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Many people in the past - perhaps a majority - were poor. Tracing our ancestors amongst them involves consulting a wide range of sources. Stuart Ra...

In his latest handbook on the records of the major Christian religions, Stuart Raymond focuses on the Church of England. He identifies the availabl...

We all have Nonconformist ancestors. In the mid-nineteenth century almost half of the English population were Nonconformists. And there were very f...