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The whole Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine team is heading to London for a packed weekend of family history - and there's still time to get hold of tickets to the event
Merchant Seamen records hit the web
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Family historians with Merchant Seamen ancestors may be able to learn more thanks to the launch of a major online collection of records
This week's TV and radio: Paxman explores the British Empire and more
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Jeremy Paxman offers his masterful take on how Britain shaped an Empire - and how that Empire shaped Britain. Also this week: a chance to catch up with 1950s midwifery online, a look at decades of social class and more
Welsh WWI records project announced
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Genealogists with links to Wales may soon find researching their ancestors much easier thanks to a new project commissioning the digitisation of First World War records
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We've teamed up with Who Do You Think You Are? Live to offer readers the chance to win one of six pairs of tickets to the world's largest family history show
This week's TV and radio: Call the Midwife and more
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Call the Midwife, the BBC's barnstorming adaptation of Jennifer Worth's 1950s memoirs, comes to an end this week - plus the rest of the highlights
Last chance to get two WDYTYA? Live tickets for just £25
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There's a final chance to get two tickets to the world's largest family history show for just £25 in the last week of our great offer
Competition seeks heroic horse stories
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Do you have stories of equine heroism in your family tree? The National Army Museum and Ancestry.co.uk want to hear from you…
Holocaust archive reaches the UK
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A set of 50,000 testimonies recorded by survivors of the Holocaust can now be explored in the UK for the first time
Thousands of Thames records go online
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A major collection of records detailing thousands of people who made a living on the river Thames in London can now be explored on the web for the first time
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Trace your forebears in the British Army with our military special, which features a complete guide to the online records, archive gems and top expert tips. Also inside this issue: how to identify WW1 photographs, explore midwife registers, find Thames watermen kin and much more...
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