Genealogy Forum UK

Thank you everyone for your welcome. Chris

Thank you all for your replies. It's not my computer, it's defaulted to UK English. Apart from our Danish friend, it would appear it doesn't pose too much of an irritation. In any event I posted my question more from curiosity than anything else. For the most part I like a spellchecker to notice my ...

I am referring to this site of course. When I write a private message I am prompted by the American Spellchecker. I can understand the Ancestry site in UK having the American as it has a sister site with the dot com version, though I think the UK version should be corrected to having the British Eng...

Dear Sirs,

I expect there is a logical explanation as to why, in a UK website, essentially about UK people, that there is an American Spellchecker, but it escapes me!

Thank you, Maggie and others for your thoughtful replies. I did find myself. My mother and father were unmarried; I was therefore "illegitimate". Would that make any difference in the records? I discovered when I applied for my full birth certificate in 1967 that the person who I was told ...

My initial interest in Genealogy is to seek information about my Mother. I have visited numerous websites and found so little as to give the impression she (or I)didn't (don't) exist. Only on one site did I find something promising about her but, not definitive and requiring a paid subscription to f...

Good morning from Sunny Thailand! I know a fantastic amount about Thailand, its people and the culture but I know little about my Mother!Now I am 68 and looking initially for some basic information about her. I am now off to the Beginners Section!Chris