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The first celebrity to feature this year is EastEnders actress Samantha Womack. The new series also includes Alex Kingston, Annie Lennox, Celia Imrie, Gregg Wallace, Hugh Dennis, John Barnes, John Bishop, Patrick Stewart and William Roache.
Click here to read stories from the new series.
You can also read the stories of celebrities from previous series:
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As we approach the Easter Holidays, did you know that an extraordinary 90 million chocolate eggs are now sold in the UK each year? But what is the connection between Easter Eggs, banking and pottery? We discover the links between the families behind three great British businesses!.
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Thank you to everyone who visited us at the Who Do You Think You Are? Live! show, it was a great success - our talks were packed, we released three major recordsets for TheGenealogist, and the Genealogy Supplies stand sold out of many items on the first day! Read full article...
Those wounded, captured, missing in action or killed in the Great War can now be traced. Casualty lists cover all ranks from information published by the war office.
For the launch the Weekly casualty list containing over
600,000 records are available, which will expand to include the daily lists to cover the entirety of World War I.
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As we approach the Easter Holidays, did you know that an extraordinary 90 million chocolate eggs are now sold in the UK each year? But what is the connection between Easter Eggs, banking and pottery? We discover the links between the families behind three great British businesses!.
Read full article...
Thank you to everyone who visited us at the Who Do You Think You Are? Live! show, it was a great success - our talks were packed, we released three major recordsets for TheGenealogist, and the Genealogy Supplies stand sold out of many items on the first day! Read full article...
Those wounded, captured, missing in action or killed in the Great War can now be traced. Casualty lists cover all ranks from information published by the war office.
For the launch the Weekly casualty list containing over
600,000 records are available, which will expand to include the daily lists to cover the entirety of world war one.
The current coverage covers the war office's 'weekly casualty lists' from 1917-18 and this will be expanded by the daily casualty lists to cover from September 1914 to the last reports of 1919, as reports were still being published well after the war had officially ceased.
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We have launched the largest name searchable collection of War Memorial photographs.
For the launch there are over 100,000 records available, which is quickly growing to offer more coverage.
Records ranging from soldiers lost in the Boer War in 1901 to more modern day conflicts such as in Northern Ireland, there are a number of records to access in our War Memorial collection.
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Over 150,000 unique Naturalisation and Denization Records are now available on TheGenealogist with records ranging from 1609 to 1960, over 300 years worth of rare and hard to find records that are now available for family historians.
Naturalisation records are an invaluable way of tracking down an ancestor who was born abroad and then settled in the UK. With the political and social upheavals over the last few centuries, many people have made the journey to the UK to start a new life.
There's a substantial chance that many family history researchers will discover they have ancestors who originated from overseas.
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Wow, who would have thought? Following our article last month and our research into a photograph of the Peskett dairyman we were privileged to meet with Hugh Peskett - the grandson of the gentleman in our picture. During the Who Do You Think You Live 2013 show at Olympia London on Friday 22nd February, Hugh Peskett came in through the main entrance to be faced with a poster of his grandfather amongst the staff of Peskett and son. Read full article...
Don't leave your old photographs gathering dust – dig them out and bring them back to life! With just a name scribbled on the back, the approximate year from the style of clothing, the photographers location and the type of photograph you can learn a lot. From our archives we have picked out this lovely group photograph of local dairymen. We glean the family name as 'Peskett' from above the shop and the cart gives away the location as Ilford. But why leave it there? Read full article...
With the popularity of the new TV series 'Mr Selfridge', TheGenealogist takes a look at one of the first great modern retailers and how they revolutionised shopping in Britain. The fascinating lives of the Selfridge family is well worthy of a television series and is a classic rags to riches story followed by a final fall from grace! Read full article...