Discover Your Ancestors
Issue 025
Welcome again to Discover Your Ancestors Periodical, offering its usual variety of fascinating social history and research advice.
A huge thank you to the many readers who came to say hello at our busy stand at the Who Do You Think You Are? Live show in Birmingham last month – it was great to meet you, and indeed welcome many new subscribers. Copies of our new annual print edition were going like hot cakes – if you haven’t got yours yet, you can find it in many branches of WHSmith, Sainsburys and elsewhere, or buy it direct from us at discoveryourancestors.co.uk. Don’t forget there’s a free DVD on the cover, with data and offers worth more than £130. We’ll also have a stand at the Yorkshire Family History Fair in June (see page 8) – come and see us there too!
In this issue we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Salvation Army, pop into department stores of the past, and reflect on two great disasters of the early 20th century – the Great Fire of 1922 in Canada and the Quintinshill railway crash on the England-Scotland border. All that and more!
Andrew Chapman, Editor