New Family History Magazine Launched

Greetings

Future Publishing launched a new magazine for everyone researching their family tree on 8 May 2003 - a press release is below. In addition, we're very interested in what's going on within family history societies around the UK and Ireland - so if you have any news or interesting stories you think we should cover in our magazine, do drop me a line.

Garrick Webster
Editor, Your Family Tree
[t] +44 (0)1225 442244
[e] garrick.webster@futurenet.co.uk

Your Family Tree, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath BA1 2BW, United Kingdom.

PRESS RELEASE :

Future Publishing enters new spheres with launch of genealogy magazine Your Family Tree helps readers trace their ancestors

01-May-2003 - Bath, UK - Future Digital, the computing and creative magazine portfolio of Future Publishing widens its horizons next week with the launch of Your Family Tree magazine.

Published bimonthly and counting 100 pages, Your Family Tree provides a practical and comprehensive guide to family history research.

Targeted at anyone interested in tracking their ancestors, Your Family Tree offers a mix of accessible features on family history research, Q&As, news, reader case studies, book and software reviews, hints, tips and advice.

Highlights of the first issue of Your Family Tree include: an introduction to family history research; a main feature on using birth, marriage and death certificates in your research; advice on how to preserve your old documents with the help of a computer; and an insight into lives of 1800s merchant seamen by specialist writer Len Barnett.

Further content includes a feature article on tracing your Irish roots by the Irish genealogy expert John Grenham, and a look at the huge new genealogy website, GenesConnected (for family tree researchers, from the makers of Friends Reunited).

Each issue of Your Family Tree also comes with two tear-out-and-keep extras. The first is a regional research card, which helps people when they go out on the road researching their family history in particular areas of the country. The second card tears apart into four collectable surname reference cards, each one explaining the history of a surname and displaying the coat of arms.

Your Family Tree comes with a covermounted CD-ROM. Issue one will be offering readers a full version of PhotoPlus 6, which readers can use to scan in and restore their old photos, as well as Kith & Kin Pro 1.1, a complete genealogy application.

Dave Taylor is publisher of Your Family Tree. Commenting on this new launch, Taylor says:

"There has always been a certain interest in family trees. But with the computers and the Internet playing an ever more important major role in most people's research, family history has become increasingly more popular. The objective of Your Family Tree is to respond to this surge of interest in genealogy by providing an interesting yet informative package, that doesn't just offer theories, but that also provides practical 'tear-out-and-keep' bits and software for readers to take away and make progress with their own family trees."

Your Family Tree retails at £4.99.

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