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

What’s On • Email wdytyaeditorial@ourmedia.co.uk to feature your upcoming event here

PICK OF THE MONTH • Improve your research skills with this online event

BOOK AHEAD • You can relive the 1940s in Lincoln in August

Ancestry adds 11 million Sussex parish records

Isle of Wight WW1 database completed

CAN YOU HELP?

NEWS IN BRIEF

Findmypast releases Wiltshire records

Durham History Centre project hit by delay

RootsIreland adds County Monaghan poor-list records

The National Archives and Arts Council England announce collaboration

Edinburgh passport records released

1943

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Half a million

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Irish military pensions records published online

HAY AND HOLIDAYS • An old diary reminds us that our forebears didn’t always get much of a summer break

OUT OF THE ASHES • Nicola Morris looks back at the devastating fire at the Public Record Office of Ireland in 1922, and explains how long-lost documents are getting a new lease of digital life

FRAGMENTS FROM THE PAST • How the documents that survived the fire are being restored and digitised

REMEMBERING WHAT WAS LOST • Why generations of family historians owe the Public Record Office of Ireland’s assistant deputy keeper Herbert Wood an enormous vote of thanks

10 FREE WEBSITES FOR IRISH ROOTS • Online resources to take your research further

How to use 23andMe • Debbie Kennett takes a look at the health and ancestry reports offered by this pioneering testing company

FAVOURITE FEATURES • Find out more about some of the facilities that 23andMe offers

RESOURCES • Learn more about DNA testing

‘MY TREE INCLUDES CO V ER BREWERS, FARMERS AND CIVIL-WAR SURVIVORS’ • Since he was a young boy, Barnaby Rogerson has been piecing together the stories of his illustrious forebears, prompted by the tales of his great aunt Eve – and was amazed to find documentary proof for some of them, he tells Claire Vaughan

RESOURCES • These three sources were a big help in Barnaby’s research

MANORIAL DOCUMENTS • As the full Manorial Documents Register goes online, Ian Waller explains how to use the records to research your English and Welsh kin

LORD HENRY BROUGHAM 1778–1868 • Brougham had a major influence on the Act that led to the end of the manorial system

HICKLING MANOR COURT RECORD, 1745 • This document is held at Norfolk Record Office and is now freely available on FamilySearch (familysearch.org)

FIND RECORDS ONLINE • Ian explains how to use The National Archives’ indispensable Manorial Documents Register

RESOURCES • Take your research further

BRITISH ARMY • Jonathan Scott rounds up the key sites to learn more about your army ancestor’s service

EXPERT’S CHOICE

GO FURTHER • Nine more websites you can’t afford to miss

How to turn your tree into a website • You can easily transform a GEDCOM file into a fully functioning site for free, says Nick Peers

LOCAL INDUSTRY • Celebrating our ancestors’ work in key trades

RATE BOOK, 1843 • This overseers’ rate book for Bramley Parish, West Yorkshire, is held by West Yorkshire Archive Service. The book has been digitised and is...