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Brickwalls: in theory... and in practice

First Dr John Burt bursary award announced by AGRA • Rachel Bellerby reports on the latest genealogy news. Got a story to share? Email editorial@family-tree.co.uk

REGIONAL VARIATIONS IN WHAT WE CALL OUR GRANDPARENTS: NEW RESEARCH • Independent consumer research released by emporia Telecom shows the names that Brits use for their grandparents reveal marked differences across the country

ROOTSTECH ROUND-UP • We take a look at some highlights of the world’s largest online genealogy event, RootsTech, which recently welcomed well over one million participants from more than 225 countries around the world

Distilling and brewing magazine is a ‘treasure trove’ of historic adverts • New to British Newspaper Archive is Distillers,’ Brewers’ and Spirit Merchants’ Magazine, published in Glasgow from the late 19th century and addressing the distilling and brewing industries across Great Britain and Ireland

12 million newspaper pages now available at newspapers.com • Ancestry has announced that more than 12 million historic UK newspaper pages from over 200 UK newspapers have been made available on Newspapers.com

Quaker Women’s Petition 1659 added to FindMyPast • Did your 17th-century female ancestor campaign for religious tolerance in England? A new release from FindMyPast reveals a snapshot of 7,000 women in 1659

5.8M records from JewishGen published at MyHeritage • MyHeritage has recently published 5.8 million records from 28 collections from JewishGen

GET MORE FROM THE 1939 REGISTER • TheGenealogist has updated the 1939 Register with a new detailed mapping feature and an additional 258,000 individuals

Large-scale redevelopment planned for British Library site at Boston Spa • Plans to create a ‘modern and sustainable’ home for the UK’s growing national collection at Boston Spa in Yorkshire have been revealed, after planning permission was granted by Leeds City Council

43,000 historical Scottish prison records released by Scottish Indexes • In a continuation of their Scotland’s Criminal Database project, Glasgow based genealogists Emma and Graham Maxwell of Scottish Indexes have released an index to a further 43,000 historical Scottish Prison records

SCOTTISH HOUSE HISTORY • Whether you wish to trace an ancestor’s home in Scotland, or the house in which you now live there, Chris Paton has an invaluable selection of records to help your research

TEN STEPS TO FINDING JOHN ARMSTRONG • We’ve all been there, haven’t we? Plenty of other family trees concurring, but without enough evidence to convince us that all really is as popular opinion seems to indicate. Here professional genealogist Susie Douglas shares some of the useful lessons to note when tackling a longstanding research block and trying to get to the truth of the matter.

ANOTHER BRICK IN YOUR WALL? • Chris Broom shares some ideas on breaking through your brick wall, inviting us to think differently about our research obstacle, seeing the puzzle afresh and maybe through another person’s eyes…

Postcards from the Front • Simon Wills looks at how to analyse your ancestors’ postcards, especially those which came from soldiers in the First World War, decoding the censors’ marks, deducing...