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The Common Room / Daughters with father's forename as middle name
« on: Wednesday 25 December 19 21:17 GMT (UK)  »
My mum's middle name was Martin, her cousin's middle name was Lawrence.

This has always puzzled me, has anyone found something similar in their family tree?

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Anyone for tennis? :)
« on: Friday 21 December 18 20:19 GMT (UK)  »
My gran (bottom left, b 1887) with her brother and 2 sisters.
But what date, I guess about 1910?

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The Common Room / South Africa help
« on: Thursday 11 January 18 00:16 GMT (UK)  »
Does anyone know how I can find a phone number for someone in SA?  I have a Box number in RIVONIA.  :(

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Any idea what this is?
« on: Tuesday 14 February 17 21:15 GMT (UK)  »
It's looks like a mortar and pestle, but it's bigger and heavier.   Not sure if the lump is metal or stone, but it's not lead (not soft).

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Mystery Wedding photo with my Dad as a small boy
« on: Wednesday 13 April 16 00:47 BST (UK)  »
From the ages I'm trying to work out who's who.

My dad is at the bottom right, born March 1912, he looks about 2½, so late 1914.  So what do you think the ages of the bride and groom are?

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Census and Resource Discussion / 1939 Register up and running (Part 3)
« on: Wednesday 11 November 15 14:43 GMT (UK)  »
The 1939 Register help topic is continued from 1939 Register up and running (Part 2)
Still not finding a lot of people  ???

Found my granddad in 1939 in the Midlands, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1955.  He's in Hinstock Road, Birmingham.

I look up Hinstock Road in the 1939 Register, and some houses are there, but not many and not the one I want.  What's the problem here?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Report on a case of mental disability
« on: Saturday 08 November 14 18:19 GMT (UK)  »
Having trouble reading my great uncle's WW1 service record.

I can make bits of it out, 14. looks like "family history of insanity"  :o
16. looks like "father died aged 50"
17. looks like it ends "very mischievous and excitable - has no self control."

Can anyone decipher it some more?

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Somerset / SWAG Fair
« on: Wednesday 06 July 11 21:09 BST (UK)  »
http://wsmfhs.org.uk/node/60

What's this all about then, worth going to?   :P

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Warwickshire / Can't find birth or death
« on: Tuesday 15 February 11 18:12 GMT (UK)  »
My great grandfather Arthur Griffiths.  A Brass Caster born 1860 in Birmingham.
He married Ada Florence Mainwaring 21/7/1883.  In 1911 he was living at 163 Warwick Road, Sparkhill and he's still there in 1939 according to the electorial registers.

I've been searching FreeBMD and Ancestry with no luck whatsoever  ???

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