The team behind Family Tree magazine and the family-tree.co.uk website have launched a number of new initiatives to support family historians and the genealogy community during the Covid-19 lockdown, including a new podcast, a weekly email, and a growing library of family history videos.
Associate Publisher Matt Hill said: ‘We’re determined to do everything we can to help family historians around the world carry on with their genealogy research during these tough times. Of course, safety is the number one priority for us all, but if circumstances and time allow, working on our family tree could be a welcome distraction, these initiatives are aimed at keeping our audience occupied and motivated.’
The new initiatives include:
'Daily inspiration’ activities, hints and tips
We've introduced a new section to the website and are also adding daily updates, tips, guides and more onto our social media platforms. Just tune in to facebook, twitter or instagram every day at 12 noon, or visit the website: www.family-tree.co.uk/how-to-guides/daily-inspiration
Brand new Family Tree podcast
We’re so excited to have launched our own podcast! It’s completely free and features interviews with top genealogy experts, updates from the team, and plenty more. The podcast is available on all popular podcast platforms, including apple. Listen here: https://familytr.ee/podcast
A series of informative video guides (free to magazine subscribers)
The Family Tree Videos Library is growing all the time, featuring in-depth guides from expert genealogists including Mary Evans OBE, Janet Few, and Dr Penny Walters. The videos are free to Family Tree subscribers (print or digital edition) or can rented for as little as £1.99. Watch the videos at: www.family-tree.co.uk/videos
New weekly newsletter
We're now sending out a new weekly email each Monday, packed with more inspiration, hints and tips to get family historians motivated for the coming week. The email also gives genealogy organisations the chance to share their activities and offers. The newsletter is FREE, sign up at: www.family-tree.co.uk/account/register
Special offers to keep reading Family Tree
We’ve introduced a special subscription offer: get your first three issues for just £3 and we’ll deliver them straight to your door. After your first three issues the subscription changes to a quarterly Direct Debit of £10.99. Whilst we hope readers will want to continue receiving it through the post, we’re relaxing our minimum term rule so subscriptions can be cancelled after three issues without charge. Find out more at: https://familytr.ee/3for3sale
The digital edition of Family Tree features videos, audio and image galleries in addition to the wide range of guides, hints, tips and updates. The digital edition also features an ‘Easy-reader’ option so you can read the text at a size that suits you. Find out more and take advantage of our latest offers at: https://pocketmags.com/family-tree-magazine/issues
(With thanks to Helen Tovey and Lauren Freeman)
NB: The current edition of Family Tree includes my masterclass article on parish registers from the UK, Ireland, and the British diaspora.
Chris
You can pre-order my new book, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 (out April). Also available, 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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