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5:36 A butcher, a baker... by the name of Wilson (possibly Sorbie, Wigtown) (Wigtownshire) by Lught-thie
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5:12 Re: Diary summary week ending 21st september 2025 (The Stay Safe Board) by Caw1
4:56 Tracking down Mary in Newbold (Leicestershire) by Richard Knott
4:40 Finding an Aunt (The Common Room) by Spelk
4:26 Ancestry DNA...no longer a match? (Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing) by cockney rebel
4:13 Catheryne Haywood (Devon) by teragram31510
3:54 Search for digitised copy of an application for a homestead, Saskatchewan, 1908 (Canada Resources) by Archiec
3:18 Records for Pentre-Ty-Gwyn and Cefnarthen Chapels (Carmarthenshire) by grandmaster
3:15 Need help finding a death and a birth record (Ayrshire) by KMLC
2:37 When do you have enough information? (The Common Room) by BushInn1746
2:27 What are all these medals? (Armed Forces) by Phodgetts
2:16 Looking for plot 1169/Lair 11 St Kentigerns Cadder Glasgow G20/23 (Lanarkshire) by Chris5856
2:13 Help with name on WW1 postcard please (Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition) by Flattybasher9
2:08 Ancestry Update 2025 (Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing) by Zaphod99
2:03 Offer: Cadder Cemetery Transcriptions, Bishopbriggs (Lanarkshire) by Chris5856
1:20 Immigration - James and Esther ARTHUR with son Horatio (Australia) by cupoflife
12:41 Belgium birth record (Europe) by ibbotson
12:30 Episcopal Holy Trinity Church, Paisley records for my family (Renfrewshire) by Forfarian
11:19 INNES George John (Aberdeenshire) by tropicalj
10:59 LONGACRE - long acre, New Zealand (New Zealand) by Fresh Fields
10:34 Redshaw family (South Africa) by trish1120
10:20 John THORNTON WW1 1921 Dundee (Angus (Forfarshire)) by bleckie
10:05 Workhouse Occupation (The Common Room) by Bookbox
9:46 John Sykes (London and Middlesex) by Aquitaine
9:46 Newspaper images (Photograph Resources, Tips, Tutorials) by Avondale16
9:37 Genealogical novels on offer on Kindle (The Lighter Side) by ChrissieL
9:15 French marriage contract 1618 (Europe) by manukarik
9:06 Missing couple (Ireland Resources) by gaffy
8:42 James Stone christened 1798 (Lancashire) by eileendavid
8:35 Peterhead (Aberdeenshire) by jessienicolson
8:11 The List of COI Parish Registers updated Dec 2018 (Ireland Resources) by Kiltaglassan
7:16 Admin of estate of William Covell of Ashmanhaugh. (Norfolk) by amondg
7:08 Diary summary week ending 14th September 2025 (The Stay Safe Board) by mare
2:26 Slater/Sclater/Slatter (Orkney) by Neale1961
12:54 ERNEST HOPE Acrobat (Australia) by haney
10:58 Devon Place Name Help Needed (Devon) by nellie d
10:49 Allen/ Allen nee Ellum (Lancashire Lookup Requests) by amondg

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