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ANTHONY ADOLPH is a professional genealogist and the author of 11 books PAUL BLAKE is the author of Tracing Your Insolvent Ancestors KATHERINE COBB is a member of AGRA based in Somerset JAYNE SHRIMPTO

Q I share with you here a mystery photo of a soldier with no cap badge, who is probably the natural grandfather of my friend, Jenny Sweeney. Her grandmother, Ada Sophia Ward, born 1893, was age 21 whe

The famous Cottingley fairy photographs rate as the greatest psychic photographic hoax of the 20th century. Branded “the first deepfake” by the History Channel,1 they have fascinated audiences for gen

PEARL Maskell drew the lace curtain aside. “The new neighbours opposite at number ninety-two look all right,” she said, directing the comment back to her mother, who was knitting. “Two ladies – mother

What an interesting article “Visions of the Future” was in your April issue. It got me thinking about a photograph in our family album of my aunt Dolly working at Olympia when Queen Mary was being sho

Exhibition of the week Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits ...