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Thank you very much, I will look in to those.
She was unmarried when she went missing, IF by some miracle nothing sinister happened to her, and she got married after she vanished then I doubt I could even track her down at all.

I got fantastic results from the Oldham Local Studies and Archives people.

www.oldham.gov.uk/community/local_studies.htm




sylvia

It might be worth trying the police as if the case was never solved, there may still be some information on the original case archived away within the police force somewhere, you are probably better to ring them rather than email.

http://www.gmp.police.uk/mainsite/pages/contactushome.htm

also try:

http://www.oldham.gov.uk/az_of_services/cs-archives.htm

also try a letter to the Oldham Chronicle, as there may be people still in the area who remember her going missing

http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/

Good Luck

George

If the disappearance was after 1900 there won't be anything online and without an idea of date I'm sure any Archives wouldn't look through the newspapers for you. Perhaps your best bet would be to look at the online indexes to marriages and deaths and see if you can find her, although if she had a common name that would be very difficult!

Thank you Shirley, but as I already said, I do know the names of the brothers and sisters, my main question was re. finding any newspaper articles on the sister that went missing.

Thank you very much though :)

Depending on when they were born ,after 1911 then the mums maiden name is listed in the GRO ref, so if you search on both surnames then all the siblings should show

Thank you, yes I already have her name, {and his other brothers and sisters names}.

Unfortunatly, my Grandad is getting on a bit now and I don't want to upset him with any questions that might be bring back memories.

I will have to see if I can find out if Oldham or Manchester library can do any look ups for me.

If you know your Mum's dad's name and date of birth you can check the birth index and find the births of his brother's and sisters. You would then have a name to go on.

Back copies of newspapers are usually kept on microfilm at the nearest reference library to where these people lived. Most libraries have an email address and some will do look-ups for you but others won't.

Kath. x

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right board to post this on but it seems about right lol

So, I just got off the phone to my Mum, who knows I have been researching the family tree, though I have barely touched Mum's side of the family as of yet, whilst I work on my paternal side of things.

Anyways, we just happened to get talking about it because my Aunt mentioned to her that she told me my Gran had another brother which I didn't know, then my Mum mentioned that my Grandad {Mum's Dad}, had a couple of brothers and sister and that one of them went missing and was never found, and they had no idea whether she ran away or something more sinister happened to her.

Now my question is, is there somewhere {online, as I live too far away from the location of her disappearance}, where it might have more details, maybe newspapers etc?

If anyone could help me, I would be very grateful, as it seems like too good of a story to simply put on the backburner for now.

BTW. Mum said she never met her, so I'm guessing it was before her and maybe her sisters were born, and the eldest was born in 1955

Thank you!