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Alan Crosby's family history research diary: shady characters

Our regular columnist Alan Crosby reveals his latest genealogical discoveries, including a particularly dodgy Antipodean character

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Roads into the past

Our monthly blogger Alan Crosby sets off on a historical journey across the moors of Cheshire and Derbyshire

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At home with the ancestors

Our regular columnist Alan Crosby takes a trip thousands of years into the past to explore what home life may have been like for our distant ancestors

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