In the new issue of Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine

Archives for free  The voluntary keyers of the World Archives Project ensure obscure records will see the light of day

Reader event Join us and Nick Barratt for a three-day event in Portsmouth to discover your maritime ancestors

Lesley Garrett  The opera singer recalls WDYTYA’s revelations about her family – music, mining and murder

Spanish Civil War Oral accounts paint a vivid picture of the Brits who fought – and died – for democracy in the 1930s

Reader story When Mel Johnson came to research his great grandfather, Albert, he uncovered tales from the Boer War, the Boxer Rebellion and a deserter who trekked across the US to get home

My family hero James Dellbridge sailed with Robert Falcon Scott on the Discovery, on a pioneering Antarctic expedition

Around Britain: Find ancestors in County Down
Discover the best archives for tracing your Northern Irish ancestors

What’s on the cover disc
The County Down resources on our free CD

Focus on...Marriage records
WDYTYA’s lead genealogist on how to use these essential documents to uncover your forebears’ unions and further your research

Going Abroad: The Netherlands
Were your relatives among the Dutch migrants who came to our shores?

Best websites for…tracing Australian forebears
Track down antipodean ancestors

Local records: Victorian arcades
The shopping malls of yesteryear and symbols of 19th-century enterprise

ON YOUR FREE DATA CD
Find County Down ancestors
>>Residents of County Down towns in 1900
Find your ancestors among the 8,500 named in this listing compiled from the first Belfast and Ulster Directory of the 20th century.
>>Gravestone inscriptions
Transcribed epitaphs gathered from Donaghadee Church, St Patrick’s Church
and the Down Cathedral.
>>County Down resources
Sample documents and photographs from the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) and Down County Museum.
>>Getting started
Taking your first steps in family history is easy – we show you how with this basic guide.
>>Unseen footage
Watch a bonus scene from Graham Norton’s episode of Who Do You Think You Are?

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