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Birth Certificates

Can any one tell me which site is the best one to buy birth certificates from? I have already bought a marriage certificate which seemed cheaper than other sites although the delivery was longer but I...

jerry130862

Peggy Martin

I am trying to find out some information regarding my mum who used to be a Windmill Girl and I believe danced with Peggy in the 1940's. Her name was Olive Varney (may have been known as Vaughan),I do...

Mr-H

Irish ancestry

I gave some info. to a 'professional' genealogist suggesting that a particular name (father of a relative borne out of wedlock) might be Irish, although he might have been born in England of Irish...

owdhamer

Herbert Winterbottom

An old name from my youth came up the other day Herbert Winterbottom who moved from the Saddleworth area to South Wales, is he still alive

carolegif

Drowning in Devon

I'm trying to find out some information for one of my group. He has ancestor called William Lakeman who drowned in the River Avon at Aveton Gifford on 25 July 1886 aged 14. Found burial record on one...

Polly1958

1911 Census

Just been on Ancestry and they have the 1911 census,at last!

sigma

1911 look up please

I'm trying to find out what happened to the children of Mary Stone (b1858 Rempstone, Notts) Their father died in 1910 in Shardlow Union Workhouse. The three youngest children are Hannah b.1892 Thomas...

echokilo

Access to www.192.com

Does anyone have access to the above for a look up for me please for an address? TIA

echokilo

Death since 2005 ......

Is there a way to search on line for deaths since 2005? TIA

annadomino

Someone dies on a cruise

around the med (or so we are told) I can find no trace of a death certificate. Where would the death be registered do you think. The cruise was in or arounf Portugal at the time. TIA

askyourgran

Am I on a hiding to nothing?

My BIL has a disc belonging to a past relative and he doesn't know who he was could be his grandmother's brother in law or husband. I think this was a WW1 inscribed 4 E. Yorks Regiment, CE, R E Taylor...

TheOtherHalf

Family History poem

Genealogist's Christmas Eve 'Twas the night before Christmas When all through the house Not a creature was stirring, Not even my spouse. The dining room table with clutter was spread With pedigree...

sandyRoe

The Dept of Pensions wrote to a lady telling her that....

she was now eligible for a widows pension. She had been seperated from her husband for many years. Would the pensions dept give details of that mans place and date of death, if I wrote to them?...

capricorn62

my early records

I was adopted as a child & have little info on my life from birth. I do know roughly where I was before my adoption. Born in Paddington Hospital after WW2 then think I was in a Bethnal Green...

cazzz1975

newspaper archive website

in case you havent heard of it, this is a sister site of friends/genes reunited, it looks good and searching is free. http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/...

sandyRoe

If you had a copy of someones marriage certificate how would you set about finding...

...where and when they died?

grannie39

ww2

Can anyone please tell me where i can find out why some one was declared unfit for the services in 1942 told he was grade three what does that mean thanks.

craft1948

Born 1909......registered 1915.

This is the 1911 census entry for the Weatherill family showing the twins Horace and Leslie as being born in 1909. When I looked for their birth entries they are registered in Q2 1915 in Camberwell....