Sporting ancestors

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Past in pictures: English football memories
21 June 2018

With football fever in full swing, we've dug into the Hulton Getty picture collection – now available on Ancestry – to find the best photographs of the beautiful game

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Discover more about your sporting ancestors
18 August 2016

With the Rio Olympics drawing to a close, Jayne Shrimpton explains how photographs of our ancestors at leisure can give us an insight into their lives

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From the office: The lives of my sporting ancestors
21 July 2016

An article in Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine and a letter from a reader has prompted editor, Sarah Williams, to look at some of the sporting ancestors in her own family tree

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