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FreeREG’s new look

Posted on 15 April, 2015 by Helen Barrell

After a great deal of work, the new interface for FreeREG is now online: FreeREG2. It sits over a database that contains 20,000,000 parish register transcriptio...

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Elizabeth Salter, Lady Cowdray or… some monkeys?

Posted on 26 March, 2015 by Helen Barrell

Whilst researching the Cardinall family, I got slightly sidetracked with Thomas Bowes’ family. In 1603, Charles Cardinall, widowed, married Bridget Bowes,...