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Genealogy news roundup: Ancestry adds Kent Methodist records
Plus: Women volunteers’ wartime diaries go online; Findmypast adds 1861 and 1871 Canadian censuses; TheGenealogist adds doctors’ and dentists’ records
TV Series
Five things you might not know about WDYTYA? star Charles Dance
Charles Dance explores his family tree in the first episode of WDYTYA? series 14 on Thursday 6 July. Here's five things you might not know about the actor...
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August 2017
Don't miss the August 2017 issue of Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine, on sale from Tuesday 1 August  
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1948 - The birth of the NHS
The BBC’s Home Service broadcast an announcement by government minister Dr Edith Summerskill in 1948 in which she proclaimed the arrival of the NHS. 
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Women volunteers’ wartime diaries go online
The free online archive of 30,000 pages of Royal Voluntary Service reports offers an insight into women's contribution to the war effort
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Genealogy news roundup: Who Do You Think You Are? gets new narrator
Plus: Welsh tithe maps go online; ScotlandsPeople releases records of breakaway Presbyterian sects; University seeks information about 1920s Yorkshire criminals
Features
6 best Canadian family history websites
On the eve of the country’s 150th anniversary, Jonathan Scott hunts down online resources for researching Canadian family history
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Arts Council England awards £146 million to local museums
The ACE 2018-22 portfolio features 72 museums from around the country, including Reading, Luton and Sheffield
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ScotlandsPeople releases records of breakaway Presbyterian sects
The collection includes over 37,000 records of births, marriages and deaths dating from 1729 to 1855
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Who Do You Think You Are? 2017 – new celebrities revealed!
The wait is over! We can reveal the famous faces taking part in the 14th UK series of BAFTA-winning programme Who Do You Think You Are?
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