Gail Dixon

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

Recent articles by Gail Dixon

Jeanne Calmont's claim to be the oldest woman who ever lived was confirmed by a super recogniser

What is a super recogniser?

Churchill's secret army

My great uncle was in Churchill’s secret army

Sid’s family hero Ernest Payne is pictured here with his trainer Arthur Hale. He later married Arthur’s younger sister Dorothy in 1908

Family hero My relation won a gold medal at the 1908 Olympics

Rescue workers carrying a stretcher reach the surface of the colliery on 29 May 1951

Family hero My relation was killed in the Easington Colliery Disaster

Henry and Annie Chard

Eureka moment DNA exposed my ancestor's double life

Mary Anning

Family hero Mary Anning was my ancestor

Sister Helene (R) and Monica

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

Debra Barnes' mother Paulette Szklarz as a baby with her family

Reader story A twist of fate saved my mother from Auschwitz

Bronislawa Kokoszka's ID card

Family hero Nana and Grandad escaped the Nazis

Descendants of the Alicandro, Anginotti, Canetti, Carboni, Pellegrina, Pelligrino (Julie Fawcett, far right), Persighetti and Saccomando families in the former church of St Vincent, Sheffield

Reader story I reunited the descendants of Sheffield's Little Italy community

This old family photograph from 1909 shows William Williams, seated left, at the wedding of his daughter Harriet

Eureka moment I found my mystery ancestor through DNA links

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

Eureka moment A scribbled address helped us find my GI grandfather

Alf and Harold PoWs

My family hero Secret diaries revealed Dad's WW2 story