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Is there any way to get a NY death cert other than going through Vitalchek ? I'm in Europe and have all the details for what I need but they keep requesting forms of US identification and I have mailed them twice to say I can't supply - but offering European ID and they keep sending me back the same copy/paste reply with the list of US id.

I have a great aunt married name Agnes Brophy (born Agnes Madeline Morgan in 1897 in Dublin) I lost track of her in Dublin in 1931 when she was widowed.
Recently I have come across a letter written by her in 1971 in which she writes that she is now living at 36 West View, Chesham, Bucks as she is looking after her deceased daughters family. We never knew that she had any children but this daughter would have been born before 1931 - I don't know her birth or married name so I wonder if there is any way to find out the names of who else was living at that address  c. 1971 and before.

Also a further document says she (Agnes Brophy) died in 24 May 1981 at Townfield Flats, Chesham, Bucks - but I can find no death record for her.

If anyone can help with the above I'd be grateful.

I have this huge gaping hole in my family tree and wonder if anyone can think of a way around it.
It concerns one of my g grandmothers - Margaret Byrne.
She was born about 1860 so no birth cert.
She married 23 September 1883 in St Michans, listed parents names are Thomas and Bridget Byrne of 24 Upper Wellington St.
http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/1892fe0085504She She had 7 children:
Elizabeth - 1886
Myles - 1887
Francis - 1890
Margaret - 1892
Bridget - 1895
Mary Anne - 1896
Thomas 1899
In 1900 she is admitted to the North Dublin Union Infirmary, discharged and re admitted a few days later. She died a few days after that aged just 40. Her oldest child was 14 and the youngest was 1 year old.
 I have her death cert which says she died of cancer. Her husband remarried a younger woman in 1903. He died in 1931. I found his burial in Kinsealy
Graveyard and the second wife's in Sutton.
But no sign of Margaret or her parents or any siblings.
Wondering if anyone has any ideas/ suggestions on where I might look for any other lead.

I had previously posted a thread on this painting that has always been in our family, despite no one really knowing who he was.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=568605.msg4208218#msg4208218
I have since been sent a photo of the person I suspect he is and would like opinions on if they may be the same person. I believe the painting is 1850's (about mid 40 years old) and the photo about late 1860's. (in his mid 50's)

Hi all.
I am looking at a man who was charged in court with 'absenting himself from military service' in 1915. He was Irish and fulfilling a contract with his company in Scotland when he was drafted.
My question is would he have just been informed to turn up a certain place to be drafted, and then didn't, or would he have signed attestation papers etc and then disappeared. How exactly would the draft have worked in 1915 ?