Who Do You Think You Are?

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‘The projects really capture the range of different stories that you can uncover in your own tree’

As we bid goodbye and good riddance to 2020, one of the things that was most challenging about the year was the need to find plenty of ways to keep busy at home, while normal life was suspended by the measures to control the spread of the coronavirus. As family historians, we’re fortunate to already have a hobby that’s perfectly suited to social distancing – and since the first lockdown began, many newcomers will have been inspired to search online for the first time and start their own

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