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£1MILLION FUNDING FOR ARCHIVE SECTOR • The UK National Archives has announced that the Archives Revealed funding programme will award £1million to archive services over the next three years.

SLOW RETURN HOME… • Nearly thirty years after they were stolen from a country mansion in Dorset, four historic bronze tortoises have been recovered and returned home, thanks to an entry spotted in an auction catalogue

FAMILYSEARCH RELEASE 100,000+ FREE FAMILY HISTORY RECORDS FOR ENGLAND • This month’s FamilySearch releases include more than 100,000 Middlesex parish registers and 30,000+ non-conformist church records for Lancashire

800,000 CRIME AND PRISON RECORDS ADDED TO FINDMYPAST • Thousands of records relating to crimes carried out between the years 1784 and 1939 - from rural poaching to highway robbery - have been added to FindMyPast.

300,000+ INDIVIDUALS ADDED TO IRISH CATHOLIC PARISH RECORD COLLECTION AT THEGENEALOGIST • The new Catholic parish registers have links to the original images and cover the county of Carlow, in the south east of Ireland

Newly-restored Elizabethan Boarding House explores the story of its residents over 4 centuries • A rare example of a 400-year-old Elizabethan Boarding House has opened in Plymouth after a six-year restoration project

Explore over 1 million Edwardian property records • TheGenealogist has now added a total of over 1 million individuals to its Lloyd George Domesday Survey record set with the addition of 85,959 people from the 1910s property tax records for the Borough of Haringey

New online access to rare 1810 US federal census • Searchable Records are now available for the only surviving copy of the 1810 federal census for Salem, Massachusetts

Canada’s residential schools: the quest for the truth continues • Recent news reports on Canada’s federal government-established residential schools, are focusing on the continued quest to uncover the truth about the children forced to live in these establishments

Dig deeper into the lives of Canadian and US ancestors • War pensioners, British loyalists and Manitoba BMDs are among the new records added to FindMyPast’s Canada and US collections

RootsTech Connect 2022 announced • FamilySearch has announced that RootsTech Connect 2022 will take place on 3-5 March 2022, as a fully virtual family history event

Making the most of your research & days out • With the Covid-19 restrictions drawing to a close, many of the venues and attractions at which we enjoy carrying out family history research are readying to open their doors again. But how do we navigate this brave new world? Read on for the Family Tree guide to trips & visits in the post-pandemic world with Twitter genies, Family Tree readers, Helen Tovey & Rachel Bellerby

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PROJECT ‘TRANSFORMATION’ • In July 2021 the Society of Genealogists closed the doors of 14 Charterhouse Buildings, home of the SoG for the past 37 years of its 110 year history, and stepped forward into a new future. Keen to find out a little more about their plans, Helen Tovey caught up with some members of the SoG management team

Who decides who is embarrassing & why? • Not all our ancestors...