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After an eventful night with a local history society, Alan Crosby celebrates some unexpected links to the past. Wednesday 3 January 2010 Alan Crosby, editor of The Local Historian Read more from...
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The records of thousands of British people transported to Australia have been made available online at Ancestry.co.uk, offering family historians new ways to track down their criminal ancestors....
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Our new guide to the best television and radio for family historians continues with a look ahead at this week's highlights. From Colin Jackson's exploration of his genetic heritage to documentaries...
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As the world marks Holocaust Memorial Day, Alan Crosby pauses to reflect on the impact of persecution and oppression across Britain. Wednesday 27 January 2010 Alan Crosby, editor of The Local...
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After an eventful night with a local history society, Alan Crosby celebrates some unexpected links to the past. Wednesday 3 January 2010 Alan Crosby, editor of The Local Historian Read more from...
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The records of thousands of British people transported to Australia have been made available online at Ancestry.co.uk, offering family historians new ways to track down their criminal ancestors....
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Our new guide to the best television and radio for family historians continues with a look ahead at this week's highlights. From Colin Jackson's exploration of his genetic heritage to documentaries...
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As the world marks Holocaust Memorial Day, Alan Crosby pauses to reflect on the impact of persecution and oppression across Britain. Wednesday 27 January 2010 Alan Crosby, editor of The Local...
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Genealogy is big businessA few recent news items have shown that family history has become a very competitive business in the last few years. Apparently genealogy is now an industry that is taken notice of in the financial...More information >
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Were Parky's ancestors really too boring for WDYTYA?This week's Radio Times runs an interview with Michael Parkinson, who reveals that the Who Do Think You Are? production team politely declined to make a programme about his ancestors because they...More information >
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Extreme genealogyI was accused once of making genealogy sound too easy. I said something along the lines of, ‘it is easy to get started’ in an advertisement feature in Radio Times and someone saw fit to...More information >
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The National Archives must be more than a businessI’d like to reply to Else Churchill’s blog about changes at the National Archives. I am entirely in favour of wider access, and I am no less in favour of family history (as a former...More information >
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