Issue Detail
Issue 155
April 2008
Scottish roots?
SCOTTISH RECORDS
Your complete guide to the best resources
THE HIGHLANDS
What's available for genealogists?
BERWICK RECORD OFFICE
Tracing ancestors in the Scottish borders
TOMB READER
Part two of our guide to monumental inscriptions
SPIRITUAL EDUCATION
The history of Sunday Schools
WHAT DID YOUR ANCESTOR LOOK LIKE?
How to find out, without photos
CREATORS OF EMPIRE
The shipwrights who built Britain's navy
IN MILITARY SERVICE
Was your forebear an officer's batman?
RUSSELL
What's in a name?
FELIXSTOWE FHS
Local focus
Competition
We're offering you the chance to win a bumper group of goodies from top genealogy online company S&N Genealogy. The winner will receive: a copy of RootsMagic Platinum software (worth £49.95); a year’s subscription to top family history website TheGenealogist.co.uk, worth over £55; and £40 worth of vouchers for BMDregisters.co.uk, the official non-parochial BMDs service.
To win, just email the answer to the question below to fhm@metropolis.co.uk
by 30th November 2008.
Q: Who wrote the 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family?