Ask the family first!

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Ask the family first!

Before you start spending your money on birth, marriage and death certificates, and hours at the local archives, ask the older members of your family for their memories or any old documents or photographs. You will be amazed at the amount of information they can give you first, and you will probably find lots of interesting family legends that you can chase up.

   

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