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Deb got in touch with me by email and FB. We shared some really good info! Sorry to have taken so long to reply.

Hi All. I first got interested in genealogy when I found a book of Grandma's research into our family. So when my Team Leader at work started doing his own research on Find My Past and showed me a passenger list showing my great-grandma Walsh taking her two small boys with her to America - from Indi...

I am posting this as somewhat of a long shot, but the story sounds really interesting so please bear with me. Hopefully someone else with an itching detective streak like mine will have the information access to do this! I have been pottering through various lines of my family, which as most peoples...

I have an Ancestry account which is £19 per month, more or less, and I can trawl through all the records they have here or around the world for that, at my leisure as many times as I like, downloading whatever files I need, discarding, duplicating, etc to my heart's content. I cannot see that it is ...

That's very useful. Unfortunately, the tricky records I am after are from all over... The biggest problem is that I am trying to trace my great-grandfather and his family in Glasgow, and it seems that you cannot buy the Scotland record copies as easily as you can buy the England and Wales ones. I wo...

I thought it might help to post up here where to get birth, marriage or death certificates, and how much to expect to pay for the service from the various sources. I know that a lot of "service provider" websites are out there these days, some of which pretend to be parallel services to go...

Hi peterd - Pontefract is a massive reporting zone, separate from Leeds. It was a much bigger and more influential place then than it is now. Many of the births I am chasing up are from Kellington and Knottingley, but they are all on the Pontefract registers. The next nearest and most likely source ...

Well, her husband, Thomas Baxter born 1856 according to every census, is a mystery in himself. I have had an interesting evening chasing his origins (or attempting to) and it just got even weirder! He was living with Joseph Haigh and his wife Hannah (nee Stones) - described in the records as their n...

That's the one - I got that file from freeBMD, but it doesn't mention her parents anywhere. When I tried to find it through ancestry, I found that the pages seem to have got fudged up. I can search her by "manually" scanning through the scanned GRO pages for that year and find her, but the...

Here goes: Name: Isabela Clark Age: 5 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1866 Relation: Niece Gender: Female Where born: Kellington, Yorkshire, England Civil Parish: Kellington Town: Kellington County/Island: Yorkshire Country: England Registration District: Pontefract Sub-registration District: Whitley ED, ...

I've tried the parish records, and they didn't even list their fathers' names. It was a rush job, her being well under age and baby Arthur well on the way! I thought that parental consent - even by proxy through her uncle - would have been necessary for the wedding, and banns in view of her being un...

Hello All. I finally got subscribed to Ancestry, which has helped me get past quite a few brick walls. Unfortunately, I seem to have hit on a new one. Isabella Clark married (John) Thomas Baxter in 1881 when she was 15 and he 24. She grew up in the house of her Auntie Ann and Uncle John, the Stacey ...

Well, the WILD link is still a mystery. Not one sensible suggestion in the files for the parents of Lily K Wild, or Liuly as someone had transcribed it somewhere. Rats! Even with an Ancestry login, the records seem mute. Does anyone else know how to search Hull for the one Lily Wild I want to find? ...

Gave in and subscribed to Ancestry. Still mystified about Atkinson-Wilson marriage, though it may be that I am struggling with the format a bit. At least I can save my results, and I have found someone else looking for my own family, so that is a positive!

Hi gardener. I'll be visiting Iceland the last weekend in January, on a short break in hopes that we get to see the Northern Lights! It seems a bit bleak to have snow already. I hope you have plenty of things planned to keep the winter months bright... I didn't get to go grave-hunting anyway. The ca...