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.

Welcome

SARAH’S TOP TIP

CONTRIBUTORS

Letters

Who do you think you are

News • Rosemary Collins reports on data releases and genealogy news

CAN YOU HELP?

NEWS IN BRIEF

Ancestry acquires Forces War Records

More than 100,000 records of Scottish prisoners put online

What’s On

PICK OF THE MONTH • Give your research skills a boost

BOOK AHEAD • Celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower

PHILIP’S ROYAL ROOTS • Alan Crosby takes a look at the late Duke of Edinburgh’s tangled family tree

CENSUS SUBSTITUTES • If you can’t find someone in the census, a wealth of widely available alternative sources can point you in the right direction and help you locate them, says Emma Jolly

RESOURCES • Take your research further

CENSUS RECORDS

LIVERPOOL THROUGH A LENS • As featured in a new book, the National Trust’s Hardman collection is a major photographic resource for family historians who have links to Liverpool. An ongoing project is making even more of it accessible, says Claire Vaughan

FIGURES IN DOORWAY, VERNON STREET • Michelle shares the story behind this evocative image

HARDMANS UNPACKED • Why the project needs your help

RESOURCES • Take your research further

‘VICTORIAN MURDERS STILL AFFECT BRITISH FAMILIES TODAY’ • Author Alison Bruce explains how her research into crime and punishment sheds some fascinating light on the lives and legacies of our black-sheep ancestors.

RESOURCES • Learn more about your criminal ancestors with these free sites

THE BIG PICTURE • Celebrating our ancestors caught on camera

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

PICTURE ANALYSIS

BIG QUESTION

MILITARY PICTURE ANALYSIS

MY FAMILY ALBUM • Send us your favourite images for a chance to win photographic software worth $49.99. This issue Mike Nadin from Brockworth in Gloucestershire introduces some of his relations, including a forebear who dressed tripe

SALTWATER STORIES • Jon Bauckham learns how volunteers are helping to preserve the fascinating history of the brine baths in Droitwich Spa

GET INVOLVED

COMPANY RECORDS • The records created by our ancestors’ employers can be a richly rewarding avenue of research, says Jonathan Scott

EXPERT’S CHOICE • Audrey Collins is the records specialist, family history, at The National Archives

GO FURTHER • These websites may also help your research

VISIT US

Petty-sessions case papers, 1859–1914 • Kate Hallett, senior archivist and records manager at Conwy Archive Service, discusses a collection that sheds light on crime in Victorian and Edwardian Wales

LLOYD’S REGISTER OF SHIPPING • Dr Simon Wills helps you make the most of this essential source for researching seafaring ancestors, which is freely available online

LLOYD’S REGISTER, 1846 • This page from the register has been digitised by Lloyd’s Register Foundation and is available at bit.ly/lrf-register

RESOURCES • Take your research further

BRASS WORKERS • Mike Sharpe looks at the lives of our relations in the brass industry

GO VISIT • You can see a working brass foundry at this open-air museum celebrating the Black Country’s industrial heritage

HOW TO FIND YOUR BRASS WORKER...