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    Guides, tutorials, interviews, research and opinion pieces on family history and genealogy

    FamilySearch parish register transcription
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    Transcription Tuesday 2021: FamilySearch

    1921 census form
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    Children at the Coram Foundling Hospital
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    Transcription Tuesday 2021: Voices Through Time

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    A lesson on 'Hitlerism and democracy' at Cheadle High School, 1939. Genealogy courses.
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    Scottish criminal records. Four thieves and pickpockets in police custody in Glasgow, circa 1865. From left to right, James Martin Lindsay, James Brown Cummings, Peter Hasson and John McRae.
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    Scottish ancestry: How to find Scottish criminal records

    Victorian family 1893 Victorian photographs
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    How to date Victorian and Edwardian photographs

    22nd October 1937: Merchant Navy Cadets learning how to use a sextant at University College, Southampton. How to find Merchant Navy records
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    14th October 1932: Members of a children's games club for under-sevens playing 'blind man's bluff' in Hyde Park, London. DNA testing can be used to find your distant relatives
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    Terry Jones has a common North Welsh surname
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    'The Environs of London from Greenwich', c1620-1630, 17th century. Artist: Anon
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    17th century history: What was life like in the 17th century?

    'Scotland for Ever'; the charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo, 18 June 1815, Napoleonic Wars
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    When were the Napoloenic Wars?

    British Home Children from the Dr Barnardo's Homes leave for a new life in Canada on the RMS Antonia, UK, April 1923
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    Who were the British Home Children?

    Street urchins in Lambeth, South London in the 19th century, as recorded in Charles Booth's poverty maps
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    Who was Charles Booth, and what are his poverty maps?

    Royal Navy service records Sepia photograph of 16 Royal Navy ship's officers posed for a photograph on board ship in 1890, with the ship's cat
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    How to find Royal Navy service records

    Trace your house history like David Olusoga on A House Through Time
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    House history: The best websites for tracing the history of your house

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