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Launched in May 2013 Discover Your Ancestors Periodical is a high quality monthly digital magazine delivered to your own personalised online account every month. This beautifully designed 30+ page online magazine is packed full of stories, case studies, social history articles and research advice. This regular and affordable service is a must have for anyone starting out in family history research or for those with more experience but who have reached brick walls.
We have two critically acclaimed publications available to family history researchers – the annual print magazine, Discover Your Ancestors and the monthly online magazine, Discover Your Ancestors Periodical. These publications have been designed and written by our team of best in class journalists to support and guide you through your family history journey.
In this issue:
A warm welcome to the October issue of Discover Your Ancestors Periodical, your regular mix of family and social history stories, explorations and advice. It's quite a milestone, too: our 150th monthly issue!
As usual, we have a great variety of subjects explored inside – from the history of the button-making industry (of great importance in Birmingham) to profiles of three very different late 19th/early 20th-century figures, pioneering suffragist Lydia Becker, television inventor John Logie Baird and troubled cat artist Louis Wain – and of course plenty more besides.
Don't forget our print editions too, packed with different articles: complete your set at the DYA website. And if you're reading this at the start of October, there's still just time to plan your day out at the London Family History Show on Saturday 4th!
It's been a real joy to be at the helm of DYA for all 150 of these issues, month by month since 2013. And I hope you enjoy this latest one!
Andrew Chapman, Editor.
We run several events across the country throughout the year in London, York and Online. Our aim is to offer engaging events that bring family historians, societies and genealogical organisations together, making the search for your family history educating and enjoyable with captivating events accessible for people of all ages. Each show features:
Our next show is The Family History Show, Online 2026 on 7th February 2026.
Issue 11 of the critically acclaimed annual printed magazine Discover Your Ancestors is now available, featuring more than 140 pages of beautifully illustrated content to move your family history research on at pace. Read stunning features about life in the past, celebrity genealogies, Belfast roots, Scots marriages, trade unions, Catholic ancestors, and much more, delivered straight to your door.
Issue 11 is now available at this website and at more than 4,000 newsagents worldwide including WHSmith in the UK, Barnes & Noble in the USA and Chapters in Canada. While stocks last you can also purchase copies of back issues direct from this website.
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