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Day: July 11, 2020

Posted on 11 Jul 202016 Sep 2020 by genealogyjude · 8 Comments

Where there’s a Will … there’s information!

Attorney and Client - Copy of Illustration from Bleak House by Charles Dickens It was a time of celebration for genealogists when just a year ago, in the summer of 2019, the price of wills proved from January 1st 1858 in England and Wales, came tumbling down. I had already collected a number of key…

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