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Family History: Did you know my German grandad? Apr 27 2011

A FORMER Huddersfield woman who now lives in the Lake District would love to hear more about her family.Read

Family History: A tale of two sisters Apr 20 2011

BRITAIN might not have been a nation of shopkeepers, as Napoleon is supposed to have sneeringly suggested, but it was not short of hard-working small businessmen. Read

Family history: True family history Mar 30 2011

CATHERINE Thackray was, by all accounts, a feisty woman who was not afraid to fight for her anti-war beliefs.Read

Family History: Forging a new life ... in Australia Mar 23 2011

Judith and David Gimblett moved to Australia from Dalton in 1982. Here Judith recalls the lows and many highs of their journeyRead

Family History: Finding out about families Mar 23 2011

AMATEUR historian Dave Weaver has started a voluntary history group in Flockton at a coffee morning in the local Flockton Green WMC on Wednesday mornings between 9.30 and 12am.Read

Family History: Memories of Marsden folk Mar 16 2011

FAMILY history probes often throw up a number of intriguing puzzles, and we have a bad habit of asking readers to solve them.Read

Family history: Final episode in John Battye of Scholes saga Mar 16 2011

FOR the last three weeks we have been pulling on the family threads of John Battye of Scholes.Read

Family History: Ken Denton’s historical material on Holme village, March 9, 2011 Mar 09 2011

A GENERATION of Beardsells passed away in the 1970s and 1980s after lives spent in the 200-strong village of Holme.Read

Family history: Happy memories of East Parade Feb 23 2011

EAST Parade in Huddersfield held a special memory for many Huddersfield people.Read

Family History: mystery woman Vera, from Craig Brown Feb 23 2011

VERA, the star of these three pictures, is this week’s mystery woman. She is such a mystery that she has, at the moment, no surname.Read

Relatives of the late Huddersfield legend Wilfrid Dawson sought Feb 18 2011

MUSEUM staff are planning a tribute to the man who “bought” Huddersfield.Read

Family History: Brass and bells – sound of the past Feb 16 2011

IT’S often the case when researching local history that other lines of inquiry open up.Read

Family history: the story of the founder of Port Adelaide: David Bower of Saddleworth Feb 02 2011

THE Examiner is preparing to move its base to Bradley. In so doing, its archives are being reassessed for their usefulness.Read

Family History: Not really a quiet life for Pauline Bardon at all! Feb 02 2011

PAULINE Bardon prefers the quiet life these days. Aged 70, she lives now in central Brittany, growing most of her own vegetables and all of her own flowers.Read

Family History: Ontario’s Brookes look for mills link Jan 26 2011

ROBIN Brooke of Ontario is trying to establish a link between her ancestors and those of Mark Brooke, director of the Brooke’s Mill Office Park in Armitage Bridge.Read

Family history: Remembering the ‘folk’ back home Jan 19 2011

WE have become accustomed to instant communication across the world, and the old methods – the handwritten letter, for instance – seem quaint and often treated with disdain.Read

Family History: The team, 99 years later ... Jan 19 2011

NORMA Burgess of Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, recently came across this photo in her grandfather's belongings.Read

Family History: Graham Denby on traffic calming, potholes and roundabouts Jan 12 2011

TRAFFIC islands, potholes, speed controls – what you suffer in Huddersfield we suffer in Portugal too!Read

Family History: John Cartwright of Lutterworth and Berry Brow connections Jan 12 2011

FORMER Greenhead College man John Cartwright heads his own business in the Midlands.Read

Family History: appeal for Grammar School memories Jan 05 2011

GRAMMAR schools meant – and probably still mean – privilege to some.Read