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MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS Amanda Leedham Pen & Sword, 176 pages, £14.99 Pen & Sword has now published more than 100 guides and handbooks for family historians, a remarkable achievement, and there’s no sig

Simon Fowler The History Press, 276 pages, £20 With this year seeing the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, and the prospect of the digitisation of most service records from 1921–196

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

FOUNDATIONS ROME BEFORE ROME The legends that ...

As a professional genealogist I’m sometimes asked to carry out research into a particular individual – to, in effect, compile a biography. These requests most frequently come from one of my oldest and

To some of us, post-1945 seems like yesterday – but if you are a younger researcher, this era could encompass several generations of your ancestors. More recent research is an important part of everyo