The Department of Genetics in the University of Leicester is beginning a new study that aims to map the extent of Viking ancestry in men who live in the north of England.
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Do you have Viking ancestors?
Posted in Newspaper articles on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tracing your convict relatives in Australia
Posted in Newspaper articles on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s Canberra Times carries an article on a new Convict Research Guide put online by the State Library of New South Wales.
Scotland goes family tree crazy
Posted in Newspaper articles on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Scotland on Sunday, one of Scotland’s leading newspapers, published an article yesterday about how the search spaces at the ScotlandsPeople Centre in Edinburgh are almost full every day, although the centre opened only in the middle of last year.
Plunder your family tree to write a novel
Posted in Newspaper articles on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In an article in the Guardian, Sebastian Barry, who has just won the Costa (formerly Whitbread) Prize for the book of the year, describes how he used his family history to write his novel The Secret Scripture.
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