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

Railway worker database adds 17,000 accidents

FamilySearch adds 119,000 records

CAN YOU HELP?

NEWS IN BRIEF

New projects celebrate stories of England’s working class

British POWs’ records from the US War of Independence released

FamilyTreeDNA adds more details to Y-DNA test results

RAF and honours records published on Findmypast

York parish registers added to Ancestry

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Scottish festival to remember the Indian soldiers of WW2

SEEN AND MISHEARD • Alan Crosby explains the devilish delights of misheard and misspelled family names

SEARCHING THE STREETS OF LONDON • Judith Batchelor explains how to place your London ancestors on the map and walk in their footsteps

LONDON’S SLUMS • Where did the inner-city poor live?

CASE STUDY • Judith reveals how much you can find out about a 19th-century London family

Essential Records • Eight different records that Judith used to research the Woodcocks

USING THE LONDON PICTURE ARCHIVE • Judith explains the three ways you can access the vast range of photographs on the London Picture Archive (londonpicturearchive.org.uk)

RESOURCES • Take your research further

SEND FOR THE SUPER RECOGNISERS • Some people have an innate gift that allows them to spot a face in a crowd based on a distant memory. Gail Dixon discovers how such ‘super recognisers’ are helping family historians identify relatives in old images

SPOTTING CRUCIAL CORRELATIONS • Super Recognisers International helped one man research his father’s service

‘I TRACED MY FAMILY HISTORY IN THE FAR EAST’ • Nigel Gray’s recent family history played out in Asia. When he took up where his late father’s research had left off, he made fascinating discoveries about his well-travelled relations’ involvement in some of the key events of the 20th century, he tells Claire Vaughan

RESOURCES • These three sites helped Nigel uncover his kin’s lives in Asia

ESTATE ARCHIVES • The wealth of records created by landed estates can prove a rich resource for growing your tree, says Dr Shaun Evans

THOMAS RICHARDS 1878-1962 • Family historians with Welsh roots owe this librarian an enormous vote of thanks

RENTAL SURVEY, c1802 • This survey of the Gwysaney estate in Flintshire is at the Hawarden branch of North East Wales Archives (D/GW/B/476)

EXPERT PICKS • Shaun recommends these three websites for learning about and using estate archives

RESOURCES • Take your research further

THE BIG PICTURE • Celebrating our ancestors caught on camera

PERFORMERS • You’re in luck if any of your forebears chased the limelight, as Jonathan Scott reveals

EXPERT’S CHOICE • Alison Young is the British Music Hall Society’s vice chair and secretary

GO FURTHER • These websites are also highly recommended

Find ancestors who went Down Under • Nick Peers explains how to access documents that record your relation’s arrival in Australia

LOCAL INDUSTRY • Celebrating our ancestors’ work in key trades

CIVIL WAR LOSS ACCOUNTS • Dr Maureen Harris explores some rare surviving records of ordinary people in the First Civil War

RESOURCES • Take your research further

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