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Researching your Merchant Navy Ancestors – Service with the Red Duster

Join us for an introduction to researching Merchant Seamen and Sailors. Our island nation has produced generation after generation of sailors. Wildly differing cargoes have been loaded and unloaded in ports ranging from modest seaside villages to the grandest of docks.

5 Sept 2026

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Gill Thomas

Gill Thomas

Gill Thomas has a background in History, took her B.A at the University College Cardiff and has a Postgraduate Certificate in Genealogical Studies at the University of Strathclyde. She is the owner of ‘Who What Where Research Services’ and is based in London. She is the outgoing Chair and a Member of AGRA (Association of Genealogists & Researchers in Archives).

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