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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 5 (September 2013)
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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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 6 (October 2013)
Issue 6 features: * Brought to court: Nell Darby begins a new series on courts and their records with a look at Quarter Sessions * Trade secrets: Explore the largest searchable collection of apprenticeship records online * The family killer: Paul Matthews on the ravages of typhus * Roots in many places: Your introductory guide to tracing roots in the Caribbean, by expert Guy Grannum * The skill of search: Maximise your online research techniques * Books: A round up of recent publications * Place in focus: Explore the history of Leeds * Scourge of the seas: Britain’s history of piracy dates back to medieval times - and many pirates were leading figures * Break the brick walls: Wills after 1858 More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 10 (February 2014)
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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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 29 (September 2015)
Issue 29 features: *'A true and perfect inventory': Melvyn Jones describes the domestic comforts of a late 17th century farming family *Picturing the past: Nick Thorne explores how a free online image archive adds atmosphere to family history research *A day at the museum: For the last 400 years, museums have helped people to experience the world's treasures *WDYTYA is back: The popular genealogy TV show returns *Are benefactors in the frame: Unique research into the lives of people who donated paintings to Glasgow’s museums *The legacies of history: Jill Morris explores wills from the 14th to 19th centuries, available online *History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on clogs More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 28 (August 2015)
Issue 28 features: *Bad medicine: Simon Wills looks at the medicines taken by your 19th century ancestors *Scanning on the go: Nick Thorne reviews a useful tool *Joining the circus: Nell Darby takes to the big top with a history of the circus, its performers and those who went along *History woz ’ere: Ruth A Symes explores the personal touches left behind by our ancestors in the form of graffiti *Lost to the waves: Jill Morris looks at records of deaths at sea available online *History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on sandals More Info
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Researching and Locating Your Ancestors by Celia Heritage
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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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 36 (April 2016)
* The sailors on land: Thousands of sailors fought on land as soldiers in WW1. Why did this happen, and was your ancestor involved? Simon Wills explains * The Fortunes of war: Nick Thorne discovers the highest ranking British officer in online German prisoner of war records * The masters of Middleton Top: Neil Hallows reflects on his family's rich railway heritage * Suicide notes: Paul Matthews reveals some tragic stories from when suicide was a crime * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on breeches * Pioneers in the sky: Jill Morris takes a bird's eye view of early aviation More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 38 (June 2016)
* The wreck of the SS London: 150 years ago this notorious shipping disaster claimed the lives of hundreds, as Simon Wills explains * A comedy heroine descended from a WW1 hero: Nick Thorne takes a look at the family of the well-loved and talented entertainer Victoria Wood * Finding other people's secrets: Jocelyn Robson explains how she investigated a fascinating story of a woman who faked her own death and reinvented herself * Stythies, handlooms and tenterhooks: Melvyn Jones delves into the working lives of home-based handloom weavers and metalworkers * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on jodhpurs * Great Scots online: Jill Morris explores the wealth of Scottish records available More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 40 (August 2016)
* Home Front fashion: Jayne Shrimpton stitches together a seamless history of fashion economies during WW1 * Is it worth 'giving them a bell'?: Keith Gregson examines how late Victorian/early Edwardian telephone directories can help the family historian * 'Wrens': the women of the Royal Navy: Simon Wills looks at the history of the Women's Royal Naval Service * The Great British Chocolate Factory: We've loved chocolate in Britain for centuries - but how did we get the taste for it, and who was responsible? Nell Darby finds out* History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on smocks * Anglicans in the archives: Jill Morris looks at the history of the Church of England, and records of clergy available online More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 56 (December 2017)
* Poacher vs gamekeeper: Maybe your agricultural ancestor had another side to him? Simon Wills explores the secretive but risky life of the poacher and his arch enemy * Crackers about Christmas: Nick Thorne looks at some of the Victorian people behind the Christmas traditions we enjoy to this day * Painting the nation blue: Harry Cunningham investigates the 17th century origins of one of the oldest and arguably most successful political movements in the world: the Tories * The forgotten soldier: Daniel Hewitt explores the life of his great-great-uncle, who saw long years of military service * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on crinoline More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 60 (April 2018)
* Northern lights: 150 years after the first fully public meeting on women's suffrage, Sue Wilkes explores the pioneering work of suffragists in Manchester * Through adversity to the stars: Nick Thorne celebrates the April centenary of the birth of the Royal Air Force * Penitent women: Female penitentiaries were designed to make new women of the €˜fallen', as Nell Darby explains * Raiders on the sea: Did your ancestor earn a living by plundering enemy ships? Simon Wills explores the world of privateers, and how to research them * Food of the gods: Margaret Powling offers a delicious history of chocolate * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on bags and purses More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 63 (July 2018)
* Women in schooling: Gaynor Haliday takes a look at the history of women teachers and the challenges they faced * The Wills Forgery Trials: Nick Thorne considers a case of forged records that had a lawyer wrongly transported for life * Huskar: a mining tragedy: Denise Bates tells the sad story of one of Victorian Britain's worst (and least known) disasters * Reconstructing Sarah Ann: The bare bones of an individual's life, as recorded in the census, can hide the three-dimensional character, explains Nell Darby * Boom, bust and Balfour: In the late 19th century, an economic crisis exposed the unscrupulous business practices of MP Jabez Balfour. Harry Cunningham investigates * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on fans More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 69 (January 2019)
* Rinking: an Edwardian craze: Roller skating as a leisure activity has a surprisingly long history. Jayne Shrimpton investigates this pastime, which peaked in the Edwardian age * La Belle Sauvage: Nick Thorne visits a coaching inn where the printing presses disturbed the guests * 'Dollar Princesses': Ruth A Symes looks at what our ancestors made of visiting American women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries * Nursing the nation's heroes: Royal Victoria Hospital was Britain's largest ever military hospital. Simon Wills investigates its history and its patients * The Ratho Murder: When the 'respectable' George Bryce suspected that a local servant had told his fiancee to break off their union, he exacted a horrible revenge, says Nell Darby * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on hair ornaments More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 75 (July 2019)
* Secrets from the grave: Simon Wills explores the genealogical value of our ancestors' headstones * Number One London: TheGenealogist's Map Explorer shows London landmarks in changing environment, writes Nick Thorne * Messing about on the river: Jayne Shrimpton sets sail in the first of two articles about leisure activities associated with water - this time, our rivers and canals * George, the habitual criminal: Nell Darby lays down the law about the history of repeat offenders * Drinking with the Georgians: Phil Wood enjoys an 18th century tipple * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton looks at male servants' livery More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 84 (April 2020)
* Missing from the census: Why were some of your ancestors apparently not enumerated in a census, and what can you do about it? Simon Wills offers some expert advice * Fashion's fools: Jayne Shrimpton looks at some of the stranger and more frivolous trends in fashion down the ages * The sibling suicides: Bloomsbury in London once had an unenviable reputation for suicide. Nell Darby reports * The killing of Sergeant Hately: Stephen Wade tells a tale of danger to law and order at the Alnwick hiring fair * The finder of wonderful things: Nick Thorne discovers the records for the artist's son who discovered a pharaoh * History in the details: Mine workers' dress More Info
Product Code: DYAP084
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