NEWS IN NUMBERS

166,678

parish records from the East Riding of Yorkshire added to findmypast.co.uk

60.56%

share of the average Briton’s DNA that is from Ireland or continental Europe, according to research from AncestryDNA

496,943

Cornwall parish records indexed on familysearch.org

35,000

records of slaves and slaveowners in the State of New York have been indexed for free on nyslavery. commons.gc. cuny.edu

7x

great grandmother – the relationship between Anna Catharina Bischoff, an 18th- century mummy from the Swiss city of Basel who was recently identified after DNA tests, and the foreign secretary Boris Johnson