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You have to laugh Nikki I signed up provisionarily with ancester.co.uk and read the birth index for the first set of Alex's names to get the 'Vol' and 'Page' of the record. Can I view these pages on line to get the birth dates so that I can reject names too far from 3'1/8/28 or do they have to be ex...

Hi NIkki & Alec
There is a noughty idea the I should commit a small crime - not too serious but enough for a DNA record. Then get hold of one of those SPOOKS to look round for likerly family criminals! Maybe not

Hi. I've just realised that there are pages as well as columns. I've had such a problem typing on my laptop that I've added a separate keyboard. Christmal with family most pleasant. Going to do New Year at a local restaurant - avoiding excessive drinking of course! . 2008 will see me joining genealo...

I've emailed Veronica at Evening Standard - which was the Evening News at that time, and the Foundling Museum. I'll let you know. I may have a go at Ancestry.co.uk and go through Alec's list to refine the birth dates. Baff

Here is a potted history. I was thought to be about 5 months old when I was found on the doorstep of a convent. I was then transferred to a LCC orphanage in the London area. Its wherabouts I don't know. I was then fostered at about 5 yrs old. They gave me a name and a birth date. In my late teens I ...

Thanks Alec. I've not looked at the list yet. I remember turning the pages of the big book for 1928 in the Records Office years ago and wondering if my past was there - I can now repeat that operation.Fantastic!!

Well I haven't received the list 0f names in my normal emails from you Alec.
Do you think I gave you the wrong information? Baffled seems to be an appropriate appelation

I received an email from admin referring to Alec and a link to a display with several boxes which I don't understand.
NEWPM in re3d. Mark and Unmark as important. Display. Sort By etc....
Where do I click to get Alec's message?

I've clicked on the link and have the downloading information from Alex. I do not understand what I am looking at. Where is the key to reading or saving the list of 1928 names? Where do I click please.
I'm baffled, Baffled.

I've had difficulty in getting back in. Thank you for the list Alec. Why are some items in red and others black?
It looks as though I'm having a long haul, but I've saved the names. Any value in having an unusual blood group?
Baffled

How do I access the GRO records,Nikki?

Thanks Nikki. If the weather is bad and I can't get out I might do a little chase. Were records affected by the London bombings during the war?

I was deposited at a Leytonstone (London) convent at the end of February 1929 and passed on to the LCC (now GLC) and judged to be 6 months old and given a 'birth' date of 31st August. I was apparently healthy and reasonably well clothed but all means of identification had been removed. This was a pe...

I am a female foundling born in London in July, August, September 1928. I do not know what my birth name was. I am happily married, but the person with my original name would not have a record of marriage or death; a single woman still alive! The list must have shortened considerable. I would like t...