Task of the month

DNA has a language of its own, one you may be unfamiliar with, but it’s worth getting to grips with it to help you make use of genetics in your genealogy. I have included only those words that crop up

Did you know? There are more than 15 billion public member trees on Ancestry. It can be very helpful to search the public family trees of other Ancestry members (to do so, go to Search / Public Member

A Tarot reading with a medium was to reveal my true identity…

Family history research can, as we know, take us down many paths with surprising outcomes but I would never in my wildest dreams have thought that it would result in my cousin and I standing on a foot

A good knowledge of geography is important for many aspects of our research. Can you arrange these six English towns from north to south?: Chester Gloucester Leicester Manchester Rochester Worcester I

Unusually, my story begins at the end with the perplexing death certificate of my great grandfather William Taylor. William died aged 71 in May 1938, in Gosport, Hampshire, and the death was registere