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Something I haven't come across before. Death Certificate shows Cause of Death as Cyanosis from Birth Ascites 3 days Certified What does the "3 days" mean? Date of death January 1858. Deceased was a 9 year old boy (my Great Great Uncle) who died at his home in London. Informant was his father. I und...

Thanks for the replies. That's given me some more avenues to explore. I take the point abput 1939 Register and address, but I have a pretty good idea where he was living on registration day (with his parents and he is, I think, one of the two closed records there, the other being his still living yo...

Thanks. The person is John Arthur Frederick EASTWOOD. Born 1916 (mother's Maiden Name Tuff) in London and appears in the Birth Index Q4 1916 for Edmonton (Middlesex - incorrectly shown in Ancestry as Buckinghamshire). In 1939 he joined the Indian Army in London. In April 1943 while fighting Japanese...

I've been trying without success to find out whether Death Certificates are issued or deaths registered for soldiers who died in action overseas but whose body was never found. A relative of mine joined the Indian Army in London in 1939 and died in action in Burma during 1943 but his body was never ...

I'd only ever seen the normal copy of the full Birth register entry before, until I came across this, a Certificate of Registry of Birth for an uncle born in 1912. I'd thought Short Form Birth Certificates only started in 1953 but this appears to be a fore-runner of short form certificates. Certific...

I've been going through Kelly's Directories for Cornwall for 1930 - 1935 - 1939 trying to find an entry for my great uncle who ran a shop and was sub postmaster in a tiny village there. So far I haven't been able to find him although I sure we has there. I have two elderly relatives who say they rem...

Thanks for the replies, I feel much better informed now aboput the options I've got. And I've now discovered Ancestral Sources which I hadn't heard of before.

Your proposed Source Records are using what is popularly referred to as Method 2 and as such pose problems if you wish to record a Text From Source transcript and attach a Multimedia image for the source document. To use those features you would better advised to use Method 1 where the Source Recor...

I'm also confused about how to record Sources. I have just read Catherine's question posted earlier this week and the responses to that have cleared up quite a few of my questions, but I'm still unsure about where to record Sources when I'm getting the information from Ancestry. (I take the point fr...

Following on from my last post I have now manged to upload the photo. Do any vintage car experts know what make it is?



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Does anyone know of somewhere old UK car registration information can be researched? I have a photo from I'd guess late 1920s/early 1930s with people I'm trying to identify having a picnic around a car with the registration number YW 247. I was wondering if one route to identifying the people would ...

Any ideas about how to track down records of criminal convictions in the 1920s? There is 'family story' - no more than that - that a great uncle of mine was convicted of something - don't know what, but nothing serious enough to have made the national news or gone to the Old Bailey - and served a sh...

The photos linked to individuals on my family tree (FH v3.1.2) are saved all over the place on the hard drive of my PC (due to my lack of foresight!) and I want to tidy them up into a single Folder for Photos and Sub-folders for each family. However, when I move a photo to a new folder the link to i...