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Hi everyone

I wonder if anyone has any information about the London Jewish Hospital? Or where I can find any records?

I’ve unearthed a bit of a mystery - my mother’s older sister died there as a child in 1936. The biggest mystery is why she was there instead of the nearby London Hospital used by the rest of the family? My family were not Jewish though they lived in the East End and many of their closest friends and neighbours were. I’ve tried googling it and it seems it was specifically built to serve the local Jewish community so any ideas why a non Jewish child would end up there?

Hello all I’m having problems deciphering a couple of death certificates I’d really appreciate some help with, both relating to cause of death.

The first one the primary cause is given as endocarditis if the mitral valve, but then it seems to have a secondary bit after the number 2 months then some letters and I can’t make sense of whether it’s to do with the length of time she was sick or an abbreviation related to a secondary cause of death?

The second one I’m struggling with 2 words. I read it as “___ enteritis Tuberculosis of ___ renal”

The last query is more related to a hospital abbreviation but I wasn’t sure where to put it. It’s either V.W or U.W. and is recorded as a reason for admission to a naval hospital in 1914. I’m guessing it might be STD related bearing in mind said ancestor ultimately died of tertiary syphilis years later and had a pretty wild reputation to say the least, but it would be good to know for sure what it means.

Thank you for your time

Hi everyone

I've recently uploaded my DNA on Gedmatch and was particularly interested in X chromosome comparison as I assume this can help with maternal relatives, and certainly on my mother's side there's some gaps we need some clues on. But as a female we inherit an X chromosome from our fathers too so I'm not sure what this can be used for? As I have my mother's DNA on there as well I'm assuming that our shared X chromosome will have at least come from her maternal line - am I right? Does it mean I need to list all X chromosome matches of us both to find her mother's maternal connections? The one on one comparisons just show technical data so I'm confused on how to use that as well.

I have a basic understanding of DNA and science behind it, but there doesn't seem to be a proper "idiots guide" anywhere to explain how to interpret the data, and I was wondering if anyone on here could help?

I could of course go though and email everyone with an X chromosome match who seems to be related - there's not a high number, but a few 3rd and 4th cousins. But I'd love to know more about what the raw data can tell you, and things like the relationship between MtDNA and the X chromosome as I know both are connnected with the maternal line.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm a bit lost at the moment

I've only recently discovered this section of the forum and it coincides with a lot of my family photos coming to hand, so I've been stumbling around with a few more pressing issues that have come up.
 
I don't know what's possible in terms of restoration but these are the ones in most desperate need.

They are all of Alma McDonald my mother's cousin. The 1st two are her with her mother Mary (my GM's sister) the 3rd is with her father Norman. They were taken between 1921-1924 in Ontario, Canada and sent to my grandmother back in London.

Mary her mother died from childbirth complications after her 2nd daughter was born in 1924. The baby also died a few hours after birth. Around 6 months later the then nearly 4 year old Alma died of meningitis.

My GM was very close to her sister and the reason these pictures are so badly deteriorated is that she kept them with her everywhere for over 60 years, until the onsent of dementia meant they were taken into safe keeping with other family pictures.

They are the only pictures of Alma (we have a few others of Mary), though it was very touching to learn through family research connection that Norman remarried and had a second family, and his descendents still care for their graves after al this time. But they had no pictures of them either.

The photos are worse even than this in reality - I've done some basic exposure and contrast adjustment which just shows there are still facial features which gives me some hope. These are not visible at all in the physcial copies of the 1st two, and very indistinct in the 3rd. They are also very fragile and are cracked and crumbly.

So can anything be done? Is it possible to restore them, especially anything that shows little Alma's face?

I'd appreciate anything anyone can do, or any advice on how to save the photos themselves

Sorry for a second photo post in a day.

This is a mixture of advice and dating. It's a metal plate of uncertain age but clearly starting to deteriorate badly. It was found with family photos that came from a Great Grandfather (1863-1929) or his daughter (1896-1988) so we guess they're relatives.

Advice on date may help ID who they are, but also any enhancemnet or advice how to preserve it. It's the only metal plate photograph we have an it doesn't look like it will last much longer, it feels very brittle like it could come apart very easily.

Thank you in advance for any input