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Find your capital forebears, spinsters, flu victims and more in issue 110 out today!As well as being the UK’s capital city, London is also the centre of family history research. A trip there for the weekend is high on the priority list for genealogist all over the world, to make use of the mountains of records held by The National Archives, London Metropolitan Archives, Society of Genealogists, Guildhall Library, British Library and more. Given it’s major role in British history, most will have ancestral links to the city as well, and in this issue we help you find the best records for tracing your kin who have helped develop the unique history of this city.

We also help you find some of the more elusive members of your tree. Spinsters didn’t marry or have offspring, and so tend to be harder to find using traditional research methods. However, by adapting a different approach and records such as wills you can actually find a wealth of information on these ancestors and the people they were close to.

We also get an exclusive look at the latest revolution in family history research: digitized microfilm. This important method of preserving records has been a staple of research for decades, and now many institutions such as The National Archives are making them available to view online.

Also in the brand new lost series you can discover more about the devastating Spanish Flu pandemic that swept the globe after World War I; the How to section shows you what you can learn from birth certificates, find 16th-century records online and find family in Dublin; and we also reveal the history of the working men’s clubs that were centres of industrial communities.