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    Gail Dixon

    Gail Dixon is a freelance writer and regular contributor to Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine

    Recent articles by Gail Dixon

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    Sid’s family hero Ernest Payne is pictured here with his trainer Arthur Hale. He later married Arthur’s younger sister Dorothy in 1908
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    Family hero My relation won a gold medal at the 1908 Olympics

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    Rescue workers carrying a stretcher reach the surface of the colliery on 29 May 1951
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    Family hero My relation was killed in the Easington Colliery Disaster

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    Family hero Mary Anning was my ancestor

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    Family hero My great aunt is the ghost nun who haunts Croydon

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    Reader story A twist of fate saved my mother from Auschwitz

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    Family hero Nana and Grandad escaped the Nazis

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    Peter Ameglio with his father Giacomo (Jack), stepmother Antonietta and half-sister Rita
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