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Your family's dark secrets
Our October issue delves into the dark secrets lurking in many family trees.

BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO BLACK SHEEP Simon Fowler looks at the history of debtors, criminals, bigamists and deserters, before revealing what records are available to help you in your quest to discover the skeleton in your family history closet

INSIDE DARKEST ENGLAND Jen Newby pores through contemporary accounts to reveal what life was like for prostitutes on the streets of Victorian London

THE PADDED CELLS OF BROADMOOR Mark Stevens trawls through the archives of one of the England's most infamous asylums, Broadmoor Hospital, and explains how you can research your own insane ancestors

MARRIED TO THE REGIMENT Gareth Prenderghast investigates the lives of the loyal wives of soldiers  

SPOTLIGHT ON EDINBURGH
Nicola Lisle visits a beautiful city bursting at the seams with genealogy resources

A LASTING MEMORIAL Kathy Hurst describes how she managed to create a thoroughly modern memory bank in honour of her late mother

THE PLAGUE CHURCH OF OLD HOLCOMBE  Jacqueline Wadsworth looks into the history of the ailing West Country village which was ravaged by the plague

LOCAL FOCUS: GLAMORGAN FHS Hayley Chappell visits a society with an abundance of records from the Industrial Revolution

A LIFE ON THE ROAD Remembering a time when our ancestors relied on the local carrier

WHAT'S IN A NAME? Anthony Adolph looks at the origins of the surname Alexander