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The following Web pages provide information on researching illegitimate ancestors:

Illegitimate Ancestors (Who Do You Think You Are Magazine)
http://www.wdytya.com/take-it-further/miscellaneous/tracing-illegit...

Illegitimacy: The Shameful Secret (The Guardian, 14 April 2007)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/apr/14/guardianspecial4.guardia...

Illegitimacy (MoonFleetOnline)
http://www.moonfleetonline.co.uk/history/illegit.htm

Illegitimacy (Family Tree Forum)
http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/index.php/Illegitimacy

Missing Fathers
http://www.genealogy.com/52_donna.html

Bastardy or Illegitimacy in England
http://www.pricegen.com/resources/illegitimacy.htm

Other helpful resources:

Moody, Sharon Tate. “Child of No One: Researching Illegitimate Ancestors.”  NGS Magazine 35 no. 3 (July-Sept. 2009): 42-47.

Paley, Ruth. My Ancestor Was a Bastard: A Family Historian’s Guide to Sources for Illegitimacy in England and Wales. Society of Genealogists, 2004.

McLaughlin, Eve.  Illegitimacy. McLaughlin Guides, 1995. (illegitimacy in Great Britain)

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