Issue Detail
Issue 183
June 2010
Tracing Irish Roots
ROOTS IN THE EMERALD ISLE
This month’s issue focuses on family history research for those of you with Irish roots. We have a beginner’s guide to Irish research, an article which focuses on Irish emigration and where you can find records abroad, and another recommending the top ten websites for Irish genealogists.
PLUS:
BATH’S SPECIAL BUN
The history of a teatime treat
ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR
How to trace fairground ancestors
SIGN OF THE CHANGING TIMES
What pub signs can tell you
MEMENTO MORI
Interpreting mourning jewellery
A VETERINARY VOCATION
Was your ancestor a vet?
NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM
A useful Cornish resource
DOWN TO BUTTE
One American reader traces her roots
WEST COVENTRY FHS
Find out more about the society
Competition
Win British Newspaper Archive Subscriptions
Discover the genealogical goldmine that is the British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) with an online subscription. This recently launched digitisation project has four million pages of searchable family notices, advertisements, obituaries, letters and illustrations from over 200 historic local and national newspapers.
We have a one-year subscription (worth £79.95) to give away as well as two 30-day subscriptions (worth £29.95 each) and four 2-day subscriptions (worth £6.95 each). To be in with a chance of winning one, simply answer the following question. Send answers to fhm@metropolis.co.uk or write to the usual address on page three, by the 15th March.
Q: Who invented the printing press in the Holy Roman Empire in 1440?