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WW1 casualty database reaches milestone

A large number of entries from the War Office's daily and weekly casualty lists can be now be viewed on Forces War Records

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Ancestry releases Scottish electoral records

Plus: Findmypast expands WW1 hospital collection; Pharos Tutors course gains AGRA recognition; FFHS announces conference speakers

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Past in pictures: English football memories

With football fever in full swing, we've dug into the Hulton Getty picture collection – now available on Ancestry – to find the best photographs of the beautiful game

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Genealogy news roundup: PRONI launches digitised register of First World War casualties

Plus: The National Archives announces car parking charges; British Newspaper Archive adds nine suffragette titles; Scientists use 13 million person tree to research family patterns

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Who were the inspirational women in our family trees?

To celebrate International Women's Day, Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine staff pay tribute to our courageous female ancestors

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Genealogy news roundup: Findmypast adds records of mining disaster victims

Plus: TheGenealogist adds Buckinghamshire colour tithe maps; Do you want to appear in a new family history TV show? ; Findmypast announces acquisition of Twile

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Murder, Mystery and My Family comes to BBC

Past crimes in people's family history are re-examined in the BBC's new daytime show Murder, Mystery and My Family

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Do you want to appear in a new family history TV show?

The makers of Genealogy Roadshow are looking for participants to submit their queries for a new British series

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Genealogy news roundup: Edinburgh and Liverpool electoral records go online

Plus: Thousands campaign against Lowestoft Record Office closure; Findmypast adds Yorkshire records and more...

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Free access to Ancestry's UK and Irish collections this weekend

The genealogy website will be letting family historians explore its UK and Irish collections completely free of charge between 23-25 February 2018

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From the office: How to make the most of RootsTech2018

If you can't attend the global family history conference in Utah, there are many ways to make the most of it using the Internet and social media

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Genealogy news roundup: Findmypast adds British in India records

Plus: Convict records added to TheGenealogist; Appeal to help identify Victorian Scottish photographs; RootsTech to livestream talks for free

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Wartime pupil's son traced after letter discovered at school

Sompting Abbotts Preparatory School worked with local and family historians to discover the identity of Donald James Macbride

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