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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / another Latin conundrum July 1605
« on: Sunday 20 January 19 21:13 GMT (UK)  »
I would be grateful if any Latin specialists can help......


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South Africa / Problems accessing the new South African Archives Index
« on: Wednesday 12 September 18 11:06 BST (UK)  »
Anyone else having problems accessing the new South African Archives website (Not NAAIRS, the new one, NARSSA) - I have tried several different access points over the past few days and just get a google error message.  Is it perhaps blocking access from outside South Africa?

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Travelling People / Scottish gypsies from Yetholm
« on: Saturday 14 July 18 16:07 BST (UK)  »
Any advice and info welcomed.  I have a Scottish ancestor, Robert Robertson,  born 1856 in Shotton, Yetholm whom we think is likely of Scottish Gypsy ancestry. His marriage certificate to Agnes Weatherly gives his father's name as Andrew Robertson and mother as Janet Young.  After Agnes dies he remarries a Mary Ann Mavin and gives his father's name as Thomas Robertson......mother's name not given on English certificates. 

So for whatever reason, he seems not to have known who his father was.......

When he died, in 1938, his son the informant, gave his name as Robert Young Robertson,  indicating some significance to the surname Young, which he gave as his mother's name at his first marriage to Agnes in Scotland (Chirnside).    The name is well documented amongst the Yetholm gypsies and Robert gives his place of birth as Yetholm on several census returns. There is no sign of the child Robert Robertson with parents in the 1861 census. In 1871 a Robert Robertson of the right age turns up in Berwick living with William and Margery Stuart, both described as hawkers, as is Robert, and they are seemingly two real characters in the community and well documented in the local Berwick press- they appear to be of traveller heritage.

I am trying to establish his elusive parentage to follow the ancestral lines which come to a bit of a brick wall with him.........so any help would be appreciated.




 





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South Africa / Finding a Death Notice not on the NAAIRS index
« on: Wednesday 11 July 18 22:09 BST (UK)  »
Unfortunately the NAAIRS index is not complete.......and one of the Death Notices I need in order to apply for WW2 service records in the UK, is one of them.   I do have the full date and place of death, birth date etc, death was in Johannesburg in 1974 so assume it will be TAB - but EGGSA will only get copies if a full index reference is given.  Is a professional researcher the best way forward?  I assume it will be expensive though :(








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As per title, I have a grandfather whom I have discovered was seconded from the South African Army to the  British Army in WW2 - will the MOD also have a record of his service from the time of his secondment onwards?   I assume they will, as he was awarded an Efficiency Medal and the British War Medal as well as the medals generally awarded to South African forces during WW2.   Just wondered if it was worth paying up the MOD's £30 fee plus all the red tape involved and waiting for the next 6 months to see if there is any info about his service - he was a commissioned officer, a Captain.   

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South Africa / South African Military Records
« on: Thursday 03 May 18 17:56 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone help with the correct current contact details to find military records for South African soldiers in WW2? (None of them are living).   I am aware of contact details as per this forum for a few years ago but that email address no longer seems to work. I am really keen to find my grandad's military records and those of some other family members.

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Ireland / Any chance of tracing her family? Ellen Cogan
« on: Wednesday 21 March 18 22:55 GMT (UK)  »
I am looking for some help in tracing the family of Ellen Cogan, born 1850 in Ireland (county unknown). She married David Nicholson at St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Gateshead, February 1868. Her father is listed on the marriage certificate as Patrick Cogan, deceased, labourer.
I think she died in Gateshead 1909.  I can find her in the 1871,81 and 91 census, not sure after that - 1901 has an Ellen Nicholson visiting someone census night but no sign of David, who died in 1908.
No clues as to where she may have been born in Ireland - is there any chance of finding her family given that Patrick is a rather common name and no other clues?

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Wales / Obituary Translation Welsh to English please......
« on: Wednesday 21 March 18 10:34 GMT (UK)  »
I would be most grateful if a Welsh-speaker would be kind enough to assist with this translation -I believe it is an obituary relating to my gt gt grandfather who was born in Llangyfelach and involved with the independent Mynyddbach Chapel. 

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South Africa / Margaret Elizabeth du Plessis 1906-1974
« on: Thursday 01 March 18 16:55 GMT (UK)  »
I have reached a frustrating brickwall with trying to find my grandmother's parents and ancestors and hoping someone can help.  I have a copy of her Death Notice which is not entirely accurate in all aspects and I suspect that her parents names are not quite right - they are given as Hendrik Johannes du Plessis and Sophia Hendrina du Plessis,  and in other sources as Daniel du Plessis and Francina Sophia Grobler.      My grandmother was born in Steynsburg in the Eastern Cape, her father was apparently a farmer. I have looked on geni.com as well as Ancestry and familysearch to no avail. 

She was definitely a du Plessis before marriage - my grandfather died only 2 months before her  - he was Ole Kornelius Swanepoel, I have his family history tracking back all the way to the 14th century! 

Can anyone help? 

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