Sara Khan shows how you can break down brick walls in your research in just half an hour
Welsh newspapers online
In the latest series of Who Do You Think You Are?, Fearne Cotton discovered that her paternal great grandfather, Evan Meredith, was a conscientious objector in the First World War using a free searchable archive of articles from Welsh newspapers
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