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What are Merchant Navy crew lists?
Merchant Navy crew lists can help you track the lives of your seafaring kin, as Simon Wills explains
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EXCLUSIVE: Get 40% off tickets to Family History Day with the Migration Museum
We’re offering our readers an exclusive discount to a day of family history workshops celebrating different cultures
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The 14 best websites for DNA family history research
Jonathan Scott wades through the jargon to bring together the best sites for understanding your family history using DNA testing
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October family history records roundup: First World War pension records added to Ancestry
This month, Ancestry expands its First World War pensions collection, FamilySearch adds free Irish records, Findmypast adds Cumberland parish records and more
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Who were the British Home Children?
For decades, huge numbers of poverty-stricken British children were sent overseas to start a new life amid strangers. 150 years on, we explain how you can find their stories
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October 2019
Don't miss the October 2019 issue of Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine, on sale from 24 September
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Appeal to preserve Thomas Cook archive as company ceases trading
The travel company’s historically significant archive faces an uncertain future after it entered administration
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How to find four key Second World War records
Eighty years after the war began, Phil Tomaselli explains how to find out more about your forebear’s service
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World on Fire on the BBC: when’s it on, what’s it about and who are the stars?
We take a look at the top family history TV and radio programmes in September – including a new Second World War drama, a repeat of Who Do You Think You Are? and more
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EXCLUSIVE: Donny Osmond on RootsTech London and his love of family history
WDYTYA? Magazine editor Sarah Williams talks to Donny Osmond, the singer and former teen idol who is coming to London to share his passion for family history
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