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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!

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WINNERS OF THE 2023 ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ASSOCIATION EXCELLENCE AWARDS ANNOUNCED • The winners of the Archives and Records Association Excellence Awards were announced at the Gala Dinner of the ARA Conference in Belfast

‘Stolen’ adoptee reunites with his birth family thanks to DNA • A Chilean-American man has been reunited with his birth mother after 42 years, after MyHeritage DNA confirmed the relationship between parent and son

World Heritage status for 51 Commonwealth war cemeteries and memorials • The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has expressed its delight at the decision of the UNESCO World Heritage Council to inscribe 51 Commonwealth war cemeteries and memorials with World Heritage Status

New archives partnership releases two million Worcestershire records • Over five centuries worth of records have been released online thanks to a new partnership between Worcestershire County Council’s Archive and Archaeology Service and Ancestry

RQG: call for papers

A NEW WAY TO ACCESS FINDMYPAST PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTIONS • Launched last month, the ‘bitesize’ subscription gives unlimited access to over 14 billion historical records

Herculaneum scrolls: A 20-year journey to read the unreadable

How comfortable are we discussing death with family members? • New research commissioned by Legal & General shows that over 40 percent of adults are uncomfortable discussing death with loved ones

RootsTech 2024 registration is now open • RootsTech, the world’s largest genealogy conference, has announced that registration for RootsTech 2024 is now open – and also revealed the theme of the conference

SOURCES, EVIDENCE & PROOF: What is proof? • In the first two parts of this series, Phil Isherwood discussed what we, as genealogists, mean by sources, information and evidence. This month, Phill will be reflecting on ‘proof ’ and scruitinising the research aid that is the Genealogical Proof Standard

Imagine… one single family tree in the world • Would you like to work with other genealogists on a thoroughly researched, free, online family tree – in a research environment where respect for fully referenced genealogical source citations are the order of the day? If so, we think you’ll rather like WikiTree. Mags Gaulden-7 & Greg Clarke-11007 are here to give you a tour of the WikiTree website and 10 of their favourite on-site tools to help you.

WHERE WILL YOUR READING TAKE YOU? • Family history books with Helen Tovey & Rachel Bellerby

TALES OF A TEENAGE HEIRESS CONTINUED • Orphaned, sold and fought over; teenager Catherine Mary Riboldi’s change in fortune is as fascinating as it is confusing... Gill Shaw explains

THE GRANDDAD I NEVER KNEW • Stephen Roberts is a passionate researcher of the past, yet it was only last year – when he came to clear his mother’s home – that he uncovered a time-capsule of papers that revealed to him the life of the granddad he never knew

Friends,Associates & Neighbours • This month Family Tree Academy Tutor, David Annal, demonstrates the invaluable role that our ancestors' friends, associates and neighbours can shed upon their lives

THE 1868 BRADFORD ELECTION • Gaynor Haliday shares a story of a mid 19th-century election...