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A warm welcome to the March issue of Discover Your Ancestors Periodical, your regular mix of family and social history stories, explorations and advice.

Everyone knows the headlines about Jack the Ripper – but did the headlines of the late Victorian era in a sense create him? In this issue we look into the sensationalist media and social prejudices of the time which fed into the narratives around the crimes – author Richard Walker wonders if the obsession with identifying the killer (or killers?) is perhaps asking the wrong question.

Still on the crime theme, we also follow the history of York's various gaols and their inmates in this issue – but on a lighter note Ruth Symes takes on a tour of the quirks of early 20th-century house naming. All that and more inside!

And of course don't forget the DYA team will be on hand at the first of this year's live Family History Shows for the Midlands one at Malvern on 14 March. Grab your tickets now! Don't forget our print editions too, packed with different articles: complete your set at the DYA website or at the show.

I hope you enjoy this issue.

Andrew Chapman, Editor.

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