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The Box in Plymouth (Courtesy Paul White Photography)

£47 million Plymouth archive and museum space opens

Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker on Who Do You Think You Are?

Who Do You Think You Are? 2020 with Jodie Whittaker and David Walliams announced

Viking longship

World’s largest ever DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren’t all Scandinavian

Ancestry artworks Blitz

Ancestry creates art collection to commemorate 80th anniversary of the Blitz

Pay Sergeants of the Grenadier Guards c1860

Records of Grenadier Guards move to The National Archives

FamilySearch CEO Steve Rockwood

FamilySearch announces free global virtual genealogy event: RootsTech Connect 2021

1851 census

Why can’t I find my 4x great grandfather in the census?

The river Wenning flows past the front of the castle in the village of Hornby in the Lune valley

Historic England calls for stories of ‘everyday acts of heritage’

The lobby of The National Archives with a one-way system in place due to coronavirus

The National Archives to increase document ordering limit

An Ancestry family tree

Blackstone buys Ancestry for $4.7 billion

A view of the entrance to The National Archives

The National Archives to reopen with restrictions on 21 July

New Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine website

Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine launches new-look website

Scientists will use DNA test results to research susceptibility to coronavirus

‘Time is of the essence’: family historians urged to submit DNA test results to coronavirus study

Helen Osborn and Karen Cummings

Former tutor takes over Pharos Tutors genealogy academy

Match Workers

‘It would be a terrible loss’: Strike leader’s grave under threat from building works