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4:03 Baptised twice? (The Common Room) by hanes teulu
3:59 Where is Sunny Bank, Dudley Road (Warwickshire) by cordley
3:57 Long Wittenham, Berkshire 1960's. (The Common Room) by LizzieL
3:46 Cleaning up a gravestone (The Common Room) by Andrew Tarr
3:37 Catherine Mitchell, Cannot find any details (Scotland) by David Nicoll
3:27 Help needed tracing somene who disappears from the records (The Common Room) by PatLac
3:04 Birth records Philadelphia (US Lookup Requests) by shellyesq
2:11 Already have father & 1 of sons DNA, is it worth doing another son? (Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing) by Romilly
2:06 Marriage certificates (The Common Room) by overlandermatt
2:03 Ancestry Ethnicity Update (Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing) by Romilly
2:01 Early British Gypsy Families (Travelling People) by ROMANYGENES
1:57 Identifying a Matthew Lynch, Nottinghamshire death, 1965 (Family History Beginners Board) by wilcoxon
1:37 Unreducting a record on the 1939 Register (The Common Room) by Romilly
1:25 Looking for any notable family background of my French ancestors (Europe) by tornado
1:12 Elizabeth Isabella Scott Burn born 20 Jul 1896 Edinbugh (Midlothian) by Cockneyrebel
1:11 Golightly John born 1810 Escomb, Near Bishop Auckland (Durham Lookup Requests) by Lance Matthews
1:03 Locating Death Certificate for my Great Granny in 1960 (Family History Beginners Board) by cath151
1:02 Ralph Lewis Gilberne Butler 1883-1967 (The Common Room) by queencorgi1
12:52 Gateside Street, Hamilton (Lanarkshire) by paul_mc
12:22 cysylltiad evans a’r wern penmorfa (Cymraeg - Welsh Language) by collwyn ap tangno
12:21 My father moved From the MOD to the National Archives (Armed Forces) by Marianthompson47
12:09 Veryan parish register images (Cornwall) by Vasquez109
11:59 Thomas Wake of Gazeley --- 1741 (Suffolk Lookup Requests) by windy_miller
11:18 Looking for missing Elsie Annie Rufey (Le Heinsworth) b. 1914 Wokingham, England (Canada) by mckha489
10:41 Yorkstone & O'keeffe marriage (Midlothian) by YorkyNZ
9:38 GRO missing years in death index? (Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition) by bella1987
8:57 Looking for church marriage record (Mayo) by athacliath62
8:27 Could Eliza ever be short for Elizabeth? (The Common Room) by LizzieL
8:15 DNA match on MyHeritage but not on Ancestry (Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing) by LizzieL
5:25 Missing Elsie Annie Rufey b. 1914 Wokingham, Berkshire (Berkshire) by janjim
4:41 Help requested with two words in a 1650 text. (Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition) by SiGr
3:39 Helping a DNA match (Family History Beginners Board) by Jason Jase
12:18 Sir James Anderson ~ of Altantic Cable fame (Dumfriesshire) by Kelticess
11:31 Diary summary week ending 19th October 2025 (The Stay Safe Board) by Jebber
10:00 Elizabeth Ann Taylor (London and Middlesex) by Mabel Bagshawe
9:43 Burgher Church, Pollokshaws ca 1817-1849 ??? (Lanarkshire) by RJ_Paton
8:47 Edward Prichard, b. 1835 (Flintshire) by duport
8:19 Mark Stanley Vanderlinde (London and Middlesex) by simonvdl

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