Discover Your Ancestors
Issue 013
Welcome once more to Discover Your Ancestors Periodical. As we enter our second year, you’ll find some new regulars in this issue. I’m delighted to welcome well-known historical imagery expert Jayne Shrimpton as one. She has written for us before in both the Periodical and the third annual printed edition (available now in newsagents and online at discoveryourancestors.co.uk!). In this issue she begins her new series on ‘History in the details’, which each time will look at how little details in old illustrations and photographs can be used to learn more about our ancestors’ lives and times.
Also joining us as a regular is Jill Morris, now delving each month into less-well-known data that can be found online and the wider history around it. Plus in this issue we welcome back Nell Darby, looking at parish settlements, and we have not one but two features on our forebears’ sleeping arrangements.
I’m often asked if we accept submissions from other writers. I certainly welcome proposals – see the brief ‘Editorial submissions’ notes at the DYA website – although inevitably one is always limited by space, despite our quietly growing pagination. And of course we always welcome more readers – do help us to spread the word, which will help us to grow yet more!
Andrew Chapman, Editor.