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48 entries since 27 September All ⚑ 48 searches Filter the list by a word

1. 18 Oct 2026
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     Research: 10 searches · 10 of 10 found something

     Mary Titmus's parents and the Titmus family of Stevenage

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     John Wright's parents, Sarah's burial, and the marriage

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     Esther Wright's remarriage, burial, baptism and family

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     William and Esther Phillips's marriage, children and burials

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     William and Esther Phillips of Weston

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     the generation above Joseph Wallis's and Sarah Field's parents

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     Joseph and Sarah's baptisms, their parents' marriages, and one generation above

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     Joseph and Sarah Wallis in 1851, and their mothers' households

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     Joseph Wallis's marriage, and the deaths of Joseph and Sarah Wallis

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     Caroline Wallis's baptism and her parents

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2. 17 Oct 2026
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     Research: 3 searches · 2 of 3 found something

     Ivone's father: whether the Viseu passport applications or the personnel file say anything about his parish or parents

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     The daughter Mary Larkin's marriage, Mary Appleyard's death, and whether the Mary Birch candidates for Mary Burch can…

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     The deaths of the two Robert-and-Mary Larkin couples, the marriage entry of 1814, and the Watford and Aldenham Burch…

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3. 16 Oct 2026
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     Research: 5 searches · 2 of 5 found something

     Robert Larkin and Mary Burch alive in 1851, and the discovery that the eleven Larkin children are two families

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     The baptisms of Mary Burch and Mary Appleyard, searched without a forename filter, which is the pass the session of 13…

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     Baptisms for Mary Burch and Mary Appleyard, the two Aldenham brides of 1800 and 1814

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     Caroline Wallis's family

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     The death of George William Castle, the Castle and Wallis marriage, Caroline Wallis's birth, and three more open deaths…

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4. 13 Oct 2026
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     Research: 1 search · 1 of 1 found something

     John and Emma's household in 1851, and the parents of Mary Appleyard and Mary Burch

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5. 12 Oct 2026
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     Research: 4 searches · 3 of 4 found something

     Emma Larkin's siblings, and the parents of her father Robert Larkin who married Mary Burch in 1814

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     The maiden name of Emma, wife of John Hawkins of the Red Lion Cottages — and through it her parents

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     John Hawkins b.1820 in a parent's household, which is what work list row 128 expected to find

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     The parents of John Hawkins b.1820 and of Emma b.1822 of the Red Lion Cottages, and the children of that marriage

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6. 11 Oct 2026
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     Research: 8 searches · 5 of 8 found something

     The family's spellings and the maiden name KERGER in the death indexes of every East Berlin registry office, 1990-1994

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     Three published negatives re-run under seventeen spellings across all twenty South African repositories, plus three…

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     One forename hunted through eighteen years of one city's householder lists, and the holding's own shape measured on the…

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     One surname in the birth index of 1903 and the marriage indexes of 1898-1903 across two Berlin registry offices, scoped…

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     Every Page of Testimony filed by one named survivor, found by searching his name as a SUBMITTER rather than as a victimwalked

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     Four surnames across births, marriages and deaths in one Polish province, with the coverage of eleven named towns…

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     One surname's householder runs read at the page image, 1939, 1941, 1942 and 1943, to match a memorial book's boroughs…

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     A surname in every spelling in the death indexes of one Berlin registry office, 1938-1979, and then four of its blind…walked

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7. 7 Oct 2026
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     Research: 4 searches · 2 of 4 found something

     A surname in the death indexes of one Berlin registry office, 1967-1992walked

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     A surname in the death indexes of one Berlin registry office, 1983-1994walked

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     all pages of 12 volumes

     A surname in the death indexes of one Berlin registry office, 1982-1994walked

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     all pages of 13 volumes

     A surname in the death indexes of one Berlin registry office, 1983-1994walked

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     all pages of 12 volumes
8. 29 Sept 2026
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     Research: 5 searches · 5 of 5 found something

     A death entry, a marriage entry and a birth entry, for one Berlin family

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     The last UK address on the 1937 departure, to test whether the 1939 address was already the family home

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     Which columns BT 27 actually carries, and in which years — a holdings question, not a family one

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     The same column for the August 1939 departure, as an independent check on the April readingwalked

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     The last address in the United Kingdom, which the transcript does not carry, for the April 1939 departurewalked

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9. 28 Sept 2026
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     Research: 4 searches · 1 of 4 found something

     The same man in his father's household, which was the other route to the same answer

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     The parents of the WEAR at the top of this line, born about 1823 at Newington and so before civil registration

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     SCHMUL, the bride's family, in the same death index

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     LEIBHOLZ, in the death index of the family's own registry officewalked

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10. 27 Sept 2026
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      Research: 4 searches · 4 of 4 found something

      LUWINSKI in Australia after the 1965 emigration, LEIBHOLZ at Melbourne, and the sponsor surname at Canberra

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      WEAR and CASTLE at Letchworth, Hitchin and Baldock

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      Letterform controls in the same hand, and whether the volume binds an alphabetical index at the back

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      The LEIBHOLZ x SCHMUL marriage entry of 1874, re-read letter by letter against the registrar's own capitals elsewhere…

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