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October 2025

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.

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