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Getting to the root of family trees

Three sources of historical records combined in a £7.5m centre will make research much more accessible, write Julia Horton and Cate Devine

At first glance the black and white image of a 19th-century document recording the marriage of excise officer Alfred Blaker to footman's daughter Victoria Alberta McDonald looks unremarkable.