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Have you heard of website www.weare.xyz?

Every cloud has a silver lining, and one such very good thing to come out of Covid is WeAre.xyz – an innovative online family archive builder by Simon Davies. Read on to discover what it can do for your family history. Interview by Helen Tovey
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