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FamilySearch digitisation

FamilySearch completes digitisation of microfilm collection

Dame Judi Dench Who Do You Think You Are?

Dame Judi Dench and Ed Balls to star in Who Do You Think You Are? 2021

DNA test tube

New TV show offers chance to see if you’re related to a celebrity

Tim Viney, owner of Atlantic Geomatics, in the churchyard of St Bega, Bassenthwaite, Cumbria

Church of England launches churchyard digital mapping project

An archaeologist records a burial at St James's Burial Ground

HS2 seeks help transcribing historic burial records

Stacey Dooley on DNA Family Secrets

When is DNA Family Secrets on TV?

Freddie Flintoff and Jamie Redknapp on DNA Journey on ITV

When is DNA Journey on TV?

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Findmypast removes international newspaper collection

Ancestry terms and conditions

Ancestry claims ‘perpetual’ ‘non-revocable’ license to user content

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Findmypast makes over one million newspaper pages free to view

Robert Louis Stevenson in 1893. Stevenson's baptism is among the new Scottish records on Findmypast

Findmypast adds 10.7 million Scottish baptism, marriage and burial records

RootsTech Connect

FamilySearch announces RootsTech Connect 2022

Findmypast pricing structure

Findmypast’s pricing structure explained

Jameson Distillery records

Ancestry releases Jameson Distillery employment records

Bristol's Victorian Cemetery Arnos Vale, which opened in 1839

Victorian cemeteries: When were they founded, and where can you find online records?