Who Do You Think You Are?

Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine not only explores the stories behind the popular BBC genealogy TV series, but also helps you uncover your own roots. Each issue is packed with practical advice to help you track down family history archives and get the most out of online resources, alongside features on what life was like in the past and the historic events that affected our ancestors.

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WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?

More than five million Irish records added to Ancestry

NLS maps website introduces drawing tool

CAN YOU HELP?

NEWS IN BRIEF

Online exhibition highlights East Riding’s role in the First World War

The NLW launches collection on Google Arts and Culture

Findmypast builds database of RAF personnel

Volunteers create Netley Military Hospital database

TNA gives 25 archives grants to aid recovery from pandemic

Secret rooms and old maps discovered in North Shields townhouse

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PICK OF THE MONTH • Discover more about the lives of your pauper ancestors in this online event

REMEMBERING AUNTIE ETHEL • Alan Crosby shares the story of one of his mother’s best friends during his childhood

FAMILY TREES ONLINE • Building your family tree on a genealogical records website has many benefits and needn’t cost a penny. Chris Paton puts four of the biggest sites to the test

ANCESTRY • Powerful tools enable you to make the most of the website’s records, and to reap the benefits of research carried out by other family historians

FINDMYPAST

COLLABORATIVE FAMILY TREES • There are lots of reasons why you should add your relations to the giant trees created by family historians around the world

MYHERITAGE • MyHeritage offers a range of options for viewing your tree and finding matches, which can be synced with your home computer

THEGENEALOGIST • TheGenealogist offers the best of both worlds with family trees that you can build online as well as on your computer

COVENTRY MOTOR CITY • Steve Humphries reveals why Coventry ruled the British motor industry, and shares the stories of those who worked within it

KEY INDUSTRY DATES

RESEARCHING CAR WORKERS IN COVENTRY • Family historians with relations from Coventry can search a number of important archives

RESOURCES • Take your research further

‘ MY GRANDFATHER CO INSTALLED AN ORGAN IN CHINA UNDER GUNFIRE' • Pam Corps knew little of her father’s life or his family, but has discovered an astonishing story of master craftsmen who braved great peril on an overseas adventure.

RESOURCES • Pam found these three websites very useful during her research

THE BIG PICTURE • Celebrating our ancestors caught on camera

HAVE YOU HIT A BRICK WALL?

Q&A • Our team of experts offers tips and inspiration

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MILITARY PICTURE ANALYSIS

MY FAMILY ALBUM • Send us your favourite images for a chance to win photographic software worth $49.99. This issue Helen Bloom from Woodford Green in Essex introduces some of her relations, including a great uncle who was a naval artist

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FISHING FOR CLUES • Jon Bauckham learns how volunteers in the town of Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, are helping others research their ancestry

CAN YOU HELP?

THE POLICE • Jonathan Scott tracks down websites for researching men and women in the service

EXPERT’S CHOICE • Stephen Wade’s books about crime, detention and the police are published by Straightforward (straightforwardco.co.uk)

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