August 2022

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Summer ’s Lease Hath All Too Short A Date..
It can be easy at times to mean to do something or other, but a little difficult actually to carve out the time to do it. Yet this issue there are three distinct items that have served as a reminder, to me, to get out and about with my family history
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Rare 17th-century Embroidery Acquired For The Nation
The embroidered crucifixion is a unique surviving example of textiles associated with Catholic devotion. Created by skilled artisans, the crucifixion is illustrated in coloured silks and surrounded by a Latin prayer embroidered with gold and silver t
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6 Million Sussex Parish Records Now On Ancestry
Working with the East and West Sussex Record Offices, the records on Ancestry hold detailed information about the ancestors of many East and West Sussex families and are searchable by parish on the Ancestry website, with baptism, marriage and burial
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60,000 Dublin Records To Explore
TheGenealogist has announced the release of almost 60,000 records from the 1851 Dublin City Census Index, providing a snapshot of the lives of Irish ancestors living in Dublin on 30 March 1851, at the time when the census was taken. The index provide
Family Tree UK1 min readInternational Relations
Did Your Ancestor Receive A Military Award Or Honour?
The transcripts include British Army personnel and some dominions armies’ personnel. They also contain some recommendations for members of the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and Royal Marines. Reasons for recommendations vary, including gallantry in the
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Dunkirk Painting Owned By Sir Winston Churchill Goes On Public Display
Winston Churchill’s first weeks in office as Prime Minister were marked by his famous wartime speech in which he declared, ‘we shall fight them on the beaches’ following the evacuation of Dunkirk in May-June 1940. Now, following ‘extensive conservati
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How To Get Involved Helping FamilySearch Index Records As A Volunteer
There are currently two priorities: the priority state and reviewing families. The priority state will continue to change as the project moves towards its completion; for instance at the time of going to print the focus was on reviewing the remaining
Family Tree UK1 min readInternational Relations
2 Million UK Prisoner Of War Records Now Available At FamilySearch
The free to use collection is comprised of various records held by The National Archives detailing refugees and individuals taken as prisoners of war during major conflicts around the globe. The records contain the names of military personnel, civili
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Two New Collections To Enjoy At SoG
The first news was of the launch of the interim database of the Society of Genealogists’ (Sog) Memorial Card Collection. In 2016 and 2019, Phillip Jones donated the collection of cards he had been acquiring from collectors and antique fairs since the
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The Passing Of Iain Swinnerton
Iain Swinnerton passed away on 24th May 2022. A former soldier, genealogist, industrialist, magistrate, and Deputy Lieutenant of the West Midlands, he was also a devoted husband, father and grandfather. Extremely well-known in the family history comm
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Family Photos Bbetween The Wars
The release of the 1921 Census for England and Wales in January 2022 has shone a spotlight on the inter-war era and nothing illuminates the past more vividly than family photographs depicting recent ancestors, close relatives and even perhaps ourselv
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Dear Paul
The1921 Census has kept us all occupied these last few months and Kim Bull wondered how many people recorded on this census are still alive today? Kim’s mother-in-law, Margaret Bull, was born on 2 April 1921 and is listed on the 1921 Census, in Ports
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Our Land-holding Scottish Ancestors
In the May issue of Family Tree I discussed records that may help with the research of properties and land in Scotland. To truly understand what is being recorded within such documents, however, it is necessary to understand some of the basics about
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Why Study Local History?
So you have made some progress in constructing a pedigree, and in tracing your family’s history. You have used sources such as the census, civil registers, and probate records to discover relationships, to trace the work that your ancestors did, and
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PHOTOGENEALOGY: STEP 1 GATHER & BACK-UP YOUR PHOTOS
Why are you thinking about embarking on a photogenealogy journey? Your motivation may just be the pleasure of getting organised – the dream of many family historians. Or you may have a specific goal in mind: to protect your legacy, to put faces to na
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Why Did He Die So Young?
It’s amazing what you can find online. I’d been wondering how to locate a 19th century American newspaper to see whether the death of a Dominick ‘Riboloti’, spotted in a transcript at Findmypast, is a simple typo for my 3x great-uncle Dominick Ribold
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Our Ancestors' Gravestones
M y wife and I recently celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary by embarking on a six-day road trip in the English countryside, visiting some of the places that our ancestors lived, married, worked and died in, and – while we were away – Ifound mysel
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Your DNA Workshop
JENNY HOLDEN WRITES: I have tested on MyHeritage and my brother with LivingDNA. I have had several confirmed matches on my mum’s side but none on my paternal side. I’m wondering why this is. My paternal grandmother was illegitimate so is it possible
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The Broader Picture
As an amateur family historian of over 35 years, my tree has extended far and wide but when putting them into context, I will stop at nothing. Walking the footpaths they trod, visiting churches where they were baptised, married or buried, looking for
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How A DNA Match Came Up Trumps
My research started when my father-inlaw, John, asked whether I could confirm where his father and grandfather were born. John was born near Pettigo, on the border in Ireland. He had been told that his father, Arthur, was born in Paisley, but brought
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Where Will Your Reading Take You?
History of the World (as seen through my family history) by J.J. Heath-Caldwell An ambitious approach, I think it’s one that many of us will relate to, as we research our family’s histories and try to write them up: author J.J. Heath-Caldwell’s aim
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Spotlight On...
The BAFHS was founded in 1975 with an operating area of Avon County, a municipal authority created the previous year to include Bath, Bristol and the northern and southern parts respectively of the historic counties of Somerset and Gloucestershire, e
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Your Questions Answered
ancestry.co.uk What was the Derby scheme? QWhen researching my grandfather, Edwin Henry Hollins born Leytonstone in 1890, a soldier in the Royal Fusiliers during WWI, I found he enlisted under the Derby Scheme, service number 10748, 15th Battalion R
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Photo Corner
Michelle Paget asks: Please can you can help with this wedding photograph of my 2x great-grandmother, Kate Elizabeth Lewis, b.1860 in Shropshire, who married Joseph Thomas in 1883 in Burnley, Lancashire. It measures about 16.5cm x 10.6cms. I’d like
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Ancestry
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Diary Dates
Beginning your family history with Ancestry, 1 August Come to this introductory presentation on using Ancestry.com Library Edition and learn how you can utilise it to search historical records and trace your ancestors. Starts 6.30pm AEST (9.30am UK
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Your Letters
What happened to Austin Sparks?... Where DNA & paper trails work together I have finally discovered what happened to my elusive distant relation Austin Sparks. I didn’t have to find him. It’s not as though he is a direct descendant, not finding him w
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GENEALOGY GADGETS & APPS FOR ALL OCCASIONS!
W ebegan the ‘Genealogy Gadgets’ series in the June issue, and thank you to everyone who has submitted their thoughts so far. They’re shaping up to be a truly intriguing collection of tools for using as we go about our family history. Please do conti
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Oh, Hhow I Wish...
Don’t you just wish you’d listened to the stories of older relatives when you were young? When through the self-centred yawning of youth, you didn’t realise they were younger and more savvy than you thought? Especially now you’re the one telling tale

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