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The best free family history records for the coronavirus outbreak
Take your family history research further as family history websites open up millions of records and resources during the coronavirus outbreak  
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ARA launches free Archives Card
The Archives Card allows family historians to visit 44 participating archives without ID documents
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Start Your Family Tree: Week 1
Beat coronavirus boredom with these step-by-step instructions on starting your family tree from our editor Sarah Williams. This week: how to begin
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This week's top special offers and discounts for family historians
Don't miss 20% off Findmypast subscriptions, MyHeritage DNA tests for just £39 and more in our roundup of the best special offers for family historians  
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April family history records roundup: Ancestry adds Bristol nonconformist records
Plus: Findmypast adds First World War and County Galway records; TheGenealogist adds Essex tithe maps
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Transcription Tuesday Weekly Challenge: Royal Navy WW1 Lives at Sea
Check out our FAQs if you want to work on the project to try and recreate Royal Navy crew lists from the First World War
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All records available for free on British History Online
British History Online has opened up all its records, dating back to the 13th century, during the coronavirus pandemic
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Transcription Tuesday Weekly Challenge: Ancestry prison records
Beat coronavirus boredom and discover the lives of Victorian criminals with our first Transcription Tuesday Weekly Challenge
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Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine brings back Transcription Tuesday during coronavirus pandemic
Looking for activities to keep you occupied? We need your help to transcribe important family history records
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Files reveal Chilean president’s Welsh great grandfather – wasn’t actually Welsh
Newly declassified documents reveal how the Foreign Office hired a genealogist to uncover Patricio Aylwin’s family tree
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