March 2025 Family Tree Magazine
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- 232
- On Sale:
- 14/02/2025
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- £5.99
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Issue Summary
Discover how to search smarter and find every available clue in the birth, marriage and death indexes. Learn what to do if your family tree isn't great, but you need it to help you with your DNA mysteries. Gain advice on how to trace ancestors wherever they lived on the planet. Packed with useful and interesting family history advice to help you do your family tree, the latest issue of our monthly genealogy guide it out now!
On Sale: 14/02/2025
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What's in this Issue?
Family history news
Read up on new family history-related projects & developments:
- 1921 Census for England and Wales – now available on Ancestry. How will it help your research?
- Ministry of Justice have ceased plans to destroy historic wills. But there are still issues to watch out for.
- Genealogy story-telling takes the next step with AI audio assistance and an ‘intelligent interviewer’
Ancestry Tree Tips
Public? Private? Shared? Or not? Explore the Ancestry Tree Settings and get it right for you
How to future-proof your research
On the questions and answers pages this issue, professional researcher Pauline Jarvis provides a succinct and doable guide to the best way to pass on your family history research to your family
All things Welsh – a guide for family historians
Genealogist Fiona Gray-Davies is here with practical advice specifically to help you surmount Welsh family history research conundrums
Twiglets
Anchors away! Ace genealogy story-teller Gill Shaw sets out to navigate her mum’s dad’s side of the family, the mysterious Tonges… (if you want an example of how to make simply family history details ‘sing’ in a story – Gill makes for a smashing example)
The General Register Office
Top notch family historian David Annal invites us to look more closely at the General Register Office (GRO) indexes for births, marriages and deaths
Researching your ancestors overseas
Mary Evans gives us a comprehensive guide to the tactics and record sources that can help us trace our ancestors overseas
Finding your way with historical maps
Dr Sophie Kay sets you on the right course with the second in her 2-part series on using maps, revealing how to use maps to solve family history puzzles
A history of the Thankful Village
Stephen Roberts takes us on a tour of the handful of ‘Thankful Villages’ – communities that lost no-one in the Great War
What did 19th century people like to read?
Historian and author Sue Lisk turns back the pages to the past to see what it was that 19th & early 20th century people really enjoyed reading, particularly in the United States
Genealogy events online
Your round-up of the latest family history talks, courses, conferences and events online
Photo Corner
Jayne Shrimpton shares advice to help you date your unidentified pictures
Thoughts on
Diane Lindsay ponders about just how much patience we really have to have in order to be fruitful family history researchers
