Its meticulous records from church documents and sagas, a set of semihistorical books, let the 290, 000 residents trace their family trees to the earliest days.

FORBES: Icelandic identifiers

Its meticulous records from church documents and sagas, a set of semihistorical books, let the country's 290, 000 residents trace their family trees back to the earliest days.

FORBES: The E-Gang: Medical Marvels

Chalara dieback of ash, caused by the fungus chalara fraxinea, was identified at the new Welsh sites during a "trace forward" inspection of young trees sourced from known infected nurseries.

BBC: Ash dieback: First three Wales cases of 2013 in woods