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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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AASLH Introduces new council leaders and members • The American Association for State and Local History’s new Council members, elected by AASLH membership, have begun their terms

The Family Tree Academy PICTORIAL QUIZ • Welcome to the Family Tree Academy Christmas Quiz! In this issue, Family Tree Academy Tutor David Annal has devised an end-of-year genealogical pictorial quiz for you.

GLIMPSES OF A FORGOTTEN LONDON COMMUNITY • This month, Gill Shaw walks in the footsteps of her 2x greatgrandfather John Anthony Riboldi, as she visits the east London docklands area where he lived and worked, finding tantalising glimpses of the places he would have known

Who Would Be King? (Or Queen?) • Are you of royal descent? Diane Brook is, as are, she suspects, most of you, even it you haven’t proved it yet. Read on for insights into her research into royal roots

TRACING GENTLEMAN’S SERVANTS • Tracing ancestors who worked as gentleman’s servants can be difficult. They moved all over the country and are rarely located in the same place for consecutive censuses. But they can also offer a richness of information about their lives through a variety of sources. Virginia Silvester focuses on servants of the Victorian era

THE YORK FEVER HOSPITAL • In the mid-late 1880s fever hospitals were built in many towns and cities across the UK. The York Fever Hospital, later known as The Yearsley Bridge Hospital, housed patients from its opening in 1880 until it was demolished around 1976. Here Sue Greenwood relates its history

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DOUBLE TAKE: My ancestor’s alias • It can be frustrating to lose the trail of your ancestor, but what if they adopted an alias? Dr Simon Wills explores the murky world of secret identities

IHGS: THE SCHOOL OF FAMILY HISTORY

YOUR DNA WORKSHOP • This month, Karen Evans helps a reader try to identify a missing man, but sometimes a lack of testers thwarts a satisfying outcome ... for the moment

A Family history treat

An Ancestor Living In Sin - SURELY NOT! • Family Tree reader Pam Stevens traces the story of her ancestor William Phillips, who was widowed 3 times, married 4 & broke the law once in the process

Spotlight on... THE ASSOCIATION OF GENEALOGISTS AND RESEARCHERS IN ARCHIVES (AGRA) • AGRA has been promoting excellence and high professional standards in genealogy and historical research since it was founded in 1968, proudly receiving the prestigious Julian Bickersteth Memorial Medal in 2018 for its notable and exemplary contributions to family history studies.

GENEALOGY GADGETS & APPS FOR ALL OCCASIONS! • What tools do you use to help your genealogy life run more smoothly? In this series Helen Tovey shares tools enjoyed by Family Tree readers

PHOTO CORNER • Costume historian & photo-dating expert Jayne Shrimpton shares advice to help you date your unidentified pictures and so put names to the faces of the past

Your questions answered

A big birth cover up Exposed… 139 YEARS LATER! • Graham Caldwell solves a 50-year brick wall for reader Jack Morath, who had been unable to progress further back than his maternal grandfather, when information entered on seemingly legitimate birth and...