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The Common Room / Divorces - all online?

« on: Monday 09 April 18 14:07 BST (UK) »

I've been trying to find a divorce online today. The couple married in 1938, had 1 child in 1942 but she remarried in 1947. He was still alive until 1987. They both had very distinctive names and his family ran a well known business until the 1960s

So are these divorces still under secrecy wraps?

Gen in NBL UK

Europe / Germany - huge brickwall - WW2 story reads like a novel!

« on: Monday 09 April 18 07:31 BST (UK) »

Researching my son in laws German ancestors but haven't got far with his dad. Most of the info is either from his Australian immigration papers or his elderly mothers recollections of things her husband Paul told her. Paul died 2003.

Paul Herman Horst GEFFERT born 19 May 1936 Hamburg. Father Christian Paul Geffert, mother Marianna von Leliva

WW2 - Paul and a baby sister are being looked after somewhere in Germany by their mothers mother, nationality possibly Russian. Mother Marianna killed by bomb possibly in Minster? Munchen?, father Christian in POW camp,somewhere. His father was a mechanic but worked in the army as medical sanitator? in war and carried wounded.

After the war, Christian searches for 2 years for his children. Paul was a Ward of State and on a farm for a while. Baby sister is where?

His father Christian remarries, Paul hates the stepmother and takes off on a ship aged about 17. Possibly first to Canada or USA but lands up eventually in Australia 1955 from where I have the story.

I have searched several online records and written to the Hamburg archives but they just told me to hire a researcher to look up Paul's birth, not helpful. I would pay for them to look it up for me! Why can't they do the lookup?

Gen in Northumberland UK

Europe / SOLVED - Germany, World War I Casualty Lists, 1914-1919 information please

« on: Monday 09 April 18 07:07 BST (UK) »

I've found this name Christian Geffert on the casualty lists and I don't know what it says. Is he dead or just injured? Is gefallen = killed in action?

Also the place (?) names, are they where he was killed/injured or where he was from? And what is the word before his name? Rank?

Gen in NBL UK

Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Very old DNA test, any use now?

« on: Thursday 05 April 18 19:18 BST (UK) »

Years ago, possibly ten, I got my dad's youngest brother to send a swab for our family's DNA testing. He was the only male of my dads family left alive, in his 70's and the clock was ticking.

All I got back was a PDF file with some very general information about where our haplogroup possibly originated 16,000 years ago! There was also a string of location and value numbers. Nothing I could upload to a comparison site these days? Uncle was G2a and I'm none the wiser. Would Dad have been the same?

I've tried the DNA forums online but they make my eyes glaze over!

Gen in NBL UK

Northumberland / Woodhorn archives IS open this Saturday!!! Misinformation!

« on: Thursday 29 March 18 18:02 BST (UK) »

A friend who went today asked if the search room was closed this Saturday, no she was told they will be open. The offending notice saying they would be closed until next Wednesday was then removed.

Sorry to have spread the initial misinformation but we were just going by Woodhorn's Easter closures notice, earlier this week!

If you are planning a visit either on Saturday or another day, take two pieces of I.D. with you. Rules have been changed and prices too. See their website for further details.

Gen

Northumberland / Woodhorn Archives closed this Friday and Saturday for Easter

« on: Wednesday 28 March 18 16:44 BST (UK) »

Notice on the door of the search room today, I didn't even see it.

Search Room closed on Friday and Saturday.

Gen in NBL UK

Durham / Durham University Special Collections visit at Palace Green

« on: Tuesday 20 March 18 10:01 GMT (UK) »

My last visit was about 13 years ago and a lot has changed.

Has anyone been there recently who knows the ropes? ID required I presume? Parking or park and ride then the bus? And where to eat lunch or take sandwiches?

Coming from the Newcastle direction, any help would be great.

Gen in NBL UK

England / Hearthtax.org.uk - any news about this website?

« on: Sunday 11 March 18 06:36 GMT (UK) »

I've been looking for this website after a few years lapse and find its gone. Googling around I found it had possibly been corrupted and taken down.

Any possibility of it going live again? Brilliant site!

Gen in NBL, UK

The Common Room / Funeral in 1901 Northumberland - how fast would the hearse travel?

« on: Wednesday 13 September 17 17:45 BST (UK) »

This is a weird one! A death notice was put in a Newcastle newspaper and said the cortege was leaving the home at 1:30pm and the service would start at 3pm at St Nicholas. The bereaved's home was Whitley Bay. BUT she wasnt buried at any church or cemetery called St Nicholas that I can find in the area i.e. Cramlington, Gosforth or Fenham in Newcastle.

Would the hearse be horse-drawn? Seems too early for anything else. The bereaved were dairy farmers so possibly had a horse and cart. They weren't wealthy.

I'm trying to figure out how far a horse/horses would walk pulling a hearse or cart in that time span.

Gen in NBL England