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Tracing Your Ancestors’ Lives is not a comprehensive study of social history but instead an exploration of the various aspects of social history of particular interest to the family historian. It has been written to help researchers to go beyond the names, dates and places in their pedigree back to the time when their ancestors [...]

WordPress for XYZ is a resource website made just for hobby bloggers. Whether you are a crafter, a genealogist, a photographer, a writer, a gardener, a foodie or a mom-to-be, whatever your calling is, you have a passion. You are excited about what you do and you love to blog about it. If this is you, then WordPress for XYZ is [...]

From the feather man who went from town to town, cleaning bedding made of feathers, to the cat-meat men of London, to the rag and bone men, there was an eclectic group of people who made their living as pedlars, tinkers and hawkers. Travelling either on foot with a basket or barrow, or using a [...]

While the family history records we research and the ancestor stories we uncover stretch back centuries, the tools of our trade remain bang up to date. Check out this round-up of the latest techniques and innovative technology with genealogy researcher Barbara J Starmans. Published in Family Tree UK in January 2017