w bit.ly/special-hants Hampshire-wide volumes on the University of Leicester’s website Special Collections Online include a Pigot’s directory (1828) and a Kelly’s edition (1898). There are directories for Winchester too. w rshg.org.uk/grave-search

Share your family hero with us and they could appear in the magazine! Each month we’ll award our favourite a year’s Pro subscription to findmypast.co.uk worth £159.99. Please write to us at the address on page 6 or email wdytyaeditorial@ immediat

Family history website Findmypast (findmypast.co.uk) has launched a new look for its online family trees. The updated features include showing five full generations at once, and a sidebar menu allowing easier editing of ancestors’ profiles. There are

The Ruby One-Name Study provides an excellent example of collaborative working. It was a one-year project running from 2018 to 2019 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the guild, and to showcase best practices for one-name studies. Thirty-five guild

The census districts of Brading, Portsea, Shalfleet and Titchfield have all been hotspots for the name Buckett.  This prominent local surname derives from an Old English personal name and the word tun meaning ‘farm’.  This is a topographic surname fo

Charles Grey was born in Fallodon, Northumberland, on 13 March 1764 and attended Eton and Cambridge. He was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 22, and quickly became one of the leaders of the Whig Party and a proponent of many reform movem

Staff at The National Archives in Kew want to hear from anyone who has run a citizen-research project online as part of the new initiative ‘Engaging Crowds: Citizen Research and Heritage Data at Scale’ (tanc-ahrc.github.io/Engaging Crowds). They want

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This detailed exploration of daily life and experiences draws upon contemporary accounts. You will find colourful images and interesting information in this concise overview of fashion during the Regency period. Sullivan provides an entertaining guid

• If you have a tree on ancestry. co.uk, keep returning to the site to see if useful information has been added by other members. • Check multiple family history websites and newspapers online for potential leads. • Googling a relation’s name (use do

The approximate population of England and Wales in 1600. This rose to six million by 1700 190,000 The number of casualties in the English Civil War, about 3.7 per cent of the population 87 The number of churches destroyed in the Great Fire of Londo

IAN STABLES contacted us for help researching the life of his great great grandfather Q I’m looking for advice in the search for my great great grandfather Daniel Melville Crawford, born 21 November 1881 in Greenock, Scotland. He married Catherine B

bit.ly/guardian-colette Free This moving 25-minute documentary on the website of the Guardian follows 90-year-old Colette Marin-Catherine, a former French Resistance fighter, and 17-year-old history student Lucie Fouble as they visit Mittelbau-Dora

In the early 1700s Huguenot refugee Henri Portal arrived in England and joined a paper company at Stoneham Mills near Southampton. He took English nationality, changed his name to Henry, and set up on his own, opening Bere Mill in Whitchurch, subsequ

Born in August 1762, George Augustus Frederick was the first child and eldest son of George III and Queen Charlotte. He acted as Regent from 1811 to 1820, then reigned as George IV until his death. Able to charm, and with manners that could be extrem

Q Can you help me with some photographs in an old family album? Two are of soldiers. If I knew the regiments and approximate year it might help me work out who they are. Janet Jacob A These photographs depict two Welsh Regiment soldiers, both phot

Find out more about how your nailer relations lived and worked a Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire B60 4JR t 01527 831363 w avoncroft.org.uk The museum has a reconstruction of a 19th-century nailer’s cottage as well as a preserved nail-shop,

a Station Yard, Burtersett Road, Hawes DL8 3NT t 01969 666210 w dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk/story-of-schools The Story of Schools exhibition, which was due to open on 30 January, will now open as soon as lockdown is lifted and run through to the e

Jason also found a convict in his tree, his 3x great grandfather Joseph Lyons. Joseph was originally from London, where he was put on trial for handling stolen goods in 1841. We found the details at the free website Proceedings of the Old Bailey, whi

What made you want to write the book? Most readers assume that I wrote the book because of my family history, but actually I was very worried about the political situation in Europe and the USA in 2016. Populist parties in France, Germany and Easter

Andreas Önnerfors Oxford University Press, 2017 This guide to Freemasonry includes its rituals, symbols and practices. John Lane United Grand Lodge of England, 1895 This important source can be downloaded for free from the Internet Archive at