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25 Jan 2013
Offers expiring in the next few days
Ireland DOUBLES certificate prices
Divorce records online at Ancestry
Findmypast add Irish BMD indexes
Book review: Birth, Marriage
& Death Records
Top South African site to close
English wills from US sources?
Scottish cemetery inscriptions
Your cousins are dying to hear from
you
Birthday Book - the final clues
12 January 2013
Child migration scandal on film
Ancestry add passenger lists
1890-1960
Have you claimed your free credits?
Last chance to get a free upgrade
Do you believe what's in the newspapers?
Birthday Book - the final chapter
1st January 2013
New Year resolutions for family
historians
Good news - findmypast offer extended
Free credits offer also extended
Three days left to save at Family
Tree DNA
Was Queen Victoria a good mother?
Earl of Essex's legacy lives on
Preserving your family's
history
25th December 2012
Remember to claim your free LostCousins subscription
Finding a Box of Family Letters
Woman to marry twin sister's murderer
Scottish site offers scanned images
High speed scanner - a book a minute!
Northern Ireland BMD prices rise
Essex completes online register collection
Last chance to save on DNA tests
19 December 2012
Findmypast Christmas offer
We all have hundreds of DNA flaws
Radio Times from 1923-2009 digitised
World War 2 Christmas cards delivered after 70 years
Ancestry launch US newspaper site
More army pension records online
Kate's family tree controversy
28 November 2012
Warwickshire Quarter Sessions Records
online
Life and death of a servant girl
18 November 2012
'Dead' man celebrates 106th birthday
MASTERCLASS: Tracking down pre-1837
baptisms and marriage
How to be accurate - and why it
matters!
Last chance to search 1911 free
Ireland - National Archives launches
new website
Scottish wills from 1902-25 now
online
Adoption in England & Wales
before 1927
Non-Anglican religious marriages
Birmingham electoral rolls online
Birmingham parish registers offline
Essex Record Office expands online register collection
National Archives to open up Community
Last chance to save on Who Do
You Think You Are? tickets
How to find your British ancestors in
the newspapers
Searching Australian newspapers
Did your migrant ancestors change
their name?
Write about your sporting relative
and win a prize!
5 November 2012
Fireworks at the General Register
Office?
World War One records
free at Ancestry.co.uk
Confusion over World subscriptions
Kent records at FamilySearch - but
are they available?
Project traces the lives of Tasmanian convicts
The last woman hanged in Edinburgh
School records to be digitised?
Dad's Army records for Durham online
Members sought for TNA Advisory Group
Modern British Childhood exhibition
Find your ancestors using Google
25 October 2012
Findmypast offer World subscription
at UK site
Do you have traces of other peoples'
DNA in your body?
British Newspaper Archive heading for
findmypast?
Marriage myths debunked in new book
Should young lovers be Frank and
Earnest...
When time of birth appears on the
certificate
56 million new Australian & New
Zealand records online
Jefferson Tayte will
be back in December!
2 October 2012
Save $$$s on an Ancestry subscription
Nearly 6 million newspaper pages online
Find your DNA partners NEW
FEATURE
When the paper-trail runs out....
Would you want a jailbird in your tree?
Findmypast adds 175,000 Middlesex
records
Ancestry lets schedule numbers slip
Should you believe what you read on
the Internet?
22 September 2012
What will an mtDNA test
tell you?
Are autosomal DNA tests the future?
Reconstructing the DNA of your
ancestors
Genes for face shape identified
DNA may identify remains of King
Richard III
Could a child have THREE parents?
MPs warn about scrapping census
Volunteers to share BMD data - watch
out GRO!
National Archives - website changes
Steve Robinson interview EXCLUSIVE
Genes Reunited offer 15% discount
9 September 2012
GRO responds to Freedom of Information request
More errors on marriage certificates
Errors on marriage certificates - an
insider's view
Corrections in the marriage register
Parish registers - the inside story
Ancestry expand Dorset collection and start work on Surrey
Findmypast.co.uk to
offer worldwide subscription?
Removing living people from your
family tree
Time to research your Scotch ancestry?
Message in bottle sets world record
Brick wall #3: Mary Pike (continued)
Dad's Army records may stay closed
24 August 2012
LostCousins is TOTALLY free over the holiday weekend
Errors on marriage certificates
(continued)
Is the answer staring you in the
face?
Are you up against a 'brick wall' of
your own?
British Library electoral registers
delayed to 2013
The oldest family on the planet
Using case studies and challenges to
train others
11 August 2012
LostCousins honours gold medallists
TNA to charge £80 per hour for research
GRO shelve digitisation project
Errors on marriage certificates:
follow-up
Breaking through the 'brick walls'
Techniques for breaking down 'brick
walls'
Brick wall #1: William Fletcher
Brick wall #2: Adolphus Carpenter
Ancestry's Lancashire registers disappoint
Findmypast.com launches with early-bird discount
Ancestry offer free access to the complete 1940 Census
Members still saving $$$ at Ancestry
27 July 2012
My cousin held the Olympic flag!
Even more Scottish directories online
Ancestry release Lancashire registers
Did you sign up as an organ donor?
Fathers on marriage certificates
Applying quantum theory to family
history
Genes Reunited tree changes prove
controversial
Do you have a challenge for
LostCousins members?
14 July 2012
Canterbury Cathedral Archives now
online
Ancestry updates Jewish burial index
Lancashire registers imminent?
New FamilySearch worth a closer look
Plastic surgery for victims of the
Great War
Scottish directory collection exceeds
target
Northern Ireland BMD registers to go online
GRO certificate sales fall again
Twins born in different countries!
Save 10% on ALL findmypast.co.uk subscriptions
Did you try my 'brick wall' challenge?
How to knock down a 'brick wall'
Will your newsletters stop arriving?
"Digging Up Your
Roots" in 2013
Is there such a thing as a free will?
29 June 2012
Old FamilySearch - gone for good?
Canadian records free until Monday at
Ancestry
Canada 1881 census - free at
FamilySearch
Celebrate Canada Day at LostCousins
Independence Week for US cousins
Another chance to knock down a Long
brick wall
Millions more Welsh records at
findmypast
British Telecom archives will be free
online
50,000 graves in path of new rail line
Foundlings: from the 18th to the 21st
century
World War 2 service records affected
by delays
BMD certificates - petition fiasco
Would you allow your family tree to
be sold?
Vicki saves $230 on Ancestry
subscription!
16 June 2012
CHALLENGE: can you break
down this 'brick wall'?
Index to newsletters from 2009-2010
WW1 and WW2 PoW records
go online
Save real money on your Ancestry
subscription
Facebook to release personal details
Will Ancestry be bought by Facebook?
How to switch back to the 'old' Ancestry
search
FamilySearch begins to close down its
old site
Yes! You can still use the old
FamilySearch site
Are older people really more resistant to
change?
English sisters are the world's
oldest siblings
Online information at the National Archives
Findmypast adds 'My saved records'
Maximise the usefulness of your My
Cousins page
1 June 2012
Did your relative work in the Royal Household?
National Archives reprise Victoria's
jubilees
Queen Victoria's journals go online
The challenges and benefits of longevity
Why you should organise your research
It's never too late.... or is it?
Using the Historical Research
category
Ancestry extends probate coverage to 1966
Genes Reunited upgrades search
Plymouth & West Devon records
finally online
Genealogists for Families hits milestone
London is the 6th most populous
French city
Dickens exhibition ends June 10th
DNA analysis may reveal yeti secrets
18 May 2012
Who Do You Think You Are? cancelled in US
Belfast cemetery records online
Introducing the new look findmypast
Scotland: good news and bad news
Reminder: exclusive offer ENDS MONDAY
How humans got to be so brainy - the
answer's in your DNA
Marry in haste, repent at leisure
Make it easy for your cousins to reply
5 May 2012
Save on findmypast subscriptions
Is the cost of your hobby going up?
Ancestry terms & conditions
revised
FamilySearch - old
site on the way out?
Dorset crew lists online at Ancestry
Massive DNA project offers hopes for better health
When is a nephew not a nephew?
The results your cousins deserve
British woman registers 161 word name!
Irish births, marriages, and deaths
GRO obstinacy holds back research
Unnamed birth registrations - follow up
Missing wills discovered in boxes
Documentaries of the 1940s go online
16 April 2012
End of the line for Birmingham graveyard?
Naturalisation records at the
National Archives
Finding children who died as infants
Analysing baptism register entries
Browsing parish registers at
findmypast
Will you live longer if you make a will?
Ancestry adds Surrey marriages
Findmypast adds more parish records
Overseas members make big Ancestry
savings
6 April 2012
Ancestry offer free access to US records
Westminster records fill London gap
Scotlandspeople adds 1915 Valuation
Summer was dangerous in Tudor times
New maritime BMD records at findmypast
Are you researching your spouse's ancestors?
BMD certificates - the saga continues
Half of my ancestors were women
Oral History Society offers
introductory course
Where are the Canterbury Cathedral
records?
17 March 2012
Success! GRO holds BMD certificate
prices
Last chance to save on findmypast
subscriptions
Use the right button to speed up your online research
The rarest search in the world
Are official records ever wrong?
Were single mothers better off in the
19th Century?
Findmypast heads for Westminster
6 March 2012
LostCousins members win 1st, 2nd & 3rd prizes!
Welsh parish records arrive at
findmypast
EXCLUSIVE OFFER: All findmypast subscriptions
under £99
Finding births and marriages in the
death indexes
Ancestry add London school records
Why I took up genealogy – a reader
writes
Using DNA to knock down 'brick walls'
26 February 2012
LostCousins members
scoop top prizes!
Irish court
records now online
More merchant
seamen records at findmypast
Bill saves $250
on his Ancestry subscription!
Old FamilySearch
link bounces back
Hertfordshire
registers to be digitised
The simple way
to check or update an entry
Interviewing
older relatives - useful guidelines
Wearable camera
jogs failing memories
How to get the
most from this newsletter
Finding the
answers through DNA
Can you succeed
where MI5 failed?
12 February 2012
How to save $$$ on
an Ancestry subscription
Ancestry
reach 1.7 million subscribers!
Brightsolid
opens up in the US
Save 10% on ALL
Genes Reunited subscriptions
Knocking down more
'brick walls'
Don't believe
everything you read on the Internet
Story competition -
results due soon
Advertising
Standards Authority bans certificate scams
Did you spot the
fake website?
What should you do
if you're contacted by an heir hunter?
How to find the OLD
FamilySearch site
Thank goodness for
transcription errors!
Do the dead outnumber
the living?
29 January 2012
MASTERCLASS:
finding birth certificates
1911 abduction
fears exaggerated
Census hoax
email prompts ONS warning
Could you spot a
fake heir hunter?
British
Newspaper Archive proves too popular!
Using the
Address Search at findmypast
"On the
Street Where You Live"
Do you have
ancestors from Kent?
When was your
grandfather born?
15 January 2012
Have you been
approached by an 'Heir Hunter'?
FamilySearch add
index to Norfolk registers
London electoral
rolls at Ancestry
Genes Reunited
offers new route to newspaper archive
Did you miss out
on a free subscription?
Getting more
information from the 1911 Census
Still
celebrating New Year's Eve on 13 January!
BBC radio
programme solves mystery for member
Predictions come
true a century later
2 January 2012
LostCousins member honoured
by the Queen
Good news! Christmas
offer extended
What's coming to
Ancestry & findmypast in 2012?
Putting a face to
your 'lost cousins'
Is your online
information a security risk?
Don't overpay for
certificates!
When is a 25%
discount not a bargain?
Free searches of
the US 1940 census are promised
Which subscription
site is the best?
How long does it
take to find a 'lost cousin'?