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Guest blog: How a 100-year-old letter sparked a discovery in the 1939 Register

Posted on 22 March, 2016 by Helen Barrell

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A guest blog for Findmypast. A letter written by my great-great-grandmother on Armistice Day in 1918 was full of clues for identifying my family. Would it unlock the mystery of my grandma’s Aunt Emily, and who was “poor Tom”?

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