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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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MyHeritage becomes the first family history company to use conversational AI for genealogy • MyHeritage has announced the release of two new AI features which it promises will ‘revolutionise genealogy’ in the same way Chat GPT revolutionised searching the internet

Memory Station from Vivid-Pix rolled out to new locations across the US • A one-click scanning solution designed with older adults in mind, to help save precious images, artefacts and voice memories for future generations will be taken to new locations around the United States of America

Almost 400,000 individuals available to search on the 1939 Register • A further 389,600 individuals available are now available search on the 1939 Register for England and Wales, in accordance with the 100-year rule and requests submitted by the public

Ready for RootsTech 2024! • RootsTech, the world’s largest genealogy conference, starts on 29 February 2024 and registration is now open

Petition to save the wills • On 15 December 2023 the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) published a consultation paper in which the proposal was made to digitise the post-1858 wills collections for England and Wales and to destroy the originals after 25 years. This proposed destruction has been met with great concern by the genealogy community and a petition has been started.

80 million people added to the world’s largest family tree • FamilySearch has released a round-up of 2023, which included a record 1.5 billion people now in the world’s largest family tree

Discovering a whole new heritage via DNA

New online genealogy encyclopaedia for all • MyHeritage has announced the release of MyHeritage Wiki, its community-led online encyclopaedia for all things genealogy

1931 Census of Canada available to explore for free at FamilySearch • FamilySearch has announced the completion of a free, fully searchable index and images of the 1931 Canada census, thanks to its partnership with Libraries Archive Canada

MEDIEVAL ANCESTORS • Chris Paton ventures back in time to outline some of the challenges of medieval research...

JIMMY MILLER • How many of us half-listened to family history tales in our teenage years, only to wish years later that we’d paid more attention? Lisa Edwards shares the story of how a halfforgotten comment about a sporting ancestor led her to the story of football legend Jimmy Miller

ENHANCE YOUR FAMILY HISTORY WITH Maps, photos & tax records • Don’t leave your family tree at just names and dates – put your ancestors' lives in context and discover their homes using maps and photographs. Family Tree Academy tutor David Annal demonstrates how

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NAVIGATING MAPS FOR FAMILY HISTORY • Having a map to hand is both fascinating and useful when it comes to family history research.To follow are ideas for places to look for maps online, to help you explore the locations your ancestors once lived and worked in the British Isles.This Family Tree guide covers a selection of freely available map & place-related websites.

THE ‘BRIDGERTON’ FILES • Just for fun, Gill Shaw goes on the trail of Vicomtesse Mina, her 2x great-aunt’s adoptive stepmother-of-sorts, and gets caught in a web of intrigue and...