUST 2013 ISSUE 75 JULY 2013 Bonus online content Cumbria (Carlisle Grammar School Bonus online content Gloucestershire (Westbury-on-Trym Parish Register, 1264-1964; Bulmer’s Cumberland Directory, 1901; Kelly’s Registers, 1559-1713; Poor Book, 1656-1698; Kelly’s Directory Westmorland Directory, 1906; History of Cumberland, 1890; of Gloucestershire, 1923; Gloucester Almshouse and Pension Westmorland Wills, 1855-1738; Cumbrian Archives images) Charities; Gloucestershire Archives highlights) On the record Engineers’ records now available on On the record Lives of the First World War website; Ancestry.co.uk; Irish genologists present Obama Plymouth researchers crack wartime code – P10 research – P10 Off the record Scots in the American Civil War P14 Off the record Alan Crosby catches up with long-lost Feature Finding wills – P17 relatives from overseas P14 Feature Inside the workhouse – P25 Feature New series preview – P17 Past in Pictures American servicemen in Britain during Feature 50 military websites – P23 WW2 – P36 Feature Royal Births – P33 Reader Story Laura Doyle uncovers a scandal involving Past in Pictures Making cars at Cowley– P38 emigration to New Zealand – P38 Reader Story Peter Soulsby uncovers a criminal dynasty of Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P44 his past – P40 Gem from the Archive Library borrowers’ book from Quarry Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P46 Bank Mill, 1900s – P52 Gem from the Archive Consett Iron Company Pension Best Websites Women’s suffrage – P56 Records, 1918-1960 – P54 Focus on Nonconformists – P58 Best Websites Coroner’s reports – P57 Focus on Scottish Retours – P63 Focus on Free online libraries – P60 Social Story Sewing Bees – P66 Focus on Irish valuation revisions– P65 Your Projects Pembroke and Monkton LHS – P72 Social Story The history of wash-houses – P68 Local Industries Framework knitters – P73 Local Industries Welsh slate miners– P73 Behind the Headlines 1873: The year that Girton College, Behind the Headlines 1755: The year that saw the Cambridge, opened – P77 publication of Johnson’s English Dictionary – P77 Around Britain Gloucestershire – P81 Around Britain Cumbria – P81 Reviews Including How Our Ancestors Died and Deserter – Reviews Including Jewish Lives: Britain 1750-1950 and P89 Steaming to Victory – P89 30-minute Genealogist Search for your Trafalgar ancestors- 30-minute Genealogist Australia’s National Archives - P94 P94 My Family Hero... Took part in the real Great Escape from My Family Hero... Braved a house fire saving lives and met Stalag Luft III – P98 Gandhi – P98
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ISSUE 74 JUNE 2013 ISSUE 73 MAY 2013 Bonus online content Devon (Blundell’s Register, 1770-1882; Kelly’s Bonus online content Norfolk (Marsham Parish Registers; Kelly’s Directory of Devonshire, 1897; Black’s Guide to Devonshire, 1878; Directory of Norfolk, 1892; White’s Directory of Norfolk & Norwich, Devon FHS samples; highlights from Devon Heritage Centre and 1854; highlights from Norfolk Record Office) Plymouth & West Devon Record Office) On the record Welsh newspaper website launches; IWM On the record FamilySearch unveils new web features; sound recordings go digital – P10 Irish property records go online – P10 Off the record Exploring unusual forenames – P14 Off the record Visitors on census returns – P14 Feature Missing BMDS – P17 Feature Breaking down brick walls – P17 Feature Modern records – P25 Feature Crime and punishment – P25 Past in Pictures The fishing heritage of the Exe Estuary – Past in Pictures Railway workers – P32 P32 Reader Story Debbie Box discovers similarities between Reader Story John Gardiner discovers that his ancestors her ancestors and the characters of Les Misérables – P34 were born on a tropical island into slavery – P34 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Gem from the Archive Ipswich Prison register, 1897-99 – P48 Gem from the Archive Letters from Regency Bath, 1790s-1800s – P48 Best Websites Slavery – P51 Best Websites Youth movements – P51 Focus on The Second Boer War – P54 Focus on German ancestors – P54 Focus on The National Farm Survey – P61 Focus on Estate Duty registers – P61 Social Story WRVS in the Second World War – P64 Social Story Habitual drunkards – P64 Your Projects Anglo-Italian Family History Society – P70 Your Projects The Mills Archive – P70 Local Industries Burton-on-Trent Brewers – P71 Local Industries Irish peat cutters – P71 Making History The canine wartime adventures of Airedale Jack – P75 Making History The reality of life in Bedlam – P75 Behind the Headlines 1856: Britain attacks China – P77 Behind the Headlines 1953: The year of the North Sea flood – P77 Around Britain Devon – P81 Around Britain Norfolk – P81 Reviews Including Tracing your Irish Family History on the Internet, England and the Aeroplane and Tracing Your House Reviews Including Tracing Your West Country Ancestors and History – P89 Air Force Lives – P89 30-minute Genealogist Kresy-Siberia Foundation – P94 30-minute Genealogist Singaporean newspapers – P94 My Family Hero... Made a daring escape from Hong Kong My Family Hero... Was a pioneering trick cyclist – P98 during the Second World War – P98
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ISSUE 72 APRIL 2013 ISSUE 71 MARCH 2013 Bonus online content Derbyshire (Repton School Registers; Bonus online content Kent (Rochester Cathedral Registers; Bagshaw’s Derbyshire Directory, 1846; Little History Guide to Picturesque Kent, 1901; Maidstone & its Environs, 1834; highlights Derbyshire, 1903; highlights from Derbyshire Record Office) from Kent History & Library Centre and Medway Archives) On the record Millions of criminal records go online; On the record Manx records online; Richard III discovery– Festival to explore Huguenot lives – P10 P10 Off the record Felonious forebears – P14 Off the record Asking questions of older relatives– P14 Feature World family tree – P17 Feature Welsh newspapers – P16 Feature The forgotten PoWs of WW2 – P24 Feature 10 things you didn’t know about newspapers – P19 Past in Pictures 75 years of HMS Belfast in pictures – P30 Feature William Roache – P26 Reader Story Simon Last discovers his mother is adopted and reveals his family story involving Polish Now Find Your Ancestors in business – P30 persecution in WW2 – P32 Past in Pictures See your Chester ancestors at work – P32 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Reader Story Paul Baker finds a family tale of a rich Gem from the Archive Assisted emigrant’s letter, 1839 – P46 farmer whose decendants fought the system – P34 Best Websites Metal Miners – P49 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Focus on Passenger Lists – P52 Gem from the Archive Surveyor’s account book, 1780s – P48 Focus on Criminal Petitions – P59 Best Websites Hospital archives – P51 Feature How to Turn your iPad into a scanner – P62 Focus on Tracing Irish forebears – P54 Social Story Child Migrants – P64 Focus on Masters and mates certificates– P61 Your Projects A Kent Archaeological Society project – P70 Social Story History of suicide – P 64 Local Industries Glasgow paper makers – P71 Your Projects Houghton-le-Spring Heritage Society – P 70 Making History A shocking reaction to news of WW2 – P75 Local Industries Northants shoemakers – P71 Behind the Headlines 1688: The Glorious Revolution – P77 Making History A revolutionary era in Glasgow – P75 Around Britain Derbyshire – P81 Behind the Headlines 1884: The English earthquake – P77 Reviews Including Roots Magic 6 and Understanding Around Britain Kent – P81 Documentsfor Genealogy & Local History – P89 Reviews Including Tracing Your First World War Ancestors – 30-minute Genealogist Search Australian newspapers – P94 P89 My Family Hero... Was a courageous firefighter – P98 30-minute Genealogist Essex parish registers – P94 My Family Hero... Developed top-secret tanks in WW2 – P98
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ISSUE 70 FEBRUARY 2013 ISSUE 69 JANUARY 2013 Bonus online content Berkshire (Berkshire Probate Index; Berkshire Bonus online content Highlands and Western Isles (Durness Maps; Historical Atlas of Berkshire; Overseers’ Papers; Directories; Parish Registers; highlights from five local archive centres) highlights from BRO and Maidenhead & Reading Local Studies) On the record Funding enables All Our Stories to be told; On the record Final countdown to WDYTYA? Live begins; Roll shines light on Irish kin; Hull’s Home Front heroes Boer War records go online; Maps chart Manchester’s revealed – P10 history; Raglanpedia prepares for launch– P10 Off the record A look into the number of societies soon to Off the record Expanding your research and putting your celebrate their centenaries – P14 ancestors lives into historical context– P14 Feature Start your family tree – P17 Feature Put your photographs in order – P17 Feature Get ready for WDYTYA? Live – P20 Feature Adoption – P24 Feature 50 websites to watch – P22 Feature Common names – P29 Feature John Bishop – P30 Past in Pictures Temperance ancestors – P32 Past in Pictures Transport workers’ uniforms – P34 Reader Story Anne Cook began researching her husband’s Reader Story Jamie Beckford was shocked to uncover an servant ancestor, and uncovered a royal mystery – P34 ancestor on the Bounty during the mutiny – P36 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 Gem from the Archive Coventry schoolboy’s letters, 1873 – Gem from the Archive The Buckinghamshire Posse P48 Comitatus, 1798 – P50 Best Websites Customs, Excise and Tax – P51 Best Websites English Civil War – P53 Focus on London archives – P56 Focus on Enclaves and outposts – P56 Focus on Inquisitions post mortem – P61 Focus on Gentleman’s magazines – P63 Social Story Mechanics institutes – P66 Social Story Convict children – P 66 Local Industries Lancashire Glass – P71 Local Industries Sheffield steel – P73 Behind the Headlines 1930: The year the UK’s giant silver Behind the Headlines 1870: The year education for all airship, the R101, crashed – P77 became a reality in Britain – P77 Around Britain Berkshire – P81 Around Britain Highlands and Western Isles – P81 Reviews Including Tracing Your Aristocratic Ancestors – P89 Reviews Including Tracing Your Ancestors Through Death 30-minute Genealogist Newspapers at findmypast.co.uk - Records and Voices from the Workhouse – P89 P94 30-minute Genealogist Hertfordshire ancestors – P94 My Family Hero... An ancestor who ran away with a My Family Hero... Dined at the White House – P98 travelling showman – P98
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ISSUE 68 CHRISTMAS 2012 ISSUE 67 DECEMBER 2012 Bonus online content Northumberland (Kelly’s Directory, 1938; Bonus online content Wiltshire (Friendly Society Enrolments; Kelly’s Bulmer’s Directory, 1887; Historic Biographies; Northumberland and Directory, 1898; Wiltshire Directories, 1830-1927; highlights from Durham FHS databases, highlights from Woodhorn Museum) Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre and The Swindon Collection) On the record Court records uncover Warwickshire’s past; On the record Electoral rolls chart Midlands history; US Scottish wills hit the web; Project reveals conscription census transcribed; Museum promotes Dorset past – P10 truths – P10 Off the record How has the web improved research? – P14 Off the record An examination of holly, and its place in Feature Census online – P17 our festive celebrations – P14 Feature Patrick Stewart – P24 Feature Advent guide to the past 12 months – P17 Feature WW2 ancestors – P30 Feature Wartime Farm Christmas – P24 Past in Pictures A Bolton childhood in 1937 – P32 Feature Marriage myths – P27 Reader Story Phillippa Lancaster was thrilled to find Past in Pictures Do you recognise anyone in these post-war Jewish and gypsy ancestors in her tree – P34 Swindon photographs? – P36 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Reader Story Mike Matthews must decide if his military ancestor was a hero or a lout – P38 Gem from the Archive An Oxford coroner’s record, 1875 – P48 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P44 Best Websites Reform schools – P51 Gem from the Archive An 1890 navy journal tells of a yound sailor’s Christmas at sea – P52 Focus on The meaning of tattoos – P54 Best Websites Almshouses – P55 Focus on Cremation records – P61 Focus on Maps – P58 Social Story History of baking – P64 Focus on Special constables – P63 Your Projects Petworth Emigration Project – P70 Social Story Christmas diaries – P66 Local Industries Herring Girls – P71 Local Industries London street traders – P73 Making History Desertion and heroism in WW2 – P 75 Behind the Headlines 1842: The retreat from Kabul saw a Behind the Headlines 1817: The Elgin Marbles displayed in sole survivor – out of 16,000 – P77 London – P77 Around Britain Northumberland – P81 Around Britain Wiltshire – P81 Reviews Including The Wills of our Ancestors and Wings: One Reviews Including Tracing Your Merchant Navy Ancestors – Hundred Years of British Aerial Warfare – P89 P89 30-minute Genealogist TNA’s wills collection – P94 30-minute Genealogist Irish civil registration – P94 My Family Hero Brian Humphrey’s ancestor was awarded My Family Hero WW1 soldier leaves behind diaries with the Victoria Cross by Queen Victoria herself – P98 tales of courage – P98
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ISSUE 66 NOVEMBER 2012 ISSUE 65 OCTOBER 2012 Bonus online content Northern Ireland (Ulster Historical Bonus online content Warwickshire (Bedworth Census, 1821; Foundation datasets; North of Ireland FHS material; highlights from Pigot’s Directory, 1835; Kelly’s Directory, 1928; highlights from PRONI and Belfast Central Library) Warwickshire County Record Office and Birmingham City Library) On the record Home Guard records break down walls; On the record Merchant seamen collection goes online; Cemetery data goes online; Football database hits the Archive wins volunteer prize; Map reveals Georgian web – P10 Winchester – P10 Off the record Alan discovers what happened to his Off the record Exciting stories in the new series of grandfather after he disappeared – P14 WDYTYA? – P14 Feature Parish records – P17 Feature 50 Hidden Online Gems – P17 Feature Annie Lennox – P25 Feature Samantha Womack – P24 Feature Research Blitz sites – P30 Feature Find your orphaned ancestors – P28 Past in Pictures Faces of the First World War – P34 Past in Pictures British lives from 1930 to 1970 – P30 Reader Story William Turner’s research turned up heroes Reader Story Ex-policeman Robert Bartlett investigates and villains – P36 his family tree to find a real adventurer – P32 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Gem from the Archive Lincolnshire schoolchildren survey, Gem from the Archive Newspaper photos, 1914-1918 – P48 1849 – P50 Best Websites Dating photos using fashions – P51 Best Websites WW1 Home Front – P53 How to Get started with Family Historian 5 – P54 Focus on Dating early family photographs – P56 Focus on Victorian wars – P56 Focus on Prison hulks – P61 Focus on Child migration – P63 Social Story Fever hospitals – P64 Social Story Childbirth – P66 Your Projects Ormskirk & District FHS’s canal project – P70 Your Projects Lancashire roll transcriptions – P72 Local Industries North Devon glovemakers – P71 Local Industries Welsh flannel makers – P73 Making History A WW1 soldier’s Russian odyssey – P75 Making History England’s first female motor racer – P76 Behind the Headlines 1834: the Houses of Parliament burn Behind the Headlines 1934: Gresford mining disaster – P77 – P77 Around Britain Warwickshire – P81 Around Britain Northern Ireland – P81 Reviews Including Tracing Your Servant Ancestors and The Reviews Including Marriage and Death Records – P89 Fishing Fleet – P89 30-minute Genealogist Medal Index Cards – P94 30-minute Genealogist RAF records – P94 My Family Hero... Drowned in a pleasure boat accident My Family Hero... Was a celebrated war hero in France – P98 after a life in the Navy – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
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ISSUE 64 SEPTEMBER 2012 ISSUE 63 AUGUST 2012 Bonus online content Cheshire (Parish Register of The Holy Bonus online content Worcestershire (Memorial Inscriptions; Trinity, Chester, 1532-1837; Stockport St Mary Burials, 1696-1762; Pigot’s Directory, 1835; Kelly’s Directory, 1912; Army Lists; highlights Cheshire Directory, 1928; Picturesque Cheshire and more) from The Hive) On the record New features added to genealogy website; On the record New website offers discount census access; Pilot records now searchable – P10 Worcester archive launches – P10 Off the record The Preston Guild – P14 Off the record The British Olympic Spirit – P14 Feature New series preview – P16 Feature Ancestors at work – P16 Feature Find Scottish poor ancestors – P22 Feature Family Matters – P24 Feature Find living relatives – P27 Feature Get more from TNA – P27 Past in Pictures Life on country house estates – P32 Past in pictures Rural pastimes in the frame – P32 Reader Story Jackie Phillips’ research into her Jewish Reader story Rosemary Cook reveals her research into the forebears unlocked new family connections – P34 senseless murder of a nurse – P36 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Gem from the Archive Glasgow poor law application, 1903 Reader Story Henry and Jean Pelham uncovered the tragic – P48 tale of a policing ancestor killed on duty – P42 Best Websites Mills and mill workers – P51 Gem from the Archive A farm accounts book from 1881 – P48 How to Date beach photos – P54 Best Websites Athletic ancestors – P51 How to Get more from Rootsweb – P58 Focus on Land tax records – P54 Focus on Army lists – P61 Focus on Jury lists – P61 Social Story US pioneer trail – P64 Social Story Sporting fashion – P64 Your Projects Local History Society of Heanor – P70 Your Projects Borders Family History Society – P70 Local Industries Paisley shawlmakers – P71 Local Industries Lancashire clog makers – P71 Making History The Klondike gold rush – P75 Making History An evacuee who never returned – P75 Behind the Headlines 1847: the Ten Hour Act – P77 Behind the Headlines 1863: birth of the Underground – P77 Around Britain Cheshire – P81 Around Britain Worcestershire P81 Reviews Including Tracing Your Prisoner of War Ancestors – P89 Reviews Including The Genealogist’ s Internet – P89 30-minute Genealogist Lancashire parish records – P94 30-minute Genealogist Parish registers at the SOG – P94 My Family Hero... Was shipwrecked on a Canadian island – My Family Hero Sheila Clarke’s ancestor was Charles P98 Dickens’s (totally useless) business manager – P98
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ISSUE 62 JULY 2012 ISSUE 61 JUNE 2012 Bonus online content Glasgow (Annals of Glasgow; Post Office Bonus online content Buckinghamshire (Bucks-born Police; Royal Directories; Slater’s Glasgow, 1863; highlights from local archives) Bucks Militia; Kelly’s Directory, 1911; Pigot’s Directory, 1830; WW1 On the record Major online Dorset collection grows; Royal Army Lists, Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies images) staff data goes online; Site records wartime memories On the record Millions of voting records go online; Parish – P10 data collections grow; archives celebrate Jubilee – P10 Off the record Discussing the social stigma of finding Off the record Examining royal occasions – P14 illegitimacy in the family – P14 Feature Find lost birth records – P16 Feature Court records – P16 Feature Publish your family history research – P27 Feature Royal Household Archives – P25 Past in Pictures Diamond Jubilee special – P32 Feature My House, My Street – P30 Reader Story Chris Payne investigates a prodigious Past in Pictures Faces of the Second World War – P34 detective in the family, and uncovers a dark secret – P36 Reader Story Lois Hopkins uncovers a dark secret Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 concerning two brothers in her family of Yorkshire nailmakers – P36 Gem from the Archive Frontline War Diary from WW1 – P48 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 Best Websites Asylums – P51 Gem from the Archive School punishment book – P48 Focus on Welsh Ancestors – P54 Best Websites Huguenots – P51 How to TNA Discovery – P60 Focus on Servant ancestors – P54 Focus on Naturalisation – P63 Focus on Catholic registers – P61 Social Story WW1 Nurses – P66 Social Story Gardeners of the past – P64 Your Projects The restoration of Stockport’s Plaza Cinema to its former glory – P72 Your Projects The Genealogical Society of Victoria and its award-winning magazine – P70 Local Industries Leyland Cars – P73 Local Industries Bedfordshire Brickmakers – P73 Making History The unsung heroes of WW2 – P76 Making History Second World War Arctic convoy – P76 Behind the Headlines 1897: The year of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations – P77 Around Britain Glasgow – P81 Around Britain Buckinghamshire – P81 Behind the Headlines 1922: Opening Tutankhamun’s tomb P77 Reviews Including Tracing Your Ancestors from 1066 to 1837 and A Tommy’s Sketchbook – P89 Reviews Including Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors – P89 30-minute Genealogist FIBIS – P94 30-minute Genealogist London Records – P94 My Family Hero... Was a pioneering missionary in Africa – My Family Hero Stephen Lewis’s forebear captured P98 Napoleon’s favourite general – P98
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ISSUE 60 MAY 2012 ISSUE 59 APRIL 2012 Bonus online content Lincolnshire (WW1 Army Lists; Pigot’s 1835 Bonus online content Hertfordshire (WW1 Army Lists; Pigot’s Directory; Boston Union Workhouse material and more) 1823 Directory; Hertfordshire Directory, 1828-29 and more) On the record New Kent history centre set for launch; On the record The world’s largest transcription project; Westminster data digitised; M&S archive opens – P10 Welsh collection goes online; Website records rural memories – P10 Off the record Living with extended family – P14 Off the record Travelling into the past – P14 Feature Find your London-based ancestors – P16 Feature 50 tips to get the most from FamilySearch – P16 Feature Who Do You Think You Are? Live report – P26 Interview Meet the Registrar General – P24 Feature Learn of your police ancestors – P30 Feature Research on the go – P31 Past in Pictures Liverpool throughout the generations – P36 Past in Pictures Life growing up in Birmingham – P36 Reader story Lisa Thackwell discovers a rags-to-riches story, a Waterloo war hero, and more in her husband’s Reader Story David Fredericks discovers how his great family – P38 grandfather made it on and safely off the Titanic – P38 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P44 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P44 Gem from the Archive Soldier’s effects records, 1901-1913 Gem from the Archive Kindertransport index card, 1939 – – P50 P50 Best Websites Chartist families – P53 Best Websites Wills and probate – P53 Focus on Scottish Old Parish Registers – P56 Focus on US Census – P56 Focus on Merchant Navy – P63 Focus on RAF combat reports – P63 Social Story Did your ancestor go to prison for debt? – P66 Social Story Barnardo’s Children – P66 Your Projects Grangetown LHS’s online resources – P72 Your Projects Worcestershire men that fell in WW1 – P72 Local Industries Fleet Street journalists – P73 Local Industries Shipbuilders of Belfast – P73 Making History Protestant pioneers in the New World – P76 Making History A man on both sides of the Civil War – P76 Behind the Headlines 1816: The year without a summer – Behind the Headlines 1948: The birth of the NHS – P77 P77 Around Britain Hertfordshire – P81 Around Britain Lincolnshire – P81 Reviews Including Tracing Your Huguenot Ancestors and Reviews Including Tracing Your Service Women Ancestors Titanic Voices – P89 and Blitz Kids: The Children’s War Against Hitler – P89 30-minute Genealogist Locate the graves of servicemen – 30-minute Genealogist Ellis Island website – P94 P94 My Family Hero... Saved hundreds of evacuees in the Fall My Family Hero... Experienced the horrors of the of Singapore – P98 Peninsular War – P98
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ISSUE 58 MARCH 2012 ISSUE 57 FEBRUARY 2012 Cover CD Lancashire (Army lists; Monumental Inscriptions; Cover CD Scottish Borders (Scottish Border regiments, Boer War Manchester and Lancashire FHS; History of Liverpool; Preston and WW1; Histories of Dumfriesshire; Roxburghshire gravestones; Directory; Archive collections) Dumfries burials index and more) On the record London Electoral Registers hit the web; On the record Genealogists gear up for WDYTYA? Live; Canterbury data goes online; Museum tells childhood York church records online; Wedgwood Museum faces stories; Holocaust archive reaches UK; TNA launches uncertain future; 1911 personal data hits the web – P10 new online index – P10 Off the record Family history societies are invaluable – P15 Off the record Remembering Britain’s fallen – P14 Death records special Feature Records of death – P16 Feature Army records online – P16 Feature Colonial Office, The men who ran the Empire – Feature The Fall of Singapore – P24 P26 Now find your... PoWs in the Far East – P28 Past in Pictures Arctic convoys, 1941–1945 – P32 Feature Army Records Offline – P30 Reader Story Adrian Finch uncovered a Tudor murder in Past in Pictures A new book and exhibition explore the his family tree – P34 London that Dickens called home – P34 Death records special Q&A Death dilemmas solved – P40 Reader Story Wendy Mayfield discovers a single mother in Gem from the Archive Famine relief papers, 1845-7 – P48 the workhouse... – P36 Best Websites Prisons and prisoners – P51 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 Focus on Railway workers – P54 Gem from the Archive A soldier’s diary from the Nile 1884-5 – P50 Death records special How to Locate a grave – P60 Best Websites The Home Front – P53 Focus on Workhouse admissions – P63 Focus on First World War Photographs – P57 Social Story The shepherd – P67 Focus on Thames Watermen– P63 Your Projects Merton Historical Society’s work to translate medieval Surrey records – P72 Feature Wellington’s Army – P66 Local Industries The Flax workers of Ireland – P73 Your Projects Celebrating your projects: families in British India – P72 Making History Lost on the North Italian Front – P76 Local Industries Bicycle makers of Coventry – P73 Behind the Headlines 1936: King Edward VIII abdicates – P77 Making History Scots in the battle of Trafalgar – P76 Around Britain Scottish Border counties – P81 Behind the headlines 1854: Charge of the Light Brigade – P77 Reviews Including Women’s Lives, Solving Genealogy Problems and DNA and Social Networking – P89 Around Britain Track down your Lancashire forebears - P 81 Death records special 30-minute Genealogist National Wills Reviews Including Family History: Digging Deeper - P89 Index– P94 30-Minute Genealogist Call up midwives’ rolls online - P94 My Family Hero... Saved lives in a maritime disaster – P98 My Family Hero... Was one of the first VC recipients – P98 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
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ISSUE 56 JANUARY 2012 ISSUE 55 CHRISTMAS 2011 Cover CD Bristol & Bath (Bath directory, 1895; Cover CD Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine Web Bath City rate book, 1766; Clifton College Register, 1862-1925; Directory 2012 Your guide to more than 2,000 online resources Tithe apportionment books from the Bristol area and more) On the record First World War nursing records go online; On the record City of London Freemen records go online; Cheshire records hit the web; New Gwent archives Madeley to attend WDYTYA? Live; Archives tell centre launches; Explore Irish prison records online – P10 Holocaust story; Manchester records go online – P10 Off the record Why the Victorian romanticisation of Off the record What was genealogy like before the days Christmas may have been a reaction to reality – P15 of online records and tree-sharing websites? – P15 Feature 50 essential websites – P16 Feature Grow your tree with the census – P16 Past in Pictures A wartime Christmas – P24 Feature Get more from this year’s WDYTYA? Live – P22 Feature Get more from the internet – P27 Feature The big four websites tried and tested – P25 Behind the scenes A brush with fame: personal stories Past in Pictures Panoramas of Lost London – P34 from this year’s series of WDYTYA? – P32 Reader Story Steven Carter discovered a different side to Feature British Library newspapers hit the internet – P38 one of his war hero ancestors – P36 Reader Story Henry and Jean Pelham uncovered the tragic Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 tale of a policing ancestor killed on duty – P42 Gem from the Archive Estate survey, 1792-1804 – P50 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P48 Best Websites House history – P53 Gem from the Archive Sailor’s journal, 1659-1703 – P56 Focus on Overseas census records – P56 Best Websites Shops and retail ancestors – P59 Focus on Freemen of the City – P63 Focus on Post Office workers – P62 Social Story Victorian pawnbroking – P67 Focus on Anglican clergy – P67 Your Projects Burntwood Family History Group compiled How to Write a personal memoir – P70 biographies of local First World War servicemen – P72 Social Story The real Downton Abbey Christmas – P72 Local Industries The saltworkers of Cheshire – P73 Your Projects How Bicester Local History Society restored Making History South Africa, race and football – P76 a Georgian fire engine – P78 Behind the Headlines 1812: Prime Minister shot dead – P77 Local Industries The cutlery workers of Sheffield – P81 Around Britain Bristol and Bath – P81 Making History A would-be Tudor assassin – P84 Reviews Including Tracing Your Canal Ancestors – P89 Behind the Headlines 1888: Murder in Whitechapel – P85 30-minute Genealogist Griffith’s Valuation– P94 Reviews Including Tracing Your Naval Ancestors – P89 My Family Hero Richard Weller’s ancestors founded the 30-minute Genealogist Merchant seamen medals – P94 first whaling station in New Zealand – P98 My Family Hero A murder plot for a feminist cause – P98
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ISSUE 54 DECEMBER 2011 ISSUE 53 NOVEMBER 2011 Cover CD Channel Islands (Kelly’s Directory 1898 and 1931; Cover CD Glamorgan (Wright’s Directory of Cardiff 1894; Black’s Jersey prison register and St Helier baptism register; highlights from Guide to Wales 1872; Glamorgan FHS Monumental Inscriptions Jersey Archive, Guernsey Museum and Société Jersiaise; biographical Master Index; selections from Glamorgan Archives, National Library dictionary of notable Guernsey men, 1862) of Wales and West Glamorgan Archive Service) On the record Manchester record collection hits the On the record Apprentice records collection online; Crew web; Larry Lamb set for WDYTYA? Live; Website tells details hit the net; Archive films online; New genealogy Yorkshire women’s stories; Navy medical diaries go series begins; Waterways archive heads north – P10 online; Newspaper website due to launch – P10 Off the record We must mark the First World War – P15 Off the record Now’s the time to find Mancunian kin – P15 Feature After the Armistice – P16 From the show Alan Carr talks about his story – P16 Past in Pictures The British Olympics – P22 Find your... Mining ancestors – P20 Exclusive intervIew Richard Madeley – P34 Feature Find My Past explores genealogy in reverse – P24 Now find your... New England ancestors – P30 Feature School records – P26 Feature Heir Hunters goes prime-time – P32 Past in Pictures The horses of war – P30 Feature Start your Irish research – P34 Reader Story David Cain explains how a chicken led him Reader Story Richard Cafferata unearthed tales of to a story of family murder – P32 espionage, wealth and royal scandal – P40 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P46 Gem from the Archive Encumbered Estates Acts – P48 Best Websites Medieval genealogy – P55 Best Websites Storing and sharing your research – P51 Gem from the Archive Motor vehicle registrations – P58 Focus on Printed pedigrees – P54 Focus on Guilds – P60 Focus on Settlement and removal – P61 Focus on Divorce – P65 Social Story Domestic violence – P67 Social Story Farmers’ unions – P68 Your Projects Sunniside History Society’s website – P72 Your Projects Cheshire FHS’s Tatton Hall project – P74 Local Industries The cheese makers of Wensleydale – P73 Making History First World War army etiquette – P76 Making History The Viceroy of India’s assassination – P76 Local Industries The Pencil-makers of Keswick – P77 Around Britain The Channel Islands – P81 Around Britain Glamorgan – P81 Reviews Including Tracing Your Second World War Ancestors Reviews Including Tracing Your Tank Ancestors – P89 and A History of the British Police – P89 30-minute Genealogist PRONI wills – P94 30-minute Genealogist Workhouses – P94 My Family Hero Edward Wilson’s ancestor braved the My Family Hero Chris Newall discovered the story of an elements to travel on Scott’s Antarctic expeditions – P98 ancestor who died in the Great Gale of 1871 – P98
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ISSUE 52 OCTOBER 2011 ISSUE 51 SEPTEMBER 2011 Cover CD Sussex (1874 Post Office Directory; 1821 East Grinstead Cover CD South Yorkshire (1851 census for Barnsley area; 1871 census; Eastbourne Memorial Inscriptions; parish registers; Army Lists Directory for Sheffield and District; Heeley baptisms; West Riding from the Royal Sussex Regiment and more) land owners 1873; photos & records from local archives) On the record Railway worker records go online; Archives On the record Post Office record collection launches; Awareness Month celebrates diversity; Irish fair offers Yorkshire records hit the net; Site tells Far East PoW new inspiration; Sheffield archives set to re-open – P10 stories; Seamen register to go online – P10 Off the record It’s important to remember that the stars Off the record What’s the secret of Who Do You Think of WDYTYA? are ordinary folk too – P15 You Are?’s continued success? – P15 Feature Merchant navy ancestors – P16 Feature New series, new stories – P16 Feature JK Rowling offers a behind-the-scenes look at Now find your... Sephardic Jewish ancestors – P22 her episode of Who Do You Think You Are? – P22 Feature Start your family tree – P24 Take it Further French ancestors – P28 Past in Pictures Cambridge through time – P28 Past in Pictures England at Work – P30 Behind the scenes Who makes the series happen? – P30 Reader Story Ray Dunn uncovered two ancestors who Reader Story Dave Brown sleuthed his way past red survived separate disasters at sea – P32 herrings to unravel his family history mysteries – P38 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P38 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 Best Websites Tithe maps – P47 Gem from the Archive Alien register, 1914-1919 – P50 Gem from the Archive School pupil’s memoirs, 1914 – P50 Best Websites Specialist forums – P53 Focus on Wills and probate – P54 Focus on Militia – P56 Focus on Passports – P63 Focus on Gazettes – P63 Social Story Prisoners of War – P66 Social Story Model communities – P66 Your Projects The Glens of Antrim Historical Society – P72 Your Projects The Hyson Green Flats History Project – P72 Local Industries Cornwall china clay – P73 Local Industries The jet-makers of Whitby – P73 Making History The miners’ ‘Stay Down’ strike – P76 Making History Women in the 1926 General Strike – P76 Behind the Headlines 1914: Franz Ferdinand murdered – P77 Behind the Headlines 1848: Chartists march on London – P77 Around Britain Sussex – P81 Around Britain South Yorkshire – P81 Reviews Including Trace Your Channel Islands Ancestors and Reviews Including Tracing Your Rural Ancestors – P89 The English Village Explained – P89 30-minute Genealogist Naval officer records – P94 30-minute Genealogist Ellis Island immigration records – P94 My Family Hero Jean Vivian’s forebear became a local hero My Family Hero Robert and Louisa Ellum’s forebear was for his role in the 1830 Swing Riots – P98 the first man to swim the English Channel – P98
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ISSUE 50 AUGUST 2011 ISSUE 49 JULY 2011 Cover CD Dorset (The History and Antiquities of the County Cover CD Shropshire (Boer War and First World War army lists; of Dorset, Kelly’s 1931 Directory; Army lists) PLUS free software 1828 and 1851 county directories; selections from Shropshire including Family Tree Builder 5.0 and more Archives and Shrewsbury Museum; getting started guide) On the record Maritime museum launches new facilities; On the record US Civil War records online; Death records Militia collection goes online; Research reveals Tudor hit the web; Museum of Liverpool to open; SoG marks deaths; Yorkshire records hit the web – P10 100th anniversary; 1911 census images go online – P10 Off the record How has family and local history changed Off the record Is the internet eroding the romance since issue 1, and what does the future hold? – P15 of family history? – P15 Feature New WDYTYA? series preview – P17 Feature Liverpool: the world in one city – P16 Feature 50 essential research tips – P23 Feature Meet the new face at The National Archives – P22 Past in Pictures Liverpool lives – P32 Past in Pictures Bristol at work – P28 Reader Story David Holme embarked on a genealogical Feature The West Indian sugar trade – P30 treasure trail with the help of a Family Bible – P36 Reader Story Janice Jackson traced her ancestor who Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 served in the Napoleonic Wars – P36 Gem from the Archive Fishing crew list, 1884 – P48 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 Best Websites Free books – P53 Gem from the Archive Parochial poor register, 1847-95 – P50 Focus on War Diaries – P56 Best websites Death and burial records – P53 Focus on Fire insurance records – P61 Focus on District nurses – P57 How to... Use free genealogy software – P64 How to... Use Connected Histories – P62 Social Story Naval surgeons – P66 Focus on Enclosure records – P65 Your Projects The Glendale Local History Society – P72 Social Story The Illustrated Police News – P68 Local Industries The lead miners in the Pennines – P73 Your Projects Forest of Dean Local History Society – P74 Making History A survivor of the Eastern Front – P76 Local Industries The Nail-makers of the Black Country – P75 Behind the Headlines 1926: The General Strike – P77 Making History Chartists Down Under – P78 Around Britain Dorset – P81 Behind the Headlines 1857: The Indian Mutiny – P79 Reviews Including Restoration Home – P89 Around Britain Shropshire – P83 30-minute Genealogist Criminal registers 1791-1982 – P94 Reviews Including Tracing Your East End Ancestors – P89 My Family Hero Matthew Lloyd’s ancestor was a famous 30-minute Genealogist London marriage records – P94 music-hall performer – P98 My Family Hero Mark Stanton’s forebear went missing while prospecting for gold – P98
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ISSUE 48 JUNE 2011 ISSUE 47 MAY 2011 Cover CD Aberdeenshire (1669 Stent Roll; 1696 Poll Tax records Cover CD Bedfordshire (Boer War and WW1 Army Lists; and burials from St Nicholas church; highlights from Aberdeen Kelly’s Directories for 1885 and 1898; Bedfordshire police records; archives and museums; Family Tree Builder 5.0) selections from local archives; index of back issues) On the record Millions of Liverpool records online; Major On the record New Irish resources hit the internet; SoG new Irish site launches; Foundling stories go on display; to celebrate centenary; New website connects records; York fair countdown begins; New TNA search – P10 Holocaust ID project launches – P10 Off the record Do ‘experience’ museums mine a rich Off the record Is the future Queen of England a history seam? – P15 commoner? – P15 Feature Using historical newspapers – P16 Feature Find missing marriages in your family tree – P16 Past in Pictures Wives and sweethearts – P22 Dating photographs Date old wedding pictures – P22 Feature Fleeing the Irish famine – P24 Feature Are you royal? – P26 Now Find Your... ‘Famine emigrant’ ancestors – P30 Past in Pictures London street photography – P30 Feature Tracking down a Victorian murderer – P32 Reader Story Wendy Ray investigated the violent murder of her great grandfather in Argentina – P34 Reader Story Jill Delsoldato found criminals and mill- owners in her family tree – P38 Feature A history of how the kitchen has evolved – P39 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P44 Gem from the Archive Pre-1858 probate record – P50 Gem from the Archive A record of apprenticeship – P52 Best websites Rural crafts and industry – P53 Focus on Pub landlords and their licences – P61 Focus on Shipwrecks – P56 Best websites Welsh ancestry – P55 Focus on The British overseas – P63 Social Story Child workers in Britain – P64 Feature Life on the Thames – P66 Your Projects Cheltenham Local History Society’s transcription of parish registers – P70 Your Projects Marden History Group – P72 Your Town In... The late 17th century – P71 Your Town In... The early 17th century – P73 Making History An Irish 18th-century genealogist – P75 Making History Boer War atrocities – P76 Behind the Headlines 1901: Queen Victoria’s death – P77 Behind the Headlines 1759: British Museum opens – P77 Around Britain Bedfordshire – P81 Around Britain Aberdeenshire – P81 Reviews Tracing Your Family History on the Internet and more Reviews Story of Ireland and more – P89 – P89 30-minute Genealogist 1911 census for Scotland – P94 30-minute Genealogist New Zealand passengers – P94 My Family Hero Phil Bunford’s ancestor was the tallest My Family Hero Denise Psaila’s forebear gave his life to woman in the world – P98 rescue a drowning boy – P98
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ISSUE 46 APRIL 2011 ISSUE 45 MARCH 2011 Cover CD Mid-Wales (1871 Montgomeryshire census; 1901 Cover CD Essex (1933 Kelly’s Directory of Essex; Essex memorial census of Breconshire and Radnorshire; Return of Owners of Land; inscriptions; Essex Regiment Army Lists from the Boer War and the Welsh maps; selections from national and local archives) First World War; Essex RO & Essex Police Museum selections) On the record Scotland 1911 census set for release; New On the record New Antipodean data online; Berkshire PRONI centre to open; WDYTYA? Live continues to wills index created; Manx digital museum launches; grow; New museum charts Cardiff story – P10 More BMD registers digitised; WDYTYA? Live – P10 Off the record It’s vital that we don’t scrap the census – P15 Off the record Will our archives survive the cuts? – P15 Feature Time to revisit the census – P17 Feature Essential guide to parish registers – P16 Feature Scotland’s 1911 census – P26 Past in Pictures Children evacuated overseas – P28 Past in Pictures Women in farming – P32 Feature St Pancras cemetery records go online – P31 Reader Story Sue Allan wrote a novel about the amazing Reader Story Lorna Dunn discovered some amazing ancestors that she uncovered in her family tree – P36 coincidences on her family tree – P36 Feature How Radio 4’s Tracing Your Roots hit the streets to Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 solve mysteries using the census – P40 Gem from the Archive 1900 asylum admission register – P48 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 Focus on Quarter sessions – P50 Gem from the Archive County of Flint war memorial – P50 How to... Merge records using Family Tree Maker – P56 Focus on Agricultural labourers – P52 Best Websites Fishing communities – P59 Best Websites Heraldry and pedigrees – P59 Focus on Emigration records – P63 Focus on 1801-1831 census returns – P63 Social Story Cotton mill girls at work – P66 Social Story Missing on census night – P66 Your Projects The Friends of Woking Palace – P72 Your Projects The Manchester General Cemetery Your Town In... The Industrial Revolution – P73 Transcription Project – P72 Making History The mystery of Catholic expulsions Your Town In... The early 18th century – P73 in Dorset – P76 Making History 19th-century female boxers – P76 Behind the Headlines 1912: The sinking of the Titanic – P77 Behind the Headlines 1666: The Great Fire of London – P77 Around Britain Essex – P81 Around Britain Mid Wales – P81 Reviews Including Tracing Your Medical Ancestors, Family Reviews Researching Your Family History and more – P89 History for Beginners and Pauper Ancestors – P89 30-minute Genealogist ‘Other ranks’ service records – P94 30-minute Genealogist Royal Navy ratings – P94 My Family Hero Jill Cozens’ forebear survived the sinking My Family Hero Barbara Young’s ancestor invented new of the RMS Lusitania – P98 artificial limbs following his son’s accident – P98
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ISSUE 44 FEBRUARY 2011 ISSUE 43 JANUARY 2011 Cover CD East Yorkshire Ancestors (1861 census for East Cover CD West Midlands Ancestors (Staffordshire and Yorkshire; 1916 Kelly’s Directory of Hull; Army lists for East Yorkshire Worcestershire 1835 directories; Birmingham 1863 directory; Aston Regiment; Hull History Centre sample records; East Riding links) baptism, marriages and burial records 1554-1639; Memories of Victorian Birmingham; sample records, maps and photos) On the record New web access to Society of Genealogists archive; Hugh Quarshie set for WDYTYA? Live; Shipping On the record WDYTYA? Live details revealed; Manchester archive site launched; WW1 web archive expands – P10 1851 census restored; Guernsey war accounts found; PRONI updates; London burial records online – P10 Off the record Is Continuing Education doomed? – P15 Off the record New Year resolutions and aspirations – P15 Feature Get the most from this year’s WDYTYA Live – P16 Feature New Year, new start – P16 Feature Break through your top ten brick walls – P19 Past in Pictures Sport in Tyne and Wear – P24 Past in Pictures York through time – P26 Feature Digging up your roots – P26 Feature Handing over the family’s history – P29 Feature 100 years of the Society of Genealogists – P29 Reader Story Martin McCrae’s ancestor was executed in New Zealand – P36 Reader Story Ian Cochrane’s ancestral search reveals some scandalous characters – P38 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 Gem from the Archive 1907 Register of Admission – P48 Gem from the Archive 1866 Bridgwater ship crew list – P50 Focus on Medical ancestors – P50 Focus on House research – P52 Best Websites Genealogical blogs – P57 Best Websites Parish registers – P59 Focus on Incoming passenger lists – P61 Focus on Police service records – P63 Feature Animals in the First World War – P64 Feature Building the body beautiful: keeping fit – P66 Your Projects Burton upon Stather Heritage Group’s project to restore a Second World War slipway – P70 Your Projects The Probate Conservation Programme at Lancashire Record Office – P72 Your Town... in the Regency period – P71 Your Town... in the early Victorian period – P73 Making History The role that British soldiers played in the American Civil War – P74 Making History Shanghai internment – P76 Behind the Headlines 1746: The Battle of Culloden – P75 Behind the Headlines 1879: The Tay Bridge Disaster – P77 Around Britain East Yorkshire – P79 Around Britain West Midlands – P81 Reviews Including The Story of England, Keeping Chronicles Reviews Including Tracing your Legal Ancestors – P89 and Family Tree Maker for Mac – P87 30-minute Genealogist Death duty registers – P94 30-minute Genealogist Irish civil registration– P94 My Family Hero Nick Morris’s ancestor took golf to My Family Hero David Taylor’s ancestor worked on the America – P98 famous Bell Rock Lighthouse – P98
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ISSUE 42 CHRISTMAS 2010 ISSUE 41 DECEMBER 2010 Cover CDs Family History Web Directory 2011 and Cover CD County Durham (Northumberland & Durham directory, Surrey (West Surrey 1851 census; St James, Croydon parish records; 1850; County Durham Post Office directory, 1873; Northumberland & WW1 Officers’ Army Lists; Chertsey Workhouse; Redhill Royal Durham mining history; Bishopwearmouth baptisms and burials, 1826- Philanthropic School; sample records and images) 37; Sample records & images) On the record New access to 1911 census; Welsh registers On the record Pre-1812 London records go online; Live go online; Child migrant site launches; Boer War show tickets go on sale; Site reveals Edinburgh’s war; records hit the web – P10 Bournemouth’s past online – P10 Off the record A new twist to a family Christmas – P15 Off the record Snobs are wrong about family history – P15 Feature 25 websites not to miss in 2011 – P16 Feature Discover the unsung heroes of WW1 – P16 Past in Pictures Victorian children – P24 Past in Pictures Victorian Scotland – P24 Feature Beyond the TV show– P26 Feature 100 years of the high street – P27 Feature A Welsh homecoming – P30 Now Find Your Shopkeeper ancestors – P30 Reader Story Gill McAlister uncovers a gruesome murder Reader Story Jacky Rhoades’ search gave her a shocking in Wiltshire – P34 insight into Victorian child labour– P34 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 Feature Rowntree’s riddle– P38 Gem from the Archive Coroner’s inquest, Norfolk – P46 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 How to... Make a family memento as a Xmas gift – P54 Feature DNA tests– P48 Focus on Napoleonic soldiers - P59 Feature Some corner of a foreign field– P54 Focus on Directories - P63 How to... Create a DVD photo slideshow – P58 Feature Goose, logs and Stir-up Sunday – P66 Best Websites Maps, plans & surveys – P61 Your Projects... Devon FHS young genealogists – P72 Focus on Settlements - P65 Your Town... in the late Victorian period – P73 Feature A Room of her own – P68 Behind the Headlines 1819: the Peterloo Massacre – P77 Your Town... in the Edwardian period – P75 Around Britain Surrey – P81 Making History The River Emergency Service – P78 Reviews & listings Including Edwardian Farm – P89 Behind the Headlines 1865: Lincoln Assassinated – P79 30-minute Genealogist Divorce records – P94 Around Britain County Durham – P83 My Family Hero Steve Campbell’s ancestor was a Chartist Reviews & listings Including Great War Lives – P89 pamphleteer – P98 30-minute Genealogist Probate calendar – P94 My Family Hero Ronald Nellist’s ancestor ran a leper colony on the island of Java – P98
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ISSUE 40 NOVEMBER 2010 ISSUE 39 OCTOBER 2010 Cover CD Northamptonshire (Kelly’s Directory of Cover CD Somerset (Pigot’s Directory of Somersetshire, 1830; 1875 Northamptonshire, 1890; Return of Owners of Land, 1873; 1777 Militia Kelly’s Topographies; Somerset Light Infantry army list extracts; Sample Lists; Northamptonshire Record Office archives; Northampton Museum; records and images) Sample images and records) On the record Major index of wills goes online; On the record Victorian convict records go online; Scottish workhouse records released; new site charts Welsh website relaunches; Foundling tags go on display; lives; Domesday database hits the net – P10 Somerset archives re-open – P10 Off the record Celebrating the ‘ordinary’ things – P15 Off the record Could ‘Big Society’ cuts harm family Feature Workhouse children – P16 history? – P15 Past in Pictures Life on the railway line – P24 Feature New lives Down Under – P16 Feature Alexander Armstrong – P26 Past in Pictures Stories of war at sea – P22 Now find your... Civil War ancestors – P32 Feature Jason Donovan – P24 Reader Story Mark Lorch’s ancestors were world famous Feature Edwardian Farm – P28 acrobats who were persecuted by the Nazis – P36 Gem from the Archive Guild minute book, 1631-1756 – P34 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 Reader Story Nicholas Fleischmann’s Huguenot ancestors Gem from the Archive 1907-8 plantation registers – P50 were household names in dyed silk– P36 Focus on Hospital records – P52 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P40 How to... Help develop TNAs future website – P58 City Focus Edinburgh – P50 Focus on Hearth tax – P60 How to... Contribute to the Historypin project – P58 Feature Manchester’s world-class art exhibition – P64 Feature Opening the Spy Dossiers – P56 Best Websites Image libraries – P69 Best Websites Musical ancestry – P59 Your Projects Hurstbourne Tarrant Historical Society – P72 Focus on Oaths of allegiance - P63 Your Town... The inter-war years – P73 Feature Beyond Broadmoor – P66 Making History Mystery battle artist – P76 Your Town... in the First World War – P73 Behind the Headlines 1899: The Second Boer War – P77 Making History Jacobites in Manchester – P76 Around Britain Somerset ancestors – P81 Behind the Headlines 1770: Cook lands in Australia – P77 30-Minute Genealogist Naturalisation records – P88 Around Britain Northamptonshire – P81 Reviews & listings Including Domestic Soldiers – P89 Reviews & listings Including Royal Tars of England – P89 My Family Hero... Led a secret double life in Mexico – P98 30-Minute Genealogist War Diaries – P94 My Family Hero... Saved a ship of starving convicts – P98
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ISSUE 38 SEPTEMBER 2010 ISSUE 37 AUGUST 2010 Cover CD Oxfordshire (Kelly’s Directory of Oxfordshire 1915; Cover CD Welsh (Pigot’s 1835 Directory of Wales; Royal Welch Oxfordshire People Index, 1800-2006; Stanton St John parish registers Fusiliers; Welsh research guides; archive film footage; selections from and MIs; Oxfordshire archives; Photoscape software) Anglesey; Denbighshire; Flintshire and Gwynedd archives) On the record Australian records hit the net; rail accident On the record Irish church records go online; Boer War indexes online; new website records London lives; casualty list; Fromelles cemetery to open; marriage census concerns continue; sailor’s logbook online – P10 records hit the web; project wins archive award – P10 Off the record Preserving local dialects for the future – P15 Off the record Commercial funding: a necessary evil? – P15 Feature Monty Don – P16 Feature New series preview – P16 Now find your... ancestors in industry records – P22 Now find your...Northern Irish ancestors – P22 Past in Pictures Hull’s maritime heritage – P24 Past in Pictures Crafts and industries in East Anglia – P24 Feature Getting started on a budget, part two – P27 Feature Getting started on a budget – P29 Reader Story How the death of one of Clare Schofield’s Reader Story David Costall’s discovers his surname may ancestor prompted a Victorian scandal – P36 not be as rare as he’d always thought – P41 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 Gem from the Archive 1754-5 settlement examination – P50 Gem from the Archive Plymouth prison register – P50 City Focus Dublin – P52 Focus on Estate records – P52 How to... Digitally restore old family photographs – P56 Best Websites Exploring film archives – P59 Best Websites War graves and memorials – P61 Focus on Apprenticeship – P63 Focus on Voting records – P65 Feature The Battle of Britain – P66 Social Story 100 years of Guiding – P68 Your Projects Woodsetts Local History Society – P71 Your Projects Ryde Social Heritage Group – P74 Focus on Trade directories – P73 Focus on Railway shareholders – P75 Making History ‘Ghost signs’ painted on walls – P76 Making History Fascist ‘ghost slogans’ – P78 Behind the Headlines 1859: On the Origin of Species is published – P77 Behind the Headlines 1834: British Empire ends slavery – P79 Around Britain North Wales ancestors – P81 Around Britain Oxfordshire ancestors – P83 Reviews & listings Including Making a Video Biography – P89 Reviews & listings Including Victorian Pharmacy – P89 30-Minute Genealogist India Office records – P94 30-Minute Genealogist Merchant Navy records – P94 My Family Hero... Fought with Wellington at Waterloo – P98 My Family Hero... Oversaw hundreds of executions – P98
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ISSUE 36 JULY 2010 ISSUE 35 JUNE 2010 Cover CD Nottinghamshire (Nottinghamshire Baptisms 1654 Cover CD Suffolk ancestors (Kelly’s Directory of Suffolk 1925, –1901; Pigot’s 1835 Directory for Nottinghamshire; Sherwood Foresters Suffolk 1851 census, Dunkirk data, archive material from Bury St records and army lists; documents and photographs from the county Edmunds, Ipswich & Lowestoft ROs) archives; Nottingham University samples) On the record War museum opens archives, School On the record Major update at FamilySearch; Irish 1901 records online, Huge update at Familysearch, Archive census hits the web; nonconformist records go online; newspaper collection released, US series delayed – P10 newspaper digitisation project announced – P10 Feature Escape from Dunkirk – P14 Off the record How will budget cuts affect archives? – P15 Feature Jenny Thomas’ Top 10 – P22 Feature 101 money-saving tips for genealogists – P16 Feature Meeting Sara Khan – P26 Past in Pictures The London Blitz of 1940 – P24 Reader story The Malletts’ seismologist ancestor – P30 Show update Kevin Whately reunited with heirloom – P26 HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Feature The Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands – P28 Around Britain Suffolk ancestors – P42 Now find your… Channel Islands ancestors – P34 How to… Access the 1939 Register – P48 Reader Story Ex-detective Frank Harkness traces his ancient Scottish surname beyond the records – P38 How to trace your… American ancestors – P50 Q&A Tips and advice from our experts – P42 Focus on… Scottish parish registers – P56 Gem from the Archive Post Office offences list– P50 Focus on… The best genealogy iPhone apps – P60 How to… Access FamilySearch.org – P52 Best websites for… Tracing Merchant Navy ancestors – P63 Best Websites Tracing Militia Men – P57 HOW WE USED TO LIVE Focus on Jewish ancestors – P61 Snapshots Alexandra Rose Day, women’s education, boys in breeches, driving licences – P67 Social Story Life for servants in the royal household – P66 Social History Prison food – P70 Your Projects The Kent Archaeological Society – P71 Industry Glassmaking – P76 Focus on Canal boat families – P73 Making History A 17th-century ‘cabinet of curiosities’ – P76 HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Behind the Headlines 1789: Revolution in France – P77 Then and Now Fleet Street, London – P81 Around Britain Nottinghamshire ancestors – P81 Local Records Pre 20th-century charity records – P82 Reviews Including Tracing the Rifle Volunteers – P89 Alan Crosby Local dialects – P86 30-Minute Genealogist Search Irish census records – P94 Making History Edinburgh’s New Town – P88 My Family Hero... Won the VC at the Battle of Balaclava – THE GUIDE P98 Reviews and listings Including the WDYTYA? US book – P89 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
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ISSUE 34 MAY 2010 ISSUE 33 APRIL 2010 Cover CD North Yorkshire ancestors (White’s 1840 Directory of Cover CD London ancestors part two: WEST & CITY OF the East and North Ridings worth £11.99; York Marriage Index (1701- LONDON (London Regiment army lists worth £13.98; Battersea 1837) worth £13.50; and parish records from Over Silton worth £5.75 apprentice and Putney burial records worth £8.50; and West London war memorials index worth £6.50) On the record Irish famine letters go online, Findmypast updates collections, work starts on Kent history centre, On the record New access to 1939 census, BMD certificate Birmingham Pub Blacklist now on Ancestry.co.uk, charges increase, countdown to the 2011 census, recent Bristol burial records browsable on the net – P10 additions to Deceasedonline.com, Alien records go online at Ancestry.co.uk – P10 Feature Step outside the census – P14 Report WDYTYA? LIVE – P14 Feature US series preview – P24 Feature Discover immigrant ancestors – P18 Reader story Richard Burgess’ online discoveries – P34 Reader story Deborah Hicks’ US publishing ancestor – P28 HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Around Britain North Yorkshire ancestors – P46 Around Britain West & City of London ancestors – P40 How to… Trace American ancestors (part 1) – P52 Focus on… Railway ancestors – P48 Visit… The People’s History Centre – P59 Focus on… Chelsea pensioners – P55 Best websites for… Identifying medals – P63 Best websites for… Dating photographs – P61 HOW WE USED TO LIVE HOW WE USED TO LIVE Snapshots Cheese-rolling, Bradshaw’s railway guide, the first ever FA Cup competition, the origins of Bank Snapshots Easter bonnets, exotic and not so exotic pets, Holidays – P67 growing your own, cigarette cards – P65 Social History Colonial women – P70 Social History Language – P68 Industry Butchers – P76 Industry Stonemasonry – P74
HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Then and Now Cardiff Bay – P81 Then and Now Green Park Station, Bath – P79 Local Records Village pumps – P82 Local Records Setting up an oral history project – P80 Alan Crosby The search for fuel – P86 Alan Crosby Road surfacing – P84 Making History Women’s uniforms – P88 Making History Historic maps – P86
THE GUIDE THE GUIDE Reviews and listings Including Tracing Your Railway Ancestors Reviews and listings Including Nick Barratt’s latest book – P87 – P89
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ISSUE 32 MARCH 2010 ISSUE 31 FEBRUARY 2010 Cover CD London ancestors part one: EAST (Docklands Cover CD Angus and Black Watch ancestors (Black Watch Ancestors Vols 1-20 worth £49.99, Victoria Park cemetery burials worth army lists for Boer War and WW1 and Dundee cemeteries) £10, index to Middlesex settlement examination records) On the record Early Irish rebellion records online, On the record Australian convicts online, Oldham war Surname study, Holocaust interviews online, Powys database, oath rolls online, Jewish museum re-opens, register uncovered, 1911 suffragettes, Docklands People’s History Museum re-opens – P10 baptisms, Scottish directories, Brewery museum – P10 Feature WDYTYA? around the world – P14 Feature WDYTYA? hits the USA – P24 Feature Wills – P20 Feature Uncover your past with Nick Barratt – P21 Reader story Hannah Baker, Great Storm of 1824 – P28 Reader story Erica Moores, Italian inspiration – P28
HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Around Britain East London ancestors – P40 Around Britain Angus ancestors – P40 How to… Find birth, marriage & death records – P50 Focus on… Coalmining ancestors – P46 Focus on… Newspapers – P58 How to Get started with parish records – P52 Best websites for… Children’s homes ancestors – P63 Focus on… The Hull History Centre – P58
HOW WE USED TO LIVE Best websites for… Ancestors in the Victorian Wars – P63 Snapshots Oranges and lemons, the arrival of the penny HOW WE USED TO LIVE post, spiritualism, 17th-century pregnancy – P67 Snapshots Shrovetide football, female ag labs, overseas Social History Dress reform – P70 child evacuation in WW2, Valentine’s cards – P67 Industry Legal profession – P76 Social History Baby farming – P70
HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Industry Teaching – P76 Then and Now The Bullring, Birmingham – P81 HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Local Records Public health reports – P82 Then and Now High Street, Thornbury – P81 Alan Crosby The potato – P86 Local Records Co-operative records – P82 Making History Paisley shawls – P88 Alan Crosby Local history societies – P86
THE GUIDE Making History Bangor bell – P88 Reviews and listings Including A History of Scotland – P89 THE GUIDE Reviews and listings Including Tracing your Liverpool Ancestors – P89
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ISSUE 30 JANUARY 2010 ISSUE 29, DECEMBER 2009 Cover CD Family history web directory (links to more than Cover CD Tyne & Wear ancestors (1891 Newcastle census; 1,300 websites, arranged alphabetically by themes such as apprentices, A History of Newcastle on Tyne; Tyne and Wear Archives sample immigration, Scotland, military, nonconformist and getting started) documents; Durham University Library special collections; unseen Davina McCall footage) On the record New records at TNA, 1939 National Register, PoW diaries, Bavarian servicemen, WDYTYA? LIVE, On the record Welsh wills, WW1 Service Records, DoVE Sussex Archive funds, 1851 census, elopement records to restart, Scotlandsplaces.com, Michelle Obama, – P10 WDYTYA? Live! dates, Suffragette archives, Cambridge Archives grant – P10 Cover feature Royal Navy – P14 Cover feature London Dockers – P14 Cover feature 2010 online – P22 Cover feature Trace Theatrical ancestors – P56 Cover feature Heir Hunters – P30 Cover feature Using marriage settlements – P48 HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Focus on… Lifeboatmen – P42 Around Britain Tyne & Wear ancestors – P42 Focus on… Royal Navy ancestors – P46 How to… My Canvas Tutorial – P53 How to Share your family tree online – P52 Best websites for… Pubs and breweries – P61 Focus on… Pauper settlement and removals – P56 Best websites for… Forebears in British India – P61 HOW WE USED TO LIVE Snapshots Schoolboys head home for Christmas; Early HOW WE USED TO LIVE contraception; Underwear;Seafood sellers – P65 Snapshots January sales; Back-to-back housing; Plough Social History Victorian Christmas – P68 Monday; Hot air balloon craze – P65 Industry Fishing industry – P74 Social History Rationing in WW2 – P68 Industry Nursing industry – P74 HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Then and Now Trafalgar Square, London – P79 HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Local Records Maps and plans – P80 Then and Now Brighton Road, Redhill – P79 Alan Crosby Christmas past – P84 Local Records Wills – P80 Making History A stitched family tree – P86 Alan Crosby Stand and Deliver – P84 Making History Navigating the school archives – P86 THE GUIDE Reviews and listings Including Trace your Labour THE GUIDE Movement Ancestors – P87 Reviews and listings Including Tracing your Criminal Ancestors – P89
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ISSUE 28, NOVEMBER 2009 ISSUE 27, OCTOBER 2009 Cover CD Rutland ancestors (Rutland parish registers for Cover CD Manchester ancestors (1851 Chorlton census; Oakham, Empingham and Great Casterton; Leicestershire baptisms Manchester City Battalions CD-Rom; Memorials of Manchester – St Margaret’s Leicester; Pigot’s Leicestershire & Rutland Directory Streets, 1874 digital book; Parish magazines index; Manchester 1835; Rutland Water book extract; Serif PagePlus 9 package) Archives sample records; unseen Chris Moyles footage On the record London parish registers, TNA opening hours, On the record WW2 PoW records; Highland genealogy Post Office staff books, Catholic archives, Bombay centre; 1911 Irish census complete; Shipwreck watch soldiers, medieval documents, Northern Irish returned; Ali’s Irish roots; WW2 films – P10 directories, 1911 census – P10 Cover feature Dublin slums plus Chris Moyles – P14 Cover feature Trace criminal ancestors – P52 Take it further Tracing Dublin slum forebears – P20 Cover feature Martin Freeman untold story – P24 Cover feature Subscription websites – P22 Take it further Ancestors in lunatic asylums – P28 Cover feature Aviation hero – P32 Cover feature The men who built the Forth Bridge – P14 HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Around Britain Manchester ancestors – P50 Around Britain Rutland ancestors – P42 Focus on… WW2 Navy records – P56 How to… Create a family newsletter – P48 Best websites for… apprenticeship records – P61 Best websites for… researching WW1 records – P61 HOW WE USED TO LIVE HOW WE USED TO LIVE Snapshots Mop fairs; Women’s magazines; Early Snapshots London-to-Brighton car race; Victorian employment for women; Turkish baths – P65 vegetarianism; ‘Penny gaffs’; Dentists – P65 Social History Widowers – P68 Social History Ragged schools– P68 Industry Shipbuilders – P74 Industry The police force – P74 HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Then and Now Ludgate Hill, London – P79 Then and Now High Street, Bristol – P79 Local Records Tudor records – P80 Local Records English Civil War – P80 Alan Crosby Local history on TV – P84 Alan Crosby The Gunpowder Plot – P84 Making History Asian slavery in South Africa – P87 Making History The Sheldon Tapestry – P86 THE GUIDE THE GUIDE Reviews and listings Including Trace your Scottish Ancestors – Reviews and listings Including Tracing your Pauper Ancestors – P89 P89
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ISSUE 26, AUTUMN 2009 ISSUE 25, SEPTEMBER 2009 Cover CD Hampshire ancestors (Kelly’s 1915 Directory of Cover CD Devon ancestors (London Gazette entries 1655-1850; Hampshire & Isle of Wight; Scotland’s 1901 Census; Royal Green Historic Towns: Exeter (1887) digital book; Plymouth Prison Index Jackets Museum documents and images; Hampshire and Isle of 1888-1930; Plymouth Bomb Book and archive records; guide to Wight record office documents and images tracing Devon ancestors On the record UK criminal records available online; 1911 On the record Changes at The National Archives; Irish census free at libraries; Call for Fromells descendants; voter registers online; Navy disaster letter on show; Marriage records fully searchable online – P10 War photographs on display; Kent MIs online – P10 Cover feature Land Girls – P14 Cover feature Kate Humble – P14 Cover feature David Mitchell talks about his roots – P20 Cover feature Part 1 of our 14-day challenge – P53 Take it further Scottish tenant farmers – P26 Take it further Coal-mining ancestors – P22
HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Around Britain Hampshire ancestors – P42 Around Britain Devon ancestors – P38 Focus on… WW2 RAF records – P48 Three easy ways… To share research online – P44 Getting started… Part 2 of our 14-day challenge – P53 Focus on… WW2 Army records – P48 Best websites for... Finding Napoleonic War ancestors – P61 Best websites for... Tracing Scottish ancestors – P61
HOW WE USED TO LIVE HOW WE USED TO LIVE Snapshots Hop pickers; Raising the age of consent; Snapshots Digging for victory; WW2 blackouts; Victorian street hawkers; The first London bus – P65 The healthy war diet; Gas masks – P65 Social History Shop-girls – P68 Social History WW2 evacuees – P68 Industry Railway workers – P74 Industry The cotton mills – P74
HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Then and Now Cowgate & St Mary’s Wynd, Edinburgh – P79 Then and Now High Street, Manchester – P79 Local Records Business records – P80 Local Records Graveyards & memorials – P80 Alan Crosby Earliest UK immigrants – P84 Alan Crosby Iron Age hillforts – P84 Making History Ugandan Asian refugees – P86 Making History Royal Regiment of Artillery – P86
THE GUIDE THE GUIDE Reviews and listings Including Trace your East Anglian Reviews and listings Including Tracing Your Street Service Ancestors – P89 Ancestors – P89
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ISSUE 24, AUGUST 2009 ISSUE 23, JULY 2009 Cover CD Stirlingshire ancestors (Argylls and Gordon Cover CD County Down ancestors (Residents of County Down Highlanders Army Lists, Landed Scottish families index 1544-1859, towns in 1900, gravestone inscriptions, documents from the Public Stirling Vagabond Book, Falkirk burial list sample 1817-1854) Records Office of Northern Ireland and Down County Museum) On the record 19th-century newspaper articles online; On the record New series celebrities revealed; German, Australian records uploaded; 1911 census records added Canadian and merchant navy records newly available; for Wales, Channel Islands, military and Ireland – P10 search for Polish RAF navigator ends in success – P10 Cover feature Davina McCall and new series preview – P14 Cover feature Archives for free – P14 Behind the scenes Kate Humble’s ancestral journey – P20 Cover feature Lesley Garrett – P19 Take it further Remembering Victorian heroes – P22 Take it further Spanish Civil War ancestors – P22
HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Around Britain Stirlingshire ancestors – P42 Around Britain County Down ancestors – P42 Focus on… Death records – P48 Focus on… Marriage records – P48 Three easy ways… To share research online – P56 How to… Trace Dutch ancestors – P56 Best websites for... Finding Quaker ancestors – P61 Best websites for... Finding Australian forebears – P63
HOW WE USED TO LIVE HOW WE USED TO LIVE Snapshots Bathing at Southsea; School becomes law; Snapshots The Salisbury Giant; 19th century Irish poor in Hunger marches; The benefits and perils of wigs – P65 Manchester; Crossing sweepers; Flapper fashions – P67 Social History Early British tourism – P68 Social History How tea became a national institution – P70 Census Year Life for our ancestors in 1801, part two – P74 Census Year Life for our ancestors in 1801 – P76
HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Then and Now Folly Bridge, Oxford – P79 Then and Now Skegness beach – P81 Local Records Medieval communities – P80 Local Records Victorian arcades – P82 Alan Crosby The essential role of local carriers – P84 Alan Crosby Model communities – P84 Making History The Scottish diaspora in Poland – P86 Making History Unravelling ancient rural traditions – P86
THE GUIDE THE GUIDE Reviews and listings Including Fishing & Fishermen – P89 Reviews and listings Including Family Historian 4 – P92
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ISSUE 22, JUNE 2009 ISSUE 21, MAY 2009 Cover CD Staffordshire ancestors (1907 Potteries Directory, Cover CD Kent ancestors (1851 Kent ‘Stray’s’ Index, Black History 6,463 Monumental Inscriptions, county archive documents of Kent, Royal Engineers Museum photos and documents, guide to including a 1622 census and an apprenticeship indenture) parish registers, archive samples including prison rolls) On the record Yorkshire criminal records free online; On the record Workhouse records go online; Barack Barnado’s archive service; BMD records relocation; Obama’s English roots; Red Cross archive in Geneva; new Scottish family history centre – P10 Scottish census; online courses; – P10 Cover feature Rick Stein – P14 Cover feature Ainsley Harriott – P14 Take it further German immigrant ancestors – P20 Take it further Find Caribbean slave forebears – P18 Feature Sound Archive of the Imperial War Museum – P24 Feature The National Archives’ volunteer project to transcribe Post-1834 Poor Law Union records – P20 HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Feature Kevin Whately’s unseen story – ecclesiastical Around Britain Staffordshire ancestors – P40 links that provided a gateway to the past – P26 Focus on… Birth records – P47 HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST How to… Trace Russian ancestors – P54 Around Britain Kent ancestors – P44 Best websites for... Researching prisoners of war – P61 How to... Use the census to trace ancestors – P50 HOW WE USED TO LIVE How to... Find homes in land valuation records – P58 Snapshots Sidecar racing; Prison riots; Preventing Best websites for... Irish ancestors – P63 venereal disease; Victorian holiday destinations – P65 HOW WE USED TO LIVE Social History The invention of tinned food – P68 Snapshots Invasion of the body snatchers; Burial and Census Year Life for our ancestors in 1811 – P74 bereavement in Victorian Britain; Tenant strikes – P67 HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Social History Time-keeping – P70 Then and Now Market Square, Whitby – P79 Census Year Life for our ancestors in 1811 – P76 Local Records Church court documents – P80 HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Alan Crosby Local pubs – P84 Then and Now Fire station, Chiswick – P81 Making History Interpreting village names – P86 Local Records House history, part 2: property papers – P82 THE GUIDE Alan Crosby Smuggling – P84 Reviews and listings Including RootsMagic 4 – P87 Making History Military conscription – P86
THE GUIDE Reviews and listings Including Migration Records – P89
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ISSUE 20, APRIL 2009 ISSUE 19, MARCH 2009 Cover CD West Yorkshire ancestors (Leeds Poll Book, Yorkshire Cover CD Berkshire ancestors (Berkshire Burial Index, fourth Hussars officers, Fairburn monumental transcriptions, West Riding edition, Newbury 1815 census, Rifles Museum collection, Berkshire Registry of Deeds, Ilkley Ghyll Royd School documents) Record Office) On the record Medieval soldiers online database; BMDs On the record 1911 census success; free access to for Britons abroad; Hull trawlermen photographs; Berkshire BMD; searchable England and Wales birth Family history conference plans – P10 registers at Ancestry.co.uk; new Scottish genealogy centre – P10 Cover feature Kevin Whately – P14 Cover feature Zoë Wanamaker – P14 Take it further Find your banking ancestors – P22 Take it further Find your striking ancestors – P24 Feature Eve Haas’s dangerous quest behind the Iron Curtain to discover her incredible family history – P24 Feature How to make the most of Homecoming Scotland 2009, a festival dedicated to Scottish roots – P26 HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Feature Matthew Pinsent reveals all about his ancestry Around Britain West Yorkshire ancestors – P42 and his experiences on WDYTYA? – P26 Focus on… Friendly Society records – P48 HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST How to… Write and publish your family history – P54 How to... Get the most from the 1911 census – P48 How to… Convert old money values – P58 Around Britain Berkshire ancestors – P52 Best websites for... Researching medical ancestors – P61 Focus on… Researching police ancestors – P58 HOW WE USED TO LIVE Best websites for... Methodist ancestors – P63 Snapshots World Marble Championships; The Boy’s Own HOW WE USED TO LIVE Paper; Victorian philanthropy; Doping scandal – P65 Snapshots Clearing Liverpool’s 19th-century slums; Social History Lord Lever’s entrepreneurial legacy – P68 Victorian illusions; cartes de visite – P67 Census Year Life for our ancestors in 1911 – P74 Social History Early 19th-century classified ads – P70 HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Census Year Life for our ancestors in 1911 – P76 Then and Now Atlantic Road, Brixton – P79 HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Local Records House history, part 1: street sources – P80 Then and Now Kings Road Arches, Brighton – P81 Alan Crosby Turnpike trusts – P84 Local Records Poll books – P82 Making History Vanessa Collingridge takes us behind the Alan Crosby The rise of the chain store – P84 scenes of the BBC Radio 4 series in a new column – P86 Local History Society Leith, Scotland – P86 THE GUIDE THE GUIDE Reviews and listings Including The Victorians – P89 Reviews and listings Including MacFamilyTree 5.3.8 – P89 To order back issues or subscribe call 0844 844 0939 Back issues index
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ISSUE 18, FEBRUARY 2009 ISSUE 17, JANUARY 2009 Cover CD South Wales ancestors (Poor law union records part Cover CD Cornish ancestors (Prisoners of Bodmin Gaol, Guide to 3 South-west England, the Marches and Wales, Carmarthenshire South Devon and South Cornwall 1892, Getting started guide) archives, 19th-century directories, marriage index, Dyfed FHS On the record Project to catalogue poor law records handbook) begins; 1911 census project on target; General Medical On the record 1911 census launched online; Trade Council records online; rail clerk records online – P10 directories available online; holocaust records online; Cover feature Fiona Bruce (and new series preview) – P14 1911 census of Ireland – P10 Feature Who Do You Think You Are? Revealed: we put Cover feature Rory Bremner – P16 your questions to the production team – P20 Take it further Tracking down doctors at war – P32 Feature Esther Rantzen writes exclusively about her Feature Following the launch of the 1911 census we look amazing discoveries since recording the show – P26 at life in Britain at the end of the Edwardian era – P26 Take it further Tracking down divorce records – P32 Take it further Find your ancestors in the 1911 census – P32 HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Around Britain Cornish ancestors – P44 Around Britain Carmarthenshire ancestors – P44 Going Abroad Polish Ancestors – P48 Focus on… Post-1834 poor records – P48 Focus on… Pre-1834 poor records – P54 Focus on… Tower Hamlets Local History Library – P52 HOW WE USED TO LIVE HOW WE USED TO LIVE Snapshots Burns night; Edwardian marriage and divorce; Snapshots (1911 special) Edwardian badminton; the 1911 The early London Underground; Crinolines – P61 National Insurance Act; Women workers strike; The rise Social Story What a relief: How the discover of of the one-piece swimsuit – P61 anaesthetics changed everything for our ancestors – P64 Social History Many prisoners of war from Napoleon’s Cenus year Life for our ancestors in 1821 – P70 army enjoyed their time in Britain – P64 HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Then and Now Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire – P75 Then and Now Manchester Town Hall – P75 Local Records Quarter Sessions (local criminal courts) – P76 Look at… Street names – P76 Alan Crosby Why people moved around the country – P80 Alan Crosby Jane Austen’s novels offer a window into middle-class society in the 18th century – P78 Local History Society Falkirk, Scotland – P82
Local History Society Hebden Bridge, Lancashire– P80 THE GUIDE THE GUIDE Best websites for… Emigrant ancestors – P89 Best websites for… Sporting ancestors – P89
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ISSUE 16, DECEMBER 2008 ISSUE 15, NOVEMBER 2008 (SPECIAL) Cover CD Fife ancestors (memorial inscriptions, nonconformist FREE BOOK Trace Your First World War Ancestors baptisms, getting started guide, unseen Boris Johnson footage) Your guide to tracking down the records of your WW1 forebears, complete with directory and real-life case studies On the record Naval volunteer records online; apprentice ancestors online; descendants hear their ancestor’s Cover CD Find your Irish Ancestors (archive documents, voice in sound archive; apprentice ancestors online; county histories from 16th-20th century, glossary and timeline) Manchester’s ‘lost’ census found – P8 On the record UK Incoming Passenger Lists 1878-1960 Cover feature Boris Johnson – P12 online; illustrated diary of a WW1 soldier available to view online; Great War archive online – P8 Feature How to track down (and buy) your long lost family heirlooms – P18 Cover feature My Family at War: the new BBC series in which celebrities trace their WW1 ancestors – P12 Feature Textbook Victorian: transcribing my ancestor’s notebooks revealed a man who embodied the era – P22 Feature Armistice Day in the words of the soldiers who experienced the moment WW1 came to an end – P20 HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Feature In Memoriam: a new Imperial War Museum Around Britain Fife ancestors – P38 exhibition offers very personal insights into WW1 – P24 Going Abroad French ancestors – P42 HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Focus on… Manorial records – P46 Around Britain County Antrim ancestors – P40 How to… Find an ancestor missing from the census – P52 Going Abroad British Indian ancestors – P44 HOW WE USED TO LIVE Focus on… Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre – P50 Snapshots Christmas turkeys; Rowdy crowds at public HOW WE USED TO LIVE hangings; Suffragette bazaars; Garden cities – P57 Snapshots Lord Mayor’s parade; The smallpox epidemic Social story Hell-fire clubs: debauchery and media of 1881; Victorian prisons; Early aviation races – P59 sensation in the 18th century – P60 Social story Books for everyone in the 18th century – P62 Cenus year Life for our ancestors in 1831 – P66 Census year Life for our ancestors in 1831 – P68 HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Then and Now Oxford Street, London – P71 Then and Now Eastgate Street, Chester – P73 Local Records… Old bridges – P72 Local Records Old newspapers – P74 Alan Crosby Banking crises have a long heritage – P76 Alan Crosby On the Roman road – P78 Local History Society Peak District Mines Historical Society – P78 Local History Society Durham County – P80
THE GUIDE THE GUIDE Best websites for… Immigrant ancestors – P87 Best websites for… Catholic ancestors – P87
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ISSUE 14, OCTOBER 2008 ISSUE 13, SEPTEMBER 2008 Cover CD Cumbrian ancestors (1851 census and BMDs, 18th- Cover CD Norfolk ancestors (8,500 nonconformist records, century Cumbrian Archive records, Unseen Jodie Kidd footage) documents from the archives, unseen Jerry Springer footage) On the record London Metropolitan Archives available On the record Royal Navy service records online; diary of online; General Register Office makes BMD index a Victorian teenager found by his ancestor; Australian promise; records of county militias online – P8 newspapers online; luxury family history tours – P8 Cover feature Jodie Kidd – P12 Cover feature Jerry Springer – P12 Take it further Trace Canadian ancestors – P20 Take it further Trace your Holocaust ancestors – P20 Feature Victorian Farm: behind the scenes of the new Feature The Navy, the Napoleonic Wars and how to find BBC series exploring rural life in the 19th century – P23 out if your ancestors sailed with Nelson – P22
Take it further Find agricultural labourers – P26 HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Around Britain Norfolk ancestors – P38 Around Britain Cumbrian ancestors – P40 Special Getting Started guide (part two): everything you need to start grow your family tree, including parish Going Abroad Special: Find your South Asian ancestors – registers, military records, wills, newspapers P44 and criminal records – P43 Focus on... Finding hospital records – P52 HOW WE USED TO LIVE HOW WE USED TO LIVE Snapshots Abbots Bromley Horn Dance; ‘Saint Monday’ Snapshots Hebridean herring gutters; Poverty and old and absenteeism in the 18th century; Victorian board age in the Victorian era; The nocturnal haunts of young games; Soda siphons – P59 lovers; Flat caps and the working class – P59 Social story The working man and the controversy Social story The flu pandemic – P62 surrounding the failed 1908 Licensing Bill – P64 Census year Life for our ancestors in 1901 – P70 Census year Life for our ancestors in 1901 – P70
HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Then and Now Market Square, Nottingham – P73 Then and Now The Promenade, Blackpool – P75 Local records... Old cinemas – P74 Local records Researching your school’s history – P76 Alan Crosby Our long-lost coastal communities – P78 Alan Crosby The origins of local archives – P78 Local history society Birkenhead, Merseyside – P80 Local history society Cheltenham, Gloucesteshire – P80
THE GUIDE THE GUIDE Best websites for… Railway ancestors – P87 Best websites for… Workhouse ancestors – P87
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ISSUE 12, AUGUST 2008 ISSUE 11, JULY 2008 Cover CD Complete 1851 census for Lanarkshire (plus Cover CD Complete 1841 census for Cambridgeshire (plus sample documents, police charge books, images of old Lanarkshire) historic maps, documents from the archives) On the record The collapse of the government project to On the record Records of migrants to Australia online; digitise civil registration records; aeroplane pioneer National Archives refurbished; WWI mass war grave records online; plans to put Poor Law records online – P8 found; transported convict records online – P8 Cover feature Patsy Kensit, plus new series preview – P12 Cover feature Nigella Lawson – P12 DIY Trace your Anglican clergy ancestors – P18 DIY Find 19th-century Jewish forebears – P18 Feature The incredible story of one soldier’s act of Feature My ancestor’s experience of the Maori Wars – P20 dashing bravery at the Battle of Amiens – P20 Feature The impoverished British children shipped to HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Canada to start new lives – P26 Around Britain Lanarkshire ancestors – P38 DIY Trace your child migrant ancestors – P32 Special Getting Started guide (part one): everything HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST you need to start your family tree, including civil Around Britain Cambridgeshire ancestors – P46 registration, censuses and an example of what can be achieved in just four weeks – P43 Focus on… City of Westminster Archives – P51
HOW WE USED TO LIVE How to… Record an oral history interview – P55 Snapshots Beauty contests; Sensational Victorian HOW WE USED TO LIVE magazines; Breach of promise of marriage cases; Snapshots Swan upping; the rise of the social club; Victorian Snuff in the 18th century – P59 opium dependency; Gas lighting – P59 Social story The rise of the handheld camera and the Social story The evolution of the British love affair with Victorian snapshot – P62 walking in the countryside – P62 Census year Life for our ancestors in 1891 – P68 Census year Life for our ancestors in 1891 – P68 HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Then and Now Margate Lido, Kent – P73 Then and Now The Quayside, Newcastle – P73 Look at… Old postboxes – P74 House History Unlock the secrets of suburban houses – P74 Alan Crosby Drystone walls tell us about the past – P78 Alan Crosby Crumbling ruins remain fascinating – P78 Local history society Wessex Newfoundland Society – P80 Local history society Frenchay Tuckett Society, Bristol – P80 THE GUIDE THE GUIDE Best websites for… Mill worker ancestors – P87 Best websites for… RAF forebears – P87
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ISSUE 10, JUNE 2008 ISSUE 9, MAY 2008 Cover CD Dunkirk and Northumberland ancestors Cover CD Olympian forebears and Wiltshire ancestors (censuses, roll call of Dunkirk dead, other Dunkirk records, getting (1908 official Olympic report, Wiltshire wills, enrolment records and started in family history) regiment directory, free software) On the record Centuries of criminal trials available online; On the record Slave records online; Black Watch ancestral global burial index; 400 years of Surrey wills online; project; WWI naval casualty lists online; Scotland’s Black Cultural Archives relocate – P8 migrant children get online exhibition – P8 Cover feature Jeremy Clarkson – P12 Cover feature Stephen Fry – P12 DIY Find your factory worker ancestors – P16 Feature 1908 Olympics – P16 Feature Life for the Windrush generation – P18 Feature A forgotten hero: researching the bravery of WW1 soldier John Sayer – P24 Feature The men left behind at Dunkirk – P24 DIY Find Prisoners of War in your family – P30 HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Around Britain Wiltshire – P40 HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Going Abroad South Africa – P44 Around Britain Northumberland – P44 Focus on… Wills – P48 Going Abroad Italy – P48 How to… Get started in Family Historian (cover disk) – P54 Focus on… Traveller and Gypsy records – P53 How to… Get started in MacFamilyTree5 (cover disk) – P56 How to… Read Latin epitaphs – P56 HOW WE USED TO LIVE HOW WE USED TO LIVE Snapshots Empire Day; The bastardy clauses of the 1831 Snapshots Marlow Regatta; Victorian dinner-party Poor Law; Victorian food cheats; Charabancs – P59 etiquette; London dock workers’ strike; Rat pits – P59 Social story Parenting in the 18th and 19th centuries – P62 Social story London’s Great Stink of 1858 – P62 Census year Life for our ancestors in 1881 – P68 Census year Life for our ancestors in 1881 – P68 HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Then and Now Fargate, Sheffield – P73 Then and Now Barbican, Plymouth – P73 Local Records 19th-century tithe maps – P74 Look at… 1930s housing – P74 Alan Crosby Community hierarchies in the graveyard – P78 Alan Crosby Hedgerows are records of rural change – P78 Local history society Tickhill and District, South Yorks –P80 Local history society Leyland, Lancashire – P80 THE GUIDE THE GUIDE Best websites for… Army ancestors – P87 Best websites for… Navy ancestors – P87
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ISSUE 8, APRIL 2008 ISSUE 7, SPRING 2008 Cover CD Derbyshire ancestors (census records and parish Cover CD Cheshire tithe maps, images, trade directories, registers, parish rate books, Derby gaol listings) and free family tree software On the record WDYTYA? returns to our screens; the On the record WWI medal commendations online; WRAF ‘postcode lottery’ for archive services; new genealogy records online; Colliery disaster documents found; centre for Scotland; online museum for Bournemouth WDYTYA? LIVE event; Domesday Book online – P8 – P8 Cover feature Julia Sawalha – P12 Cover feature Carol Vorderman – P12 DIY Trace your Huguenot ancestors – P16 DIY Find tradespeople in your family tree – P18 Feature The Chartist march on London of 1848 – P19 Feature We will not fight: conscription and conscientious Feature A sailor on HMS Belfast: the forgotten story – P30 objectors in WW1 – P20 DIY Was your forebear a conscientious objector? – P26 HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Around Britain Cheshire – P40 HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Going Abroad Cyprus – P44 Around Britain Derbyshire – P38 Focus on… The National Monuments Record – P49 Going Abroad Germany – P42 Focus on… Trade directories – P52 Focus on… Royal Commissions – P47 How to… Care for written memorabilia – P54 Focus on… Dundee Family History Centre – P53 How to… Care for old family photographs – P56 HOW WE USED TO LIVE Snapshots Easter eggs; British Summer Time; Corrugated HOW WE USED TO LIVE iron housing; Victorian fern collectors – P57 Snapshots St George’s Day; Women in industrialising Social story Everyday fashion in the 18th-century – P60 England; Seaside fashions; ‘Genuine’ fakes – P59 Census year Life for our ancestors in 1871 – P66 Social story Mesmerism and the Victorian mind – P62 Census year Life for our ancestors in 1871 – P68 HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Then and Now West Pier, Brighton – P71 HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Local Records Old Ordnance Survey maps – P72 Then and Now The Poultry, London – P73 Alan Crosby The lost significance of rural railways – P76 Look at… Edwardian houses – P74 Local history society Friends of Hackney Archives – P78 Alan Crosby The history of earthquakes in Britain – P78 Local history society Blakeney Area Historical Society – P80 THE GUIDE Best websites for… Police ancestors – P87 THE GUIDE Best websites for… Teachers in your family tree – P87
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ISSUE 6, MARCH 2008 ISSUE 5, FEBRUARY 2008 Cover CD Leicestershire ancestors (over 60,000 records) Cover CD Gloucestershire ancestors (over 100,000 records, images of old Glos, getting started guide) On the record Royal Navy wills online; WWI elite death records online; People’s History Museum On the record 1911 census of Ireland online; RAF combat redevelopment; WDYTYA? in Australia and New reports and WW1 Navy casualties online; Army Children Zealand; 1901 census transcribed – P8 Archive; Great Western Railway records – P8 Cover feature Colin Jackson – P12 Cover feature David Tennant – P12 DIY Trace Jamaican ancestors – P16 DIY Find footballing ancestors – P18 Feature Nine-page DNA and family history special – P18 Feature Oaths of allegiance and how they can help the family historian – P21 HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST DIY Use oaths of allegiance – P26 Around Britain Leicestershire – P40 HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Going Abroad New Zealand – P44 Around Britain Gloucestershire – P40 Focus on… London Metropolitan Archives – P49 Going Abroad Hungary – P44 Focus on… Telephone Directories – P52 Focus on… Society of Genealogists – P49 How to… Date old photographs of children – P54 Focus on… Hearth Tax records– P52 HOW WE USED TO LIVE How to… Make a family history video – P54 Snapshots Mother’s day; Factory work and the Ten Hour Act of 1847; Victorian zoos; The garden gnome – P59 HOW WE USED TO LIVE Social story Chapbooks: Scotland’s first tabloids – P62 Snapshots Pancake race; The rise of the bicycle; Bowler hats; Padded sofas – P59 Census year Life for our ancestors in 1851 – P68 Social Story Great Ormond Street hospital – P62 HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Census year Life for our ancestors in 1851 – P68 Then and Now Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester – P73 HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Look at... Victorian houses – P74 Then and Now Market Square, Norwich – P73 Alan Crosby The challenges of winter for rural ancestors – P78 Local Records Parish Records (part two) – P74 Local history society Tavistock, Devon – P80 Alan Crosby Britain’s changing landscapes – P78
THE GUIDE Local history society Llanelli, South Wales – P80 Best websites for… Criminal ancestors – P87 THE GUIDE Best websites for… Jewish ancestors – P87
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ISSUE 4, JANUARY 2008 ISSUE 3, DECEMBER 2007 Cover CD Tracing your Roots audio CD (part two) Cover CD Tracing your Roots audio CD (part one) (Three complete programmes from Radio 4’s family history series) (Three complete programmes from Radio 4’s family history series) On the record National burial records online; London On the record Guardian archives online; Ancestry DNA Metropolitan archives reopens; WW2 files transferred service; Great Ormond Street Hospital archives; to National Archives; BT phone books online – P8 British Newspaper Library move – P8 Cover feature Barbara Windsor – P12 Cover feature Griff Rhys Jones – P12 DIY Find London dockers – P18 DIY Find criminal ancestors – P18 Feature New Year resolutions for family historians – P20 Feature How tanks transformed WW1 – P20 Feature My ancestor was apothecary to Charles I – P32 Feature Records of Shakespeare in court – P29
HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Around Britain Herefordshire – P42 Around Britain Warwickshire – P42 Going abroad Barbados – P46 Going Abroad Australia – P46 Focus on… LDS Church family history centres – P51 Focus on… Newspaper archives – P51 Focus on… Napoleonic-era medals and records – P54 Focus on… Napoleonic-era regiments – P54 How to… Understand family relationship terms – P56 How to…. Read old handwriting – P57
HOW WE USED TO LIVE HOW WE USED TO LIVE Snapshots Open-air ice skating; Victorian cures for coughs Snapshots Christmas carols; feasting and food; Fir trees; and colds; Bosom-boosting corsets; Linoleum – P59 Festive greetings cards – P61 Social story The peculiar history of Panto – P62 Social story The birth of modern midwifery – P64 Census year Life for our ancestors in 1851 – P68 Census year Life for our ancestors in 1851 – P70
HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Then and Now Park Street, Bristol – P73 Then and Now Church Street, Liverpool – P75 Look at Parish records (part one) – P74 Look at Georgian Terraces – P76 Alan Crosby Championing our ‘ordinary’ ancestors – P78 Alan Crosby The declining art of map-making – P80 Local history society Dunning Parish, Perth and Kinross – P80 Local History Society Lorton and Derwent Fells – P82
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ISSUE 2, NOVEMBER 2007 ISSUE 1, OCTOBER 2007 Cover CD Railway ancestors (over 84,000 records of railway Cover DVD Ian Hislop episode staff), plus unseen footage from the TV series On the Record Home Front records; BMD online launch On the record Nonconformist records online; Victorian delayed; Images of England’s online; Immigration newspapers online; DNA survey of Britons in Russia – P8 records (1878-1960) online; India Office collection – P6 Cover feature Alistair McGowan – P12 Cover feature Natasha Kaplinsky – P10 DIY Find Anglo-Indian ancestors – P20 DIY Find holocaust ancestors – P18 Feature Britain’s railway network changed the lives Feature Passchendaele 1917 and the daughter who our 19th-century ancestors – P24 trod in the footsteps of her WW1 father – P22 DIY Track down railway ancestors – P30 DIY Find First World War forebears – P28 HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST HOW TO UNCOVER YOUR PAST Around Britain Lincolnshire – P42 Around Britain Lancashire – P37 Going Abroad Spain – P46 Going Abroad Ireland – P40 Focus on… Imperial War Museum – P51 SPECIAL Getting Started Guide – P47 Focus on… Burke’s Peerage – P54 Focus on… Memorial inscriptions – P55 How to… Restore old photos – P56 How to… Date wedding photographs – P58 HOW WE USED TO LIVE HOW WE USED TO LIVE Snapshots Firework makers; Victorian laundry; Typhoid fever and sanitation; Pineapples – P61 Snapshots Competitive vegetable growing; Child labour; Victorian chintz; Gloves – P61 Social Story Poverty’s larder: working-class food – P65 Census Year Life for our ancestors in 1841 – P64 Census Year Life for our ancestors in 1841 – P70 Social Story Our surplus girls: women after WW1 – P68 HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP Then and Now Inge Street, Birmingham – P75 Then and Now Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow – P73 History we built Was your village once a town? – P76 History we built Timber-framed buildings – P74 Local Records Calculating population sizes – P78 House History Who’s been living in my house? – P76 Alan Crosby The importance of living memory – P80 Alan Crosby The importance of local history – P78 Local history society Faversham, Kent – P82 Local history society Banbury in Oxfordshire – P80 THE GUIDE THE GUIDE Best websites for… Theatre ancestors – P89 Best websites for… Coal mining ancestors – P87
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