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Hi all,

I have a copy of a photo of my 2xgreat grandmother and her colleagues standing outside the laundry where they worked, going by their hairstyles it looks like it was taken in the late 1910s or 1920s but possibly early 1930s. The name of the laundry is 'Mrs Pain - Laundry Specialists' and the photo shows the ladies standing outside what looks like a shop type laundry rather than an industrial laundry, with a number '9' above the doorway.

My 2x great grandmother lived in Fulham but I'd like to find the location of the laundry, I'm assuming it's in Fulham or a surrounding area. Can anyone help me to locate 'Mrs Pain - Laundry Specialists'?

Something I love from the photo is that there's a sign in the window saying 'party frocks are washed in 12 hours'.

Many thanks.

Hi all,

I've found the CR10 record for an ancestor of mine. His record has an entry for his 'No. of Identity Certificate' (497388), some personal details including his DOB, a photo, and written on the side of the document is 'renewal'.  As his name was 'William Smith' his name is too common. I haven't found anything in the CR2 series which could be a match as only year of birth seems to be given and no identity certificate number. His CR10 doesn't list any ship ID's.

My question is, presumably the 'renewal' means he was staying on in the MN - can anyone confirm this? Also, is there a way to match up CR10 and CR2 records if I don't have a discharge number?

Thanks in advance.

Hi all,

I've just received a new 'match' on Ancestry DNA that may help me break down a wall but I'm interested in other people's thoughts.

I've long suspected that my granddad's parents were 1st cousins - it's been hard to prove as the parents (my 2x great grandparents) of his mother never married but lived together for several years so I have no marriage certificate to confirm father's names. However, this new DNA match may help to solve this.

This new DNA match ('match one') is definitely my third cousin once removed with our common ancestors being my 3x great grandparents - our trees confirm this. Ancestry says we share 139cM, which according to their chart says most people sharing this amount of DNA are:

49%   likely to be 2nd cousin 1x removed, Half 2nd cousin, 1st cousin 3x removed or Half 1st cousin 2x removed

30%   likely to be 2nd cousin,1st cousin 2x removed, Half 1st cousin 1x removed, Half 2nd great-aunt/uncle or Half 2nd great-niece/nephew

with only 2% likely to be 3rd cousins once removed.

So, of my 3x great grandparents, match one is descended from child one and I'm definitely descended from child two and possibly also child 3. These children were all born in the 1840s and 1850s. Another Ancestry DNA match (match 2) shares 129cm with me and is also likely descended from child one but has no tree online for me to confirm how match 1 and match 2 are related. Ancestry just says match 2 is descended from the same 3x great grandparents.

My question is, would you take this DNA match result to mean that I am actually more closely related to match 1 than I otherwise should be, and that this is the proof I have that my great-grandparents were 1st cousins?

I hope those ramblings make sense.

Thanks in advance.

Hi all,

I recently read in the LostCousins newsletter that the series of letters on the top left hand corner of WW2 identity cards is the same as the enumeration district a person was living in at the time of the 1939 register (http://lostcousins.com/newsletters2/latemar17news.htm). Great I thought, I've been trying to locate one of my great-aunts in the 1939 register for some time with no luck and I have her National Identity Card from 1945, the one she received after she married. The enumeration district says 'YFFP' and the numbers are '234:5790'. But I can't work out where 'YFF' or 'YFFP' is, or why her number is so large! I've consulted the FindMyPast.co.uk 1939 district page http://www.findmypast.co.uk/articles/1939-register-enumeration-districts and this page: http://kiwitrees.net/1939-register-enumeration-districts/ but neither lists a 'YFF' or 'YFFP'.

My great-aunt was born in London in 1927 and wasn't living with her mother at the time of the register, I assume she'd been evacuated as other relatives of mine of that age were. My great-aunt died in 2002 so her 1939 record should be open but I can't find it.

If anyone can shed some light on where the enumeration district was from her identity card I'd really appreciate it.

Many thanks,
Paula

Hi,

This photo is of my great-grandfathers younger brother, Alfred, who served in the Royal East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) 2nd Bn during WW2. We know that he was a career soldier and this photo must have been taken in the late 1920s or 1930s. Alfred was to eventually die in Burma in 1945.

Does anyone know what regiment this insignia is from that Alfred is wearing? I know it's not the clearest but it sort of looks like a tree coming out of a ball to my completely untrained eye.

Thanks in advance,
Paula