Learn how to trace your family tree! Every issue is packed with: family history research advice hands-on learning experiences to help you become an ancestor super-sleuth & step-by-step guides to show you the path to tracing the past. From vintage documents to the latest in DNA, we’re here to help you discover more! Get the latest in genealogy news, software, books, archives and expert answers. Plus enjoy those reader stories that remind what it means to trace your family story. Research & remember your roots with Family Tree!

A toast to the ancestors, to family history & to you

8 MILLION WELSH PARISH RECORDS ON ANCESTRY, MYHERITAGE & THEGENEALOGIST • Explore more than four centuries of Welsh baptisms, marriages and burials in the parish registers & discover the details for 14.5 million individual ancestors

Explore over 1.5 million individuals with Norfolk parish record release

Explore 12,000 Kent records - spotlighting ancestors at birth and death

Over 2 million names included on new RAF release from TheGenealogist • TheGenealogist has released 71 new Air Force Lists with over 2 million searchable names, as well as 385 extra war memorials listing over 31,000 names

Heritage Index reveals English towns with ‘heritage potential’ • Places as diverse as a seaside resort in Essex and a former mill town in Lancashire are among those with the most untapped ‘heritage potential’, a new ranking reveals

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UK AGE 90+ POPULATION NOW AT ITS LARGEST EVER: NEW ONS DATA • A birth spike after World War I is now reflected in new figures released by the ONS, showing data for men and women aged 90 and over around the UK

42.2 million indexed Norway church records released by MyHeritage • MyHeritage has announced the release of more than 42.2 million historic church records for Norway, covering the years 1815 to 1938

Are you more than a TICK IN A BOX? • Chris Paton reflects on his changing sense of identity, thanks to family history. Read on and consider how family history might have changed how you see yourself too

The lunch hour genealogist • Being busy doesn’t mean you have to neglect your favourite hobby, you can still learn in your lunch break! It’s time to tuck into Rachel Bellerby’s genealogy treats

FISHING FOR my forebears • Following the twisting, turning tale that is family history, Melanie Winterbotham’s chance discovery that her ancestors ran a slave plantation in the Caribbean enabled her to unlock several centuries of her family tree and explore the working lives of her Tudor fishermen ancestors in Oxfordshire

Searching the Legacies of British Slave-ownership database • Search the website for biographical information about slave owners, and details and whereabouts of the plantations, and so learn more about the legacies of colonial slavery, the land and wealth involved, the owners – and the background to the lives of enslaved people

Prisoners DOWN UNDER • There is a wealth of sources to trace our convict ancestors transported to Australia, and Simon Wills offers a brief introduction to help you get started

Dear Paul • In this month’s Dear Paul, Paul Chiddicks takes us on a tour of weird and wonderful genealogy finds, from a sheep farmer who died of a broken heart after the loss of his flock, to the bride and groom who wed after a ‘tedious’ courtship of over 40 years

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Twiglets • Diarist Gill Shaw charts the rollercoaster ride of researching her family history

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Top 10 tips for studying the family photo album • Whether our family picture archives comprise orderly albums of old studio portraits and...