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Lynn Bates says: I wonder if you could please approximately date these two postcard photographs left to me in family papers. The couple in the first photo are, I am told, my maternal great-grandparent

Wendy Sutherland says: I share some photographs: the first is in a leather box, and I am almost sure it shows the Reverend Archibald Gardner and Mary Hall, as it came with a few other Gardner family p

Family history research can, as we know, take us down many paths with surprising outcomes but I would never in my wildest dreams have thought that it would result in my cousin and I standing on a foot

Q I have a query about my ancestor Henry Clark born in 1893 in Newcastle Upon Tyne. He emigrated to the US in 1922, leaving Liverpool on 10 November 1922 and arriving in Montreal Canada, then he heade

Reading Laura Mauro’s “Japanese Toilet Ghosts” [FT459:30-35], reminded me of a less well known fear in the Western world, which –according to the modern rabbinical Internet resource site TheTorah.com

Unusually, my story begins at the end with the perplexing death certificate of my great grandfather William Taylor. William died aged 71 in May 1938, in Gosport, Hampshire, and the death was registere