Romany and traveller communities

Without question, every French genealogy research project begins with parish and civil registers. For some 250 years prior to the French Revolution (1787–1799), the Catholic Church in France, under a

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The historic buildings of a Transylvanian settlement have been restored and preserved with the help of several foundations and backed by The King’s personal enthusiasm. Jeremy Musson reports on this remarkable place

Bury-born actor Layton Williams, a familiar face from Strictly Come Dancing and BBC Three’s sitcom Bad Education, goes in search of his London roots in the latest series of WDYTYA?. If you also have L

In actor Andrew Garfield’s Who Do You Think You Are? episode he made the sad discovery that three of his great grandfather’s sisters were murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp. A number of phot

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