Ancestry programme Who Do You Think You Are is the key to their success.

Shed Media claims their recent success in profit increases by 22 per cent is due to programmes like Who Do You Think You Are?.

Other programmes that helped to build a healthy profit include Supernanny, BBC school drama Waterloo Road and detective drama New Tricks.

How Rich Do You Think You Are

The £6.2million (a 22 per cent rise in adjusted pre-tax profits) in the first six months of the year are likely to be the last before Shed is swallowed-up by media giant Time Warner after it agreed a £100m takeover last month.

The company said it broadcast 179 hours of programmes in the UK during the reporting period and had “good production visibility”, with a further 317 hours commissioned, equivalent to 93 per cent of its annual production revenues.

“These results… underline the strength of the group,” said the chairman, Heather Rabbatts. “The UK broadcast market remains turbulent, with significant changes occurring across all the major broadcasters.

The succesful Ancestry show Who Do You Think You Are? is a British genealogy documentary series that has aired on the BBC since 2004 and is now in it’s seventh series.

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Well if you went to school from 1875 to 1988 you may be in for a treat or a trick, as Ancestry.com are currently offering a complete collection of old school yearbooks in their search results.

The only limitation is the yearbooks are all from US schools only. So if your ancestors were ever in the US and of course they were young folks once too, then there is a good chance of finding them in the ever-expanding Ancestry.com Yearbook Collection. Who knows, you might even rediscover your own glory days in the 60 million old school yearbook collection.

There is currently a 14 day free trial on Ancestry.com if you just fancy taking a look.

Were you caught up in a school yearbook?

What a school yearbook can tell you

Old school yearbooks can tell you a quite a bit about a person’s early talents, interests and activities — and sometimes contain quotes, nicknames and other surprises too. The ancestry.com yearbook collection spans over 100 years and includes yearbooks from junior highs, high schools, universities and other institutions.

Join now to access all yearbooks and much more on Ancestry.com

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There is no end to the need to help people when it comes to searching your ancestors. So this week we decided to put together a quick How to… ancestors guide.

Hopefully we have covered your question here. If not then please comment below and we will aim to provide you an answer as soon as possible from our expertise.

How to do a Family Tree

Discover your ancestors, find your family history, start a family tree, browse census records, rediscover your ancestry.

How to find ancestors

So here are a few simple tips i have found after several years of research and many hours spent hunting for my ancestors.

How to read old handwriting

Its often a challenge to get the sense of what is being put in the document due to the squiggles and expressions that have little tangible meaning to the common language today. So here is our guide for the easiest way to decipher old handwriting

How to find Ancestors – the simple way

You may find our recent article “How to find ancestors” helpful. Today we reveal 4 methods to help you in your search at ancestry.com uk and using a combination of all of the ways may give you the best results.

How to Search for free

The Internet has provided numerous tools to dig up your ancestral pasts. Unfortunately many are now cashing in on the money as it grows in popularity. Ancestry searching isnt always free unless you are prepared to look around.

If you want to know how to do something ancestry related then please comment in the box below and we will get back to you as soon as possible

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We are always looking for great ways to save money in your pocket and this is certainly a great way to take advantage of some proffessional software for free.

For a good selection of free genealogical software Tucows has a great selection on this link – http://www.tucows.com/software.html?t2=1822

We recommend Gaia Family Tree Software
It downloadable for free at Tucows

Gaia Family Tree

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User-friendly Windows software to create, print, and share great looking family trees.
Manage a family history project online and collaborate with other leading genealogy software applications using standard file format GEDCOM.
Gaia Family Tree is fre software conceived with the intention of creating innovative, easy-to-use and fun genealogy software that is accessible to consumers around the globe. Our goal is to enrich the process of managing your family tree by offering you the simplest tool to chart your progress. We want to share our experience and expertise to help you discover your family history.

• Create your Family Tree for free
• View an Existing Family Tree
• Gaia Family Tree allows you to view your family tree in three different diagrams:
  • Complete View
  • Linear View
  • Pedigree View

You can also print your family tree in any of these view options.

Other Free Family Tree Software

Family Tree Builder

Family Tree Builder is a brand new, free and original program for amateur and professional genealogy fans. Using some great innovative features developed for genealogy in the past decade, such as Face Recognition Technology, Visual Data Entry, Immersive 3D Trees and Online Family Tree Publishing, it is highly intuitive and a pleasure to use. Create your family tree easily or import GEDCOM, print great charts and reports.

Legacy Family Tree

Track, organize, print, and share your family history.

HuMo-gen (PHP)

Convert Gedcom files into PHP files and create a dynamic and searchable genealogy Web site.

Kith and Kin Pro

Store information on your genealogy tree.

Brother’s Keeper

Organize data on genealogy and print a large number of charts and reports from this free software.

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But it wasn’t until the 1841 census that names were recorded.
The 1841 census was taken on June 6 and it references where everyone lived on from midnight on June 6th to June 7th. It is filed at the Public Record Office. After information was recorded on pre-printed census schedules, a schedule was left with a household and later collected by the enumerator. If there was no one in the house who could write, the enumerator helped to record the information.

From this census we can gain all sorts of useful information while tracking down ancestry. Descriptions of buildings and there uses, the Age and sex of each person, males were in one column, females in a separate column. Each persons occupation or trade. The birthplace village town or county unless they weren’t British. In that case an as F is inserted in the column for “born in foreign parts”

When it came to recording ages on the 1841 Census the details are accurate for children up to the age of 15. thereafter adults are rounded to the nearest 5 years or more likely rounded down.

Unfortunately, the original census schedules have been destroyed and it is the census enumerator’s books that researchers see on the microfilm. Because the information in the books is a copy of the information on the schedule, there were often mistakes made in transcribing the information. Fortunately the 1841 census is now digitised for all to use, and useful it certainly is.

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For choice and reviews I’ve found nothing better than the outstanding collection on Amazon. They have all the very latest releases with some excellent discounts. What’s more is it’s delivered to your door free, so you won’t go far wrong with the ones we have picked below.

Before you head over to view their huge selection and read there reviews its worth taking a few minutes to have in mind what you will need before you purchase your genealogy software.Ease of use, how easy is the instalation of the software product. Is there support and helpf features. All these things will add value to the product.

What genealogy features to look for in your software

The software will no doubt boast several fetaures and improved functionality but the mandatory features you’ll need are:

• Ability to create trees, charts and reports
• Access to records online
• Basic step by step guide to researching your family history.
• Ability ot save and publish your family history on CD, or as a book or even online as a detailed family history web site
• Software to organise photos and other media

Other features to look out for

• All in One Pedigree, Hourglass, Descendant Timlines, Family Group Sheets
• Wide range of charts and reports including templates
• Family migration paths over time
• Plan your next move with research tools
• Slideshows you can create with images in your tree
• Publish beautiful family books made from your tree to share with family & friends
• Various views of relationship to everyone in your tree
• Extended family birthday calendars
• Scanner support – Add scanned images directly into your tree

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There are so many ways to search for ancestors that you can sometimes find it all a bit much. So here are a few simple tips i have found after several years of research and many hours spent hunting for my ancestors.

Set aside some time.
For example you have some time off work, so why not make a few arrangements with relatives. Have them over and let them know the purpose is to discover some of your ancestors. If they know you want to find ancestors there likely to prepare before hand their mind and photo albums.

Choose one line of ancestors
Once you have built up a few ideas of how you intend to move your family tree forward, choose one line only. By this i mean choose either to find the ancestors from your mother or fathers side and stick with that initially. depending on the rarity of the family surname may make a difference here. Try to take the rarer name as their will be a lot less results and thereby make it easier to discover members of your ancestry.

Choose which on-line tool to use and stick with it.
Ancestry sites aren’t always too cheap so it may be good to trial a few first and then stick with one. We have a Free ancestry Trial page with all the latest offers on so take advantage of this before you commit your self to a long term subscription.

Finally don’t give up.
You’ll find points where it appears like you cant progress. This is the time to post a few comments on forums and email members with the same or similar surnames. Also continue sharing your findings with your family members as it may stir their memories and before you know it you can find another line of the tree in a direction you didn’t expect.

Ancestors are there to be found but its sometimes finding the clue to discover them that takes the time.

Remember finding ancestors can be great fun and can provide some surprises along the way!

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Today we reveal 4 methods to help you in your search at ancestry.com uk and using a combination of all of the ways may give you the best results.

1. Family Members

The first method has to be to gather together what is already around you. Relatives, birth and marriage records, known facts. You can ask different family members for any information that they have about your ancestors. You might be amazed by what people know. You should try to get to everyone in your family to fill in as many blanks as possible. Even if they just know tidbits of information, it might be enough to help you when you are doing further research. Also you can ask if your family members might know of others who might have information such as friends. They may know of additional resources. The smallest piece of information could be the most valuable.

2. The Internet

Ancestry.com in the UK is probably the most powerful tool to start with. Use it along with ancestrycom.co.uk to get the most out of it. Ancestry.com has a free service and different levels of pay service. They allow you to build a family tree in your free 14 day trial. You can then research and they will see if they can match you up to other family trees that have been submitted. You may even connect with family members that you did not know you had. They also help you access records that could be of help such as census records. Additionally GenesReunited.co.uk is another great way to get ahead.

3. Family Records

Some cabinets or bottom drawers may reveal a hive of information for your research. Finding old records or old diaries from the family can be very useful. What about old photo albums and picture albums can be a great resource, especially ones that are labeled or have writing on the back. Of course you should certainly look into any records of someone who has already researched the family tree. There are many other records, both in person or online that could be of help. For instance, a lot of churches kept records and this may help you. Sometime local libraries might have records as well.

4. A Proffessional

At Ancestrycom we are always aware that sometimes the proffessional is the only way to budge a tree that seems to go no further. Do shop around as prices can vary and skills are often diverse. Some people even sell such services on ebay. Different people charge different amounts depending on the time you need spent on it and how deep you want them to dig.

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Everyone has to start from somewhere, so how do you get off to a good start on your family tree? You will find our beginners section helpful

How do you get started doing family history research on Ancestry.Com?

Follow these 3 easy steps when you visit www.ancestry.com and start discovering your family’s history.

Try to keep as many documents as you can on hand as the marriage certificates have a lot of detail. From this you can calculate the dates of birth of your parents and then obtain a birth certificate for each one, whichever one you start with will give you the direction of your first family tree.

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So today we have been treated to a behind the scenes tour.

If you have ever wonder what the staff get up to or what happens behind the scenes then this video should give you some clues.

ancestry.com uk

Take a look at the people and thinking behind the world’s largest online resource for family history.

Take a look at their office and working environment.

Use Ancestry.co.uk if you need access to UK Census, BMD and Military Records, you can also browse the UK Learning Centre for more help and advice. Search all records from other Ancestry sites directly from Ancestry.co.uk including US, Canadian and Australian records.

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