Who Do You Think You Are?

CELEBRATING NEWBIGGIN'S CONNECTIONS

When the 2011 census was taken on 27 March, the coastal town of Newbiggin-by-the-Sea in Northumberland had a population of just 6,308. Yet it's home to an extraordinary family history project - an effort by the residents to draw up a tree recording everyone who has ever lived in the town.

Hilton Dawson, a former Labour MP from Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, launched the project in

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