Discover Your Ancestors
Issue 027
Welcome once again to Discover Your Ancestors Periodical, your first port of call for illuminating social history, plus research advice.
With summer fully upon us, there’s no better time to get out and about for your research – this might mean visiting archives in areas where your ancestors lived, or churchyards where they were buried, or visiting some of the hundreds of amazing local history museums across the land – these almost always have fascinating collections about regional industries, and indeed often have their own sets of records about local families. In these times of cuts to the heritage industry, they all deserve our support, especially given how many of them are run by volunteers.
Back to this issue: we have the usual variety of interest, exploring the toys our forebears might have played with when young, and the engaging subject of house history, which family historians often get drawn into – the two fields work well together, as our expert author Laura Berry reveals. And there’s plenty more besides – I do hope you enjoy it.
Andrew Chapman, Editor.