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I had cousins, twins Kenneth and Alma Gibson born in 1935 I always thought it was Alma but seems it was actually Elma., I found Ken easy enough but struggled with his twin sister, He is shown in the 1939 register with his parents Alf and Rebecca but Elma isn't, so where was she and where since...

I just spent a little time on Google Earth trying to look at the route we used to take between the workshop and the showroom at Watson's Broad St where I worked in the fifties/sixties. Villa Street- Nursery Road -Hockley Brook-Icknield Street-Summer Hill Road-Sandpits-St Vincent Street-Sheepcote...

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That's my granddad, he's listed in the census as a silversmith, is there any way of finding if he was self employed or an employee of one of the Brum companies?

I have a photo with written on the back Harriet Coughlin aged 18, My mother's maiden name was Coughlin so I looked Harriet up on the Family search site and this came up but to go further I need to pay the National Archives fee, anyone know better? Name Harriet Coughlin Sex Female Age 3...

.............that pop into your head in the middle of the night,:) Last night I thought about Aston's Barton Arms and my grandparents who lived in Barton's Bank..............................but who was Barton?

In Monmouth yesterday I saw a man cleaning the frontage of a charity shop, noticed this, we had one of those in Warren farm road where mom shopped when we were kids.

This might seem daft, My sister in law has a daughter so a niece, my niece has a daughter, what relation is she to me?

Just watched a Sky News video of a house demolished by a suspected gas explosion with casualties.

I just got directed to Geneanet, anyine tried it/use it? https://en.geneanet.org/

Well that's what it looks like on the1861 census. Any ideas where? I got a 'hint' from Ancestry this morning.

I'm stuck on my ancestor Peter Gibson born 1791, I have a lot after him and his two marriages but can't find anything earlier i.e. where he was born or his parents. I've just taken up the Ancestry four months for twenty quid offer to try more options, any advice?

This is my cousin, she would be about the same age as me, born 1935ish she had a twin brother Kenneth, I last saw them at my mother's funeral, I found out whilst searching yesterday that Ken died in 2005 but I can't find Elma. She was mis-transcribed in one place I found as Elina, would like...

I've been getting an Irish newsletter by email for some time, this is offered free to readers and to be passed around to anyone interested, https://greenroomfiles.s3.amazonaws.com/Irish+Family+History+Research+-+A+Green+Room+Genealogy+Primer.pdf

This is my uncle Bill Lees photographed at his retirement from the Birmingham Mail in 1975. He drove their delivery vans all through the war. He took me and my brother Allen to Shrewsbury on one of his overnight trips in the blackout.

Site seems to have got in a tangle this morning, wading through treacle to get logged in and moves around. No problem on other sites.

My mother had several different out work jobs when we were kids, anything to earn a few bob whilst she was at home looking after us. One job was putting the curls on the end of badge or tie pins, 3d a thousand. They gave her a little tool which meant picking up a pin, putting it in a slot...

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My uncle Jim, James Biddle married to my dad's sister Ada Gibson, worked at Fort Dunlop, I recall an aunt tapping our front window and whispering to mom that he had died at work but I never thought any more about it until recently. So was he killed in a works accident or a natural sudden death...