Genes Reunited Blog
Welcome to the new Genes Reunited blog!
- We regularly add blogs covering a variety of topics. You can add your own comments at the bottom.
- The Genes Reunited Team will be writing blogs and keeping you up to date with changes happening on the site.
- In the future we hope to have guest bloggers that will be able to give you tips and advice as to how to trace your family history.
- The blogs will have various privacy settings, so that you can choose who you share your blog with.
Summary
- 2013
- May 2013 (1)
- April 2013 (2)
- March 2013 (2)
- 2012
- October 2012 (2)
- September 2012 (1)
- August 2012 (3)
- July 2012 (1)
- June 2012 (3)
- May 2012 (4)
- April 2012 (3)
- March 2012 (1)
- January 2012 (1)
- 2011
- December 2011 (3)
- November 2011 (4)
- October 2011 (6)
- September 2011 (9)
- August 2011 (7)
- July 2011 (1)
- June 2011 (2)
- May 2011 (2)
- April 2011 (3)
- March 2011 (1)
- February 2011 (2)
- January 2011 (2)
- 2010
- December 2010 (3)
- November 2010 (1)
- October 2010 (3)
- August 2010 (3)
- July 2010 (3)
- June 2010 (2)
Official Blogs
New Scottish Census
Do you have Scottish ancestors?
Perhaps you do and you just didn't know! Search our brand new Scottish census records today and discover if you have Scottish roots.
Long Lost Family – Series 2 Episode 2
The second episode of series proved to be another emotional one. We followed two very different stories this week. First of all we met Brenda. She fell pregnant and moved to a Mother and Baby home when she was 3 months gone. She lived there with her daughter Joanne until she was 6 weeks old. Sadly keeping the baby wasn’t an option for Brenda and so she had no choice but to give her up for adoption.
Long Lost Family – Series 2 Episode 1
This week saw the return of ITV1 series Long Lost Family, and the first episode proved to be the emotional rollercoaster reunion we had hoped for. Taking me from a state of sadness and sympathy to one of joy and happiness as the relatives are reunited and I reach for yet another tissue to dry the stream of tears running down my face.
April Fool's family of Fool's revealed
April Fool and her family revealed in the 1911 Census
Social Media - Facebook, Twitter
You have probably noticed that we now add links to the social media websites Facebook and Twitter at the bottom of our newsletters. These might be names you have heard of but don't know much about. We thought it would be helpful if we explain a bit about both websites to you and why we use them.
Last Thursday saw the last in the series of Find My Past, and what an episode it was.
British Newspaper Archive
We are very pleased and proud to announce that you can now access the British Newspaper Archive on Genes Reunited. This is unlike any other data set available online, and will give you an insight into what was going on in the world whilst your ancestors were alive. View articles written at the time of key events in history, such as the breaking news of the sinking of the Titanic, or the reports following the grisly murders of Jack the Ripper.
During World War One, 306 British Soldiers were sentenced to death for cowardice or desertion. These men were taken out, tied to a post, and shot at dawn by their own side. Today it is believed that many of them were suffering from shell shock and in 2006 all of them were officially pardoned by the Government.
This week Find My Past reunited three people whose ancestors were all linked in some way to Jack the Ripper. Jack the Ripper was the name given to the unknown serial killer who brutally murdered 5 prostitutes in the Whitechapel area of East London in 1888.
This week's episode of Find My Past focused on the Mutiny that occurred on board HMS Bounty on 28th April 1789.
The latest episode of the Find My Past TV Show featured the D-Day invasion. The show uncovered British troops on their way to Normandy to take part in the D-Day landings.
