Exploring a new all relatives family tree

Most of us have unfortunate brick walls in our family trees – those frustrating relations who seem to have appeared into the world as if from nowhere. Perhaps a person does not feature in the baptism

Like many people starting out in their family history research I kept my personal tree on paper and then added it to one of the family history websites. I soon realised that I also wanted a program wh

Researching Welsh roots can be a challenge, since you usually have to contend with the overlapping identities of ancestors amid the swirl of patronymic names, endless recycling of first names, and a l

Thanks again for publishing the story of my rabble-rousing ‘Family Hero’, Maria Carr, in your February 2021 issue. As was mentioned in Gail Dixon’s article, a banner to commemorate the people and even

I’d grown up wondering why I looked so different from my family. But it took 35 years to discover the truth.

Watching the band up on stage, I felt so proud. ‘That’s my dad,’ I boasted to my friends as he drummed along to rock music. Aged 10, I loved going to his gigs. I’d tag along to rehearsals and knew all