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New Research Services offered

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We are pleased to announce today the launch of the frst of our research services entitled Who lived in my house? If you and are interested to know who resided in an old  property in the Portsmouth area a hundred years or so ago, and their occupation, simply complete and submit our online search request form, we will research our archive for free (for a limited time only), email you our findings and a price to reproduce tham as a pdf file. Should you wish to purchase the file we have a minimum order of £2.50 and images are charged at £1.00 per image.

You can chose which years you are interested in, we can perform an index search on the 1801 Portsmouth Telegraph, search for the address in our Portsmouth Directories between 1863 and 1918, and also cross reference the resident in The National Roll of The Great War 1914-1918 Portsmouth, and provide the entry which will include a brief discription of their contribution to the First World War, along with the address.

For a free search please click here. (for a limited time only)

 

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