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Press releases
- Mothers Day has nothing to do with mothers - 7th March 2013
- 15 million people in UK only see grandparents twice a year - 1st February 2013
- Two hundred and fourteen Deaths in Essex, a family of Monsters in Westminster and the Witches of Bristol - 4th October 2012
- Uma joins Victorian baby name craze - 30th July 2012
- The name is Bond, James Bond... or Sean, or Ursula - 4th October 2012
- top bankers' pre-bonus salaries rise over 400% in 100 years - 30th July 2012
- Historians predict royal baby will be born on 27th August 2013 - 10th July 2012
- England team's winning formula: an architect, a soldier and a dentist - 24th June 2012
- That's the way to do it! Punch and Judy reach 350 - 9th May 2012
- Parents named baby 'Love child' - 17th February 2012
- Kate Middleton not 'Ideal Family' material, yet... - 3rd January 2012
- Don't silence Granny with a sherry this Christmas - 20th December 2011
- Launch of innovative war memorial competition to enhance history and literacy skills in local schools- 21st September 2011
- UK shuns unusual baby names despite the celebrity trend - 11th July 2011
- A Treasure Trove of Passenger Records - 16th June 2011
- A century of chaos, but the internet leads the way - 22nd March 2011
- Parents slang it up, init! thx 2 thekids - 28th January 2011
- brightsolidacquires Friends Reunited - 6th August 2009
- Genes Reunited is first to put Brits on the map! - February 2009
- Genes Reunited redesign makes genealogy accessible to all - January 2009
- One in four Brits searches for long-lost family online - July 2008
- Genes Reunited adds 1 million military records to its database - April 2008
- 'Best of British' grandmothers unveiled and honoured - January 2008
- Brown moves into centre ground but Cameron tops the poll - October 2007
- Hidden story of slavery finally uncovered by internet age - March 2007
- Genes Reunited thrives under ITV - March 2007
- Genes Reunited wins Hitwise top 10 award - March 2007
- Six degrees of separation? How about sixty - December 2006
- Tide turning on lonely nuclear family - September 2006
- Running - or walking or dancing - in the family - June 2006
- Mr Emmerdale, meet Mrs Call centre - January 2006
- We wish you a nuclear chrsitmas - December 2005
- Friends Reunited buys 1901 census website - August 2005
- Most of us have gone up in the world, new survey reveals - June 2005
- It's official. The Irish know how to throw agood party - March 2005
- Top ancestry website Genes Reunited appoints new head - January 2005
- Don't park Granny on the sofa - December 2004