Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 59 (March 2018)

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Keep up to date with the genealogy world and learn more about your hobby with the critically acclaimed Discover Your Ancestors online periodical. Whether you are just starting out or have reached a brick wall in your research, this will help and inspire you on your family history journey. Receive guidance from experts, tips on the best sources for records, explore connections around the world and bring your ancestors to life.* Selling the past: Paul Matthews investigates the history of advertisements in the 19th and early 20th centuries
* Nanna's wartime postcards: Keith Gregson reports on the remarkable survival of more than a hundred wartime postcards sent to his wife's grandmother during WW1
* Reformatory life: Nell Darby investigates the history of reformatory schools, in the first of a regular feature on criminal history
* Family snapshots: Jayne Shrimpton investigates amateur photography and the unique view of the past it offers
* Century of schisms: The early modern period was one of the most religiously and politically charged eras in English history, as Harry Cunningham explains
* History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on women's headwear