October 2023

Family Tree UK

Get the know-how you need to explore your roots

Family Tree UK2 min read
True Tales
VIDEO CONTENT TAP HERE to watch Helen Tovey’s welcome & introduction Family history absolutely never fails to surprise and delight, does it? Those twists and turns in people’s lives, the moments that just stop us in our tracks, and make us sit back a
Family Tree UK1 min read
Wreck Of Europe’s First Steamship Designated A Scheduled Monument
Rachel Bellerby reports on the latest genealogy news. Got a story to share? Email editorial@family-tree.co.uk Created by Henry Bell, a 19th-century entrepreneur from Helensburgh, Comet was a wooden paddle steamer, built in Port Glasgow by John Wood
Family Tree UK1 min read
New Partnership To Strengthen West African Archaeology
The scheme will aim to develop a new generation of archaeologists, who will tell the narrative of West Africa’s past from an African perspective. The new centre will be a part of The Pavilion, the first building within the Museum of West African Art’
Family Tree UK1 min read
365 Days Of Records –373 Million Records Added MyHeritage In One Year
The collections include a wide variety of record types from all over the world – and any single record among these millions could be the key to toppling your genealogical ‘brick wall’, paving the way to learning even more about your ancestors. Among
Family Tree UK1 min read
Valuation Office Maps & Field Books For Oxfordshire Online
• The Lloyd George Domesday Survey identifies individual properties on extremely detailed 1910-1915 maps, zoomable to the exact plot • The surveyors’ field books provide fascinating details about the house, often revealing the size and number of its
Family Tree UK1 min read
Medal Awards At IHGS Annual Awards Celebration
Speakers at the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies (IHGS) event included David Wright, IHGS Principal and President, the Earl of Lytton, who presented certificates to successful students including two heraldists, three elementary exams, f
Family Tree UK1 min read
Community Archives And Heritage Group Announces Award Winners For 2023
This year’s overall winner was Dream Time Creative (Wakefield) for their work gathering and preserving the heritage of the forgotten women of Wakefield, Yorkshire. Winners in other categories were Glenside Hospital Museum, Bristol and Remembering the
Family Tree UK1 min read
FindMyPast CEO Steps Down
Tamsin Todd, who joined Findmypast as Chief Executive Officer in September 2017, has announced that she is stepping down from the role. During her tenure Findmypast secured the contract to digitise the 1921 England & Wales census, and launched it in
Family Tree UK1 min read
A New Way To Discover When Family Photos Were Taken
PhotoDater™ uses a proprietary machine learning algorithm developed by MyHeritage to provide an estimate of the year when a photo was taken. The date estimation algorithm was trained on tens of thousands of curated, definitively dated historical phot
Family Tree UK1 min read
‘Unparalleled’ Collection Of World War I Machine Guns Corps Records Released
15 July 2023 marked the 101st anniversary of the Machine Gun Corps disbandment. The Machine Gun Corps was an influential unit of the British Army formed by Royal Warrant on 14 October 1915, which at its peak comprised nearly 160,000 officers and men.
Family Tree UK1 min readInternet & Web
1.8M Canadian Headstones To Explore
Obtained through CanadianHeadstones.com and presented by the Ontario Genealogical Society, FindMyPast have added 1.8 million records to this dataset This volunteer-produced index covers the whole country and includes information such as name, date of
Family Tree UK8 min read
SOURCES, EVIDENCE & PROOF: What is evidence?
Sources, documents, records, data, facts, information, evidence. They’re similar terms and can be easily confused. Of all these the most important is evidence. Knowing how to define, classify and use genealogical evidence is an essential skill for al
Family Tree UK13 min readCrime & Violence
Dear Paul
Tony Clayton came across this rather gruesome entry in the burial registers for St Mary’s Church, Whitechapel, dated 16 May 1827, when Charles William Sheen, alias Beadle, died in the workhouse aged four months. In addition to the entry itself, there
Family Tree UK7 min read
Friends Of The Family?
In the determination to trace members of our own family with a particular surname, it’s easy to overlook the possible importance of people with a different surname that are associated with our ancestors. These individuals crop up in all sorts of sett
Family Tree UK10 min read
26 Useful Useful Myheritage User Tips To Enhance Your Family History
Family history can be an awe-inspiring adventure, leading us through newly discovered paths, breathtaking stories and old photos that give us goosebumps. However, very often when we embark on such a journey, we are so overwhelmed that it feels more l
Family Tree UK1 min read
Genealogical.com
www.genealogical.com ■
Family Tree UK6 min read
Your DNA Workshop
CAROL WRITES: Dear Karen I wonder if you can help me to discover who my biological grandfather was. I have tested on Ancestry DNA and confirmed that my biological grandmother was Kathleen Wylie born 1898 in Belfast. Her father was David Wylie (corn
Family Tree UK2 min read
Task Of The Month
Upload your DNA to MyHeritage, pay the unlock fee & gain access to a super-useful tool... Have you tested at MyHeritage or uploaded your raw DNA there? If not it might be worth paying the unlock fee to use a super useful tool that Ancestry hasn’t go
Family Tree UK8 min read
Unveiling The Harmonies Of Remembrance: Family History As Therapy For Dementia
“At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn’t remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.” Even amid the fog of dementia, where recollections fade and details vanish, it is a remarkable phenomenon that the essence of our being
Family Tree UK9 min read
INVESTIGATING Our Ancestors' Wills
In this month’s Family Tree Academy, I want to focus on our ancestors’ wills. When I do talks about wills there’s invariably someone in the audience who tells me that their ancestors didn’t leave wills – and I have to say that I used to feel that way
Family Tree UK3 min read
SPOTLIGHT ON THE Railway Work, Life & Death project
Accidents might not seem like the most promising of family history topics – but as we’ve been finding on the Railway Work, Life & Death (RWLD) project, they can tell us a lot about the people involved and their working lives. That’s important, as man
Family Tree UK5 min read
Books & co
by Heather R. Darsie The four children who are at the heart of this book are Sybylla, Anna, Wilhelm and Amalia, whose parents were Johann III Duke of Cleves and Maria of Julich-Berg. Through their aristocratic parents, the four siblings were descend
Family Tree UK8 min read
Preserving Your Family’s Oral History
Recording and sharing the stories of your family, your community or your organisation can give future generations a window into the past, as well as preserving these memories from fading away as the participants leave us. Many of us have recordings o
Family Tree UK5 min read
Orphan To Heiress -just How Did This Happen?
I’m on a street in Reims, northern France. Capital of the champagne region. And the city where the banns were read in May 1888 for the forthcoming marriage of Catherine Mary Riboldi and Marie Paul André Ruinart de Brimont. And the name of the street?
Family Tree UK8 min read
Flamborough Lives
Fields on either side of the road stretch away and I keep losing sight of the lighthouse as I follow the road down a dip and round a bend; it seemed more than two miles from the village of Flamborough. Then a few holiday cottages appear, and I pass t
Family Tree UK5 min readPopular Culture & Media Studies
Photo Corner
Keith Staley writes: I wonder whether Jayne Shrimpton could offer guidance on this picture. Unfortunately it has been renovated, including being painted over, however it seems to me that the dress the lady is wearing is distinctive enough to aid the
Family Tree UK9 min read
Your Questions Answered
Q I am seeking your help for a friend, Bill, who would like to discover what happened to his father James Kearney. I have copies of the two marriage certificates for his mother. Here are the details about James’s live that we have proved so far: • Ja
Family Tree UK4 min read
Diary Dates
SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER FOR WEEKLY NEWS & EVENTS: https://familytr.ee/reg The event will include a number of regional family history societies who will be able to offer you advice and guidance on research into your ancestors. Also in attendance wil
Family Tree UK9 min read
Your LETTERS
Here [see right] are images of our family photos. We couldn’t live without our ancestors! I have so many more photos up in the loft, and have been an avid collector for years, making sure all my five aunts left me their collections, and badgering ot
Family Tree UK3 min read
Ordinary Lives
I’ve so enjoyed the summer of family history programmes on TV, Who Do You Think You Are?, Long Lost Family and the various DNA journeys. Informative, entertaining, and often poignant, stories of other peoples’ origins never fail to bring an empatheti
Family Tree UK2 min read
Join The Club!
The Study Club is included as part of your subscription to Family Tree magazine (print or digital edition). The meetings take place online, on Zoom. Usually on the second Monday of the month, 6.30-7.30pm. You will need to log in to www.family-tree.co

Family Tree UK

More Issues From Family Tree UK