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Highgate Cemetery stone angel death records

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A row of terraced houses in Victorian London house history

House history: The best websites for tracing the history of your house

DNA family history

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The best websites for DNA family history research

A head of household in Scotland filling in the schedule for the 1861 census

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Illegitimate child

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What is the best family history website

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How to start a family tree

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British actor Alec Guinness (1914 - 2000) with his fiance Merula Salaman 19th May 1938. They met while both working for John Gielgud's stage company at the Queen's Theatre in London. 1939 Register

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An early photograph of a baptism ceremony, c. 1860 baptism records

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First World War soldiers at the Battle of Ypres, 1917 First World War records

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Imperial toast between Wilhelm and Franz Joseph royal ancestry

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Royal ancestry: How to tell if you’re descended from royalty

FamilySearch free genealogy websites

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A line of children at the Alexandra Orphanage on Haverstock Hill, North London, April 1932. Adoption records

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How to find adoption records in the UK

1603, An English blacksmith using an anvil in a forge. The surname Smith comes from the occupation of blacksmith

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