Who Do You Think You Are?

Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine not only explores the stories behind the popular BBC genealogy TV series, but also helps you uncover your own roots. Each issue is packed with practical advice to help you track down family history archives and get the most out of online resources, alongside features on what life was like in the past and the historic events that affected our ancestors.

Welcome

CONTRIBUTORS

SARAH'S TOP TIP • Look across multiple websites for parish register entries

Stoking memories

Letters

Who Do You Think You Are?

What's On

RootsTech full online schedule announced

NEWS IN BRIEF

‘Extremely rare’ 16th-century Devon map preserved

CAN YOU HELP?

Museum buys Oliver Cromwell's watch

Bona Vacantia back online

Theresienstadt Ghetto drawings donated to the Wiener Holocaust Library

MOVING MOMENTS • As Alan Crosby downsizes he laments how often our forebears changed their address

PARISH REGISTERS ONLINE • Jonathan Scott presents our region-by-region guide to the unmissable websites

Capturing the voices of the past • Bill Laws reveals how oral history sheds much-needed light on the lives of ordinary people and their experiences of historical events

THE GWENT LEVELS • livinglevels.org.uk/life-on-the-levels

RESOURCES • Take your research further

‘THEY WERE A HERO, A CAD AND A SCOUNDREL’ • Mike Medland's relations led unconventional lives during the glory days of the Raj and beyond, not least a trio of remarkable brothers. He shared his tales with Claire Vaughan

Resources • These resources helped Mike research his mother's line

Children's workhouses • Peter Higginbotham charts the history of these national institutions and explains the records available to research ancestors who were in the workhouse as youngsters

Jane Senior 1828-1877 • Meet the woman who was instrumental in improving the prospects of workhouse children

EXPERT PICKS • Peter highlights three sites to help you with your search for young workhouse ancestors

Register of children, 1898-1910 • A register of children at the West Derby union's cottage homes at Fazakerley, from the Liverpool Workhouse Registers collection on Findmypast (findmypast.co.uk)

RESOURCES • Take your research further

British Army in WW2 • Jonathan Scott rounds up the key online resources, including new material on Ancestry

Expert's Choice

Go Further • Eight more websites that Jonathan recommends

Window-Tax Records • Chloe O'Shea explains how these documents can take your research back to the 17th century

Assessment List, 1701 • This window-tax record from the City of York dates from 30 October 1701 and is held by Explore York Libraries and Archives (exploreyork.org.uk). It is available digitally on Findmypast (findmypast.co.uk)

RESOURCES • Take your research further

What was the cause of Charles Hayes’ downfall? • Our team of experts offers tips and inspiration

What happened to my Dad's mother, Doris?

How do I track down a birth or marriage record for George Shelley?

Does this photograph show my husband's grandmother or her mother?

How do I uncover Mary Anne White's early life?

How did Samuel Gisbourne die during WW1?

What are John Budd's true origins?

Is this WRAF member my grandmother?

MAN ON A MISSION • Rosemary Collins learns about a one-man project transcribing parish registers

Make the most of your research on Findmypast • Nick Peers shares a new way to manage your Findmypast records and newspaper clips

Ring in the new • The first telephone call was...