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UNIQUE AERIAL ARCHIVE SHEDS LIGHT ON LIFE IN 1930S AND 40S BRITAIN • When the Luftwaffe started to plan its prolonged assault on British cities in the early to mid 1930s, it created a unique historic record: the first aerial survey of many cities and landmarks

Census Helper from MyHeritage now includes England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and more • MyHeritage have announced that their Census Helper tool, which initially covered just the US, has been expanded to include the censuses of many more countries

Less than a quar ter of Brits display photos at home, new research from Ancestr y reveals • The findings come as Ancestry calls on the nation to submit family photos to The Nation’s Family Album – asearch for undiscovered portraits of everyday British people

# everynamecounts project uses artificial intelligence to help uncover information on Nazi persecution victims • A team of volunteers from Accenture has built an artificial intelligence (AI)-based solution that helps extract information – on victims of Nazi persecution from documents in the Arolsen Archives 40 times faster than previously possible

UK garden launches appeal for information abouts its French founding father • Heritage attraction Levens Hall and Gardens has issued an appeal for more information about its founder, Monsieur Guillaume Beaumont

Society of Genealogists welcomes members to its temporar y home • The Society of Genealogists has announced that its library will once again be open to members every Wednesday at its temporary office on Holloway Road, London

Heritage Open Days celebrates astounding inventions • England’s largest festival of history and culture returns from 9 to 18 September, with an ‘astounding inventions’ theme

150,000 Oldham workhouse records published online • More than 150,000 records from Oldham workhouse, Lancashire, have been published by FindMyPast, offering an insight into the diet, religion, appearance and eventual reason for discharge of inmates, 1800 to 1936.

Free to view photos of early 20th-century England and Wales released by FindMyPast • Discover remarkable pictures of England and Wales in a time gone by with a new collection from FindMyPast

47,000 non-conformist church records for Lancashire added to FamilySearch • Discover new details about the lives of your Lancashire ancestors with the addition of 47,795 free to access records at FamilySearch

Naval strength in reserve • Was your naval ancestor actually a reservist? Simon Wills looks at what this means and how to find out more.

A ‘RETAILING REVOLUTION’ • Dress historian Jayne Shrimpton looks at the radical retail transformation of the shopping scene in Britain between the wars, and the impact on how our families at the time shopped for their clothes

DEATH DUTY REGISTERS: A MASTERCLASS • The Family Tree Academy is here to help you grow your genealogy skills. The aim is to help teach more about the search skills and source know-how needed to step up your family history research. In this issue, Family Tree Academy tutor David Annal shares advice on using Death Duty Registers for family history research – in an account that will delight, tantalise & frustrate you in equal measure...

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