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NEWS FAMILYSEARCH RELEASE 100,000+ FREE FAMILY HISTORY RECORDS FOR ENGLAND This month’s FamilySearch releases include more than 100,000 Middlesex parish registers and 30,000+ non-conformist church records for Lancashire The records, include: 4,674 Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971 at https://familytr.ee/essex 3,553 Lancashire, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1746-1799 at https://familytr.ee/lancs1 31,970 Lancashire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1647-1996 at https://familytr.ee/lancs2 101,216 Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988 at https://familytr.ee/middlesex 3,864 Surrey Marriages Bonds and Licenses, 1536-1992 at https://familytr.ee/surrey All of these records have been added to existing collections on the FamilySearch database. You can access FamilySearch services and resources free online at FamilySearch.org or through over 5,000 family history centres in 129 countries – find your nearest centre at: www.familysearch.org/fhcenters/locations © John Salmon…

ALL ABOUT FAMILY HISTORY Newly-restored Elizabethan Boarding House explores the story of its residents over 4 centuries A rare example of a 400-year-old Elizabethan Boarding House has opened in Plymouth after a six-year restoration project With its timber frame, bare wooden floors, oak beams, spiral staircase and earth plaster walls – for 400 years, the Elizabethan house in Plymouth has stood almost unaltered. The house survived the Blitz, when Plymouth was one of the most violently bombed cities in the UK, as well as extensive slum clearances in the early 1900s. An archaeological survey of the building uncovered items including glass, ceramics, marbles and animal bones that tell the story of the residents of the house over the past four centuries. The curatorial team at Elizabethan House have pieced together…

VISITING ARCHIVES & LIBRARIES ENJOYING HISTORY-INSPIRED DAYS Making the most of your research & days out With the Covid-19 restrictions drawing to a close, many of the venues and attractions at which we enjoy carrying out family history research are readying to open their doors again. But how do we navigate this brave new world? Read on for the Family Tree guide to trips & visits in the post-pandemic world with Twitter genies, Family Tree readers, Helen Tovey & Rachel Bellerby Abreath of fresh air! While Zoom has been a boon over the past year or so, the enjoyment of visiting archives, libraries, ancestor graveyards, historic attractions – and of course – actual living family members, is something many family historians have sorely missed. In our guide, we’ll be looking…

UP YOUR GENEALOGY GAME! BECOME A BETTER FAMILY HISTORY SLEUTH Consider the bigger picture! Improve your family history search skills with the Family Tree Academy. This issue, David Annal invites you to research your ancillary branches 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 discusses the huge boon that researching the wider branches of your family can represent, and how very much you will be making your life harder if you only stick to researching your direct lines. Make your life easier… Every now and then, I come across a family historian telling me…

UNLOCK THE STORY OF YOUR GENES ENLISTING DNA ON YOUR FAMILY HISTORY QUEST MAKING DNA WORK FOR YOUFOR Your DNA WORK SHOP Welcome to the DNA Workshop! In every issue DNA adviser Karen Evans will be unpacking a reader case study, and giving step-by-step tips for you to use in your DNA research at home. It’s time to unlock the story of your genes… ASSESSING DNA MATCHES Reader Gina got in touch to ask for Karen's help in overcoming a ThruLines challenge she had met when assessing her Bailey surname matches at Ancestry DNA GINA: Dear Karen, I am hoping that you can find a little time to give me some guidance to overcome my DNA frustrations. My brother and I have both taken an Ancestry DNA test to try…

SHARING YOUR VIEWS HAVE YOUR SAY Your LETTERS Puzzles posed, and good points raised My British ancestors’ homes The wonderful article about house histories by Melanie Backe-Hansen (FT June) reminded me of the fun I had finding homes of many of my British ancestors. Living in Canada, they were places that I might never get to see in person. Until recently, I thought I knew the location of the home of my 3x great-grandparents, Thomas and Mary (Smith) Pearson, in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, and, following their deaths, also where my 2nd great-grandparents, Charles and Susannah (Davis) Pearson, lived. A photo of the home passed down to me through my grandfather gave me a clue. You can read about my search for the home and see the old photo on my…

800,000 CRIME AND PRISON RECORDS ADDED TO FINDMYPAST Thousands of records relating to crimes carried out between the years 1784 and 1939 - from rural poaching to highway robbery - have been added to FindMyPast. The 800,000 newly digitised crime records, in association with The National Archives, have been added to FindMyPast’s Crime, Prisons and Punishment collection, which now comprises 6.6 million records. The new additions span the years 1784-1939 and include registers of inmates from infamous prisons including Pentonville, Wormwood Scrubs, Millbank and Newgate as well as governor’s journals, trial records, lists of visitors, men in solitary confinement, baptisms at women’s prisons and more. Also included are over 1,000 new mugshots taken at Pentonville in 1876. The full collection includes 22 series from the National Archives at Kew, recording…

SOG: A NEW DIRECTION DISCOVER THE CHANGES AT THE SOG PROJECT ‘TRANSFORMATION’ In July 2021 the Society of Genealogists closed the doors of 14 Charterhouse Buildings, home of the SoG for the past 37 years of its 110 year history, and stepped forward into a new future. Keen to find out a little more about their plans, Helen Tovey caught up with some members of the SoG management team While it might be a new future, it’s not an unknown one and the Society has a clear and transformative range of plans in place relating to its archives, its online data, its learning experiences, its members, and of course its new premises. So, how did the wheels for this transformation get set in motion? ‘3 YEARS IN 3 WEEKS’ ‘If…

RESEARCH ZONE GREAT WAR PRISONERS PRISONERS OF THE GREAT WAR Being captured by the enemy could be a frightening, frustrating, and sometimes traumatic experience but it wasn’t only military personnel who were taken. Civilians such as merchant navy employees were also imprisoned, writes Simon Wills Tracking down an ancestor who became a prisoner of war (PoW) in World War I can be tricky. When the conflict started, neither side was well-prepared to accept PoWs and people who were captured early in the war even helped to make their own prison accommodation. Throughout the war, records of individuals detained by the enemy were often incomplete because of the sheer scale of the administrative task of documenting them. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) estimates that about 10 million people…

BECOME A BETTER FAMILY HISTORY SLEUTH Putting it into practice Challenge 1 Review your records If you have not already done so, be sure to add your ancestors’ siblings to your family tree. First look at the census and make a note of all siblings recorded there. Second, revisit the parish baptism records and birth indexes and identify possible siblings. David Annal has been involved in the family history world for more than 30 years and is a former principal family history specialist at The National Archives. He is an experienced lecturer and the author of a number of best-selling family history books, including Easy Family History and (with Peter Christian) Census: The Family Historian’s Guide. David now runs his own family history research business, Lifelines Research. Challenge 2 Enrich…

UNLOCK THE STORY OF YOUR GENES WHAT’S NEW? Karen walks us through Ancestry DNA’s new ‘do you recognise them?’ feature. Have you had your Ancestry DNA match list updated to the new feature? If you know how a match fits into your tree you can add the details! After creating a Quick and Dirty tree for Nicky I was able to work out that she was my uncle’s third cousin.…

DISCOVER RESEARCH SOLUTIONS YOUR FAMILY MYSTERIES SOLVED Your questions answered With our experts Jayne Shrimpton, David Annal, Kirsty F. Wilkinson, Adele Emm & David Frost Do I have the correct Smith? Q I have read with great interest David Annal’s excellent article entitled ‘Getting to Grips with Family Reconstruction’ (FT March 2021). Following on from his very detailed and helpful article I am now writing to ask for help with my brick wall which concerns tracing my 2x great-grandfather William Smith’s birth location together with learning the names of his parents and siblings. Places identified My research so far has taken place mostly in two locations, briefly in Hartlepool, Co. Durham and Bridlington, East Yorkshire. My father was born in Hartlepool but it was my great-grandfather who, as a married…

SLOW RETURN HOME… Nearly thirty years after they were stolen from a country mansion in Dorset, four historic bronze tortoises have been recovered and returned home, thanks to an entry spotted in an auction catalogue The four tortoises were part of a set of sixteen bronze sculptures created in 1853 by Italian-born sculptor Baron Carlo Marochetti, for Kingston Lacy, the former home of 19th-century collector William John Bankes. The tortoises supported the urns at Kingston Lacy for over 140 years, admired by successive generations of the Bankes family and by National Trust visitors after the property passed to the charity in 1982. However, four of the sculptures were stolen in 1992. The theft was reported to the police, and staff swiftly removed the remaining bronze tortoises for safe keeping, replacing…

300,000+ INDIVIDUALS ADDED TO IRISH CATHOLIC PARISH RECORD COLLECTION AT THEGENEALOGIST The new Catholic parish registers have links to the original images and cover the county of Carlow, in the south east of Ireland Before civil registration was introduced in two stages into Ireland, first in 1845 for non Roman Catholic marriages and then in 1864 for all births, marriages and deaths, the parish registers of the various denominations were the main records in which Irish ancestors’ vital events would have been recorded. The Roman Catholic church was far the largest denomination in Ireland and so it is within these records that the majority of Irish forebears will mostly appear. Also released at this time are Thom’s Official Directories covering the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from Victorian…

RootsTech Connect 2022 announced FamilySearch has announced that RootsTech Connect 2022 will take place on 3-5 March 2022, as a fully virtual family history event Registration opens in September 2021 and organisers are hoping to repeat the success of this year’s online RootsTech Connect, which welcomed more than one million visitors from over 240 countries. The announcement included the news that for future events for 2023 and beyond, RootsTech plans on offering a ‘hybrid online and in-person model with content that is expanded and accessed throughout the year. Steve Rockwood, FamilySearch International CEO, said: _After RootsTech Connect 2021, we realized that we could bring the joy of family history to millions of people, no matter where they are, through an online, virtual RootsTech experience. As we continue to chart new…

DIARY DATES DISCOVER LEARNING EXPERIENCES TO ENJOY FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, PLUS ON-SITE AND HYBRID EVENTS REGISTER FOR OUR NEWSLETTER FOR WEEKLY NEWS & EVENTS: https://familytr.ee/reg ONSITE EVENTS Huguenot Footsteps walking tour, 26 September. Meet outside Christ Church, Spitalfields in London at 2pm for a 90-minute talking tour to discover the history of the Huguenots in this part of London. Donations £10 per person. Book by e-mail: team@huguenotsofspitalfields.org Families in British India Society Conference: Researching Families in British India, 24-26 September The Families in British India Society are running an event in Oxford, to support research into families involved in India during the period of British involvement. The event includes aspects of family, social and professional life in different periods, followup tutorials and 1:1 advice on research sources and…