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Landowners in the nineteenth century
In response to a question asked in the House of Lords in 1872, returns of landowners in England and Wales (except for London) were compiled and published. Everyone who owned more than one acre of land was included.... Read More
Finding People and Places
Next to finding a mention of a forebear's name is the thrill of learning more about where and how they lived. Maps, contemporary reports, historical background, architectural notes, property descriptions and much more can all build up a picture.... Read More
Business matters, poll books, parish registers, and not so ordinary people
Kathy Chater gives the low-down on the latest CDs, including business matters, poll books, parish registers, and not so ordinary people.... Read More
Military, Heraldry & Legal Matters
Military, Heraldry and Legal Matter - Kathy Chater's round up of the latest CDs.... Read More
Issue 77 - Ancestors Magazine - Kathy Chater
Familiae Minorum Gentium
Spread over four volumes, this CD contains pedigrees of some 850 British families. Ideal for those tracing their noble roots.... Read More
Issue 133 - Your Family Tree Magazine
The Transvaal in War & Peace
Including hundreds of photos, this CD contains a 400-page book from 1900 that gives a comprehensive and insightful overview of the Anglo-Boer Wars.... Read More
Issue 132 - Your Family Tree Magazine
Premium Leather A4 Burgundy Binder
If you fancy a bit of luxury in which to store your family history documents, trees and photographs, these quality binders from S&N Genealogy are ideal.... Read More
Issue 131 - Your Family Tree Magazine
Visitations, Directories, and Parish Records
A selections of data CD reviews from Your Family Tree magazine, including directories, parish records, peerage and gentry.... Read More
Issue 117 - Your Family Tree Magazine
Kelly's Directories, Army Lists, and Baronets
A selections of data CD reviews from Your Family Tree magazine, including a Kelly's directory, Army List, and Baronets.... Read More
Issue 118 - Your Family Tree Magazine
S&N new data CDs for November
S&N Genealogy Supplies have released three new data CDs including Irish records, a colonial photographic album, and a directory covering three counties.... Read More
Issue 34 - Your Family History Magazine
New releases from S&N for July
This month S&N Genealogy have flying records, Boer War records and a 19th Century map for London... Read More
Issue 29 - Your Family History Magazine
December's New Releases
This month's new releases include two directories and the Royal Kalendar for 1825... Read More
Issue 35 - Your Family History Magazine
April's new data CD releases
This months releases include a directory for Plymouth, Two directories listing people of influence in England and beyond and an Army list for 1873.... Read More
Issue 39 - Your Family History Magazine
Boer War and Catholic Records
Your Family Tree review a collection of CDs that help you to learn more about the Boer War and find Catholic ancestors in England and Wales.... Read More
Issue 120 - Your Family Tree Magazine
Family Tree 2010 Achievement Awards
Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE, Olympia, 2010, seemed to be buzzing with activity, with a continual round of workshops to attend and stalls to visit. A highlight of the Family Tree weekend were the Family Tree Achievement Awards 2010... Read More
Issue V26 No6 - Family Tree Magazine
The East Anglian
This CD contains ten volumes of the local journal, The East Anglian. At over 6,600 pages, there's plenty to delve into.... Read More
Issue 136 - Your Family Tree Magazine
The East Anglian
If you are looking to research the history of the area from 1858-1904 then this CD is a must.... Read More
Issue 80 - Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine - Jo Gravett
1898 Bartholomew’s Atlas on CD-ROM
Bartholomew's Atlas is a standard reference in England, useful for many purposes besides genealogy. These atlases of England and Wales were printed for many years, showing details of every street in the country.... Read More
Online Store of the Year: S&N Genealogy Supplies
It's difficult to argue with the vast range of products on this site.... Read More
A Trio of Trophies: S&N Genealogy Supplies
After voting in the thousands in the second annual Your Family Tree genealogy awards, the results have now been revealed, and S&N have gone away with a trio of trophies.... Read More
Queen of the Merseybeat
Laura Berry celebrates the life and origins of Scouse singer and TV personality Cilla Black... Read More
Issue 5 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Laura Berry
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Nick Thorne explores the many faces of David Robert Jones (aka David Bowie) and his ancestors... Read More
Issue 5 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
The Liverpool Lad
Nick Thorne profiles the family of another musical legend from Liverpool... Read More
Issue 5 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Plotting the past
With the largest online collection of tithe records complete, and colour maps coming soon, Celia Heritage explores this invaluable resource... Read More
Issue 5 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Celia Heritage
TreeView 2.0
Family historian Chris Paton takes a look at the latest edition of the comprehensive TreeView software package... Read More
Issue 5 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Chris Paton
Preserved for posterity
Nick Thorne explains the importance of storing your family history research properly and safely for the future... Read More
Issue 30 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
From Longleat to the Tower of London
Online records can prove invaluable for historical research. Here, Nick Thorne delves into the history of Longleat and its illustrious inhabitants... Read More
Issue 31 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Twas the night before Christmas…
Nick Thorne explores the history of Christmas cards and the Victorians who brought them to us... Read More
Issue 32 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
A charmed life
Nick Thorne explores one man’s life from genteel Cheltenham to hell on the battlefields of World War I... Read More
Issue 33 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
The actress, the dean and the prince
Nick Thorne explores the life of the late 19th century acting superstar Lillie Langtry using online records... Read More
Issue 5 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
A man of his word
Among the WW1 stories unearthed by writer and historian Keith Gregson is the tale of the only British soldier to be given leave from internment... Read More
Issue 5 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
From failed Sandhurst candidate to world statesman
Featured article discovering the history of Sir Winston Churchill... Read More
Issue - Family Tree Magazine
Researching the de Rothschild family
Nick Thorne researches a member of the de Rothschild family using the records on TheGenealogist... Read More
Issue - Family Tree Magazine - Nick Thorne
Marconi, twice lucky
Nick Thorne looks at the inventor of wireless telegraphy and how archival records can tell us more about him... Read More
Issue 178 - Your Family History Magazine - Nick Thorne
The Stanfield Hall murders
Nick Thorne looks at a case from the archives, where a landowner and son were killed by a disgruntled tenant.... Read More
Issue 166 - Your Family History Magazine - Nick Thorne
Taking a Liberty
Nick Thorne researches the family of Arthur Lasenby Liberty, the founder of Liberty & Co... Read More
Issue 179 - Your Family History Magazine - Nick Thorne
Revealing the history of William and Kate’s home
Nick Thorne discovers who once lived at Norfolk’s Anmer Hall, using TheGenealogist's varied record collections... Read More
Issue 167 - Your Family History Magazine - Nick Thorne
The Unsinkable Hero
Nick Thorne charts the life of a remarkable survivor not only of the Titanic, but also of shipwrecks and wartime dangers... Read More
Issue 168 - Your Family History Magazine - Nick Thorne
Enchantress of numbers
Nick Thorne discovers the first female computer programmer in newly released online records from TheGenealogist... Read More
Issue 169 - Your Family History Magazine - Nick Thorne
A ‘Greatorex’ by any other name…
Keith Gregson puts TheGenealogist’s powerful search engine to the test... Read More
Issue 34 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
Criminally Insane or Cold-Blooded Murderer?
Nick Thorne researches a 19th century cause célèbre with the help of TheGenealogist’s record collections... Read More
Issue 35 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Kathy Chater’s guide to recent releases
Army Officers... Read More
Issue - Ancestors Magazine - Kathy Chater
Kathy Chater’s guide to recent releases Visitations
In Scotland the Court of the Lord Lyon King of Arms exerted, and still does, strict control of armigerous bearings. In England and Wales, however, the responsibility of ensuring that people who claim the right to bear arms are entitled to do so has no sta... Read More
Issue - Ancestors Magazine - Kathy Chater
Kathy Chater’s guide to recent releases The right to vote
Somerset Electoral Register: East and West Divisions 1832 (S&N Genealogy Supplies £9.95) is a digitally enhanced copy of the list of those entitled to vote in 1832, following the great Reform Act which considerably extended the franchise.... Read More
Issue - Ancestors Magazine - Kathy Chater
Kathy Chater’s guide to recent releases Knights of the Realm
The Knights of England, Scotland, Ireland and Knight Bachelors (S&N Genealogy Supplies, £19.95) contains a complete record of the knights of the orders of chivalry in the British Isles between 1348-1904.... Read More
Issue - Ancestors Magazine - Kathy Chater
Discs of Delight
Professional people, poll books and parish registers all appear in this month's CD round-up by Kathy Charter.... Read More
Issue - Ancestors Magazine - Kathy Charter
Meaning Business
Jill Morris investigates the history of limited companies... Read More
Issue 35 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Jill Morris
Place in Focus: Cheshire
Leading data website TheGenealogist.co.uk has a wealth of online records for Cheshire... Read More
Issue 35 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Founder of the Bobbies
Nick Thorne traces residential records for the man who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was founder of the Bobbies, a country landowner, a tenant in London, and inventor of the Tamworth pig – Sir Robert Peel.... Read More
Issue - Family Tree Magazine - Nick Thorne
Edwardian 'Domesday' goes online
Subscription site TheGenealogist.co.uk has released the first part of the Lloyd George 'Domesday Survey', which can help family historians find where an ancestor lived in England and Wales in 1910.... Read More
Issue - Family Tree Magazine
The Time Machine
Nick Thorne researches the timeline for the author H.G.Wells... Read More
Issue - Family Tree Magazine - Nick Thorne
The Magnificent woman in her flying machine
Nick Thorne looks at one of the first female pilots in Britain... Read More
Issue - Family Tree Magazine - Nick Thorne
The Chocolate Cream Killer
Nick Thorne looks at the respectable lawyer and his murderous niece, who laced sweets with strychnine, and investigates the record collections on TheGenealogist that help to shed light on many aspects of their lives... Read More
Issue - Family Tree Magazine - Nick Thorne
The Stanfield Hall Murders
Nick Thorne finds a Landowner and son killed by disgruntled tenant in the records... Read More
Issue - Family Tree Magazine - Nick Thorne
All gold: the Yorkshire confectioners
Nick Thorne traces the founders of the quintessential chocolate business... Read More
Issue - Your Family History Magazine - Nick Thorne
'Mad Jack' - the life of Siegfried Sassoon
Nick Thorne looks at the war poet and writer’s family line... Read More
Issue - Your Family History Magazine - Nick Thorne
One career is not enough
The fall from grace of a leading public figure is nothing new as Nick Thorne traces the career of Sir Basil Thomson in online records... Read More
Issue 187 - Your Family History Magazine - Nick Thorne
From the West End to a Dreadful End
Nick Thorne discovers a Victorian husband and wife acting duo in the records... Read More
Issue - Your Family History Magazine - Nick Thorne
Is it worth 'giving them a bell'?
Keith Gregson examines how late Victorian/early Edwardian telephone directories can help the family historian... Read More
Gunpowder... no plot!
Nick Thorne researches the roots of a nonconformist shopkeeper caught storing massive quantities of gunpowder in his house and challenges a family history story... Read More
Issue 188 - Your Family History Magazine - Nick Thorne
Anglicans in the archives
Jill Morris looks at the history of the Church of England, and records of clergy available online... Read More
Issue - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Jill Morris
19th century army records released
Latest data from TheGenealogist boosts military collections... Read More
Issue 189 - Your Family History Magazine
Place in Focus: Swansea
Leading data website TheGenealogist.co.uk has a wealth of online records for Swansea... Read More
Issue - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The valet and the fortune
Nick Thorne discovers a tale of debauchery and embezzlement involving a member of the gentry...... Read More
Issue 189 - Your Family History Magazine - Nick Thorne
The man who built Parliament
Nick Thorne traces the rise of the architect Sir Charles Barry... Read More
Issue - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Place in Focus: Cornwall
Leading data website TheGenealogist.co.uk has a wealth of online records for Cornwall... Read More
Issue - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Plimsoll's Line
Nick Thorne explores the life of Samuel Plimsoll, from bankrupt coal merchant to renegade MP... Read More
Issue - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Court and Police records released
Large release of court and police records from TheGenealogist... Read More
Issue - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
London educational records go online
TheGenealogist has just released a batch of London school and university records to join its growing educational collection.... Read More
Issue - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Place in Focus: Oxford
Leading data website TheGenealogist.co.uk has a wealth of online records for Oxford... Read More
Issue - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The Fortunes of war
Nick Thorne discovers the highest ranking British officer in online German prisoner of war records... Read More
Issue 36 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Pioneers in the sky
Jill Morris takes a bird’s eye view of early aviation... Read More
Issue 36 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Jill Morris
Plymouth
What became Plymouth was already established as a fishing and continental tin trading port in the late Iron Age into the early medieval period...... Read More
Issue 36 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The roots of the Trucker Earl
Nick Thorne uses colour tithe maps now available online to look into the past of a colourful family... Read More
Issue 37 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Suffolk
The county of Suffolk (meaning ‘southern folk’) was formed from the south part of the kingdom of East Anglia which had been settled by the Angles in the latter half of the 5th century... Read More
Issue 37 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Hair-raising history
Harry Cunningham investigates the changing roles of hairdressers and barbers, from cutting limbs to cutting hair... Read More
Issue 37 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Harry Cunningham
WDYTYA Live? show draws huge crowds
We report on the biggest genealogy event of the year... Read More
Issue 37 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Blue sap in the family tree?
Jill Morris finds an online treasure trove of royal records... Read More
Issue 37 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Jill Morris
A comedy heroine descended from a WW1 hero
Nick Thorne takes a look at the family of the well-loved and talented entertainer Victoria Wood... Read More
Issue 38 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Great Scots online
Jill Morris explores the wealth of Scottish records available... Read More
Issue 38 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Jill Morris
Carlisle
Carlisle was historically the county town of Cumberland, and remains so for Cumbria, which absorbed neighbouring Westmorland in 1972... Read More
Issue 38 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
‘For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil’
Nick Thorne investigates the story of the Reverend Vyvyan Moyle and his temptations of the monetary kind... Read More
Issue 44 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
What TheGenealogist has in store for 2017
The new year is going to see millions of new records added to TheGenealogist across a wide variety of collections...... Read More
Issue 44 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Portsmouth
Portsmouth in Hampshire is the UK’s only island city, and has the world’s oldest dry dock (dating to Tudor times)... Read More
Issue 44 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury is only nine miles from the Welsh border, a situation which is reflected in its history of conflict between the English and Welsh.... Read More
Issue 46 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
In search of the Chief Scout
Nick Thorne looks at a man from a large family who grew up to be a national hero... Read More
Issue 46 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Thousands more war memorial and headstone records released online
TheGenealogist has expanded its growing headstone and war memorial record collections with some interesting new additions to both.... Read More
Issue 61 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The colour mauve
Nick Thorne traces the Perkin family from apprentice leatherworkers in the 18th century to top scientists in the 20th... Read More
Issue 61 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Through adversity to the stars
Nick Thorne celebrates the April centenary of the birth of the Royal Air Force... Read More
Issue 60 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Canterbury
In the first century AD, Canterbury became established as an important staging post for the Romans, situated between their port of Richborough and the growing city of London.... Read More
Issue 60 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Norfolk
Norfolk was settled in pre-Roman times. The Iceni tribe inhabited the county from the 1st century BC to the end of the 1st century AD.... Read More
Issue 59 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
TheGenealogist adds more than 650,000 criminal records
TheGenealogist has added 651,369 quarterly returns of convicts from The National Archives’ HO 8 series of documents to its Court & Criminal Records collection... Read More
Issue 59 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The Birds without eggs
Nick Thorne investigates the family behind a favourite British brand... Read More
Issue 58 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Over 5m US passenger lists released
TheGenealogist has added over 5 Million passenger records to its US records... Read More
Issue 58 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
News from the 19th century!
TheGenealogist has added more than 500 further editions of the weekly publication The Illustrated London News to its Newspaper and Magazine collection... Read More
Issue 58 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
More than 360,000 more Warks parish records released online
TheGenealogist has added more than 366,000 individuals to its collection of parish records for Warwickshire to increase the coverage of this county in the heart of England... Read More
Issue 58 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Stoke-on-Trent
What we now call Stoke-on-Trent was actually formed in 1910 as a federation of six midlands pottery towns, namely Stoke-upon-Trent, Hanley, Burslem, Tunstall, Longton and Fenton... Read More
Issue 58 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The ultimate ‘Bentley Boy’
Nick Thorne follows the family records trail for the glamorous Captain Woolf Barnato... Read More
Issue 57 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
TNA’s BT 27 ships’ passenger lists go online for the 1930s
TheGenealogist has just released over 2.7 million TNA series BT 27 records for the 1930s... Read More
Issue 57 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire lies on the Roman Fosse Way, and there are Roman settlements in the county, for example at Mansfield and the fort at Bilborough... Read More
Issue 57 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Taking back the prisoners
Nick Thorne researches Sir Robert Napier and the daring 1868 expedition to Abyssinia through inhospitable terrain to rescue British hostages... Read More
Issue 39 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
One man’s Somme story
Nick Thorne marks the centenary of the Battle of the Somme with the story of its oldest British death... Read More
Issue 39 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Huge data boost at TheGenealogist
TheGenealogist.co.uk has just launched a new collection of British telephone directories... Read More
Issue 39 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The elite of Eton
With Old Etonians still dominating British politics, Jill Morris explores the history of this famous public school and the records available online... Read More
Issue 39 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Jill Morris
Surrey
During the 5th and 6th centuries Surrey was conquered and settled by Saxons... Read More
Issue 39 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Worcestershire
Worcestershire was the heartland of the early English kingdom of the Hwicce, one of the peoples of Anglo-Saxon England... Read More
Issue 41 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Early military records newly released online
TheGenealogist.co.uk has added several new early military records... Read More
Issue 41 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Tracing the trails our ancestors leave behind
The grave of a Waterloo veteran in a quiet Jersey churchyard inspires Nick Thorne to find out more about a soldier who served in every engagement from Corunna to Waterloo... Read More
Issue 41 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
A wing and a prayer
Nick Thorne looks at the records of the renowned flying sons of a clergyman... Read More
Issue 42 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Wide range of clerical records newly released
If your ancestor held a prominent position in a religious organisation then you may find them in amongst a number of recent releases at TheGenealogist... Read More
Issue 42 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Luton
The foundation of Luton is usually dated to the 6th century, when a Saxon outpost was founded on the river Lea (or Lugh), ‘Lea tun’... Read More
Issue 42 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Banking on fraud
Nick Thorne discovers that a Royal Charter and having MPs for directors failed to stop a Victorian bank embezzling its customers’ money... Read More
Issue 43 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
The escapologists
Nick Thorne follows the ‘Thrill Slayer’ and the ‘Artful Dodger’ in newly released online records for the US... Read More
Issue 43 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
220 million US records released
Data site TheGenealogist.co.uk has launched over 220 million US records, which will be invaluable to family historians whose ancestors may have emigrated from Britain... Read More
Issue 43 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Cardiganshire
Cardiganshire – or, more properly now, Ceredigion – is a county in mid Wales, mostly rural but with an important coastline... Read More
Issue 43 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
A true pioneer
To celebrate Women’s History Month, Nick Thorne explores the records of a pioneering professional woman... Read More
Issue 47 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
New parish registers and war memorial records go online
The Genealogist has added to the millions of UK parish records already available at the site with more than 282,000 new, fully searchable records from Essex, Cumberland and Norfolk. Some of the records go back as far as 1672... Read More
Issue 47 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire was founded in the Norse–Saxon wars of the 9th century, and developed through commerce serving London rather than agriculture... Read More
Issue 47 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Pillars of the establishment
From a Governor of the Bank of England to a grandson killed by Indian Tigers – Nick Thorne explores an interesting Huguenot family... Read More
Issue 49 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Poll book and parish record bonanza
In time for the snap general election, TheGenealogist.co.uk has added to its Polls and Electoral records by publishing online a new collection of poll books ranging from the late 19th century to the early 20th century... Read More
Issue 49 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Cambridgeshire
Modern Cambridgeshire was formed in 1974 from the historic counties of Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, the Isle of Ely and the Soke of Peterborough (the latter was traditionally part of Northamptonshire... Read More
Issue 49 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The marvellous Mitfords
Nick Thorne finds that an inheritance may divert sideways on a family tree... Read More
Issue 50 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Wartime newspapers go online
TheGenealogist has expanded its Newspaper and Magazine collection with the release of editions of The Sphere that cover August 1914 to June 1919... Read More
Issue 50 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Worcester
The trade route past Worcester, which later formed part of the Roman Ryknild Street, dates to Neolithic times... Read More
Issue 50 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The case of the author’s family
Nick Thorne manages to explore Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s family line despite the variation in names used in the records... Read More
Issue 51 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Major boost for Yorkshire research
TheGenealogist has announced the release of the City of York and Ainsty colour tithe maps, plus another significant batch of Yorkshire directories... Read More
Issue 51 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
1.4m records for Northumberland
TheGenealogist.co.uk has expanded its UK Parish Records collection with the release of more than 1,363,000 new records for Northumberland... Read More
Issue 52 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Changing names
Nick Thorne unravels a family of name changes and finds a black sheep exiled for his crime... Read More
Issue 52 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Ipswich
Ipswich in Suffolk has been an important English port since Saxon times, and claims to be one of the country’s oldest towns... Read More
Issue 52 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
New records from the ‘Far North’
Keith Gregson explores the Northumberland parish records recently added to TheGenealogist website... Read More
Issue 53 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
TheGenealogist releases large collection of criminal records
TheGenealogist.co.uk has enlarged its Court & Criminal Records collection so that even more black sheep ancestors can now be searched for and found on the site... Read More
Issue 53 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Gloucestershire
The region now known as Gloucestershire was originally inhabited by Brythonic peoples (ancestors of the Welsh and other British Celtic peoples) in the Iron Age and Roman periods... Read More
Issue 53 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The last Briton to die in a duel on English soil
Nick Thorne researches the case of a fatal duel in Portsmouth and the characters involved... Read More
Issue - Family Tree Magazine - Nick Thorne
The fraudster, the hotel & the RAF
Ostensibly a pillar of society, Jabez Balfour's business dealings were so shady they led to the ruin of numerous families. Nick Thorne sees what the records have to say about this man of many parts... Read More
Issue - Family Tree Magazine - Nick Thorne
Dastardly attack on Her Majesty
Nick Thorne investigates the most successful of the numerous attempts to harm Queen Victoria... Read More
Issue 54 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Bournemouth
Settlement in the Bournemouth area goes back thousands of years but, although it is now the largest town in Dorset, until the early 19th century it was still largely a remote and barren heathland, used only by smugglers and revenue troops... Read More
Issue 54 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Grandpa never mentioned that!
Nick Thorne discovered an unexpected literary connection to his family... Read More
Issue 55 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Family fireworks
We explore actor Kit Harington’s connections to both the Gunpowder Plot and the king it tried to kill... Read More
Issue 55 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
More military records released
TheGenealogist has announced the addition of two new record sets that will be useful for researching the First World War and Victorian soldiers... Read More
Issue 55 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Leicestershire
The first recorded use of the name Leicestershire was in the 11th century... Read More
Issue 55 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Crackers about Christmas
Nick Thorne looks at some of the Victorian people behind Christmas traditions we enjoy to this day... Read More
Issue 56 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
TheGenealogist begins major release of 1910 Domesday Survey
TheGenealogist is releasing the first part of an exciting new record set; The Lloyd George Domesday Survey – a major new release that will reveal where an ancestor lived in 1910... Read More
Issue 56 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
15,000 more names from war memorials
TheGenealogist has added another 15,000 names to its War Memorials collection, from 53 new memorials... Read More
Issue 56 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Lincoln
In Roman times Lincoln was a significant hilltop fortress, called Lindum Colonia, ‘Lin’ referring at the time to what is now the Brayford Pool, a lake formed by a widening of the River Witham... Read More
Issue 56 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Some Yorkshire Sporting Heroes
Yorkshire folk are ‘right proud’ of their sporting heritage and it is likely that our Yorkshire ancestors will have taken part in some form of sporting activity and that this activity may have been recorded... Read More
Issue 62 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
Criminals and drunkards added online, and more than 1.2 million further parish records for Warwickshire released
TheGenealogist has added to its Criminal Records collections with the release of the Metropolitan Police Criminal Records Office: Habitual Criminals Registers and the Habitual Drunkards Registers.... Read More
Issue 62 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Durham
The small north-eastern city of Durham has its origins in late Saxon and Viking times... Read More
Issue 62 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The Wills Forgery Trials
Nick Thorne considers a case of forged records that had a lawyer wrongly transported for life... Read More
Issue 63 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
More records for 1920s research, change of names database plus further colour tithe maps released
With the 1921 census still some years away from public release, TheGenealogist has added further records to its 1921 census substitute collection... Read More
Issue 63 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire is a divided land in a unique way - straggling across the county, roughly from the upper inland corner of St Bride’s Bay in the west to the middle of Carmarthen Bay in the west is a phenomenon known as the Landsker Line... Read More
Issue 63 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Murder in the rookeries
Nick Thorne investigates a gruesome death in St Giles, London... Read More
Issue 64 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Next set of 1910 Domesday Survey data now available
TheGenealogist has released the second part of its exciting new record set, The Lloyd George Domesday Survey... Read More
Issue 64 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Gloucester
The Romans began settling Gloucester in the first century AD on account of it being next to the lowest point where the River Severn could be crossed... Read More
Issue 64 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Gertrude Jekyll and her family roots
Nick Thorne discovers the link between the spinster gardener, London bankers and the story of Jekyll and Hyde... Read More
Issue - Family Tree Magazine - Nick Thorne
Our survey says…
From diverted waterways to lead pencil drawings of major arterial roads to come, Nick Thorne shows how newly released records from the Lloyd George Domesday Survey can aid researchers... Read More
Issue 65 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
160,000 more crime records online at TheGenealogist
TheGenealogist has added to its Court and Criminal Records collection with the release of over 160,000 records of prisoners at the bar and their victims from the CRIM 9 records held by The National Archives... Read More
Issue 65 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
For several centuries Hampshire’s county town of Winchester was a more important settlement than London... Read More
Issue 65 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Squaring the Stone Circle
With the centenary of Stonehenge being gifted to the public this October, Nick Thorne explores the families who had once owned it... Read More
Issue 66 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
1910 Valuation Office Survey records for Brent released
TheGenealogist has released the third part of its unique online record set, The Lloyd George Domesday Survey... Read More
Issue 66 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Hereford
Hereford became the seat of Putta, Bishop of Hereford, some time between AD 676 and 688... Read More
Issue 66 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The search for Mr Vinneycombe
Keith Gregson shows how he has used TheGenealogist and allied sites to solve one particularly challenging WW1 research problem... Read More
Issue 67 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
Berkshire
At the time of the Norman Conquest, Berkshire formed part of the Earldom of Harold, and supported him staunchly at the Battle of Hastings... Read More
Issue 67 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
1950s passenger lists online
TheGenealogist has just released over four million outbound passenger list records for the 1950s... Read More
Issue 67 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The search for Mr Nesbitt
Keith Gregson brings his extensive First World War research to a close with the help of online resources... Read More
Issue 68 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
More Warks parish records and WW1 officer data released
TheGenealogist has added over 1.5 million individuals to its Warwickshire Parish Record Collection... Read More
Issue 68 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Newport
According to legend, in the late 5th century Saint Woolos church was founded by Saint Gwynllyw... Read More
Issue 68 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
La Belle Sauvage
Nick Thorne visits a coaching inn where the printing presses disturbed the guests... Read More
Issue 69 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Westminster records for 1910 Domesday released
Colour tithe maps for Hunts and Rutland go online... Read More
Issue 69 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire stretches from the chalk ridge of the Chiltern Hills in the south to the broad drainage basin of the River Great Ouse and its tributaries.... Read More
Issue 69 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The Pilot, MP and Communist Pioneer
Nick Thorne discovers the early aviator and first British communist MP Cecil L’Estrange Malone... Read More
Issue 70 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
700,000 records of crime added to online collection
TheGenealogist has added almost 700,000 entries for prisoners to its Court and Criminal Records collection.... Read More
Issue 70 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Coventry
It is likely that the first settlement at Coventry grew around a Saxon nunnery.... Read More
Issue 70 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Salt of the Earth
Nick Thorne uses resources at TheGenealogist to add flavour to the family story of manufacturer and philanthropist Titus Salt... Read More
Issue 71 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
1910 Domesday records for Kensington & Chelsea
TheGenealogist is releasing the field books and detailed annotated maps for Kensington and Chelsea as the next part of the exciting record set, The Lloyd George Domesday Survey... Read More
Issue 71 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Northamptonshire
In the 1st century BC, most of what later became Northamptonshire became part of the territory of the Catuvellauni, a Belgic tribe, conquered in turn by the Romans in 43 AD.... Read More
Issue 71 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The Tale of a Family Tree
Nick Thorne uses online resources to explore the family history of Beatrix Potter, the creator of Peter Rabbit... Read More
Issue 72 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Map Explorer Launched
TheGenealogist’s latest innovation helps you find an ancestor’s property and watch the landscape change over time... Read More
Issue 72 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Bath
Although Bath has signs of pre-Roman origin, the settlement primarily developed in Roman times as Aquae Sulis... Read More
Issue 72 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
A Village Heroine
Nick Thorne traces the family records of a redoubtable Victorian woman, who nursed royalty and many others... Read More
Issue 73 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
New Update to Innovative Map Tool
TheGenealogist’s latest innovation, the Map Explorer, launched recently to help you find an ancestor’s property... Read More
Issue 73 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Glamorgan
Until the Roman conquest of Britain, the area that would become known as Glamorgan (or Glamorganshire) was part of the territory of the Silures... Read More
Issue 73 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
From One Type of Bank to Another
Nick Thorne looks at the records for the Wind in the Willows author Kenneth Grahame... Read More
Issue 74 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Nautical Apprenticeship Records Released Online
TheGenealogist has expanded its occupational records with over 300,000 records of Masters and Apprentices included in a nautical set of apprenticeship records... Read More
Issue 74 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Truro
Today Truro is Cornwall’s county town and its only city, the southernmost in mainland Britain.... Read More
Issue 74 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Number One London
TheGenealogist’s Map Explorer shows London landmarks in a changing environment, writes Nick Thorne... Read More
Issue 75 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Records of 100,000 Victorian prisoners launched online
TheGenealogist has released over 100,000 individuals into its expanding Court & Criminal Records collection.... Read More
Issue 75 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Huntingdonshire
The earliest English settlers in the district of what became Huntingdonshire were the Gyrwas, an East Anglian tribe.... Read More
Issue 75 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Finding my earliest home
Keith Gregson reports on a personal discovery made thanks to TheGenealogist’s land-related records... Read More
Issue 76 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
Sunderland
Recorded settlements at the mouth of the River Wear date to 674, when an Anglo-Saxon nobleman, Benedict Biscop, founded the Wearmouth–Jarrow monastery.... Read More
Issue 76 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The Wrong Side of the Blanket?
Nick Thorne finds new Norfolk parish records on TheGenealogist can reveal illegitimate children and who their parents had been.... Read More
Issue 77 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Charles Booth poverty maps added to TheGenealogist
TheGenealogist’s innovative Map Explorer, which allows family history researchers to trace an ancestor’s property and then view the changing environment over time, now boasts another powerful new feature.... Read More
Issue 77 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Carmarthenshire
Before the Romans arrived in Britain, the land now forming the county of Carmarthenshire was part of the kingdom of the Demetae, who gave their name to the county of Dyfed.... Read More
Issue 77 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
A walk through the history of Eel Pie Island
Nick Thorne takes a ramble through records relating to the island in the Thames... Read More
Issue 78 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
More school records online
TheGenealogist has released a diverse batch of school and university records to join its ever-growing education collection.... Read More
Issue 78 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Peterborough
The original name of Peterborough was Medeshamstede... Read More
Issue 78 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
There's no business like show business!
The Discover Your Ancestors Family History Shows offer something for everyone involved with genealogy... Read More
Issue 9 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Andrew Chapman
A Rich Resource for the Regiments
Nick Thorne uses the Regimental Records on TheGenealogist to learn more about a brave officer’s war... Read More
Issue 79 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Throne
Full Colour Warwickshire Maps
TheGenealogist has just released additional sets of colour tithe maps to join the previously available greyscale maps in their National Tithe Records collection... Read More
Issue 79 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Buckinghamshire
The historic county of Buckinghamshire has been in existence since it was a subdivision of the kingdom of Mercia in the 10th century.... Read More
Issue 79 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Sky High Progress
Nick Thorne tells the story of the son of a ladies underclothing manufacturer who pioneered long-distance flight in a flimsy biplane... Read More
Issue 80 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Colour Bedfordshire Tithe Maps
TheGenealogist has released a collection of colour tithe maps for Bedfordshire to join the previously published greyscale maps in its National Tithe Records collection.... Read More
Issue 80 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Banbury
The name ‘Banbury’ derives from Banna, a Saxon chieftain said to have built a stockade there in the 6th century, and ‘burgh’ meaning settlement.... Read More
Issue 80 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Tales of the Cartaret Dynasty
Nick Thorne follows up a chance finding in the tithe records, leading him to the story of a Royalist privateer commemorated in America... Read More
Issue 81 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
New Searchable War Memorials
TheGenealogist has just released over 12,000 records from 138 war memorials.... Read More
Issue 81 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire is one of 13 historic counties of Wales and a former administrative county.... Read More
Issue 81 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Gather ye Records while ye May!
Nick Thorne finds out about the Herricks of Leicester... Read More
Issue 82 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
New Norfolk Parish Records Online
TheGenealogist has just added over 500,000 individuals in a new release of Norfolk parish records with images of the original records in association with the Norfolk Record Office.... Read More
Issue 82 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Winchester
The area around Winchester has been inhabited since prehistoric times.... Read More
Issue 82 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Educate yourself on the records!
Keith Gregson has recently discovered the usefulness of TheGenealogist’s Education search engine and shares some of his discoveries with readers... Read More
Issue 83 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
RAF Operations Books become Fully Searchable Online for the First Time
For the first time, RAF operations books are fully searchable by name, aircraft, location and many other fields.... Read More
Issue 83 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Merionethshire
Merioneth, or Merionethshire (Sir Feirionydd in Welsh) is one of the 13 historic counties of Wales.... Read More
Issue 83 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The Finder of Wonderful Things
Nick Thorne discovers the records for the artist’s son who discovered a pharaoh, Egyptologist Howard Carter... Read More
Issue 84 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Early Directories go Online
TheGenealogist has released a collection of searchable early trade and residential Directories that cover the years 1816–1839... Read More
Issue 84 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Kingston upon Hull
Located in the East Riding of Yorkshire, the city of Kingston upon Hull lies on the River Hull – hence the name it is usually known by.... Read More
Issue 84 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Unconventional Lives
Nick Thorne delves into the archives to demonstrate that our forebears had complicated lives just as we do... Read More
Issue 85 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Newly Released Property Records for parts of Surrey
TheGenealogist has just released data for the Kingston upon Thames, Hook and Malden areas into its Lloyd George Domesday Survey Records collection... Read More
Issue 85 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Yorkshire
After the Romans left, small Celtic kingdoms arose in Yorkshire.... Read More
Issue 85 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
A Day in the Life of an Expert
Social and family historian Keith Gregson takes a wry yet informative look at the part he has played in recent Family History Shows... Read More
Issue 86 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
More than 1m RAF Operations Record Books released Online
TheGenealogist has expanded its unique collection of searchable RAF Operations Record Books with the addition of 1.2 million new records for aircrew operations.... Read More
Issue 86 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Leicester
Leicester’s history dates back to an Iron Age settlement clustered along the east bank of the Soar above its confluence with the Trent.... Read More
Issue 86 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The Road to Butlin’s
From drapers who became bankers and bakers who became showmen, Nick Thorne traces the family of a holiday camp impresario... Read More
Issue 87 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Throne
Thousands more Worcestershire Parish Records Online
TheGenealogist has added over 85,500 individuals to its parish records for Worcestershire to increase the coverage of this English county.... Read More
Issue 87 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Radnorshire
Radnorshire is one of the 13 historic counties of Wales, a sparsely populated and rural region throughout history.... Read More
Issue 87 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
A Stained Character?
Nick Thorne roots out the hidden past of an expert on stained glass windows... Read More
Issue 88 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
New Online Records to help Find your Australian Cousins
TheGenealogist has added to its Australian records a set of new resources which can be used to find ancestors who lived in this country in the past.... Read More
Issue 88 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Wolverhampton
The settlement of Wolverhampton was founded in 985 by King Ethelred granting lands to a Lady Wulfrun.... Read More
Issue 88 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The Soldier, the Priest and the Count
Nick Thorne looks at one family with three leaders of men – a brave soldier, a Catholic priest who risked capture by the enemy and a one-time prime minister of a European state... Read More
Issue 89 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
More than 260,000 Poll Book Records go Online
TheGenealogist has just released over 260,000 records into its ever growing Poll Book Record Collection.... Read More
Issue 89 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
One Ring to Bind Them
Nick Thorne uses online map tools to search for a stone burial chamber which moved 170 miles away from where its Neolithic builders originally put it... Read More
Issue 90 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Explore thousands more Tithe Maps at Map Explorer
TheGenealogist has doubled the number of tithe maps available on its unique Map Explorer service... Read More
Issue 90 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Listen to Family Stories... and Then do the Research
Nick Thorne builds his family story on firm ground using records readily available online... Read More
Issue 91 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Parish Records for all of Wales Launched
TheGenealogist has launched the complete set of all Anglican records for Wales... Read More
Issue 91 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
A Life Spelt Out
Nick Thorne investigates the story of an Extraordinary Welsh Woman, Spelter-making Industrialist, Novelist and Suffragist Amy Dillwyn... Read More
Issue 92 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Additional RAF Operations Books Online
TheGenealogist has released additional new RAF records that are fully searchable... Read More
Issue 92 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The Greats of Greetings Cards
Nick Thorne explores the records of the Jewish family responsible for many of our ancestors’ greetings cards... Read More
Issue 93 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
250,000 Educational Records Added
TheGenealogist has released more college and university registers into its expanding Educational Records collection... Read More
Issue 93 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
London
London has always been a city of renewal – plagues and fires have decimated its population and scarred its buildings... Read More
Issue 93 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
RootsMagic 6
RootsMagic 6 proves there's life in this venerable genealogy package. Key new features include the Web Tags online search tool, expanded CountyCheck Explorer, online publishing, and Timeline Live. It is a much-improved program that closes the gap that had... Read More
Issue 72 - Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine - Nick Peers
RootsMagic 6: UK Edition
With the release of RootsMagic 6, existing features are developed further to inject functionality into areas of the program. It takes a definite step in the right direction, and combines a reasonable feature set with a straightforward user interface.... Read More
Issue 126 - Your Family Tree Magazine
RootsMagic Version 5
Chris Paton's expert review on the newly released RootsMagic Version 5. "The fifth incarnation of the popular RootsMagic family tree software programme packs as big a punch as its predecessors..."... Read More
RootsMagic UK Platinum Edition v5
Over the past ten years, RootsMagic has proved to be a leading light in the genealogy software market, and this latest version continues the trend. I found it incredibly easy to install and was swiftly inputting my family tree details. Intuitive and simpl... Read More
Issue V28 No.5 - Family Tree Magazine
RootsMagic 4
RootsMagic 4 (www.rootsmagic.co.uk) is a popular piece of software that offers much the same functionality as FTM 2011. However, RootsMagic is a bit faster on its toes when it comes both to opening up and moving through its various functions.... Read More
RootsMagic Essentials 4
An unlimited trial program is a difficult balancing act, as it must contain enough tools to stop users getting frustrated, yet offer enough carrots to tempt them to upgrade. In the case of RME the publisher has got the balance just about right.... Read More
Issue 88 - Your Family Tree Magazine
UK RootsMagic Essentials
RootsMagic has long been established as one of the leading genealogy programs. Now readers can enjoy a free copy of this award-winning software with the newly released UK RootsMagic Essentials.... Read More
Issue V26 No3 - Family Tree Magazine - Sam Turner
Getting the Most out of RootsMagic
Written by the author of the program himself, and with the usual outstanding simplicity of expression - not to mention the touches of humour - that we have come to expect from Bruce Buzbee.... Read More
New TreeView App
The TreeView app follows in the footsteps of Ancestry's mobile app in giving users of TheGenealogist website access to their online tree within their Apple or Android phone or tablet. It is definitely worth investigating.... Read More
Issue 142 - Your Family Tree Magazine
New App: TreeView
You can now build your family tree and have your genealogical research at your fingertips thanks to this handy app for your mobile device from TheGenealogist.... Read More
Issue 86 - Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine - Steve Newell
Custodian 4
For Windows users, this database is handy for storing, indexing and organising information.... Read More
Issue 83 - Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine - Bethany Gent
Software Releases: RootsMagic UK Version 7
The popular RootsMagic genealogy software program authored by Bruce Buzbee has been released for the UK market in its seventh incarnation, boasting a host of user-friendly new features and improvements.... Read More
Issue V31 No.6 - Family Tree Magazine - Karen Clare
RootsMagic 7 UK Edition
After a two-year gap, RootsMagic 7 returns to battle for the coveted crown of best PC software...... Read More
Issue 153 - Your Family Tree Magazine - Nick Peers
Scanning on the go
Family historian Nick Thorne discovers a useful tool for capturing family memorabilia.... Read More
Issue 28 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
How to get started with TreeView
TreeView is a program for Mac and Windows that integrates with TheGenealogist's archives and online tree builder to give you easy access to its records and provide you with a place to store your tree online.... Read More
Issue 115 - Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine - Nick Peers
TreeView Premium Edition
In a welcome development, S&N Genealogy Supplies has now made the software available for home computer (PC and Mac), allowing users to update their trees when working offline and to store a copy locally at home.... Read More
Issue 113 - Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine - Chris Paton
TreeView
Made in the UK for the UK market, TreeView is all that you'd expect from the latest family history software, allowing you to create a family tree on your desktop, with reports and a range of charts, online search facilities, and a sync feature.... Read More
Issue V32 No.8 - Family Tree Magazine - Helen Tovey
TreeView 1.0
Can TreeView do for TheGenealogist what Family Tree Maker did for Ancestry?... Read More
Issue 168 - Your Family Tree Magazine
Use your free Gold subscription
Nick Thorne explains how to get the most out of your fantastic free three-month subscription to TheGenealogist... Read More
Issue 5 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Revolutionary new multi-platform family tree software for PC and Mac
Market leaders in the family history retail sector S&N Genealogy Supplies have just announced the release of TreeView – a new family history software package designed for Windows and Mac.... Read More
Issue 35 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Magic Roots
James Taylor looks at the latest edition of RootsMagic... Read More
Issue - Ancestors Magazine - James Taylor
Kathy Chater’s guide to recent releases Naval Service
The Navy List 1850 (S&N Genealogy Supplies, £19.95) contains additional information beyond naval officers and the dates of their seniority, which takes the careers of some back into the late eighteenth century.... Read More
Issue - Ancestors Magazine - Kathy Chater
Major new release: TreeView 2
Leading family history publisher S&N Genealogy Supplies has just released TreeView 2... Read More
Issue - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Cumbria
At the end of the Roman era in Britain (c410 AD) the inhabitants of this area were native Romano-Britons who spoke Cumbric, related to Old Welsh.... Read More
Issue 61 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
TheGenealogist celebrates RAF centenary with new data
To mark the centenary of the establishment of the RAF on 1 April 1918, TheGenealogist has released thousands of records of individuals who were recorded in a number of Air Force Lists... Read More
Issue 60 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
1.1m Sussex records go online
TheGenealogist has added over 1.1 million individuals to its parish record collection covering the county of Sussex... Read More
Issue 54 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
More Than 500,000 Norfolk Parish Records go Online
TheGenealogist has added over half a million new parish records for Norfolk to its Parish Records collection.... Read More
Issue 76 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Shropshire 1871 Census
Shropshire 1871 Census Images contains digitized copies of the original pages... Read More
Census Returns
The 1841 Census contains less useful information for family historians than later ones, but it is nevertheless worth investigating... Read More
Trade and street directories
County or regional trade directories normally list people in charge of different businesses, this review covers two such directories.... Read More
Census: The Expert Guide Review
Census: The Expert Guide by Peter Christian and David Annal Review... Read More
Issue - Ancestors Magazine - Simon Fowler
Reproducing the Census - 1841 Census Image Quality
S&N's Greyscale images offered 30% more readable pages... Read More
Issue - Misc - David Tippey
The London 1891 Census on CD-ROM
S&N Genealogy Supplies has released a huge new resource on CD-ROM disks: the 1891 census of greater London. This new offering fills 38 CD-ROM disks. No, that is not a typo error; it really does fill thirty-eight CDs! For those with a DVD player in their c... Read More
Issue - Misc - Dick Eastman
London and Lancashire 1891 FGS Forum
Three DVDs provide images of the 1891 census pages for all of London (covering Public Record Office piece numbers RG12/1541), and another three show Lancashire (RG12/ 2898-3488). These images are also available on CD-ROM in boxed sets containing 38 and 33... Read More
Issue - Misc - Paul Milner
Kathy Chater’s guide to recent releases Victorian biographies
The Imperial Dictionary of Univeral Biography (S&N, 3 CD-ROMs, £24.95) is one of those splendid Victorian undertakings, an attempt to summarise all those who had contributed to the development of Western civilisation up to the nineteenth century.... Read More
Issue - Ancestors Magazine - Kathy Chater
Catholic Records - Obituaries 1722-1839
Originally published in 1913 by the Catholic Record Society, this volume includes the obituaries of Catholic priests from 1722 to 1783, as well as other information.... Read More
Registers of the Cathedral Church of Rochester 1657-1837
This transcription of the parish registers of Rochester was originally privately published in 1892 - Paul Gaskell takes a look at this latest offering from S&N Genealogy Supplies.... Read More
Wingfield Church Registers 1538-1838
This digital version of Wingfield: Its Church, Castle and College is a great way to access parish records. Starting off with a map and chapters containing short local histories, the bulk of the document is the 130 pages of baptism, marriage and burial ent... Read More
Issue 97 - Your Family Tree Magazine
Dwelly's Bishops Transcripts for the Diocese of Bath & Wells
As many of these registers have been lost, these are the only remaining sources for these transcripts.... Read More
Issue 82 - Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine - Anna Fleck
We Shall Remember Them
Taken from the Overseas Births, Marriages and Death Series at the Family Records Centre, First World War: Army, Army Officer and Navy War Deaths provides an index to those who died in the Great War.... Read More
Military Histories
Those inspired by last month's Remembrance Day events to research their military forebears have a number of recent releases to help them... Read More
London University War Service
The London University Roll of War Service 1914-1919 is a record of all the officers, former officers and cadets who served or died in the Great War associated with the University of London Officers' Training Corps.... Read More
Air Force List: September 1938
Find details of all RAF officers on the eve of World War II... Read More
Issue 120 - Your Family Tree Magazine
The West Riding Territorials in the Great War
This regimental resource contains a wealth of information including maps and photographs.... Read More
The 25th Division France & Flanders
Once you've found your forebear's basic military details, the best way to discover more about their actions is to look at the history of the regiment and division they belonged to.... Read More
Issue 138 - Your Family Tree Magazine
The 25th Division in France and Flanders
Describing each operation, the honours received and a list of casualties including soldiers wounded or reported missing, this account is fully searchable with digitally enhanced pictures of the original text.... Read More
Issue 81 - Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine - Steve Harnell
The Fleet Annual and Naval Year Book 1917
An extremely interesting and detailed CD for those with links to Royal Navy personnel in World War I.... Read More
Issue 142 - Your Family Tree Magazine
Northumberland Fusiliers
Once you've identified that an ancestor served in a conflict, the best way to gauge what their role involved is to look at the diaries and records of the unit or regiment they served with.... Read More
Issue 145 - Your Family Tree Magazine
A Wide Range of Data CDs
Your Family History reviews a collection of different Data CDs... Read More
Issue 31 - Your Family History Magazine
The Australasian Handbook 1906
Paul Gaskell checks out this latest release to put flesh on the bones of your Australasian ancestors... Read More
The Channel Islands Post Office Directory 1939
A fascinating source for anyone with forebears on the islands prior to the breakout of war and the ensuing occupation, this is a must for Channel Islands research.... Read More
Issue 141 - Your Family Tree Magazine
Dorset 1939 Post Office Directory
Given the absence of records from this period, including no 1941 Census, directories really come into their own. Glean a picture of their lives at the time...... Read More
Issue 144 - Your Family Tree Magazine
People and Places in Trade
Trade directories contain descriptions of the various communities within their area, plus listings of gentry, officials and tradespeople. They also contain additional information about the locality, all of which can be of use to family and local historian... Read More
Issue - Ancestors Magazine - Kathy Chater
A Dam Busters Crew
To mark the recent 70th anniversary, records of the famous Dam Busters raids are now available online.... Read More
Issue 2 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The Great Showman
The first British pilots' certificates were awarded just over a century ago - here we pay tribute to the pioneers of aviation and reveal a new way to learn more about them online.... Read More
Issue 1 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Find Naturalised British Citizens
If your ancestors came to Britain from abroad, they may have settled and sought British citizenship, which will have left useful records.... Read More
Research World War 1 Deaths
Those who sadly lost their lives in WWI can be traced in Rolls of Honour and casualty lists.... Read More
Find War Memorials
There are increasing numbers of resources online for tracking down people names on war memorials.... Read More
Compare the Market
Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine reviewed the top websites for online research, and TheGenealogist has come out on top... Read More
Issue 56 - Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine
Take a Look Inside The Genealogist
Richard Wentk investigates what goes on behind the scenes at one of the UK’s Leading genealogy websites... Read More
Issue 118 - Your Family Tree Magazine - Richard Wentk
Search Censuses at TheGenealogist.co.uk
The accurate, user-friendly nature of TheGenealogist allows family historians to dive straight into the records you wish to find, quickly and easily. Our first part of this review looks at the powerful census search tools.... Read More
Issue 124 - Your Family Tree Magazine
Need help finding those elusive ancestors?
Today there are huge volumes of birth, marriage and death records on the web, and Mark Bayley, online genealogy expert, looks at how effective website searching can solve your family history mysteries using these sources - with the help of a Hollywood act... Read More
Issue V29 No.11 - Family Tree Magazine
New All-in-One Search Tool
TheGenealogist's innovative smarter, context aware All-in-One search tool scans entire collections of records in one go to return specific results about your ancestors. See your family tree quickly take shape with this exciting new development in the w... Read More
Issue V29 No.1 - Family Tree Magazine
Getting the 1911 Census online
The wealth of historical records online have made family history much more popular and easier too. Here Family Tree talks to Mark Bayley, senior web developer at TheGenealogist.co.uk, about the feats of technology and teamwork needed to make online geneal... Read More
Issue V27 No7 - Family Tree Magazine
Ancestors at work and school
In pursuit of his more elusive ancestors, Mike Ratcliff sought new approaches and new sources, and explored the directories and school registers available on TheGenealogist.co.uk.... Read More
Issue V26 No9 - Family Tree Magazine - Mike Ratcliff
Centuries of Soldiers and Sailors
Through the centuries many of our ancestors have served in the armed forces, fighting in wars and policing the British Empire. Mike Ratcliff explores the military records that are available on TheGenealogist.co.uk, which will help you learn more about the... Read More
Issue V27 No1 - Family Tree Magazine - Mike Ratcliff
Something old, something new...
As your ancestors walked down the aisle or stepped into registry offices to plight their troth, little did they know that the records these events generated would be so essential to their family historian descendants decades later. TheGenealogist.co.uk ha... Read More
Issue 38 - Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine
Genealogy Websites Subscriptions Compared
TheGenealogist.co.uk popular for value, content and ease of navigation, as well as its impressive range of functions and features. "Data for my membership level was very good" Mike, "Transcripts were better than some other sites" Raymond.... Read More
Issue 27 - Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine - Claire Vaughan
Capturing Convicts
More Australian convict and transportation records go online as TheGenealogist.co.uk joins the digitisation race.... Read More
Issue 19 - Your Family History Magazine
Find Ships' Crews Online
If you have ancestors who set sail with the Navy or merchant fleets in the 19th century, a new resource could help you follow their career...... Read More
Issue 4 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Get your research on track
From the mid-19th century onwards the railways employed many people in a wide variety of roles - now many of their work records are going online.... Read More
Issue 3 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Lucky Dip
A large and eclectic collection of name-based data has gone online – is your ancestor in there?... Read More
Issue 3 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Round up the black sheep
A new selection of criminal register records available online may help shed light on a family relative who broke the law and paid the consequences...... Read More
Issue 5 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Branching out your Family Tree
The internet is an incomparable tool for family historians, allowing us to search countless millions of records of our relatives, build trees, produce charts and so much more, with just a few clicks of the mouse.... Read More
Issue 137 - Your Family Tree Magazine
Track Down Tithe Records
More than 11 million tithe records have been released online this year - a major source of information for family historians. They reveal a wealth of information about people, places and landmarks.... Read More
Get to grips with Graves
Tracking down your family history isn't always about combing through documents and official records. Gravestones can be a major source of information, often linking several generations of a family, and finding them is of course a good excuse to get out an... Read More
Make Your Research Mobile
A new app – working on all iOS and Android smart phones and tablets – means you can always have your family tree with you.... Read More
Make the most of Parish Registers
Family-run website TheGenealogist has made it a mission to bring more parish records together online than ever before.... Read More
Trade Secrets
Apprenticeships have been a key part of many of our forebears' lives. Now there are more apprentice records searchable online than ever before.... Read More
Issue 6 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The Skill of Search
Knowing how to use search engines is a skill in itself – although we all expect to simply throw in a name, click a button and get the right results, there are techniques which can help. Many search engines offer a wealth of 'hidden' features for reefing y... Read More
Issue 6 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Unearth Tithe Maps Treasure
The National Archives has teamed up with TheGenealogist to put its collection of tithe maps and apportionments online. Alan Crosby explains what these fantastic resources can reveal...... Read More
Issue 85 - Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine - Alan Crosby
The Back-Up Brigades
Did you have an ancestor who was a part-time soldier in the late 18th Century? New militia muster records online could help you advance your research...... Read More
Issue 7 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Picturing the Past
Introducing a valuable new online resource to bring the past to life...... Read More
Issue 8 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Jutland Remembered
Records from the largest naval battle of WW1 have recently gone online.... Read More
Issue 8 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Trades in the trenches
People from all walks of life served in WW1 – and often their professional bodies left records...... Read More
Issue 9 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Party like it’s 1853
How about some 160-year-old games to liven up your winter parties?... Read More
Issue 9 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
A wealth of wills
With the amount of documents and records available when researching your family history, it is easy to overlook family documents that may contain valuable information, such as will records. These are available online and reveal details about your family’s... Read More
Issue 10 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Helping the community
Here's how you can join in with a major project to record gravestone inscriptions.... Read More
Issue 11 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Sphere of Influence
A newly online collection of historic newspapers offers a useful research resource for the World War One era.... Read More
Issue 11 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
David Tippey explores TheGenealogist.co.uk
The Genealogist is the rapidly growing online data subscription service operated by S&N Genealogy Supplies Jersey. David Tippey explores what’s available.... Read More
Following the Plot
The most significant UK data release of 2014 so far is the first phase of tithe commutation records at TheGenealogist.co.uk. The tithe records provide a unique view into our ancestral heritage by providing details of ownership and occupancy of land th... Read More
Issue 12 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Paris of the West
During the 1860s to the 1880s, San Francisco began to transform into a major city, creating new neighbourhoods and culminating in the construction of Golden Gate Park in 1887. Now new online data will help you explore roots in 19th century San Francis... Read More
Issue 12 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
TheGenealogist: What do you get for your money?
TheGenealogist's master search page is minimalistic looking but has some powerful options. Search for a person, family or address in all records or in a specific record group. Fields include forename, surname, keywords such as place or occupation, and ... Read More
Issue V30 No.10 - Family Tree Magazine
Daring WW1 'escapees' revealed
Using only kitchen cutlery and their bare hands a daring group of prisoners of war painstakingly scraped their way out of the brutal First World War camp at Holzminden, near Hanover, in 1918. Read the records of these extraordinary men, from among a vas... Read More
Issue V30 No.12 - Family Tree Magazine
Military Medal records of WW1
More than 117,000 'Military Medals' were awarded in the First World War for 'acts of gallantry and devotion to duty under fire' to heroes from all walks of life.... Read More
Issue V30 No.13 - Family Tree Magazine
Find injured WW1 servicemen online for the first time
From war poets to the friends and colleagues in the 'Pals' Battalions, the battlefields of World War 1 generated a previously unimaginable stream of wounded servicemen. You can now easily find them with this latest release.... Read More
Issue 148 - Your Family Tree Magazine
Exclusive World War 1 medal collection
Over 117,000 Military Medals were awarded in World War 1 for "acts of gallantry and devotion to duty under fire". These records are now available to view online complete with an image of the actual Medal Card and a link to the official Government publ... Read More
Issue 147 - Your Family Tree Magazine
When Drama Meets Reality
Several actresses in BBC drama The Crimson Field have World War One roots of their own...... Read More
Issue 13 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Grow more branches
A collection of over half a million unique parish records has been added at TheGenealogist.co.uk. The new online records offer invaluable records of baptisms, marriages and burials dating from the 1500s to the late 1800s from Anglican parish registers.... Read More
Issue 13 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
PoW Records Go Online
Leading data website TheGenealogist.co.uk has released a collection of more than 80,000 records of both officers and other ranks who were taken prisoner in World War One.... Read More
Issue 14 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
From Store to War
TheGenealogist now has more than 650,000 records of soldiers who died in WW1 – here we use records of Harrods staff in the collection to learn more.... Read More
Issue 15 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Using TheGenealogist
Nick Thorne explains how to get the most out of your subscription to TheGenealogist. As a member, you are free to explore their wonderful resources such as parish records, wills, landowner and tithe records, an image archive, a comprehensive collection of... Read More
Families of the Famous: James Bond
The second Englishman to play Bond on screen, Daniel Craig has the blood of adventurers and debonair gentlemen running through his veins – some of them from France.... Read More
Piecing together a murder mystery
How you can use an array of detailed sources on TheGenealogist to uncover colourful stories from your family’s past.... Read More
Issue 154 - Your Family Tree Magazine
Taking a Tenth
Land records are an excellent way of finding out more about our ancestors and where they lived. Celia Heritage explains, looking at tithe records in particular.... Read More
Find Your WW1 Ancestors
Many World War One records no longer exist. Does that mean that the men's stories have been lost forever? Chris Baker, who has researched thousands of individuals, explores the possibilities.... Read More
Tommies in Training
Writer and historian Keith Gregson explores a rarely featured aspect of World War One and the online research material that can be used to find out more about the people involved.... Read More
Lost in the war, found in the records
World War One affected every level of society. Our case study shows the wide variety of records that reveal what happened to one renowned casualty.... Read More
Issue 24 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Horatio's last words
A recent BBC2 TV programme on Horatio Nelson centred on what the famous Admiral wrote in his letters, to reveal a more complex man than the hero created after his death. Discover the last wishes of one of the country's greatest heroes...... Read More
Issue 24 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Scandalous Detail
Family history is so much more than just facts and figures, and is made even more interesting when you can add some colour to your tree in the form of real-life stories from the past.... Read More
Issue V31 No.7 - Family Tree Magazine
Step back in time with 3D photos
Once you have found your ancestors in the census records and discovered more about them, the next step is to try placing them in the social context of their times. You can now see through your ancestor's eyes thanks to TheGenealogist's free Image Archi... Read More
Issue 155 - Your Family Tree Magazine
Plotting the past
It's always been a challenge to find where our ancestors lived, but newly online records can help you explore the fields and houses in their home villages and towns. Never before have family historians been able to search nationwide for the uniquely d... Read More
Issue 23 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The Mulberry Madam
Ancestors that fell foul of the law are always fascinating subjects for family history research. The chance to unearth a felon from within the records can be an exciting prospect. Nick Thorne unearths a story of a brothel-keeper sent to Australia for th... Read More
Issue 22 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
All Good Sports
Keith Gregson explores how to find online information about sporting ancestors who 'played for fun' or as a pastime in Victorian and Edwardian times.... Read More
Issue 22 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
The Hidden Treasures of Gravestones
Nick Thorne discovers a fabulous repository of genealogical information. "I get quite excited when I see a churchyard or cemetery. To me it is a fabulous repository of genealogical information, all of which is just waiting to be revealed."... Read More
Issue 21 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne
Search the 1911 Census
Subscribers to The Genealogist are in for a New Year treat, as the site nears completion of its 1911 Census data. This most recent available UK census is crucial for linking your family tree in the early 20th century.... Read More
Issue 112 - Your Family Tree Magazine
Delve into the news of the Great War
From the famous battles, spiralling casualty rates, increasing use of photography and the use of 'gallows humour' by troops at the front, World War 1 saw a great change in the way news was reported.... Read More
Issue 149 - Your Family Tree Magazine
Break down a brick wall in the census
Searching for a person can yield thousands of results, making it difficult and time consuming to find your particular relative. In this review we'll show you how to drill down to the record you're looking for with a simple search on TheGenealogist.... Read More
Issue 150 - Your Family Tree Magazine
Just the job!
Learning about our forebears' occupations transforms our understanding of their lives. What's more their job title can be just the clue we need to identify our person from among many others who share their name.... Read More
Issue V31 No.4 - Family Tree Magazine
Working Records
Occupations are key to good family history research. Not only do they let you know more about how your ancestor lived, giving you clues as to their wealth and social class, but they also let you easily refine a search for a common surname in the census... Read More
Issue V31 No.5 - Family Tree Magazine
Find just the records you need using keywords
Sometimes when you're researching an ancestor, all you have is a name and a few facts to go on. Perhaps you know the area they lived in, or perhaps a name and their occupation?... Read More
Issue 151 - Your Family Tree Magazine
How to trace an ancestor through their occupation - Part 1
Discover more about your working forebears by using the wealth of occupational records at TheGenealogist.... Read More
Issue 152 - Your Family Tree Magazine
How to trace an ancestor through their occupation - part 2
Part two of our look at TheGenealogist’s occupational records covers occupation specific collections.... Read More
Issue 153 - Your Family Tree Magazine
The Complete Census Guide: Supreme Searches on TheGenealogist.co.uk
Searching for a person on the census can yield thousands of results, however there are a variety of simple tools on TheGenealogist you can use to quickly find your particular relative.... Read More
Issue 153 - Your Family Tree Magazine
Justly Honoured
A major new collection of Military Medal records online reveals some of the bravest names in WW1.... Read More
Issue 16 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The Utmost Bravery
Leading family history data website TheGenealogist.co.uk has continued to affirm its status as a major resource for military records with the release of more than 25,000 records detailing recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal.... Read More
Issue 17 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Finding Freedom
Most of us are familiar with a person - often a well-known person born in the place - being awarded freedom of a city, but what does it actually mean, and are there relevant historical records available?... Read More
Issue 17 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Jill Morris
Wounded in WW1
In its latest release of World War One military records, data giant TheGenealogist.co.uk has brought online the most comprehensive collection relating to those wounded in the war - more than 1.3 million records of servicemen from the British and Common... Read More
Issue 18 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Fresh from the Front
From the famous battles and the spiralling casualty rates to the increasing use of photography and the use of 'gallows humour' by the troops at the front, World War One saw a great change in the way news was reported.... Read More
Issue 19 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Saturday night soldiers
A new release of 51,000+ records by TheGenealogist reveals the Territorial Army soldiers who served with distinction in Britain's army of reservists.... Read More
Issue 19 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Mentioned in dispatches
Newly online WW1 records can help trace a soldier's career, as this example shows...... Read More
Issue 20 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
The Genealogist Website Review
The Genealogist website is run by S&N Genealogy and provides some interesting new ways in which to research your family history. David Frost has been having a look and here is what he found...... Read More
Researching the hidden past of your area
The tithe schedules are a great tool for discovering the ownership and occupiers of land, drawn up at the time of the survey in the early years of Victoria’s reign. From these we are able to easily discover the ownership and occupiers of land at the time ... Read More
Issue 156 - Your Family Tree Magazine
A Fleeting Romance
A common brickwall is when our forebears don't neatly get married where we expect them to. As family researchers we may have had the preconception that our ancestors would surely have got married at the bride's parish church? Well that, it seems, was n... Read More
Issue V31 No.10 - Family Tree Magazine
Free Image Archive
Search thousands of images and see how to use them to add atmosphere to your family history research with Nick Thorne.... Read More
Issue V31 No.8 - Family Tree Magazine - Nick Thorne
Grandpa "caught a bit of shrapnel" in World War I and I soon revealed how
Nick Thorne was able to piece together his grandfather's war service using new casualty lists on The Genealogist.... Read More
Issue 157 - Your Family Tree Magazine - Nick Thorne
The railway claimed him in life and death
To make sense of the lives of our ancestors we need to understand the work they did. A big impact on those who lived in the 1800s to the early 1900s, was the coming of the railways to Britain. Nick Thorne delves into a railwayman's working life...... Read More
Issue 158 - Your Family Tree Magazine - Nick Thorne
'Old school' ways to find your ancestors
Census substitutes are an important way to build your family's story, says Nick Thorne.... Read More
Issue 159 - Your Family Tree Magazine - Nick Thorne
A May to remember
Keith Gregson marks the centenary of Britian's worst railway disaster, which has often been overlooked because it occurred in the midst of World War One.... Read More
Issue 25 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
Alien Ancestors
Denization and naturalisation records feature foreign artisans and aristocrats seeking a better life in Britain, says Laura Berry... Read More
Issue 26 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Laura Berry
The Time Machine: tracing ancestors from childhood to adulthood
Following an ancestor's life can lead us on a path through time and place, says Nick Thorne... Read More
Issue 160 - Your Family Tree Magazine - Nick Thorne
Poetical Justice
Tracing an ancestor's career path, through the many records available online, can often reveal to us some interesting family stories – especially when they chart the path to great heights of a forebear.... Read More
Issue V32 No.4 - Family Tree Magazine
On the campaign trail
With such a considerable amount of military records now available on TheGenealogist, Nick Thorne indulged his curiosity to discover more about a famous First World War general, and find out about the man behind the name.... Read More
Issue V31 No.12 - Family Tree Magazine - Nick Thorne
In service - from simple house to palace
Your servant ancestors worked in all sorts of places, from palaces to terraced houses, says Nick Thorne... Read More
Issue 164 - Your Family Tree Magazine - Nick Thorne
The magnificent woman in her flying machine
Find out about a female pioneer in the early days of flying, with Nick Thorne... Read More
Issue 163 - Your Family Tree Magazine - Nick Thorne
Lionel de Rothschild:
Finding the more unusual details of an ancestor's life is possible with a bit of research, says Nick Thorne... Read More
Issue 162 - Your Family Tree Magazine - Nick Thorne
Charmed by her attractions
Finding a scandalous ancestor can be fascinating for the genealogist, says Nick Thorne... Read More
Issue 161 - Your Family Tree Magazine - Nick Thorne
150,000 PoW records added online
Leading British genealogy website TheGenealogist.co.uk has added over 150,000 World War Two prisoner of war records to its already significant military records collection.... Read More
Issue 35 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
Doctor's records added
TheGenealogist has released occupational records covering more than 100,000 doctors and dentists... Read More
Issue - Your Family History Magazine
Making the censuses crystal clear
We explore how the latest technology can improve your research... Read More
Issue 122 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine
‘Murderer’ in the margins
Nick Thorne uses the latest enhanced census images to help trace the Eltham Murder victim and the accused, both recorded under the same roof.... Read More
Issue 121 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Nick Thorne