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Scottish Women’s Land Army records now available online • ScotlandsPeople has announced the release of almost 10,000 index cards for those who joined the Land Army and Timber Corps from 1939 to 1950

NEW DNA RESEARCH • Domestic cats introduced from the Near East and wildcats native to Europe did not mix until the 1960s, despite being exposed to each other for 2,000 years, according to two new research papers

Spotlight on the best world tourism villages of 2023 • 54 villages have been newly unveiled by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation as the world’s best tourism communities

Seallam! announces rebrand to Hebrides People • Seallam!, the genealogy and visitor centre in the Isle of Harris, has announced a rebrand to reflect its plans for expansion and development

RootsTech 2024 first keynote speaker announced • Lynne M. Jackson, author, and president and founder of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation, is the first keynote speaker to be announced for RootsTech 2024

Online conference: CALL FOR PAPERS FROM YOUNG GENEALOGISTS • The Society of Genealogists and Family History Federation are jointly arranging an online conference to be held in autumn 2024 and are inviting proposals from young genealogists aged between 16 and 35 years

SoG announcements • The Society of Genealogists has announced that the long-awaited opening of its new London premises is now imminent

Millions of military records • From the Crimean War to the battlefields of World War I, FindMyPast’s new releases comprise millions of wartime records featuring men and women involved in global conflicts

A PASSION FOR STORIES • A new platform for sharing family history stories offers its members the chance to come together to pool ideas and learn from each other

– ITS LEGACY, MY FAMILY, AND THE MADNESS WITHIN • Lisa Edwards shares a difficult research journey into an unexplored corner of her famlly history that speaks of Victorian attitudes to mental health – and how these beliefs affected the generations that followed

My family’s graves and how I found them • ‘I always knew that one set of my great-grandparents was buried in Undercliffe Cemetery but had no idea where – and with more than 23,000 graves and around 124,000 burials, finding ancestors in this Victorian burial ground is like searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack,’ writes Gaynor Haliday…

SCHWEDERSKY – how we discovered an unknown East Prussian ancestry • Ro and Paul Madgett share their research journey, in which they worked together to investigate the origins of Ro’s grandmother

A GINGERBREAD story • Charlotte Soares takes us a on a seasonal look back at the story of ginger and its many uses. Not only might our ancestors have enjoyed sweet and savoury treats containing this spice, it has also made its way into our literature, history and even medicine cupboards…

LIVING IN GEORGIAN SPLENDOUR • Still buzzing from the surprise of finding her 2x great-aunt hiding out in Sussex on the 1871 Census, Gill Shaw keeps digging…

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THE NATURE AND USES OF memoir and storytelling • Emma Jolly concludes her family history and wellbeing series with a look at how stor ytelling...