Discover Your Ancestors
Issue 021
A very happy new year to you all, and a welcome once again to Discover Your Ancestors Periodical, the only monthly, digital family and social history magazine in the UK. It's all hands to the pump here at the moment – as well as producing this jam-packed issue, we’re working on our next print edition, which will appear on newsstands across Britain, North America and Australasia in February. It will be Issue 4 – our biggest yet, and crammed with completely new material. Visitwww.discoveryourancestors.co.uk/to pre-order your copy now at a discount!
Back to this issue… This time we have something of a sporting theme, with an article on tracing professional sportsmen in census records and a fascinating case study about a famed 19th century cyclist. On a more serious note, we also mark the 750th anniversary of Parliament with a look at how the ordinary people have related to this institution over time.
There’s plenty more besides, as the contents below reveal. Enjoy the issue, and I hope 2015 brings you many rewarding adventures through history. Andrew Chapman, Editor.