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  • Who Do You Think You Are?

    Q&A

    Jan 11, 2022 4 minutes
    EDITED BY CLAIRE VAUGHAN

    PAUL BLAKE is a genealogist and the author of several books

    KATHERINE COBB is a member of AGRA based in Somerset

    EMMA JOLLY is a professional genealogist based in Edinburgh and a member of AGRA

    JAYNE SHRIMPTON is a professional dress historian and portrait specialist

    PHIL TOMASELLI is a military family history expert, and wrote Tracing Your Air Force Ancestors

    PETER TOWEY is vice-president of the Anglo-German Family History Society

    SIMON WILLS is the author of Tracing Your Seafaring Ancestors

    ALAN STEWART is a family history writer, and author of Grow Your Own Family Tree

    How do I trace my Brandon ancestors?

    QI am looking for details of my maternal great grandparents, Francis Brandon and

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