Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 2 (June 2013)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 2 (June 2013)

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Issue 2 features: * Voting for action: Nell Darby tells the story of the suffragettes * Operation Chastise: Records of the Dam Busters are online * Marching on their stomachs: Andrew Robertshaw explores the importance of food in the WW1 trenches * Church or chapel?: Beryl Evans reveals how to research both Anglican and Nonconformist Welsh ancestors * The plot thickens: What surname distribution maps can show * Books: A round up of recent publications * Place in focus: Useful resources for Birmingham research * Break the brick walls: Civil registration birth records More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 11 (March 2014)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 11 (March 2014)

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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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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 12 (April 2014)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 12 (April 2014)

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Issue 12 features: * Powering the past: Technology and the Industrial Revolution * One place, many faces: What is a one-place study? * Following the plot: A major collection of tithe records online * Class conscious: The diaries of a Victorian school * Paris of the West: Explore San Francisco in the late 19th century * Books: A round-up of recent publications * Place in focus: Explore Southampton’s history and records * Break the brick walls: Finding occupational records More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 13 (May 2014)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 13 (May 2014)

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Issue 13 features: * A place for everyone?: Parish settlement orders explored * Grow more branches: 500,000 more parish records go online * Kip and kin: Ruth Symes on the secrets of the ancestral bed * When drama meets reality: Explore the roots of stars in the BBC’s new World War One nursing drama * Lumped together: How did people sleep in the workhouse? * Empty pockets: Records of bankruptcy and insolvency * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on aprons More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 14 (June 2014)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 14 (June 2014)

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Issue 14 features: * Going the extra mile: Jenny Jones explains the history and advantages of ‘Dade registers’ * Warriors in your DNA?: DNA research into Bannockburn * PoW records go online: A major new WW1 resource * It’s all in the cards: The history and etiquette of calling cards * Not a happy lot?: Police life and work in Victorian Cheshire * A life on (or behind) stage: Theatrical records explored * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on canes and sticks * Place in focus: Northampton More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 15 (July 2014)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 15 (July 2014)

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Issue 15 features: * Tracing the tiger: Paul Matthews looks at the many mind altering drugs our ancestors might have fallen prey to * Lest we forget...: The WW1 centenary begins * Family reflections: Ruth Symes on the history of mirrors * Were they in India?: A useful research avenue to explore * From store to war: The sad fate of many Harrods staff in WW1 * Graphic conflict: WW1 explored through infographics * Finding the freemasons: Jill Morris enters a secret world * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on sunglasses * What’s on * Books * Place in focus: Wiltshire More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 16 (August 2014)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 16 (August 2014)

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Issue 16 features: * Living on leftovers: Nell Darby explores the forgotten practice of gleaning after the harvest * Fit for a king: The new Richard III visitor centre in Leicester * Justly honoured: Military Medal records from WW1 go online * Short o’ pobbies: Lancashire dialect and the Cotton Famine * Hopping through history: The hop pickers of SE England * To Botany Bay and beyond: Convict transportation records * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on straw boaters More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 17 (September 2014)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 17 (September 2014)

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Issue 17 features: * Scotshots: Jayne Shrimpton investigates photography and photographers in Scotland * Scotland remembers: New heritage plaques unveiled * The utmost bravery: Distinguished Conduct Medals online * Women in war: Kirsty Gray reveals how WW1 affected women and led to major changes in society * Female tommies: Women's nursing services in WW1 * Finding freedom: Records of freemen and burgesses * History in the details: How blazer jackets developed * Place in focus: Staffordshire More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 18 (October 2014)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 18 (October 2014)

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Issue 18 features: * Housekeeping through history: Margaret Powling shows how housekeeping books can illuminate social history * Celebration of place: A new one-place studies conference * Wounded in WW1: Explore 1.3m casualty records online * Sea changes: Karen Foy on the many ways we can learn about our migrant ancestors * A walk in the park: The development of public parks * The slippery poll: 18th and 19th century poll books revealed * History in the details: Cloaks and mantles * Places in Focus: Norwich More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 19 (November 2014)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 19 (November 2014)

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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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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 20 (December 2014)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 20 (December 2014)

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Issue 20 features: * Called to the bar: Phil Wood samples the variety of drinking establishments in Georgian times * Mentioned in dispatches: essential WW1 records now online * Having the last word: Kirsty Gray investigates epitaphs * The toughest scrum: Keith Gregson looks into a Sunderland rugby team, 12 members of which served in World War One * Christmas behind locked doors: Kate Tyte reveals that the festive season in workhouses and asylums wasn’t all bad * The cunning folk: the history of witchcraft in Essex * Lore of the lawyers: Jill Morris tracks down legal records * History in the details: scarves and mufflers More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 21 (January 2015)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 21 (January 2015)

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Issue 21 features: * Parliament and the people: Nell Darby looks back at the people’s relationship with Parliament, now 750 years old * The hidden treasures of gravestones: Nick Thorne explains * Revolutionary biscuits: A slice of Dublin history revealed * Seeking out the pros: Keith Gregson explores what can be learned about professional sporting ancestors in online records * The rise and fall of the Darfield Flier: Michael Rochford reveals an interesting story of a Victorian cyclist * Archive heaven: Melvyn Jones highlights the treasures in the archives of our great landed estates * From Company to the Raj: Jill Morris explores British India * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on muffs More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 22 (February 2015)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 22 (February 2015)

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Issue 22 features: * The sweet smell of history: Jayne Shrimpton sniffs out the interesting social history of perfume * A rogue in the records: Gill Hoffs on a convict who made his fortune in the goldfields of Australia, only to lose it again * The Mulberry madam: Another convict transportation story * Found in the muniments room: Melvyn Jones highlights more treasures in the archives of our great landed estates * All good sports: Keith Gregson explores what can be learned about amateur sporting ancestors in online records * Plying the waters: Waterborne trade in Somerset explored * Calling your ancestors: Jill Morris looks at old phone books * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on raincoats More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 107 (March 2022)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 107 (March 2022)

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* Our centenarian ancestors: A perhaps surprising number of our 19th century ancestors reached their 90s or even their centuries - and press interest in their age can really help the family historian, as Nell Darby explains * The marvels of Metro-land: Caroline Roope discovers the London commuter suburbs promoted by the expanding Metropolitan Railway in the early 20th century * A welfare pioneer: Sadie McMullon tells the story of Agnes Marshall Loomes, a pivotal figure for infant welfare * Addressing Sir Alexander: Nick Thorne addresses where Sir Alexander Fleming lived - the man who discovered penicillin by chance in Paddington * History in the details: Materials - cotton (part 3) More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 108 (April 2022)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 108 (April 2022)

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Keep up to date with the genealogy world and learn more about your hobby with the critically acclaimed Discover Your Ancestors online periodical. Whether you are just starting out or have reached a brick wall in your research, this will help and inspire you on your family history journey. Receive guidance from experts, tips on the best sources for records, explore connections around the world and bring your ancestors to life. Issue 108 features: The changing face of death: Simon Wills looks ... More Info

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