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December 2009

London's docks
The story of one of the city's most iconic industries, plus how to track down your ancestors who worked there

Best websites for... pub and brewery ancestors
Whether they owned the local pub or worked in one of Britain's breweries, we show you the best places to track your ancestors down online

The real Victorian Christmas
For those 'below stairs', 19th century Christmases were a world away from middle-class festoonery

Marriage settlements
The rich social and genealogical insights available from an overlooked resource

PLUS: Raising the curtain on your theatrical forebears, using maps and plans and a look back at vintage year for Who Do You Think You Are?.

On Sale Date: 
Tuesday 24th November 2009
Issue Number: 
29
Availability: 
Available
Tyne & Wear ancestors

1891 census for Newcastle
Search more than 200,000 individual entries arranged by street, courtesy of Northumberland and Durham FHS

A History of Newcastle-on-Tyne
Read about the city and its people in this book packed with local detail, first published in 1887 and worth £7.50.

Records from Tyne & Wear archives and Durham University Library
Explore what the area's archives have to offer family historians.

PLUS: unseen footage from Davina McCall's episode

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Blogs

Roads into the past

Our monthly blogger Alan Crosby sets off on a historical journey across the moors of Cheshire and Derbyshire

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At home with the ancestors

Our regular columnist Alan Crosby takes a trip thousands of years into the past to explore what home life may have been like for our distant ancestors

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Britain goes to the polls: election day, 1807

With election day finally here, our regular columnist Alan Crosby takes a look at the very different choices on offer for voters 200 years ago

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