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What is the best family history website
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What is the best family history website?

Cousin relationships
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What is a second cousin? Cousin relationships explained

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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

Marriage certificates
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Marriage certificates: Everything you need to know

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

A wedding party in Hellidon, Northamptonshire, c1896-c1920 marriage registers
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Where to find marriage registers in the UK

How to find birth records
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How to find birth, marriage and death records

If your family came from the Caribbean, you could also have British royal ancestry
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The best websites for tracing Caribbean ancestors

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A head of household in Scotland filling in the schedule for the 1861 census
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What UK census records are available?

Illegitimate child
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How to find the father of an illegitimate child

DNA family history
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The best websites for DNA family history research

How to start a family tree
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How to start a family tree

Irish ancestry. Farmers in Glenshesk, County Atrim, c. 1900
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Irish ancestry: How to trace Irish ancestry

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