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7:52 Help Needed with The Browns (and their spouses!) (Ireland) by aghadowey
7:50 Birth certificate help (Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition) by AlanBoyd
7:49 Cain Smith 1733 gypsy (Family History Beginners Board) by bevj
7:42 Why would Greenwich Hospital grant someone property? (The Common Room) by mckha489
7:33 CWGC Headstone Wrong??? 6th Bn Cheshire Reg & 477th Agricultural Corps (World War One) by ALAMO2008
7:31 Help Needed with the Irish/Scottish Browns (and their spouses!) (Lanarkshire) by gaffy
7:30 Ancestry 1841 census for the City of London, all marked Middlesex (The Common Room) by gc1
7:27 death certificate (Family History Beginners Board) by KGarrad
7:14 Patrick Healey 1807 (Ireland) by Wexflyer
7:10 Anomalies or inconsistencies on baptism registry. (The Common Room) by CaroleW
6:45 Parkburn House Kilsyth (Stirlingshire) by Sandel1
6:40 Liverpool: Beatles connections? (The Common Room) by MollyC
6:29 Philip McDaid from Lower Fahan (Donegal) by CarolBN
6:29 Re: Diary summary week ending 15th June 2025 (The Stay Safe Board) by Jebber
6:06 Elizabeth or Betty Holt missing after 1871 (Lancashire) by Pennines
6:03 Very confused journalist (Australia) by David Mo
6:00 Trying to Find a Quaker King family from Salterforth before they became Quakers. (Family History Beginners Board) by RowanR
5:58 A Poor Starting Point (Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs) by loord74
5:34 IPM phrase "p. Sect. Cur" (Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition) by Bookbox
5:18 henry lewtas (Lancashire) by AlanBoyd
5:17 Reason to move to west Wales in 1900? (The Common Room) by Top-of-the-hill
5:14 drownings in the thames (London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests) by hepburn
5:03 probate records (Family History Beginners Board) by Andy J2022
3:59 Seeking Marriage Record or Confirmation: William Millward and Elizabeth? (Derbyshire) by hanes teulu
3:47 Ellen Docherty Rooney b. 1906 (Nottinghamshire) by softly softly
3:45 Robbie Ross's nephew (Canada) by *Sandra*
3:24 Henry Family, New York Arrival/Departure or Immigration/Naturalization Records (United States of America) by KrisWilson
2:28 Harvie Family - Stevenston Ayrshire (Argyllshire) by liver007
2:13 Talbots of Ryton on Dunsmore (Warwickshire) by lmgnz
2:02 Samuel King born c1765-1766 died 1843 Yarmouth (Norfolk) by coombs
1:38 White family in Shields (Northumberland) by Holum
1:26 Harriet Tossil (Huntingdonshire) by aidansrest
1:02 Union Workhouse, Lockwood, Huddersfield (Yorkshire (West Riding)) by Shedrach
1:00 Sarah Coates (Down) by hexhamlad
12:55 Martha Wright (Norfolk) by gc1
12:53 James Dunsden b abt 1782 possibly Steventon (Berkshire) by ciderdrinker
12:14 Re: Diary summary week ending 8th June 2025 (The Stay Safe Board) by louisa maud
11:57 Bardy Lane (Cumberland) by Geoff-E

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