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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!

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RHS Digital Dig project: winner of ARA Archive Volunteering Award 2023 • Royal Horticultural Society project wins volunteering award for work to uncover hidden horticultural history

Traveller culture celebrated at Auchindrain • The history and culture of the Travelling community was celebrated recently with a weekend of events held at Auchindrain, Scotland’s last remaining township

Fifth annual success for FamilySearch in workplace awards • FamilySearch has again been recognised for its ‘exceptional workplace culture’ by receiving the 2023 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award for a fifth consecutive year

Bletchley Park opens state-of-the-art learning centre in refurbished wartime building • This summer, a newly-restored wartime building at Bletchley Park will open as a new museum learning centre, dedicated to formal and informal learning programmes

130,000+ new Bedfordshire parish records to explore • FindMyPast have released an all-new collection of Bedfordshire family history records spanning 1329 to 2011

Millions of Hampshire parish records added to Ancestry

Cheshire care home welcomes local museum to take residents on heartwarming journey back in time • Residents at a Cheshire care home have been treated to a trip down memory lane, and welcomed members of the local museum for an exploration of the town’s rich history

SCAN ENTIRE PHOTO ALBUM PAGES IN ONE GO • MyHeritage has announced the launch of Reimagine, a new mobile app for family photos

Share your view of a historic place in the Missing Pieces project • Members of the public are invited to share their pictures and stories of the unique, significant and memorable places on the National Heritage List for England.

Celebrating a history of creativity • Heritage Open Days, the country’s largest festival of history and culture returns with a packed programme of free events

Lark Rise to Candleford: Village life in the late-1800s • Jayne Shrimpton scours the pages of Lark Rise to Candleford and the social history insights afforded to the last days of late Victorian rural life

Grandma’s message • Like all family historians Sandra Coombes eagerly awaited the release of the 1921 census. From this single document she came to understand the grandmother she never knew that little bit better.

IN SEARCH OF OVERSEAS EMPLOYMENT • Chris Paton explores some of the reasons our ancestors left Britain and Ireland to live and work across the globe and provides resources to help you trace your family’s journey

TWISTS, TURNS &REVELATIONS • Gill Shaw turns her attention to the Riboldi sisters – and gets some surprising news about their brothers

INVESTIGATING burial records • This month Family Tree Academy Tutor, David Annal, explores records of death and demonstrates the clues they may reveal

Dear Paul • This month, Paul Chiddicks takes a look at another civil registration anomaly, a rather unusual diary, plus one of the most unusual museum artefacts that you might ever encounter…

Books & co

DNA FIRST AID ‘Where are my matches?’ • Are you finding a lack of DNA matches to an ancestral line? Dr Sophie Kay is here to help. In her methodical article, she will show you how...