Welcome to Ancestors magazine
If you have ever wondered what your ancestors were like, where they lived or what they did for a living let Ancestors magazine, from The National Archives, help you find their history.
Whether you are just starting to trace your family's history or well advanced on your family tree, you will find Ancestors full of useful tips and guidance.
It is packed with the latest news and online resources, well written and informative articles and expert advice. Look out for Ancestors in WH Smith or click here to subscribe online today.
Issue 57 now available for free online
Ancestors Magazine Issue 57
We are always being asked for issue 57, which was published in May 2007, even though it sold out long ago. So we thought why not put it on the Ancestors website, so it can be enjoyed by everybody. Much of the issue was devoted to exploring the British experience in India. Click on the magazine to the right to view the issue.
Also with the issue came a very useful supplement on reading old handwriting. This is a subject that every reader needs to know about particularly if he or she goes back much before 1800. There are plenty of handy hints here, which help you read what at first sight may seem to be impenetrable documents. We have added this supplement to our beginners guides.
Picture Caption Competition
Can you think of a caption?
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The National Archives has thousands of fantastic, and often somewhat bizarre, photographs and pictures, many of which are available for hire or
purchase from The National Archives’ Image Library, details at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/imagelibrary. Every month we reproduce one of them and
invite you to write in with your ideas for what might be being said in the picture. The one that tickles us the most will be reproduced in the
following month’s Ancestors and the winner will receive a free copy of Jayne Shrimpton’s Family Photographs and How to Date Them,
published by Countryside Books.
Click here to enter the competition.
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Beginners' Guides
For information on how to get started in family history, with links to useful websites and online resources,
click here for our Beginners' Guides.
Monthly Quiz
Congratulations to Joanne Murphey, winner of last month's Quiz!
Each month we have a different quiz online, with many great prizes up for grabs.
This month we are giving away a copy of
The Genealogist's Internet, by Peter Christian.
Click here to for the chance to win this great prize!
Visitor Poll
How far back have you gone with your research?
Poll results so far...
1750: 30.32%
1850: 3.23%
1800: 6.45%
1900: 60%
