Forum: Success stories.

Read about the fairly new website for British Newspapers Archives and decided to have a look and purchase some credits. Here is what I found in a just a couple of hours (some of these are sad stories): One of my ancestors, Mary Kenyon Proctor Saul Baines (I descend from a Saul son) left a...

After 10 years I have finally found some positive proof that he existed! I cannot find my original posts, but he was a seaman/fisherman out of Grimsby 100+ years ago. I took a gamble and applied to Fleet Air Arm for WW1 records that I thought may be his (after a lot of research) and it is...

I dipped a toe into the new newspaper archives site a couple of days ago, and found three articles about my g g grandfather John Nash. I knew from censuses that he was a mail cart driver, and had imagined he pottered around doing local deliveries from the station at Liphook Hants. The best of the...

I daren't reckon up how much I've spent over the years on family history (my only vice, as I don't smoke or drink, and hate shopping!) but tonight the cost became immaterial. FMP have just loaded Merchant Navy Seaman's records, and as usual I typed in 'my' surname, idly scrolled down the alpha...

Thank you to all on this forum, and especially Peter Goodey and Kerrywood. Due to Peter, I decided to look for a will for one of my Hale ancestors on the National Archives website and found a will for Henry Hale (my direct ancestor) in 1655. Kerrywood helped me figure out the name of a piece of...

Thank you to this wonderful forum, I recently received a message from one of your members and we have discovered that she is my Dads first cousin. We have corresponded often over the past couple of weeks and this morning I received a parcel with photos and a disc in it. In amongst the photos was...

I would just like to say a tremendous thank you to who ever organised this site I went on yesterday after much access trouble, and trying to find my way around, but determination won me an answer to finding relatives I'd given up trying for, in 24 hours they have been in touch with me....

Been trying to 'get back' just one more generation and been stuck on a John and Ann Gidney (couldn't get more common names really) ... just today I came across a record of a marriage on FSearch of John Gidney and Ann Leverick ... thankfully several years down the line they called one of their sons...

After nearly 3 years it has just occured to me that Lichfield in Staffordshire does not have a t in it!!! I take back all my complaints about trolling through every county in England to find any link to Staffordshire. I also feel pretty silly for not noticing sooner! Just goes to show it is...

I type this as I'm enjoying a nice glass of red wine. So why's that relevent? You may well ask.... Thanks to the lovely people here I learned who my G G Grandmother was. I'd started off not even knowing her name, just that she must have been in Ireland in 1838 as that was where and when G G...

Has anyone found anyone or anything !TRULY EXCITING! in their genealogical searches - ie someone who was famous/infamous?! Or just something wildly unexpected?! Probably a bit of New Year gloom, but I've just felt strangely glum about my ancestry (other than a couple of naughty grandfathers -...

In 2004 I started on a journey to find my dad's father. My dad was illegitimate, conceived in 1918 and born February 1, 1919. Many of my threads since joining B-G have centred on this puzzle, so I won't rebore you with details as the threads are still here for review. What is sufficient to...

Good morning!!! Thought I would stop by and say thank you once more!!!! I spent over 2 hours last night talking with E and L - the uncle and his wife the wall busters found for me last week. All the information you gave me was 100% correct. E is the son of Ewart Gardner and his second wife so...

When hunting never rely on either Ancestry or FMP coming up with alternative possibilities! In 1871 George Reeves was just that - it has taken days to find him in 1861 and 1851 - and this is why. 1861 - Ancestry - REVES 1861 - FMP - READ 1851 - Ancestry - REIVES 1851 - FMP - REWES None of...

I have been trying to find out the address for my great x 4 grandfathers houses in Linkfield lane for years without success. Tonight after some sideways thinking I finally found it His second wife died in 1881 before the census but I knew the cottages names and with some hunting found the three...

With more than a little help from members of this board I now seem to have more distant cousins than I believed possible. The bare bones of the story are in http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/showthread.php/68345-Did-he-carry-her-off-to-Denmark!?highlight=denmark Thank you all - you...

I have not been around the forum much for the past 6 weeks, due to I post I made about my gggrandfather JohnBrown b1815. I was contacted, on BG, by a descendant of my ggrandfather Henry's brother John, both sons of aforementioned John. We both had very little to go on. Well over the past weeks...

Had some real trouble finding my paternal Grt-Grt-Grt Grandfather and family in the 1861 Census. It's taken so many hours of random searches but I think I've finally found them! Here he is along with my 1yr old Grt-Grt Grandmother Kate/Katherine in 1871 This is them by the looks of it -...

Another find thanks to GR and hot matches! Usually I don't get overly excited when I find a 4th cousin, but this one lives 20 minutes away from me!! We share 3x gr. grandparents from Foulsham, Norfolk! I wonder what brought her family to Canada? Can't wait to meet her! :hurray: Sue