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Guides, tutorials, interviews, research and opinion pieces on family history and genealogy

Bertrand Clark tennis player

Family hero I'm related to the first black tennis player to play at Wimbledon

Cissy Lecky First World War nurse

Family hero My great aunt kept her WW1 nursing a secret

An operation in a lecture theatre at University College Hospital Medical School, London, in 1898

How to find doctors and nurses in your family tree

John Wedderburn, seated

Military What do these photographs reveal about my grandfather's service in WW1?

William Southway marriage, 1829

Brick wall Are these two William Southways the same person?

Volante ice cream seller

Italian ancestors How do I research my Italian great grandmother?

Annie Gulvin, gardener

Family hero My grandmother blazed a trail for female gardeners

Philip Frank, back row, with family 1900

Eureka moment Ellis Island held the key to my great uncle's wartime death

Adrian Stone with his Jamaican family tree

Reader story My family came here with the Windrush generation

Alf and Harold PoWs

My family hero Secret diaries revealed Dad's WW2 story

Past Everton footballers

Reader story Eight of my wife's family played for Everton

Lancaster bomber crew

Military How can I find Second World War RAF records?

A House Through Time

The 6 best websites for tracing the history of your house

Start Your Tree

Start Your Family Tree: Week 1

Bird Tree

The 14 best websites for DNA family history research