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The details of thousands of people buried and cremated in sites around Britain have been added to a major online database. The newly uploaded records, now available to browse at Deceased Online,...
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Alan Crosby considers the central role that walking played in the lives of many of our ancestors Wednesday 10 March 2010 Alan Crosby, editor of The Local Historian Read more from Alan's blog...
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Traditional crafts, priceless antiques and the end of an empire all feature in this week's round-up of the best television and radio for family historians. We've also now added a new TV and...
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New fees for ordering birth, marriage and death certificates from the General Record Office (GRO) in England and Wales will come into force in April, the Home Office has announced. The standard...
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The details of thousands of people buried and cremated in sites around Britain have been added to a major online database. The newly uploaded records, now available to browse at Deceased Online,...
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Alan Crosby considers the central role that walking played in the lives of many of our ancestors Wednesday 10 March 2010 Alan Crosby, editor of The Local Historian Read more from Alan's blog...
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Traditional crafts, priceless antiques and the end of an empire all feature in this week's round-up of the best television and radio for family historians. We've also now added a new TV and...
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New fees for ordering birth, marriage and death certificates from the General Record Office (GRO) in England and Wales will come into force in April, the Home Office has announced. The standard...
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Were Parky's ancestors really too boring for WDYTYA?This week's Radio Times runs an interview with Michael Parkinson, who reveals that the Who Do Think You Are? production team politely declined to make a programme about his ancestors because they...More information >
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The National Archives must be more than a businessI’d like to reply to Else Churchill’s blog about changes at the National Archives. I am entirely in favour of wider access, and I am no less in favour of family history (as a former...More information >
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Extreme genealogyI was accused once of making genealogy sound too easy. I said something along the lines of, ‘it is easy to get started’ in an advertisement feature in Radio Times and someone saw fit to...More information >
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Manchester and Lancashire textilesWhether your ancestors were workers, retailers or even owners, there are plenty of ways to trace their involvement in the textile trade, as Jenny Thomas explains. The Lancashire textile industry is...More information >
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