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Great Aunt Blanche and Gunning King

We have a portrait in our house of Great Aunt Blanche. To me she would have been Great great aunt Blanch as she was my Granpy’s aunt. Its a very good charcoal sketch and we’ve always known that the artist…

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Great Aunt Blanche and Gunning King

We have a portrait in our house of Great Aunt Blanche. To me she would have been Great great aunt Blanch as she was my Granpy’s aunt. Its a very good charcoal sketch and we’ve always known that the artist…

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Once every ten years

In a BBC Radio 4 Tracing Your Roots census special, they gave a very cool idea, that, before you send off your form, you photocopy it and keep it safe to hand down through the generations so that your own…

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Into the past

With the coming of the new series of BBC1’s Who Do You Think You Are?, Emma has been looking again into her family tree. Whilst she has been delving into Genes Reunited and the UK Census Online, finding all manner…

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Phone an ancestor

aurora_floyd might be interested in this, or at least she will be once they’ve done the whole country and not just London… Me? I’ve always been ex-directory.

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My Family

More patient and dedicated people than Me have, over the years compiled the various branches of my family tree; I have just the role of The Archivist, and have worked to put them all together and make them available on…

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