Have you traced your family tree back to the 18th century? We reveal the best websites for ancestry research in this turbulent century:

www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

UK National Archives to raise fees and introduce new Request A Military Service Record service From Scotland, a daily news blog about genealogy, family history and personal heritage.

UK National Archives to raise fees and introduce new Request A Military Service Record service scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/12/uk-n... #genealogy #military #archives

@fachrs.bsky.social www.facebook.com/share/1ZZgxD... interesting article for anyone interested in the Nuses Mini Project.

Did someone in your family serve in the Merchant Navy? Simon Wills reveals how you can trace them in the surviving crew lists:

www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

Imperial War Museum's War Memorials Register The Imperial War Museum's War Memorials Register is a comprehensive online database cataloguing war memorials across the UK, detailing their locations and commemorated individuals from all confli...

Forces War Records have released a new collection, War Memorials Collection in partnership with the Imperial War Museum: uk.forceswarrecords.com/publication/...

If you want to find out about settlement examinations and you are in the Shrewsbury area on Thursday 27th of November, then Shropshire Archives have this free event: www.shropshirearchives.org.uk/blog/event/o...

Had a look at the website for @rwldproject.bsky.social and there is a wealth of information that makes essential reading if you are studying the history of people working on railways in Britain and Ireland:
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk

YouTube video by The National Archives UK Tracing your railway ancestors

Still researching railway ancestors? Here is something from a recent online lecture by The National Archives UK:

@nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

youtu.be/vUzbELBcQSY?...

OFHS Family History Fair 2025 OFHS Family History Fair 2025

If you are not near Huddersfield next Saturday 25 October 2025, saying hello to Lois and Terry at the Huddersfield Family and Local History Fair (obviously the preferred option), then you might be near Oxford? If so, then there is this to visit:

www.ofhs.uk/events/event...

Alde Valley Suffolk Family History Group have an in-person talk called “My two husbands, and the effect of war on young men" delivered by Manette Baillie.

Monday 17th November at 2.30pm, in person at the Fromus Centre, Street Farm Road, Saxmundham, IP17 1AL - cost just £3.00 avsfhg.org.uk