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11:57 Help with a potential marriage please (Leicestershire Lookup Requests) by willsy
11:43 Elizabeth 'Bowler' (Lancashire Lookup Requests) by Ladyhawk
11:34 Maddison Grey, father of Margery Gray, bapt Stanhope 09 Feb 1679 (Durham Lookup Requests) by nobrickwalls
11:11 Help with French occupations 1660s (Europe) by goldie61
11:00 Help required please with Banns of Marriage name 1832 (Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition) by Steve C
10:43 Help me find graves near Barnagrotty (Offaly (Kings)) by aghadowey
10:36 Mary Jane Mulley b. 1874 North Shields (Northumberland) by mulberry-rose
10:32 McManus family of Kilmore, Cavan (Cavan) by STEAMFITTER
9:57 Land records 1660-1700 abt - Derrilorasry/Darolasary, Earl of Cork - Roger Power (Wicklow) by Sinann
9:51 Will of Dorothy Sloggett 1705 (Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition) by goldie61
9:42 Is Ancestry rationing matches? (Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing) by Biggles50
9:23 Gwendoline Muriel Lowe Walker (Family History Beginners Board) by Mabel Bagshawe
9:11 Birth Certificate Time (England) by LMChapman
9:10 Elizabeth Jackson c.1800 (Cheshire Lookup Requests) by Fecamp
8:52 Help reading a surname (Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition) by Neale1961
8:50 Family Records Centre (England) by dmollison
8:44 George Hood 1815 Selby Marriage - James Cookin / James Cook in W (Yorkshire (West Riding)) by BushInn1746
8:26 drownings in the thames (London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests) by Darian Zam
8:21 Dorset Family History Society’s Monthly Meeting (For Sale / Wanted / Events) by dorsetfolk
7:47 The Mysterious Mr Thomas KEVEN (Australia) by taonga1
7:46 Finean/ Finen of Riverstown (Sligo) by Samiluca
7:27 Seeking Thomas Thompson (Derry (Londonderry)) by Elwyn Soutter
6:59 Noctors of Tara Hill Wexford (Wexford) by genseacher
6:24 Re: Diary summary week ending 29th June 2025 (The Stay Safe Board) by louisa maud
5:13 Prison Record (The Common Room) by snowolf
5:11 Ann McDonald James Simpson (Family History Beginners Board) by ColC
5:02 Marriage records from Tijuana, Mexico 1938 (United States of America) by USCRx
4:59 John Johnston deaths, Co. Fermanagh (Fermanagh) by Peggy13
4:23 Findmypast sub any offers going? (Family History Beginners Board) by Jool
4:07 Mary Hodgman (Polly) Tyree of Dunedin, New Zealand (New Zealand Completed Requests) by Darian Zam
3:55 Travers of Cork - new biography (Cork) by celtic liberty
3:52 More on Hiding in Tasmania (Australia) by PatLac
3:11 Restore photo of my late Mum Babs Smith taken in Cooper Park, Elgin in the 1940s (Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs) by Calleva
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1:03 Alexanders, Scotland (Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs) by jim1
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