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HOW TO RESEARCH AGRICULTURAL ANCESTORS

uring lockdown, like many people doing family history research I have been tidying up family papers and completing projects that had been put aside. One of these projects was to find information on the farms my relatives worked on. In some cases relatives had stayed on some farms for a long period, particularly where they were tenant farmers, whereas others employed as

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