The October issue of Family Tree celebrates the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower and the Pilgrim Fathers who sailed in her, seeking new lives and freedom in the New World.
Learn about the Mayflower story- What motivated the Mayflower passengers to dream of new lives in a new world?
- What was the 66-day journey like across the Atlantic? What did they eat? What did they wear?
- Might you have ancestor connections to the Mayflower story?
Also inside this issue:
Discover genealogy without borders
- Expert genealogist Chris Paton explains ways to make connections with family around the globe and demonstrates how this will help you make many more family history discoveries.
Do your DNA results show countries in Africa?
- Dr Penny Walters looks at how to make sense of your DNA results and how to begin understanding the family history behind your DNA ethnicity estimates.
Time for a tidy up!
- Genealogy techy guru Paul Carter shares very useful ideas for tidying up your family history records on your computer. Follow his easy steps and get your research organised this autumn.
Seeking a Victorian portrait
- Meg Lee is on the quest to find the long-lost portrait of pioneer in the early life and establishment of Melbourne, Australia. Might you be able to help her find this heirloom?
Get to grips with reading old handwriting
- Family Tree Academy tutor David Annal shares some useful hints to help you make sense of the records you find.
What do you think?
- Our DNA advisor Karen Evans has been scouring the newspapers to try to make sense of some curious DNA results.
Dear Paul’s Genealogical Miscellanies
- Paul Chiddicks has excelled himself this issue in the search for family history research oddities – with a chap called to identify his own body in a morgue. We ask you, whatever next?
To buy your copy, click here: www.family-tree.co.uk/store/back-issues/family-tree-magazine/family-tree-magazine-october-2020-issue-179-1/
COMMENT: In 1999 I worked in the USA as an assistant producer on a Scottish Television documentary series called Celtic America, and as a part of this, we filmed at the Plimoth Plantation (www.plimoth.org) in Massachusetts, a reconstruction of the village founded by the Pilgrim Fathers - it even had a replica of the Mayflower! A few pics from then...!
Chris
My next 5 week Scottish Research Online course starts August 31st - see https://www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=102. My book Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is now out, also available are Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.
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