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

Recollections Of The Crooked House

Who Do You Think You Are?

What's On

TNA adds civilian honours from WW2 to Discovery • Rosemary Collins reports on data releases and genealogy news

TheGenealogist expands its Domesday Survey collection

NEWS IN BRIEF

WW1 links in Michael Caine's tree uncovered

CAN YOU HELP?

TNA's chief executive announces his departure

Project reveals medieval murder locations on interactive maps

1580s

English Heritage warns history school trips under threat

Barking Mad • Alan Crosby looks at the penalties that parishioners faced for bringing their dogs into church, and dozing during a service

DNA • Genetic genealogist Debbie Kennett explains how she used DNA testing to solve a paternity mystery

SORTING MATCHES • Debbie shares her advice for working with Shared Matches on AncestryDNA and MyHeritage

RESEARCHING MATCHES’ TREES • Debbie explains how to build on your DNA matches with online genealogy

MAKE THE MOST OF WATO • How a free online tool can reveal your place in a family tree

DOCUMENTING DISASTER • Chris Paton explains how archived records of misfortune and crisis can reveal a great deal about our ancestors’ lives

THE HARD LIFE OF MARY THOMSON • The difficulties of one Glaswegian woman in the years following the First World War

ESSENTIAL WEBSITES • These nine sites can help you research the lives of forebears in crisis

‘THE BROTHERS’ LETTERS REVEAL WHAT THE WELSH WENT THROUGH IN WW1’ • Gethin Matthews has been able to study the Welsh wartime experience through a collection of letters written by three of his relations. They proved to be not only rich in information but extremely moving, says Claire Vaughan

RESOURCES • Gethin used these resources to uncover the brothers’ story

PUBLICANS • Simon Fowler explains the records available to research any publicans in your family tree, as well as the establishments that they managed

THE THREE TUNS • The proud heritage of a 17th-century pub in Shropshire

LICENSED VICTUALLERS, 1825 • In this record, which is held by the Surrey History Centre, magistrates noted the details of victuallers and their sureties, but not the amount paid into the quarter sessions. The record is also available digitally on Ancestry (ancestry.co.uk)

EXPERT PICKS • Simon recommends these three websites if your relation managed or worked in a pub

RESOURCES • Take your research further

MUSICIANS • Jonathan Scott rounds up the essential online resources for tracing musical forebears

EXPERT'S CHOICE • Christopher Proudfoot is the president of the City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society

GO FURTHER • More online resources you can't afford to miss

NORTHERN IRELAND VALUATION OFFICE REVISION BOOKS • Genealogist Nicola Morris explains how to use these digitised records to locate Irish kin

REVISION BOOK, 1928 • Oswald Jamison was a Catholic businessman and local councillor in Belfast when Ireland was partitioned. His grandson, former Countdown presenter Nick Hewer, learnt about Oswald's life in an episode of Who Do You Think You Are? broadcast in 2013

RESOURCES • Take your research further

Q&A • Our team of experts offers tips and...