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

Letters

Who do you think you are

What's On

BOOK AHEAD

News • Rosemary collins reports on data releases and genealogy news

NEWS IN BRIEF

LEGACY OF THE REIVERS • Alan Crosby considers how surnames often originate in specific parts of the country

FREE help to find your FAMILY • FamilySearch expert Darris Williams explains how its new 'Guided Research' tool helps you navigate billions of records online to find your family and grow your tree

TIPS FOR STARTING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY • Darris recommends four simple steps when you're beginning your research

Find family at Roots Tech • After two years of virtual events, Roots Tech is back in Salt Lake City, Utah, and online on 2-4 March

10 UK RECORDS YOU DIDN'T KNOW WERE ON FAMILY SEARCH • All of these collections can be found by searching the catalogue

A Snapshot from Scotland • Rosemary Collins talks to staff at the National Records of Scotland about some of the stories revealed by the recently released 1921 Scottish census

'MY RAF RELATION DIED ON A WARTIME BOMBING MISSION' • When Michéle Gross was contacted by a researcher in the Netherlands out of the blue, she was fascinated to discover how her mother's pilot cousin had lost his life while serving in the Royal Air Force, says Claire Vaughan

RESOURCES

METHODIST RECORDS • John Lenton of the Wesley Historical Society discusses the evolution of Methodism and the resources available for family history

HUGH BOURNE 1772 - 1852 • Find out more about the co-founder of Primitive Methodism

HILL'S ARRANGEMENT, 1841 • This list is reproduced from William Hill's An Alphabetical Arrangement of All the Wesleyan- Methodist Preachers and Missionaries, 5th Edn (John Mason, 1841). The book is avilable at My Wesleyan Methodists (mywesleyanmethodists.org.uk)

EXPERT PICKS • John recommends these websites for researching Methodist relations, and finding out more about their beliefs and values

RESOURCES • Take your research further

WAR MEMORIALS • Jonathan Scott reveals the best sites for finding military memorials and war graves

EXPERT'S CHOICE • Nigel Henderson is the author of Ulster War Memorials: A Personal Selection (History Hub Ulster, 2018)

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

WOMEN'S LAND ARMY INDEX CARDS • Cherish Watton explains the newly digitised records of the Women's Land Army from the Second World War

INDEX CARD, 1942 • This Index Card for Louisa Craig is held by The National Archives in Kew and available in the collection 'UK, World War II Women's Land Army Index Cards, 1939-1948' on Ancestry (ancestry.co.uk)

RESOURCES

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

Is this a photograph of Miriam or her mum?

Have I got the right William on my family tree?

Which Scottish regiment was my great uncle in?

MADE IN THE MIDLANDS • Workers in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, 21 January 1939

Browse scans of unindexed records on FamilySearch • Nick Peers explains how to access the website's collection of untranscribed, unindexed records

HIGHLAND HEROES • Emma Jolly praises our indomitable Scottish ancestors who lived as crofters, and reveals the challenges that they faced including the...