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March 2010

Wills made easy
Find out how to make the most of these valuable documents, from the new resources available online to the best ways to search the archives

Missing dates?
If you've ever struggled to track down the precise date of birth, marriage or death of one of your ancestors, we may have a solution

Local newspapers
Once you've established the major events in your family tree, using press accounts can help bring your ancestors to life

WDYTYA? goes global
As Britain's favourite genealogy show takes the world by storm, we take a look at how the series has been translated for family historians overseas

PLUS: Learn more about your legal ancestors, track down orphanage records, uncover Victorian squalor with public health reports and much more...

 

On Sale Date: 
Tuesday 23rd February 2010
Issue Number: 
32
Availability: 
Available
London ancestors, part one: East

Our London ancestors series kicks off with a collection of data records worth £59.99, including:

Docklands Ancestors vols. 1-20
Over 100,000 transcriptions from docklands parish registers, including Southwark, Shadwell, Wapping, Limehouse, Isle of Dogs, Stepney and Whitechapel

Victoria Park cemetery
An index to the cemetery register covering the years 1853 to 1856, courtesy of East of London FHS

Settlement examinations
Indexes to settlement examinations in Middlesex from the Old Artillery Ground (1792) and Bromley St Leonard (1778-91).

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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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