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Learn how to trace your family tree! Every issue is packed with: family history research advice hands-on learning experiences to help you become an ancestor super-sleuth & step-by-step guides to show you the path to tracing the past. From vintage documents to the latest in DNA, we’re here to help you discover more! Get the latest in genealogy news, software, books, archives and expert answers. Plus enjoy those reader stories that remind what it means to trace your family story. Research & remember your roots with Family Tree!

This issue we’re all about the stories of everyday heroes…. And, yes, that includes you & yours!

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Professor Turi King Awarded Julian Bickersteth Memorial

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One-name website resource recognised

Preparations underway for Family Tree Live

Family historians invited to create time capsule

DNA CLUB NEWS • DNA Club reporter Karen Evans shares news from the genetic genealogy scene

NEWS IN BRIEF

Findmypast partners with Heritage Open Days to celebrate ‘Everyday Histories’

‘Pedigrees of paupers’ Analysing class and social mobility in the records • This month, Family Tree Academy tutor David Annal examines the topic of social class in family history records, and tells us how to spot the clues that can add an extra dimension to our understanding of our ancestors’ lives

Advanced approaches Taking your research to the next level • In our enthusiasm to make rapid progress with our family history research, we may sometimes be tempted to cut corners. Here, genealogist Chris Paton warns of the dangers of accepting information at face value, and points out the lasting benefits of taking a more methodical, more informed, approach to building our family tree

GAME OF TAGG • Gill Shaw searches for her 6x great-grandmother Sarah Tagg, wife of James Grindley – and finds more than she bargained for.

OFFER ENDING SOON… LAST CHANCE!

Putting your ancestors in their place THE GENERAL VIEW OF AGRICULTURE • A great many of our ancestors worked the land in one capacity or another. Here, historian and genealogist Janet Few introduces us to a highly informative historic resource that can help us to build on our knowledge of the lives they would have lived

A LEGACY OF THE HEART Your Voice Matters PART 2 • ‘What do you want to leave behind?’ Genealogist Janna Helshtein feels passionately that we mustn’t overlook our own story – as those who come after us will value it more than we know

Part 3 RURAL ROLE-MODELS Like mother, like daughter • Welcome to our step-by-step guide with genealogist Julie Johnson. From month to month, she is taking you on a journey – telling the story of an ancestor’s life, from cradle to grave. Use the worksheets accompanying the series, to help you gather similar records for your own ancestors so that you may tell their stories too.

Dear Paul • This month, Paul Chiddicks takes a deep dive into the census returns to reveal the unexpected and quirky insights they can give us into our ancestors’ lives, as well as offering another selection of eye-catching details from genealogical records and old newspapers

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Back Out Down BUILDING EFFECTIVE TREES FOR YOUR DNA MATCHES • This month, DNA expert Karen Evans explains how building trees for our DNA matches enhances our research, and explains how the ‘Back, Out, Down’ approach can help to extend them as far as possible

Digging Deeper into SOURCES What is the document telling you? Learn how to get every last clue • Dr Karen Cummings shares some practical advice to help you examine and better analyse the documents you find, helping you feel more confident (and be more accurate) about your family history...