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Everyday heroes who died at sea
With 6 billion searchable records worldwide, and 2 billion for the UK alone, Ancestry has an astounding wealth of online resources for us to explore to trace our family stories. These include a rich range of sources about our ancestors during wartime. Here we’re going to look at one particular under-sung hero of a collection – that of the Merchant Seamen Death Records
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