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More than 1.7 million records from the Channel Island of Guernsey have been added to family history website Findmypast (findmypast.co.uk). During the past year over four centuries of records have been

Not that long ago, family secrets had every chance of staying that way – until the boom in DNA testing. It was 25 years ago that the first genetic genealogy tests were offered to the public. Since the

‘Merry England’ is definitely a romanticised lens through which to view the later Medieval period. You only have to glimpse the often gory manuscripts and woodcuts to be reminded of this. But, for us

The World Wide Web brought the internet into the public domain in 1993, and since then it has evolved beyond anything we could have imagined. We can buy clothes, food and all manner of items online, a

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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