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Mistake #1: Trusting Other People’s Family Trees

When I first started my family tree, I thought I was being careful—until I trusted a well-researched tree that quietly sent an entire branch in the wrong direction. Two first cousins, the same name, the same birth year, and the same village.
Read the blog to see how I untangled it—and what I learned along the way.

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The Hanmer Church Fire of 1889: St Chad's Lost Parish Records and Genealogy Gaps

The fire that gutted St Chad’s Church in Hanmer in 1889 didn’t just destroy a historic building—it took with it generations of parish records. For family historians, it created a frustrating and permanent gap in the historical record.

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