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12:48 Reporting a FreeBMD missing page (The Common Room) by MollyC
12:47 Medals (Children) (Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition) by May2488
12:44 What is your wildest coincidence? (The Lighter Side) by Hollander
12:25 How related? (The Common Room) by Zaphod99
12:14 Robert Gann Brompton Cemetery : (The Common Room) by Iain...
12:06 William Ford (Northumberland Lookup Requests) by Radcliff
11:50 Re: Diary summary week ending 26th October 2025 (The Stay Safe Board) by Viktoria
11:43 Custom Clustering from Ancestry (Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing) by Josephine
11:33 Lounds - Bradford (Yorkshire (West Riding)) by emeltom
11:33 Henri Libert. Death record. Belgium (Europe) by ibbotson
11:32 Estate of a female relative who died intestate in 1935 before her husband (The Common Room) by Deirdre784
10:55 William Henry Catt in New Zealand (How to Use RootsChat (Please don't post requests here)) by ValCharlie
10:46 Ann(ie) Hall (nee Smith) born in Canada - What Happened after 1904? (London and Middlesex) by PaulJC
10:46 Looking for Grace Edwards in 1871/1881 (London and Middlesex) by Ladyhawk
10:11 Locating Death Certificate for my Great Granny in 1960 (Family History Beginners Board) by bella1987
9:55 Tree viewers on Ancestry (The Common Room) by ggrocott
9:31 E haplogroup Ydna (Wales) by tommy-tipper
9:30 1841 Liverpool census page (Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition) by ShaunJ
9:04 Bristol Apprenticeship Records: CD or Download? (Technical Help) by Geordie daughter
8:58 James DALLEY d.31 Dec 1911 Sydney, NSW (Australia) by giblet
7:06 William Woolls and Ellen Woolls (How to Use RootsChat (Please don't post requests here)) by sparrett
6:41 What happened to Mary Souter? (Durham) by Radcliff
6:35 William SHAW, Surgeon. Whitwell and Clowne c1830's. (Derbyshire) by bitzar
3:06 Help with Yorkshire Marriage - 1850 (Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition) by Pdorgan
12:47 Advice requested - Julian Calendar. (The Common Room) by billnkempsey
10:58 Louisa and Harriett MITCHELL (Dublin) by Eyesee
9:53 Old Military Men, Need some help with info (Armed Forces) by alan o
9:50 identification of the grooms uniform (Family History Beginners Board) by alan o
9:02 Calverts in Moyraverty (Armagh) by Jon_ni
9:01 BMD Records? (New Zealand) by forthefamily
8:36 Henry Samuel Welch-Thornton (Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests) by Lbwt
8:22 Miller family (Cheshire Lookup Requests) by valk
8:22 Upper Shields, Alnwick (Northumberland) by JosiahS
7:26 English Tiffin census look-up please (Suffolk Lookup Requests) by windy_miller
7:08 Round House, Speenhamland (Berkshire) by Old Mother Reilly
5:05 Richard Colby's wife's name (London & Middlesex Lookup Requests) by wilcoxon
4:55 Marriage Look Up IRWIN 1942 Felpham (Sussex) by BumbleB
4:06 Can anyone work their magic cleaning up this photo please (Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs) by ptdrifter

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