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    Extraordinary real-life stories of ancestry research to inspire you

    Birthday party in India
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    My Family Album Some of my favourite photographs

    VE Day celebrations in Cowley
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    My Family Album Meet my family from Cowley

    Bronislawa Kokoszka's ID card
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    Family hero Nana and Grandad escaped the Nazis

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    Fred Williams fishing
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    Eureka moment DNA solved the mystery of my Dad's adoption

    Ivan Watson's great great aunt Mary Sangster McDonald, photographed c.1892 with her first husband Peter Watson
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    Family hero My Scottish ancestor was Queen Mary’s private nurse

    Huguenot Quentin Coquard's 1764 marriage record
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    Eureka moment I traced my French ancestry in seconds with this website

    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
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    Eureka moment I found my mystery ancestor through DNA links

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    Christina Longden with (left to right) her father Brian, nephew Eesaa Robert Rasheed, and brother Steven. Brian is wearing his 2x great grandfather Robert ‘Reschid’ Stanley’s fez
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    Reader story My ancestor was murdered by her lover

    Bertrand Clark tennis player
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    Family hero I'm related to the first black tennis player to play at Wimbledon

    Cissy Lecky First World War nurse
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    Family hero My great aunt kept her WW1 nursing a secret

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