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Campaigners call for memorial to British Home Children in the UK
The British Home Children Memorial Committee is campaigning for a memorial to the children who were sent to Canada in Liverpool
The best genealogy courses available now
Discover how to learn family history skills with our pick of the best online and correspondence genealogy courses
How to find hospital and asylum records
Jonathan Scott tracks down websites for finding records from medical institutions incuding hospitals and asylums
UK hospital records database relaunches
The UK National Archives has relaunched HOSPREC in an updated format
Ten days of free online history talks to start tomorrow
All About That Place, offering hundreds of free online history talks, starts on 7 October
What's new?
These ten traditional surnames reveal a connection to Norfolk
From Curson to Warnes, discover the surnames in your family tree that could reveal a family connection to Norfolk
How to view Ancestry records for free
We explain how you can use family history website Ancestry, and view some of their most popular records, for free
Nearly four million records of slaves in the British Empire go online
Ancestry has launched a new free collection of slave registers
These ten traditional surnames reveal a connection to Bedfordshire
Discover the historic surnames of Bedfordshire with our guide
New database of 13,000 British slave traders goes online
The Register of British Slave-traders is the result of a five-year project researching Britain's slave trade
Occupations
Discover the occupations and jobs people in your family history did
The 15 best websites for finding clergy in your family tree
An Anglican or nonconformist clergyman in your family tree can be a treat for genealogists, says Jonathan Scott
Munitionettes: Who were they and what did they do?
12-hour shifts, poisoning and deadly explosions... Bill Laws explores the hidden lives of the women who built Britain's arms during the First World War
Post Office records: How to find Post Office employee records
Susannah Coster from The Postal Museum reveals how to use Post Office records in family history
Military
Military and army records, history, research and family history
Ancestry offers free access to 326 million wartime family history records
Don't miss free access to Second World War records on Ancestry this week
Ancestry reveals Pressure actors’ families’ wartime experiences
Researchers from Ancestry have revealed the family history of Andrew Scott and Damian Lewis ahead of their new D-Day film Pressure
How to find out if your relatives were in the intelligence services
Discover how to find records for ancestors who were in the intelligence services
Overseas ancestry
Learn how to search for your ancestry overseas and discover your international family tree
How to research Italian ancestry
Do you have Italian ancestry? Discover how you can trace Italian ancestors in their home country with online family history records
Irish wills: Why are they important, and where can you find them?
Irish ancestry research experts Paul Blake and Maggie Loughran explain how to find Irish wills
Tithe applotment books: Our guide to finding your Irish ancestors’ land
Tithe applotment books are one of the most important family history resources for 19th century Ireland
Photo dating
Find out more about dating and caring for your old family photographs
Old photographs: Your complete guide to cleaning, storing and displaying your family photographs
Helen Dawkins on the best way to make sure your old family photographs survive for future generations
RHS calls for help identifying 16 Victorian calling card photographs
The Royal Horticultural Society has published its collection of 756 Victorian calling card photographs online
Do you have photographs of your family in their gardens? Here’s how to uncover the stories behind them
Discover how to use clothes, photo types and more to date old photographs of your family outdoors in their gardens throughout the years
Photo dating
Find out more about dating and caring for your old family photographs
These family photos are all I have left of my grandfather and uncle who both died in the world wars
Debbie Cameron from Formby in Merseyside shares her family photographs, including of her grandfather and uncle who died in the world wars
From fishing trawlers to Second World War submarines, my family have a long connection with the sea
Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine reader Hazel Garas shares some of her family photographs, including Second World War heroes
From a mysterious disappearance to meeting the Queen: These photographs reveal my family history
Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine reader Pamela Spencer shares her family photographs, including from the First and Second World Wars
Church records
How to access church records, religious records, and discover religious ancestors
Four million Berkshire family history records go online
Ancestry has added sets of Berkshire parish records dating from 1538 to 1998
Five million East Riding of Yorkshire family history records go online
Ancestry has added nearly five million parish records
6.5 million nonconformist records added to MyHeritage
MyHeritage has added two major new collections of nonconformist records
TV series
Discover more about the Who Do You Think You Are? TV series
Davina McCall on Who Do You Think You Are?: Everything you need to know
Big Brother presenter Davina McCall discovered connections to royalty and French ancestry on Who Do You Think You Are?
From James Blunt's skiing success to Joe Lycett's Christmas play, old newspaper clippings reveal The Celebrity Traitors contestants before they were famous
Newspapers.com has revealed The Celebrity Traitors contestants in old newspapers
Derren Brown to present podcast about the life of Harry Houdini
The podcast will explore the life of the famous escapologist on the 100th anniversary of his death
