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INSIDE FAMILY TREE, JANUARY 2023…It’s a question of… questions

• Tracing our family stories is a journey filled with questions. And this issue we look at some particularly intriguing ones… Do you have blue blood?
• Diane Brook asks us to reflect on ‘what might have been’ and on the likelihood of each of us having royal descent. What to do about secret identities?
• Researcher Simon Wills considers useful strategies for tracing folk using alias names. Can you help me trace him, before it’s too late?
• DNA advisor Karen Evans helps a reader trace their mother-in-law’s father. Do you know the answers?
• Family Tree Academy Tutor David Annal ends the year with a genealogical pictorial quiz for you to test yourself and see how much you know.
• Diane Lindsay wonders whether to take an mt-DNA test. Should she, shouldn't she?

PLUS THE EVER-POPULAR FAMILY HISTORY HANDBOOK 2023

• BUMPER DIRECTORY of family history websites & organisations
• Your guides to:
  • Key family history records
  • How to date old family photos
  • Understanding old dates, words, and weights & measures
• Family history puzzles & brainteasers

And so much more inside the January issue…

• At your service - Tracing gentleman’s servants
• It’s not an easy task, but it can be hugely rewarding, Virginia Sylvester demonstrates with her exploration into Victorian servants
• The York Fever Hospital
• Sue Greenwood relates the history of a local hospital from the late 1800s
• An ancestor living in sin – surely not!
• Pam Stevens investigates the life of an ancestor widowed 3 times, married 4, and who broke the law... only once
• Make your online tree the best it can be
• Five small & simple steps to make more of your online family tree with Ancestry
• A big birth cover-up exposed, 139 years later
• Graham Caldwell solves a 50-year brickwall for reader Jack Morath
• PLUS all your regular favourites
• Family history news with Rachel Bellerby reporting on the latest from the world of genealogy
• Twiglets: Gill Shaw gets out and about with her family history, walking in the footsteps of her great-grandfather as she visits the East London docklands
• Spotlight on - The Family Historian User Group: a group dedicated to getting the best from the Family Historian software
• Genealogy Gadgets: This issue Bedfordshire Family History Society show how it's done – with top tips on running a hybrid meeting
• Photo corner: Jayne Shrimpton helps a reader puzzle out a photo and sets a puzzle of her own
• Your questions & letters: Our experts share their insights on reader research problems
• Diary dates: Dates for 2023 to look forward to with your family history.