Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 77 (September 2019)

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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.* Tracing the turnkeys: Stephen Wade explains the challenges of tracking down ancestors who worked in our prisons -many of whom were women
* All the fun of the fair: Fairs have been a part of society since medieval times. Caroline Roope takes us on a spin through their history
* Looking after policemen's children: The Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage helped home and educate the offspring of dead police officers, as Nell Darby explains
* The wrong side of the blanket? Nick Thorne finds new Norfolk parish records on TheGenealogist can reveal illegitimate children and who their parents had been
* Full steam ahead: Jayne Shrimpton returns to the water to give us a history of steamboats
* History in the details: Firefighters' uniforms