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10:53 William Woolls and Ellen Woolls (Staffordshire) by Knighty2
10:35 John Clark, 35 or 39 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London in 1814 (London & Middlesex Lookup Requests) by maddys52
10:22 Edward Alexander ALEX Rippingille abt 1855 • Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria (Australia) by maddys52
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10:16 Handwriting expert required! Illegible Yorkshire place name 1851 Richmond Census (Yorkshire (North Riding) Lookup Requests) by Keith Sherwood
9:56 Help needed accessing free Fold3 records (The Common Room) by deejayEn
9:43 Gustav Hansen and wife Hanna née Christiansen buried at Mount Olivet, New York (United States of America) by rkive82
9:41 John Donkin - who were his parents? (Durham) by aidansrest
9:40 A plaque for an ancestor - how do I find decendents? (The Common Room) by Ruskie
9:33 Lounds - Lichfield (Staffordshire) by angel~eyes
9:23 Parish map for Cheadle or Stockport (Cheshire) by minijimaus
8:45 war record for Albert William Rayner (World War One) by alan o
8:40 Captain mystery (Family History Beginners Board) by Andy J2022
8:21 1494 Will of Alys Northwood of Thanet (Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition) by Wayne N
8:18 Help needed to restore Horace Rowles please (Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs) by McGroger
7:42 Belgium translation help (Europe) by Zefiro
7:37 Clark family (London and Middlesex) by softly softly
7:05 Diary summary week ending 16th November 2025 (The Stay Safe Board) by Viktoria
6:59 Wexford Cemeteries for ancestors who died in Wexford town (Wexford) by shorts
6:53 Barnardoes (The Common Room) by Darnity
6:34 Margaret Jane Parry married William Edmunds 28th November 1881 Merthyr Tydfil (Monmouthshire) by ellenmaggie
6:05 Henry Bratley born 1868 Binbrook, Lincs (Lincolnshire Lookup Requests) by towthorpe32
5:59 Marcus Leonard Arnold (Surrey) by *Sandra*
5:41 DNA testing (Family History Beginners Board) by zetlander
5:30 Benjamin Armstrong born Mansfield Query (Nottinghamshire) by castlebob
5:29 Same person? (Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition) by ValJJJ
5:16 Need help with looking up a long-dead relative's Mother (Kent Lookup Requests) by Comberton
5:05 Does anyone know of any current Ancestry special offers? (The Common Room) by *Sandra*
5:02 Is it possible to get a digital copy of an 1887 Queensland birth certificate? (Australia) by queencorgi1
4:29 William (Staffordshire) by CaroleW
4:26 Mystery of married couple in Calne, Wiltshire: Thomas and Anne Partridge (Family History Beginners Board) by Spelk
4:19 MyHeritage Upgrades Its DNA Tests to Whole Genome Sequencing (Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing) by Glen in Tinsel Kni
4:06 What happened to John Cook & Frances Crowder 1812-1813 at Knottingley? (Yorkshire (West Riding)) by dobfarm
4:05 Hannah Redman death (Sussex) by LizzieL
3:59 Mason Family from Great Yarmouth (Norfolk) by coombs
3:55 Who remembers the early days of Ancestry? (The Lighter Side) by coombs
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