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Hi Anthony, Interesting attitude and given I can't see any other way to make general enquiries I'm left to use this. It WAS a serious suggestion on my part. It is a tool that I find VERY useful in do my research and talking to family on the phone that I can't travel readily to meet so we can talk and go through things on the screen together but remotely. I think commercially it would be a benefit and would increase your exposure to other prospective users that would not have otherwise been piqued. Could be something that you pass on as a suggestion at least to GenesR but your call I guess. Cheers, Mark.

Hello again, It isn't a name which immediately springs to mind but I will have to plough through the 4 years of work to see if anyone has mentioned Bill Lawson before. I will put the link onto the thread and see if anyone recognises it. As for the name Diana/Dolina/Dolly, we have been through most alternatives that we could think of and taken advice from those who specialise in Scottish research. Please take a look at the thread, I am sure you will be impressed by the sheer perseverance, professionalism and expertise of the members who have been helping. Thanks. Cx

Hi Anthony, i really hope you can point me in the right direction with the one person in my tree who has caused me issues for about 5 years... Lilian Julia Mary Elizabeth Oakley is my great grandmother and she married Thomas Rudd in Islington in 1921. Her father is named as Howard Oakley deceased on the marriage cert, but does state that he was a galvinzer. Her death cert says her DOB was 22/09/1901. My trouble is, i cannot find a birth record for any variant of her given name, nor a death for a Howard Oakley. The family story is that her parents died and Lily was brought up in Wales in a convent but was born in Ireland. As Lily was Roman catholic i have also tried to see if there was a "blessing" in her RC Church in Islington but received no reply. As i say i've been looking for her for 5 years and i cannot find anything that seems to match her. If the family story from my nan (daughter of Lily) is true and she was brought up in a convent, is there any way i would be able to find her? I have heard that the names of girls were changed? i feel like i have exhausted all routes and will never know about her. Many Thanks for any help you can give..

HI Anthony, I appreciate it is a commercial enterprise but I was hoping it may be like Ancestry.com which does provide an initial 14day trial. I do already pay a subscription there so it's more a matter of having the opportunity to 'give it a run' first. Incidentally Ancestry.com allows you to share a link which you can send to invitees email address and this allows you to have other family view your tree on the website without having have a paid subscription. This is why I use this with my immediate family so they can see what I've built but they don't need to have a paid account - but all they can do is look around in my tree. They obviously can't view other trees or search records. I think GenesR would do well to be able to be able to send a link to an invitees' email address to allow them to view a tree of a member and not need them to have an account.

Could You help my husband Brian McDermott find his Haif Brother John Davies from Manchester he thinks he is in is late 80s He Has a Wife Called Mary, and one Daughter called Linda she got married in Eccles John had a brother called James (Jimmy ) Isaac Davies.

Thank you for your response Anthony. This is the link to the thread in question.... http://www.genesreunited.co.za/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1133150 If you have any advice for us, you are more than welcome to either post it on the thread or contact me by pm. Regards.

Margaret Bebney .hi Anthony. i am trying to find where in south Wales my father was born .his date of birth was 3/11/1896. i have look at 1901 and 1911 census.just cant find him at all .on his marriage cert his father s name was James Morgan. his job was a collier.frank did go to war in war one .all that he would tell his Childen was that he went to France. frank left south wales a few years after war one.he came to live in Brmingham.

My grandfathers surname was Merrifield but he changed his name to Jack Osborne I dont know if his given name was jack as he was Jewish.My mother told me that my greatgrand mother came from Russia and that my greatgrand father was a professor of english and that his name was printed inside english text books, maybe he was a printer. I was told they owned alot of property and they lived either in Oxford or Plymouth. There was just my grandfather and a sister in the family, I have looked through many records but because i dont know their first names I am not having any luck finding them.My parents and my grandparents are dead so I cannot ask any questions, can you give me any advice as to how I could trace them.

I am tracing my maternal Grandmother's line through her father Charles Bowden Smith RN 1/8/1872, Harwich. His father was William Smith 29 Oct 1845 b. Reculver Kent, Petty Officer HM cruiser Adder, m. Mary Ann Squibb 25 Dec 1865. William's father = William Thomas Smith 25 Feb 1815 (19.12.1816?) b Deal or Wickham Kent, Master RN, m. Mary Ann Walter 26 July 1842. Wlliam's parents were William Smith, charcoal burner, Bexley, Kent and Ann. I'd like help in finding information about William and Ann and his parents. I've found many Smiths in other trees but not the right ones.

Hi I am seeking to trace John Orsborn He was named as father of George Orsborn who was born 1816 in Overthorpe Northamton. George Orsborn married Harriet Fortnum on 18th Oct 1841 in Banbury Oxfordshire Harriet's father on marriage certificate named as William Fortnum her mother Ann Middleton. I did find a John Orsborne who banns of marriage were in Hook Norton Oxfordshire to a Mary Fawdry but not sure if this is the right John Orsborn who I am seeking I am unable to even estimate DOB for John as do not know if there were any other siblings to George as I have been unable to trace any. It seems as though the name is also spelt Osborn in some records.Thanks in advance

Hi Anthony, I'm new to GenesR and have uploaded a Gedcom file of my tree which has worked fine but I've only done this so that another family member on the other side of the world can view it from her GenesR account. What I have found is that I can't view her tree through a 'share' request unless I take out a paid subscription. She can view my tree but when I click the reply on her share request (for me to request access to her tree, it simply prompts me to take out a subscription. I was hoping the 'free' access may at least provide a period to trial some of the functions but it appears not to be. Or am I missing something?

Also could you Help me find my haif brothers and sister Roy Pugh, Carol Pugh, and Albert Pugh I think they live in Hereford there in there late 50s or late 60s, There father is called William I think they where born in Manchester

I am researching my great granddad John Walsh, on his WW1 service record his birth date is 12 September 1875, it dose'nt say where he was born, on the 1911 census he states he was born in Fulham, i cannot find any records for this date and place. I have phoned the people at B D M and they couldn't find anything either. I know his father was called John also. He and my great grandmother did'nt get married until 1957. can you help, as i don't know where else to try, regards Jill Clarke

Hi Anthony. I have army records for Frederick Albert Gould and in 1915 it stated that the next of kin was a brother (William Gould). They both stated same address Church Street, West Coker. How do I find out more about William Gould and is it possible to find out who else lived at that address? I have looked at the births around when his brother Frederick was born but no luck.

Can you help me to find my Husbands Brother John Davies From Salford he thinks

Hello Anthony, You may have heard about a long running thread on the boards - Looking for mother. A large number of community members have been striving for over 4 years to help Evelyn find her mother and thus, her maternal roots. This is a shortened version of what we have discovered so far - although I'm not sure that 'short' is the correct word to use :) We would be extremely grateful if you could give us any advise. Many thanks. Cynthia. DIANE LESLIE MacLEOD born c June 1906-8 India? (so she said). No verification of this birth can be found whatsoever. Searches have been made of Indian, Scottish and English births by many people but to no avail as yet. Possibilities: This is not her real name. DIANE: Searches have been made under: Donaldina, Dolinda, Dolina etc. - nothing found. LESLIE: She was very attached to her middle name of Leslie and insisted it was spelled that way. She gave the name to one of her sons. Some searches have been made re this name but maybe we need to do more. MacLEOD : On her marriage certificate (1929 in London), she states her father to be Major Robert MacLeod of the 1st Seaforth Highlanders - deceased. Nothing of him can be confirmed despite extensive military searches being made. These can be found on ps 2-4 and 14-15 – 29 and 36 of the thread. She told her family that she went to live on Stornoway with ‘Aunt Kate and cousins Donald & Ishbel (Isabelle)’. This family has been researched as probably the family of Rev. Donald MacLeod who was the minister of the church in Tarbat. The present Incumbent of that church has been contacted and was most helpful. Various agencies in Tarbat have been contacted re this family and Diane but nothing found. We have almost completed a 'family tree' on that particular MacLeod family but, someone has come forward who is related to them and does not think Diane links to them. Diane stated that she went to school in Stornoway. The most likely school would be the Nicolson Institute. A search has been made for her under D.L.M but there is no sign of her under that name. Other local schools have been contacted but there is nothing to be found under D.L.M. There is no sign of a DLM on the 1911 Scottish census see p.41 The first absolute sighting we have of her is when she started work at Springfield Hospital in London 7.6.1927 - 19.6.1928. There are, apparently, no more notes in her file. In 1929 she married, as Diane Leslie MacLeod, a Herbert R.J. Roy in London. Up until her marriage, she received a private allowance, source unknown. The address given on her marriage certificate is 53 Khartoum Road, Wandsworth, London. The Electoral Roll for 1929 shows the family living at that address were named Kirby. There is no sign of Diane anywhere in Khartoum Road . She may just have been boarding there for a short time prior to her marriage. Our Evelyn was born in 1932 at 44 Dafforne Road, Wandsworth and Diane and her husband show up there on the Electoral Roll. Some research has been done on the other occupants but nothing worthwhile was found apart from the fact that one of the occupants was an Evelyn Goddard-Fenwick whom our Evelyn is named after and was her Godmother. See ps. 22-23 of this thread for more details. Various living Goddard-Fenwick’s have been contacted but to no avail. You can pm me for details on that. We have, over the last couple of years, drawn up a fairly comprehensive family tree for the G-Fs but simply cannot trace the connection. Just before the search drew to a halt last year, Evelyn remembered her mother reading a local newspaper (Dorset?)in the early 1950's and finding either an article or an obituary about a very old lady who had died in Stornoway aged 91. She stated that it was Aunt Kate. FBG travelled to the local office to look at the microfiche but, again - nothing. Scotland's People was searched for possible deaths but again, we drew a blank. At the moment, I am working to try and find where Evelyn was actually baptised, just in case any family members were included as Godparents. I am having lovely phone calls with the incumbent of the most likely parish church but no baptism as yet!!! So this is where the search is up to so far and still we try........because of our fondness for Evelyn...

thanx for your help last month found a 3rd marriage for my g grandmother and have possibly found a death just waiting for certificate to arrive

Sorry....forgot to give some ages on the marriage cert.....they married in 1915 and Henry was aged 28. So must have been born around 1887. But i dont know where, and as i say i only have his fathers name which was on the marriage cert as Thomas Smith. I have traced Henry's wife, Ethel Fulford side of the family, it is just Henry Smith's family i need help tracing back. Thanks, Alison.

Hello Anthony , i am trying to find the death of my g grandmother my nan told me that she is buried at Croyland Abbey but i am unable to find a death for her . my nan told me this in 60 ,s and is no longer with us . i have searched from 1920 upto 1950 she came from Herefordshire in 1910-11 with my nan as a young girl . Remarried in 1915 and had a son in 1916 and lived in Bourne Lincolnshire , Croyland Abbey is not far from Bourne , but at one time classed as Cambridgeshire . I have been to Croyland Abbey to search for a grave but no Joy maybe an unmarked grave ? If i aproach the Vicar at the Abbey would it be likley they could help me with out the date of the death . Thanks Sharon Toseland

Just to state, i have not found my Henry Smith on any census as yet! The marriage cert is all i have. Alison.