Issue 5 features: * Light industry: Jayne Shrimpton focuses on the fast-growing trade of photography from the 19th century onward * Round up the black sheep: Resources newly online will help track down ancestors with a shady past * Forced from home: Chris Paton offers guidance on tracing ancestors who moved or emigrated in the Highland Clearances * Books: A round up of recent publications * Place in focus: Explore and research Herefordshire roots * Jack and the Jews: We explore the history of prejudice against London’s Jewish community in the 1880s * Break the brick walls: Wills before 1858 More Info
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Issue 10 features: * Home of industry: Nell Darby looks into working from home * Secret liaisons: Jenny Jones explains Fleet marriages * A wealth of wills: Wills available online have much to offer * Place in focus: Explore Sheffield history and records * This month: WW2 memories for National Storytelling Week * Books: A round up of recent publications * Break the brick walls: Advice on apprenticeship records More Info
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Issue 11 features: * Knots for Scots: Regular and irregular Borders marriages * Helping the community: Join a major new volunteer project * Off the rails: The context of 19th century railway accidents * Counter intelligence: Take a shopping trip in Victorian times * Sphere of influence: Contemporary WW1 newspapers * Books/This month: Recent publications and upcoming events * Place in focus: Explore County Durham history and records * Break the brick walls: Tracing illegitimate ancestors More Info
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Issue 19 features: * Life's a lottery: the long history of state-backed gambling * Plots from the past: old maps to buy, with a special offer * Fresh from the front: WW1 newspapers explored * Saturday night soldiers: WW1 Territorial Army records online * Seeking asylums?: records of mental illness go digital * Stall stories: old pictures of London's East End markets * "Weak in intellect": the sad story of people with cognitive disabilities who were sent to the workhouse * The herald calls: mediaeval visitations investigated * History in the details: shawls More Info
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Every part of the United Kingdom has its own, distinctive history – not just the major battles and key historical events which may have played out there, but also the smaller details of everyday life which impinged upon the actual lives of our ancestors more directly. The team behind the popular family and social history magazine Discover Your Ancestors has put together a region-by-region guide to the United Kingdom which will give you a flavour of each area’s history and a run-down of the many More Info
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How should you approach researching your ancestors? In this wide ranging but succinct guidebook, professional writer, lecturer and genealogist Celia Heritage offers expert advice on how to get started using the main online and offline records, and then take research further using a variety of lesser-known resources. In it you will find guidance on subjects including: *Research methodology and how to record what you find *Key Victorian records: birth, marriage and death certificates, and census More Info
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Since its launch in 2013, Discover Your Ancestors Periodical has become an essential read for anyone interested in family and social history, packed with research advice and interesting features on our ancestors’ lives. This monthly magazine has only been available online – until now! We are delighted to offer this complete collection of all 2014 issues of Discover Your Ancestors Periodical on CD in a convenient PDF format. Each issue is packed full of stories, case studies, social history ar More Info
Since its launch in 2013, Discover Your Ancestors Periodical has become an essential read for anyone interested in family and social history, packed with research advice and interesting features on our ancestors’ lives. This monthly magazine has only been available online – until now! We are delighted to offer this complete collection of all 2015 issues of Discover Your Ancestors Periodical on CD in a convenient PDF format. Each issue is packed full of stories, case studies, social history ar More Info
Since its launch in 2013, Discover Your Ancestors Periodical has become an essential read for anyone interested in family and social history, packed with research advice and interesting features on our ancestors’ lives. This monthly magazine has only been available online – until now! We are delighted to offer this complete collection of all 2016 issues of Discover Your Ancestors Periodical on CD in a convenient PDF format. Each issue is packed full of stories, case studies, social history ar More Info
Since its launch in 2013, Discover Your Ancestors Periodical has become an essential read for anyone interested in family and social history, packed with research advice and interesting features on our ancestors’ lives. This monthly magazine has only been available online – until now! We are delighted to offer this complete collection of all 2017 issues of Discover Your Ancestors Periodical on CD in a convenient PDF format. Each issue is packed full of stories, case studies, social history ar More Info
Since its launch in 2013, Discover Your Ancestors Periodical has become an essential read for anyone interested in family and social history, packed with research advice and interesting features on our ancestors’ lives. This monthly magazine has only been available online – until now! We are delighted to offer this complete collection of all 2018 issues of Discover Your Ancestors Periodical on CD in a convenient PDF format. Each issue is packed full of stories, case studies, social history ar More Info
Since its launch in 2013, Discover Your Ancestors Periodical has become an essential read for anyone interested in family and social history, packed with research advice and interesting features on our ancestors’ lives. This monthly magazine has only been available online – until now! We are delighted to offer this complete collection of all 2019 issues of Discover Your Ancestors Periodical on CD in a convenient PDF format. Each issue is packed full of stories, case studies, social history ar More Info
Since its launch in 2013, Discover Your Ancestors Periodical has become an essential read for anyone interested in family and social history, packed with research advice and interesting features on our ancestors’ lives. This monthly magazine has only been available online – until now! We are delighted to offer this complete collection of all 2020 issues of Discover Your Ancestors Periodical on CD in a convenient PDF format. Each issue is packed full of stories, case studies, social history ar More Info
* Smart at school: Jayne Shrimpton educates us on how school uniforms have developed over time * Automobile antics: Nell Darby takes us for a spin through the early years of motor car use * One ring to bind them: Nick Thorne uses online map tools to search for a stone burial chamber which moved 170 miles away from where its Neolithic builders originally put it * Offending women: The Calendars of Prisoners for Liverpool in the 1840s suggest that female offending wasn't as unusual as you might think €¦ Nell Darby investigates * A striking story: Dene Bebbington tells the tale of the match girls' strike * History in the details: Materials - leather (part 1) More Info
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* Master of endurance: Marking the centenary of Ernest Shackleton's death this month, Caroline Roope tells the remarkable story of this great explorer * History's reckoning: From clay tablets to computers, Richard Willis explores the history of accounting and accountants * Crime among cops: We rely on our police forces to help us, solving crimes and making us feel safe. But there is a long history of scandal within the police ranks... By Nell Darby * Updating a Shetland ancestry: Keith Gregson examines some of the resources - old and new - useful for researching roots on the Scottish isles * A brewer's road to Damascus: Nick Thorne follows the story of Frederick Nicholas Charrington, the ex-brewer who built a temperance movement hall down the road from the brewery * History in the details: Materials - cotton (part 1) More Info
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