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11:23 St Giles, Camberwell , (Surrey Lookup Requests) by Eyesee
11:13 Thomas Salusbury, 1761-1818 - baptised in St Asaph. Link to other Salusburys? (Denbighshire) by trish1120
10:40 Bathurst NSW marriage - Caroline Elizabeth BRYANT to Charles Edward SIMPSON (Australia) by pastrelatives
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7:14 Ship:Lyttleton (New Zealand) by Lucy2
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11:31 Witnesses and date on a will in 1660s Yorkshire (The Common Room) by jonwicken
11:05 Eliza Amelia Smith, died Ipswich 1940 (Suffolk) by Susixbawn n Bred
11:05 Marriage between Joseph Horvath and Mary Hajdu "Hayden" (Canada) by AR.Usher
10:37 1690s Latin translation from Yorkshire Quarter Sessions (Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition) by jonwicken
10:27 undertakers records (Dublin) by CBGenealogy
9:30 Devlin Family Falls Road (Antrim) by Gerry Burroughs
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4:17 Restore photo of my late Mum Babs Smith taken in Cooper Park, Elgin in the 1940s (Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs) by hoobaloo
4:16 R.q. on a Royal Navy record (Armed Forces) by rempr

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