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7:28 Newspaper look up please (Staffordshire) by lyp24
7:17 Help needed tracing somene who disappears from the records (The Common Room) by deejayEn
7:10 Records for a house and residents pre 1894 (Family History Beginners Board) by xs
7:07 Looking for church marriage record (Mayo) by hanes teulu
6:57 Catherine Mitchell, Cannot find any details (Scotland) by Ladyhawk
6:56 Baptised twice? (The Common Room) by Vasquez109
6:55 Occupation in census help (Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition) by K127
6:15 Looking for any notable family background of my French ancestors (Europe) by jayaygee
6:12 Bridget Cullen b.1883 lived in Barnacullia (Dublin) by taramcdsmall
5:55 Yorkstone & O'keeffe marriage (Midlothian) by Forfarian
5:44 Missing Elsie Annie Rufey b. 1914 Wokingham, Berkshire (Berkshire) by Jool
5:44 Long Wittenham, Berkshire 1960's. (The Common Room) by AlanBoyd
5:37 Diary summary week ending 19th October 2025 (The Stay Safe Board) by louisa maud
5:06 Where is Sunny Bank, Dudley Road (Warwickshire) by MollyC
4:46 Hucknall Torkard Parish Records (Nottinghamshire) by Daisypetal
4:24 Birth records Philadelphia (US Lookup Requests) by amondg
4:06 Marriage certificates (The Common Room) by overlandermatt
3:46 Cleaning up a gravestone (The Common Room) by Andrew Tarr
2:11 Already have father & 1 of sons DNA, is it worth doing another son? (Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing) by Romilly
2:03 Ancestry Ethnicity Update (Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing) by Romilly
2:01 Early British Gypsy Families (Travelling People) by ROMANYGENES
1:57 Identifying a Matthew Lynch, Nottinghamshire death, 1965 (Family History Beginners Board) by wilcoxon
1:37 Unreducting a record on the 1939 Register (The Common Room) by Romilly
1:12 Elizabeth Isabella Scott Burn born 20 Jul 1896 Edinbugh (Midlothian) by Cockneyrebel
1:11 Golightly John born 1810 Escomb, Near Bishop Auckland (Durham Lookup Requests) by Lance Matthews
1:03 Locating Death Certificate for my Great Granny in 1960 (Family History Beginners Board) by cath151
1:02 Ralph Lewis Gilberne Butler 1883-1967 (The Common Room) by queencorgi1
12:52 Gateside Street, Hamilton (Lanarkshire) by paul_mc
12:22 cysylltiad evans a’r wern penmorfa (Cymraeg - Welsh Language) by collwyn ap tangno
12:21 My father moved From the MOD to the National Archives (Armed Forces) by Marianthompson47
12:09 Veryan parish register images (Cornwall) by Vasquez109
11:59 Thomas Wake of Gazeley --- 1741 (Suffolk Lookup Requests) by windy_miller
11:18 Looking for missing Elsie Annie Rufey (Le Heinsworth) b. 1914 Wokingham, England (Canada) by mckha489
9:38 GRO missing years in death index? (Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition) by bella1987
8:27 Could Eliza ever be short for Elizabeth? (The Common Room) by LizzieL
8:15 DNA match on MyHeritage but not on Ancestry (Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing) by LizzieL
4:41 Help requested with two words in a 1650 text. (Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition) by SiGr
3:39 Helping a DNA match (Family History Beginners Board) by Jason Jase

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