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Archives

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​​How​ archives helped solve a famil​y mystery

Archives to surrender family secrets

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Collections

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GenealogyInTime Magazine

Family History Daily

​Family Tree Magazine

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Catholic Research

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​English Catholic Records in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

​Marriage - Catholic and Civil

Records about Catholics

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Chorley

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​What do old newspapers tell us about Chorley in 1820?

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DNA

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​Understanding Your AncestryDNA Matches

​D​NA for Family History

Seven Articles
https://one-name.org/dna-for-family-history/ ​
​Seven articles from the Guild of One Name Studies with information and examples on the topic of DNA for family history research.
 
There is a summary of each article, to help you decide which ones you want to read. Most of the articles are standalone pdf files, that can be downloaded or printed.
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For each article, there is also a list of anything that has changed since publication. DNA for family history research is a new discipline, and therefore changes and/or scientific advancements occur.
https://one-name.org/dna-for-family-history/ 
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Untangling the Centimorgans on Your DNA Test 

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Documentation and Preservation


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How to look after your family documents

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Events in History

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​Peterloo - whatever happened to Henry Hunt

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Irish Research

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​​What Civil records are online?

Masonic Ancestors
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Get to know - Masonic Ancestry

 A Master's Protest by Bernard Cliffe
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Miscelleneous

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​A night out for eight pence

​Your Family - Past Present and Future​

Questions to ask your Family members about their lives

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Newspapers


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​What do old newspapers tell us about Chorley in 1820?

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Photographs


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​Genealogy Sleuthing: How to Date Old Family Photos – Part I

​Genealogy Sleuthing Part II: Using Women’s Fashion to Date Old Photos

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Reform and Suffrage

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Reform violence and the struggle for suffrage
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If you scroll down on this one you will see that there is a newspaper drawing of the Chartists riots in Preston in 1842. 

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Scottish Research

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A handy guide to traditional Scottish naming patterns

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Starting Family History


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Where do I start my research ​

​Questions to ask family members about their lives

Preparing interview questions

A beginner's guide to searching for records on Findmypast

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War and Military

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​​War behind the wire - The story of allied civilians in occupied europe during the second world war

​​Prisoners of War guinea pig club

​​​Discharged to duty - first world war medical records

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