Working with your dna match list (the basics)

B ack in August 2025 I did a ‘learn-along’ in DNA club, where I asked which areas of DNA people wanted to look at in more depth. I was expecting the webinar to focus on skills like clustering, but one

Q My ancestor, Charles Hayes, was born on 6 October 1700 in Harrow on the Hill to Charles Hayes and Ann Ewster. He attended University College Cambridge and, described as “one of the Gentlemen of the

When researching civil birth, marriage and death records in England and Wales, you should always start at FreeBMD. Created by volunteers in 1998, it has records from 1837 and remains completely free.

Keeping track of the records you uncover on Findmypast just got a whole lot easier with the recently released Workspaces feature. Traditionally, you’ll have linked records to individuals in your tree,

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

The mere mention of ‘tidying up’ or ‘getting organised’ can put the fear in many of us. But, take heart, and read on. The main thing is to be organised enough so that you can find things, but not set