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With the increased interest in tracing British family history and the ever-growing number of old records and archives going online, Your Family Tree magazine is ideally positioned to reach this booming market.

Balancing the use of PCs and the Net with many traditional means of research, it makes tracing family history accessible and rewarding for everyone.

Every issue come with a CD-ROM giving you software, sample data, and web links!

Magazine frequency: 13 per year

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Your Family Tree Issue 23

On sale 16 March

THE 1861 CENSUS ONLINE
Read our exclusive guide to this fantastic new online resource. It’s what family historians have been waiting for and you’ll read it first in Your Family Tree

Plus, expert Nick Barratt shows beginners how to get started in family tree research by finding and using marriage certificates, and we’ve got a guide to scanning in your old photos and expert advice on how to use the Domesday book to find out more about the ancient origins of your family.

We’ve got a region guide to Wiltshire and cut-out and keep surname histories for Bennett, Darbyshire, Bastable and McClelland.

ON THE CD-ROM
Every issue comes with a free covermounted CD packed with useful resources for family history researchers. This issue has the Thom’s Irish Directory 1884 with nearly 2000 pages helping you trace your Irish roots. There are 1848 trade directory listings for Wiltshire and Devizes, plus the very first issue of Your Family Tree is here in digital format.

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Tracing Danish roots, “I’m related to Mickey Mouse” and a tale of 18th century royal scandal. Don’t miss it – pick up a copy today.

On Sale 16th Feb

In this month's issue of Your Family Tree you get the magazine full of great information plus your CD which includes;

FULL PROGRAM; Photoclean Express - Improve jaded and damaged photos with these 11 powerful tools. As sold for over £34!

SOFTWARE DEMOS; The best Genealogy software - Try out the latest family tree programs. Family Historian 2.3, Rootsmagic 2, The Master Genealogist 6 and more.

PLUS 63 OLD MAPSCovering Lancashire, Northumberland, Durham and Scotland.

Within the magazine you will find;

Get past the problems in your research - 33 Brick Wall solutions

Dad's Army - From the Home Guard to the Women's Voluntary Service - expert advice on home front records.

Which Software whould you buy? The 10 leading genealogy programs tried and tested.

4 Surname histories and Research guide to COUNTY DURHAM.

So what are you waiting for, if this has tempted you then wait until you get the full mag in your hand! Happy reading.

Onsale 19th January 2005

It includes 2 FREE gifts - 100 page book. The A-Z Genealogy websites with over 230 sites listed and every site is reviewed. Alongside the book we have our packed CD which includes the Army List 1832. Worth £10.

Inside the magazine this month we also look at Marriage Records. From verifying the parentage of a child to taking your research back a generation through the recording of fathers at weddings. Anthony Adolph explains how this vital resource will be a key in your research.

Our case studies this month include Nick Billingham researched his great-great-grandfather's death, and visited the place he was shot.

Our footnote in History. Peter Ostle's ancestor went from Cumbrian obsurity into the London literati.

The wigmaker's dung heap. How Daniel Longman's forebear fell foul of the law.

Plus all our usual regulars and great projects, this issue is one not to be missed.

ONSALE December 22nd 2004

This issue we look at the Five Best Websites for absolute beginners. We bring you the five key websites that will get you started with researching your family tree online.

We also find out what broadband is, how it can help you with your research on teh internet, and how to spot the best deal.

We also offer you a step-by-step guide to learning how to use the Historical Directories site to discover more about past family members and their work.

Our cover story features how you can turn your research in to a book that you can share with present and future generations. Our expert advice will help you bring you ancestors and their lives to life in vivid detail.

Discover what life was like for your forebears working in ports and waterways. Our historic occipations expert, Colin Waters, explains how to trace dock and riverside families.

Find out how to trace Manx bloodlines using the island's key archives and resources of The Isle of Man.

The CD this month includes a complete Archive CD book on writing your family history, plus mighty Morpheus application to keep.

Hall, Simpkin, Dance and Benson are our Surnames of the month. Belfast is our region page explaining the history of the City and points out its key genealogical archives, libraries and museums.

Enjoy this issue. Have a great Christmas and New Year

Onsale 24th November

2 FREE GIFTS with this issue - Huge Ancestry Wallchart and Top Genealogy Software - Gifts worth over £19

Nick Barratt, researcher on BBC2's genealogy program, gives you his advice on how to get started in genealogy. From interviewing relatives to finding census entries, his tips are invaluable.

Butchers in the Family; From Ancient times, butchers were relied upon to kill and portion our meat. Discover how they lived, how the trade developed through the ages and where to find records of butcher ancestors.

Follow our step-by-step guide to using the IGI, one of the best online sources for searching parish records.

Revolution and Civil War have taken their toll on Spanish records. Follow our expert's advice on Spanish genealogy.

With Christmas looming we find recommended stocking fillers for the genealogist in your family in our buyer's guide to computer hardware.

The surname cut-outs and region pages cover Lincolnshire, Vincent, King, Wright and McDonnell.

Case Studies this month include; The Sinking of the Arandora Star - David Dyas unravels the story o a WWLL solider lost at sea when a ship full of internees was sunk. A Voyage of Discovery - Nicola Price has discovered that one of her ancestors had a pacific island named after him Scotland's oldest man - Albert Anderson is 108 and can find his own entry on the 1901 Census.

PLUS THE PACKED CD - Family Tree Maker 2005 SE is the star attraction on the CD this issue.

Happy reading and hope to see you in DecemberIssue 18

Onsale 27th October

World World 1 was not a war to end all wars, sadly, and armed conflict continues around the globe.

With very few of those brave men of 1914-1918 surviving to remind us of the event, the worry is that current and future generations may forget the very reasons behind Remembrance Day.

One way of keeping the meaning of the day alive is through family history. And this is where Your Family Tree Steps in this month. This issue should provide you with enough to get started researching your World War 1 ancestors.

In this issue we also look at Disappearing Surnames - some surnames thrive and others seem to get 'daughtered out'. We investigate how surnames become extinct.

Metal Mining Ancestors are hard to track down as they move around the country mining various ores. Kevin Gregson explains how to trace them.

On top of loads more fantastic information, you will also have your PACKED CD which features Four editions of Magazine of the Great War, image catlaloguing software, Manchester data and much more.

PLUS Manchester is the focus of our region guides, plus four new surname histories.

Onsale September 29th 2004

Inside we’ll give you comprehensive advice on using censuses and certificates, in tandem, to quickly trace your family lines back to the 1840s. Using the Internet and our tips, you’ll get results fast with Birth, Marriage and Death records dating back to 1837, and the British censuses between 1841 and 1901.

Our 30 money-saving tips will help you cut the cost of your hobby, we look at live past lives of teachers and how to research teacher ancestors, and how to pick your way through the tricky topic of mental illness in our feature on Witches, Idiots, Imbeciles and Lunatics.

Issue 17 has an expert guide to ships’ passenger lists, and we’ve got an array of resources for anybody researching Gloucestershire including a research guide in the magazine, and on the CD you’ll find the 1861 Census data for Gloucester, 1850 trade directory entries for the city, and names indexes from two parish magazines from the county.

With WebSiteWord, the complete PC program on our CD, we’ll show you how to put your family tree on the Web, and we’ve also got a tutorial on how to make the most of the popular genealogy site, GenesReunited.com.

Our fascinating case studies include Nick Billingham’s ancestor who was a leader at the Paris Commune in 1871, a Twickenham robbery and a murder Down Under.

Plus all our regulars including news, Questions and Answers and our popular Seeking section.

Onsale 1st September

The October issue is onsale 1st September and inside we take a look at the engaging story of how Raymond Shakespeare has traced his family back, proving a link to William Shakespeare. His fascinating research has taken 40-years, and provides plenty of insight for fellow family historians.

We also tell you ‘how to kill off your ancestors’, in our main article. If you can’t prove a death, you’ll never be certain that name from the past is indeed one of your forebears. Our expert writer Anthony Adolph shares his techniques so you can be sure your entire tree is valid.

Other features will help you get to grips with tracing Australian ancestors, the best ways to use Google for genealogical searching, what you’ll find in Family History Centres and the lives of framework knitters. Our cut-out region guide covers Tyneside, and the cut-out surname index cards cover Dickens, Hill, Granville and Morris.

On our CD we bring you the full program PowerProducer 1VE which, with our tutorial, will enable you to create family history CD-ROM incorporating video, images, text and more – all on your PC. You’ll be amazed at just what you can produce. Elsewhere on our CD you’ll find a full parish magazine index by Yesterday’s Names covering St John’s Wembley Parish Magazine.

It lists baptisms, marriages, burials, church prizes and all sorts for 1887, 1890, 1891 and 1893. There’s trade directory data for Newcastle from Direct Resources, two video clips of family history researchers from the History Channel, and much more.

Finally, don’t miss out on our other incredible case studies which look at the life of a bodyguard of the Albanian King Zog, and a highwayman sent to Australia who began a new life.

Onsale 4th August

Our main cover feature is all about wills, how to get hold of them, and how to use what they contain to extend your family history research. You’ll find out more about the life and passing of your ancestor, and possibly discover relatives you never knew existed. There might even be a legacy in store for you… Adoption is a tricky issue when it crops up in family history research. We look at what to do if you yourself were adopted, and also how to research the bloodline of adopted ancestors.

Other handy features cover maps and plans in family history, serfs on the manor, and the autumn’s range of family history classes for beginners.

On our CD we present a new way of digitsing your records. With the Optical Character Recognition software Readiris Pro 6 on our cover CD, you can scan in pages from printed books and other documents, and automatically convert the words into digital text that you can copy and paste into your family history documents. It’s a great way of taking directory entries straight from the book without having to retype them! In addition, our CD contains Ogilby’s Road Maps – 1675. It’s a complete Archive CD Book containing some of the earliest route maps for England and Wales.

The case studies in the magazine cover an accidental shooting, the mystery of a lost legacy and how Nottingham lace makers found a new life in Calais. Our experts answer your questions, we’ve got the latest news from the genealogical world, and we bring you a complete free genealogy software suite on the disc. This issue, eight surname histories are researched including Baines, Fitzgerald, Goodchild, Howard, Dickinson, Atkinson, Knowles and Paine. And the region research card covers Staffordshire.