Confirmation bias in theory

In this age of algorithms and ‘artificial intelligence’, when the major commercial genealogical websites are all trying to persuade us that the best way to trace our family trees is to follow their hi

As many of my roots are in Suffolk I was interested to read your recent article on Suffolk resources. I was not previously aware of the Suffolk Records Society so will look into their holdings with in

Laura Olmsted’s life changed forever in 2018 when she took an AncestryDNA (ancestry. co.uk/dna) test for fun. “To my shock, I discovered that the man who raised me was not my biological father,” says

Before moving to England, my maternal grandfather was ...

When my pugnaciously no-nonsense granny set about constructing our family tree, she cut through the ambiguity of my place on it by adding (grafted) after my name. It was a fair, if blunt, acknowledgem

We all have photos in our family archives of people who are not direct relations but played an important part in the lives of our ancestors. My uncle, Gerald Cruwys, who sadly died in the Second World