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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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New funding for community archiving • The National Archives has awarded £50,000 in grants to communityled research projects: from local history, memories and factory worker stories, to a school-based project for a significant anniversary

AI insights, data extraction and transcriptions with ScribeAI • Introduced by MyHeritage at RootsTech 2026, ScribeAI enables people to decipher details on old family photos and documents that they may otherwise have found difficult to read or comprehend

Better long-term preservation of adoption & children-in-care records • An Archives and Records Association (ARA) working group has been established to look at the issue of adoption and care records, and how they can be better preserved for long-term access

Clues to a million wills • 2.5 million names have been added to The Genealogist’s National Probate Calendar collection: every field transcribed

New look website from photo expert Jayne Shrimpton • Regular readers of Family Tree will be familiar with the work of photo-dating and costume historian Jayne Shrimpton. Now you can explore her new-look website

Preparation for 2031 Census underway • To mark the launch of the 2031 Census strategy, Mary Gregory shares an update on the recent consultation, outlining the proposed topics under consideration and looking ahead to the planned operational test

What’s for tea, Nan? • Family and local historian Professor Dean Kirby has been cooking his grandmother’s recipes and sharing them online

One year on: new family histories from MyStories • In February 2025, MyHeritage officially launched MyStories, the service that emails weekly writing prompts, to encourage the writing of family stories and histories

DNA Club news • DNA Club news reporter Karen Evans shares news from the genetic genealogy scene

Explore the world’s largest Y-DNA haplotree • Each month, the experts at FamilyTreeDNA provide updates on the latest stats, haplogroup insights, & tools

THE ORIGINALS ARE the best • This month, Family Tree Academy tutor Dave Annal warns us about the perils of relying too heavily on transcriptions for our research, and points out how much more the original records often have to tell us

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LIFE IN IRELAND in the era of the 1926 Census • Genealogist Frances Daly is here to set the scene of life in Ireland during a transformative decade, and to provide the historical context within which the 1926 Census of Ireland was taken. What was the world of your ancestors like?

STAFFORDSHIRE BOUND • Gill Shaw leaves the mills and chimneys of the north behind, and heads to rural Staffordshire on the trail of her 4x great-grandfather George Grindle

AFTER THE LIFEBOATS The Hidden Legacy of Titanic’s Crew • Following her exploration last month of Titanic’s working world, genealogist Nicola Johnson returns to reveal what happened to the crew who lived through the disaster that claimed 1,500 lives

IS IT TRUE, or are you barking up the wrong tree? • Enthusiastic family historian Mike Gould tackles the tricky problems we can encounter in creating an accurate family tree,...