Ancestry

It seems fitting that in this age of ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini, RootsMagic 11 appears sporting a shiny new AI Prompt Builder. This feature – allowing you to build prompts to tap into AI for the curr

As every family historian knows only too well, researching your ancestry becomes significantly more difficult the further back you get. There are fewer records available before the 19th century, and f

The economy of Suffolk traditionally relied on agriculture and fishing, but much of its prosperity in the Middle Ages resulted from the cloth and wool trade. In fact Bury St Edmunds, Clare, Hadleigh,

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

Q My great great grandfather, Enoch Coates, was wounded in the Crimean War at Sebastopol. His death notice in the Lichfield Mercury, on Friday 9 December 1910, describes him as a “Crimean Veteran” and

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