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This week's top special offers and discounts for family historians
This week, we've got five issues of our magazine for £5, a discount DNA test, 25% off guides to Britain in the First World War and more
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Past in pictures: Gunpowder, treason and plot
To mark the release of the BBC’s drama series Gunpowder, we look at how our ancestors celebrated Bonfire Night
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GRO launches new pilot for PDF birth and death records
Researchers can order birth and death records for £6 each for the next three months
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Genealogy news roundup: 2.7 million 1935 Scottish valuation roll records go online
Plus: GRO launches new pilot for PDF birth and death records; Thousands of Catholic records available in new database; Plans submitted for Suffolk archives facility
Magazine Team
From the office: Working for WDYTYA? Magazine
WDYTYA? Magazine's new production editor says hello and discusses his family history
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2.7 million 1935 Scottish valuation roll records go online
The records of property ownership and occupation, available on ScotlandsPeople, help fill in the gaps left by census records
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Thousands of Catholic records available in new database
The Margaret Higgins Database, launched by the Catholic Family History Society, includes lists of Catholics compiled by Parliament
TV Series
Ruby Wax's unseen WDYTYA? footage
Watch an exclusive clip from Ruby's episode of Who Do You Think You Are? that didn't quite make the final cut
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How do you trace Holocaust victims?
Jewish genealogy expert Jeanette Rosenberg reveals the best resources for tracing ancestors affected by the Holocaust
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WDYTYA? location guide: Ruby Wax
Ruby Wax visited Austria and the Czech Republic to learn more about her family's experiences of the Holocaust. Discover the locations that she visited with this guide
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