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Ruins of Mirtle Bank Hotel after the earthquake Jamaican ancestry

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Jamaican ancestry: How to find Jamaican family history records

Switchboard operators, c. 1918 genealogy forums

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Newspaper boys with old newspapers, London, c.1910

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How to read old newspapers online

Northumberland family history

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Post Office records

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Civitas Londinium, the oldest surviving map of London

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Moreley Street in Rochdale

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Bristol's Victorian Cemetery Arnos Vale, which opened in 1839

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Kilbirnie Kirk, Ayr, c.1700. Kirk session

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

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A party of child migrants about to leave for Canada, 1929

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Fundraising for an orphanage in East London in the 1920s orphanage records

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Nonconformist Quakers 1839

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circa 1900: Roman Catholic church, Rosstrevor, Co. Down, at the foot of the Mourne Mountains

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How to find Irish Catholic records