Ancestry memberships and gift ideas - find your family tree and discover all about your family history.

Pocketmags has a number of History and Knowledge magazines including Family Tree, pictured left.    

Family Tree has been helping people discover their ancestors' lives and trace their family tree for nearly 40 years - issues are packed with practical step-by-step guides and useful tips to help you research your ancestry.  There's the latest genealogy news and updates, and there are also Q&As, masterclass features and a monthly DNA Workshop.  So there's plenty to get stuck into!  Pocketmags have digital subscriptions from £3.33 per issue, at the time of writing,  Read all about it here!

Pocketmags also have subscriptions to Who Do You Think You Are - it's the official companion to the BBC TV series which delves in to the celebrities’ pasts and it's amazing what they uncover.  It features military and social history, recounts the stories of ordinary and extraordinary people and how they used to live, and it's got lots of practical advice from starting off to expert tips, so that you can make the most of resources online and build your own family tree.  Find out more here

Genes Reunited

Genes Reunited is a great place to start building your family tree, as there are millions of simple-to-search records. There are birth, marriage, death, military, census, parish and overseas records - and the Platinum Subscription gives you unlimited access to all census records, all birth, marriage and death records and WW1 and WW2 death records.  As a Platinum subscriber, you can also choose to add other niche record sets (such as Parish records) to your subscription.  There's a Standard subscription as well, where you can build your own family tree, search and view other members’ trees and send members messages via the Genes Reunited contact centre.  You can also post on the community boards to gain tips and advice from other members.  The benefits of a standard subscription are included in the Platinum subscription.  Click here to go to Genes Reunited and click here to buy a gift voucher subscription

This could be an interesting one for anyone who loves delving into the past.  The British Newspaper Archieve is partnered with the British Library to digitise over 40 million newspaper pages from its collection - they now have 84.8 million to browse through, and they keep adding more!  This is an amazing way to get an insight into what life would have been like for people - what stories did the paper cover?  What events were people going to, what was being sold in shops, which fashions were in vogue?   You can search for newspapers by country, county, date, place and recently added titles.  You can treat someone to a subscription or subscribe yourself.  Subscribe for a month, three months or 12 months.   This is a great resource for any history lover who loves delving into the past, and of course they don't need to even leave home to use it! Visit the British Newspaper Archive here,  and subscribe here.

What about this Living DNA Ancestry Kit and Personalised Book?

The Living DNA Full Ancestry Kit provides a comprehensive journey into your family’s origins so that you can explore your recent ancestry and connect with your own unique heritage!   Find out all about it from Virgin Experience Days.