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Broadcaster ITV offloads Friends Reunited


Family History News…
Brightsolid today announced it is to acquire Friends Reunited Group from ailing ITV plc for £25 million, a fraction of the £175 million it originally paid for the website in 2005.

brightsolid is an online innovation business owned by DC Thomson, Dundee-based publisher of comics such as the Beano and is one of the largest privately owned media and publishing groups in the country. A key part of

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TalkingScot back online


Genealogy News…

Great news for TalkingScot members. The site is now back online. Here’s a message from the TalkingScot Administration Group:

Dear TalkingScot Members

TalkingScot has been successfully re-loaded to it’s old home at talkingscot.com/forum2/index.php.

We thank everyone for their support and patience during our down time and look forward to seeing all of you back on the board, working furiously to catch up for lost time!  Those brick walls have waited

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Top Scots geneaology site to rise again


601096827 9QJ7N S Top Scots geneaology site to rise againGeneaology News…

Time Machine readers who are also members and visitors to the Talking Scot geneaology website will be pleased to learn that after an abrupt disappearance earlier this month, due to the unannounced closure of the site’s former web hosts, reconstruction is well under way and the site will be up and running as soon

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Medieval battle records now online


The detailed service records of 250,000 medieval soldiers – including archers who served with Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt – have gone online.

The database of those who fought in the Hundred Years War reveals salaries, sickness records and who was knighted.

The full profiles of soldiers from 1369 to 1453 will allow researchers to piece together details of their lives.

Thomas, Lord Despenser is the youngest soldier on the database, whose career

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Who Killed the Men of England?


Michael McCormick - Photograph by Jim Harrison

Michael McCormick – Photograph by Jim Harrison

If you have the slightest interest in history, then this article from the Harvard Magazine should have you spellbound!

Goelet professor of medieval history Michael McCormick (right) argues that now the written record of history meets genomics, evolution, demography, and molecular archaeology, can we discover why a million

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Family tree and genealogy software with 3D Virtual Tree


588639400 TTadd S Family tree and genealogy software with 3D Virtual TreeResearching your family history has become a lot easier now that we have computer software and the internet to help in searching and organising family data.

There’s masses of family tree and genealogy software out there, so much in fact, that choosing the right program can be a daunting task. This article is the first in a regular series to highlight and evaluate a specific program and this is where I need your help.
At the end of each article I’ll flag up the next program to be featured. If you have any experience, comments, hints, tips and advice for fellow genealogists regarding the upcoming piece of software then please feel free to email me with your views and comments. I’ll include them in the article. You can find my email address is at the bottom of this article.

Don’t forget you can also comment on this article using the comments box below so don’t hold back, let’s hear what you have to say… and that goes for all artcles on The Time Machine:)

To kick things off let’s take a look at family tree software aimed at a steadily growing minority group (and I’m one of them) ‘Mac’ owners.
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93-year-old grandma finds world fame with recipes from The Great Depression


Feisty italian nonagenarian Clara Cannucciari who lived through the 1930s Depression in America, is rapidly becoming a global internet cookery star with her “Depression Cooking with Clara” web video series.

In the series Clara shares recipes and describes, with great charm and humor, how she and her family survived and even gained weight during the Great Depression.

Clara’s mini empire includes a website, a widely followed YouTube show, a DVD, and a Facebook page with

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Glubble Creates an Interactive Timeline for Tracking Family History


575140676 u6HYk S Glubble Creates an Interactive Timeline for Tracking Family HistoryI’ve just found a great post on mashable.com about Glubble, the safe social network for families. As a parent, I’m always vigilant about where my children are visiting online. I don’t want to prevent them from using the internet and I’m very keen for them to learn how to do it

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UK National Archives makes it to ‘Top ten free genealogy websites’ list


566389908 PEL8S S UK National Archives makes it to Top ten free genealogy websites listMost of us, once bitten by the family history research bug, invariably make for the internet in pursuit of top notch genealogical information.

It doesn’t take long however, to realise just how vast the ever-growing mass of online genealogical information really

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