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One Name Studies: A to G / COPPIN
« on: Sunday 26 January 20 08:07 GMT (UK) »
Does anyone have this surname in their tree, please? I shall look forward to hearing from you.
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The Common Room / COPPIN
« on: Sunday 26 January 20 08:03 GMT (UK) »
Does anyone have this surname in their tree, please? I shall look forward to hearing from you.
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The Common Room / Re: 1939 Census
« on: Tuesday 23 April 19 09:00 BST (UK) »
Thank you all so much for your very interesting replies - they all made fascinating reading.
What prompted my curiosity was seeing 5 lines blanked out below the details of the other householders on the page I was looking at. If, however, the rule is that they are possibly still alive then why was a baby of only a few months included?
What prompted my curiosity was seeing 5 lines blanked out below the details of the other householders on the page I was looking at. If, however, the rule is that they are possibly still alive then why was a baby of only a few months included?
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The Common Room / 1939 Census
« on: Monday 22 April 19 10:24 BST (UK) »
Does anyone know when the full details of the 1939 Census will be released, please?
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The Common Room / Re: Merchant Navy Enlistment
« on: Monday 22 April 19 09:15 BST (UK) »There are no databases concerning the rest of the UK similar to the Welsh Mariners site which is only an on line index of 23,758 Welsh merchant Masters, Mates and Engineers active from 1800 to 1945 by and large not other seamen.Thank you so much, seaweed, for your help. Disappointing about the lack of records but I did get a snippet of information from the Royal Maritime Museum.
There is a website for Irish Mariners 1918-1921
http://www.irishmariners.ie/searchdatabase.php
No Central Personal service records of Merchant Navy seamen were kept between 1857 and 1913. The Board of Trade in it's wisdom considered that the information contained within Logbooks and Crew Agreements would suffice.
Personal MN service records for the period of the first World War have been destroyed.
Find My Past has personal MN service records 1918 to 1941. If you could find him there then you may be able to trace him by backtracking Crew Agreements but it's a drawn out and expensive exercise.
Crew Agreements for 1915 are on line
https://1915crewlists.rmg.co.uk/
The only other major on line database of Crew Agreements is for the year 1881.
https://www.mun.ca/mha/1881/crews1881.php
Details of Officers for the period may be contained in Lloyd's Captains Register.
VDP
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The Common Room / Merchant Navy Enlistment
« on: Sunday 21 April 19 13:50 BST (UK) »
Can anyone help me find the records for someone who joined the Merchant Navy in the early 1900's, please? Many years ago I was put in touch with a Welsh Mariners website and I am hoping there is something similar for British Mariners.
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Could DNA testing help me find my birth father?
« on: Sunday 24 February 19 09:09 GMT (UK) »Congratulations ...your success will encourage others .
& sometimes the results are there but it does take some calculating .I live in Leicester where DNA studies started so am hoping to get a student to join my Time Travel Detective club to be able tonhelp others on such quests .
Your story is inspiring ..I expected a longer wait .
B
How nice to hear from you and good luck with your Time Travel Detective club.
I cannot take the credit for finding my birth father as it was a very clever cousin of mine who beavered away going back several generations, I believe.
Incidentally I am just starting to read a genealogical crime mystery!
VDP
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The Common Room / Re: PORT OF ADEN 1939
« on: Wednesday 13 February 19 10:04 GMT (UK) »British Library - see the top of the page here:
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/7d807f72-ee39-43db-86ed-2812db614c35
Without a name I think you have very little to go on so would have to trawl through potentially lots and lots of documents on the off-chance that you found something.
However it could be that you could find something via the Admiralty series in the National Archives. Your man might just have been posted there as an RNVR officer to be the RN commander at the port, or to work within the RN port commander's team. I've had a quick search on Discovery with search term Aden, series ADM, dates 1938-41 and got 19 hits, some of which might be interesting.
I also thought about the Board of Trade series BT - that generates loads of hits and would need some careful refinement to narrow down the list to something manageable.
Many thanks for your reply - I am ashamed to say several months ago now. I have now managed to find my father so shall be closing this thread.
VDP
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Could DNA testing help me find my birth father?
« on: Wednesday 06 February 19 17:27 GMT (UK) »Congratulations indeed. Was it through a first cousin match, or perhaps a half sibling?
Bet you are glad you took the test.
Regards Margaret
Thank you, Margaret.
To be fair by doing the DNA test I had the names of a third and fourth cousin at the top of my list who never replied to my messages. This is apparently quite common.
However, a very clever cousin of mine, by working through one of their trees was able to work out the link.
VDP