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Learn how to trace your family tree! Every issue is packed with: family history research advice hands-on learning experiences to help you become an ancestor super-sleuth & step-by-step guides to show you the path to tracing the past. From vintage documents to the latest in DNA, we’re here to help you discover more! Get the latest in genealogy news, software, books, archives and expert answers. Plus enjoy those reader stories that remind what it means to trace your family story. Research & remember your roots with Family Tree!

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Ancestry publish 1 million Scottish records • Rachel Bellerby reports on the latest genealogy news. Got a story to share? Email editorial@family-tree.co.uk

FindMyPast announce unlimited access to 1921 Census of England and Wales with a new subscription • FindMyPast has revealed their new Premium subscription, which includes unlimited access to the 1921 Census of England and Wales

AGRA announces major rebrand • Following a long-term development plan, the Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives (AGRA) has unveiled its new branding, to reflect its position within the industry and prospects for the future

Women’s Land Army index cards go online • The UK National Archives and Ancestry have partnered on a digitisation project covering 90,000 index cards revealing the employment details of WW2 ‘land girls’

Pioneering researcher Guy Etchells R.I.P • Guy Etchells passed away in October 2022

ALL ABOUT FAMILY HISTORY • Explore Your Archive Week is back from 28 November to 6 December and this year, everyone is invited to showcase items from their own home collections

Plus 4,000 Surrey parish records • Parish records for All Saints Church, Kingston Upon Thames, 1813-25 added to FindMyPast

12,000 new records added to Norfolk collections at FindMyPast • New additions to the Norfolk collections at FindMyPast

Registration now open for RootsTech 2023 • Registration is now open for RootsTech 2023, due to take place online and onsite in Salt Lake City, USA, from 2 to 4 March 2023

London family history showgoers enjoy a new venue • The Family History Show, London took place at its new venue of Kempton Park Racecourse

Awaiting the 1921 SCOT TISH CENSUS • Family historian Chris Paton anticipates the next Scottish census release, and shares some ideas on other records that can help you trace ancestors in this decade whilst we wait...

DEAR PAUL* • Paul Chiddicks rounds up this year’s Dear Paul column with some unusual civil registration and parish register records, showcasing the details held in these records that can help us knock down our brick walls

PHOTOGENEALOGY: STEP 5 YOUR PHOTO LEGACY • This article in Ann Larkham’s series will explain how to secure your photo legacy using the digital photographs that you have gathered, organised and preserved in Steps 1, 2 & 3.

TWO RECORDS ARE BETTER THAN ONE • This month, a childhood memory, handed down from her mother, gets Gill Shaw curious about the man her great-great-grandfather might once have been... and in the process unfurls another mystery

MY GRANDFATHER’S WW2 YEARS EXPLAINED • To help celebrate Armed Forces Day 2022, Family Tree ran a ‘Trace Your Military Ancestors’ competition. The lucky winner of the Military Research Package was Lindsay Seels. Here we share military family history expert Graham Caldwell’s case study of Lindsay’s chosen ancestor

Interests and popular culture between the wars • After the terrible losses endured during World War I, the country was ready for a new way of life. Jayne Shrimpton takes a look at how our mid-20th-century ancestors might have spent their precious leisure time

Considering the usefulness of NAME LISTS • The Family Tree Academy...