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6:55 John F A Davidson (Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition) by May2488
6:45 Peterhead Old Chrchyard - Lairs Index list (Aberdeenshire) by osprey28
6:26 Blandford War Graves (Graveyards and Gravestones) by May2488
6:20 A 'scandal' in Killin - where to seek details? (Perthshire) by GR2
5:51 Ancestry DNA Match (Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing) by Glen in Tinsel Kni
5:21 John Scott Arnott (Lancashire) by *Sandra*
4:05 Where else could they be? (England) by May2488
3:51 Apprentices 1530 (The Common Room) by BridgetM
3:29 WW1 Italian Soilder - Look up and unform ID (World War One) by alan o
3:04 Denis J Boulger. Where is he buried? (Dublin) by Justjtaylor
2:38 Old sailing ship's documents (1797) Bill of Lading, Manifest etc London/Montreal (The Common Room) by Ronda231
2:31 Birth Cert location (The Common Room) by Kerrill
2:14 Does anyone know of any current Ancestry special offers? (The Common Room) by garngad
1:37 Edith Barr Drowned Fitling (Yorkshire (East Riding & York) Lookup Requests) by tezzamisterman
1:28 ERNEST HOPE Acrobat (Australia) by mckha489
1:14 Parents of Thomas Nevil, Somersham, Huntingdonshire bef. 1740 (Family History Beginners Board) by trish1120
1:13 Anne Roberts. What happened to her? (The Common Room) by LizzieL
12:54 Duplicate records - one set in Latin (The Common Room) by LizzieL
12:31 Am I reading this place name correctly? PITSCHEN, Silesia, Prussia (The Common Room) by Andrew Tarr
12:26 Marriage of James Robson and Jane Campbell, around Sunderland 1800. (Family History Beginners Board) by Higpoidius
12:05 1921 census (The Common Room) by wilcoxon
11:49 mines in Airdrie (Lanarkshire) by pat77
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