The Yorkshire Genealogist

The Yorkshire Genealogist

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I am a family historian with over 20 years experience in Genealogy. It's slowly become an addiction.

Four billion historic records are free to access for International Women’s Day | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine 08/03/2026

Ancestry is giving free access to large number of records for International Women's day. This also includes free access to newspapers.com. The free access runs from 8th to the 18th March. Further details can be found below on the Who Do You Think You Are website.

https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/ancestry-free-records-international-womens-day

Four billion historic records are free to access for International Women’s Day | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine Family history website Ancestry is offering free access to four billion of its records to help the public research female ancestors

11/02/2026

Seeing as everyone else is having a go, this is mine 🤣

AncestryDNA® | DNA Tests for Ethnicity & Genealogy DNA 26/12/2025

Latest flash DNA sale on Ancestry and the cheapest it's been. £29.00 plus postage. Bargain. If only I could convince my father-in-law to take one 🧐. Be quick it ends on the 29th December.

AncestryDNA® | DNA Tests for Ethnicity & Genealogy DNA *Price excludes shipping costs. Sold as a set but only DNA kit can be gifted. Some DNA features require an Ancestry® subscription.

Cost of probate records to increase by over 10% | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine 04/11/2025

The fee charged for the Government Find a Will service will increase from £1.50 to £16.00 from 17th November. Rather a dramatic increase to say the least at over ten-fold. I don't think I'll be ordering many of these in the future!

Cost of probate records to increase by over 10% | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine The UK government has announced that the cost of ordering civil probate records for England and Wales will increase from £1.50 to £16

12/10/2025

Hmm controversial, the latest Ancestry ethnicity update now places Yorkshire in the East Midlands Region. Not only that Yorkshire isn't even mentioned in their description of the East Midlands Region. How dare they! 🤬

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