Who When Where

Is there anytime on the back of the photo? Either hand written or printed?

I applied for my father's WW2 army records last year and eventually the application was returned with a note saying as they hadn't been able to deal with it within 6 months the cheque could no longer be cashed and I'd need to apply again so the fact you haven't heard anything doesn't mean the applic...

Do you have a specific person you're trying to find or are you looking at the industry in general? If you give more details of what you're actually after that may help. I was doing some research on a trainer from the 1920s/30s and found most of what I wanted in press reports. Steeplechase trainers t...

Going back to my point about her leaving the family after the birth of her last child, I don't think you should just consider that she was incarcerated somewhere. In the case of my relative who separated from his first wife after the death of their daughter they both left Gloucester and she turned u...

Have you considered the possibility that Elizabeth hadn't died but left him and the children? If it happened just prior to 1881 George may have thought/hoped that she would return to the family so he listed himself as married. By 1891 he'd given up that hope so listed himself as widowed. If she'd gi...

Or could it be a May Day event?

Check in the local press to see if the local school celebrated with a May Day procession or similar.

As a first port of call you could find out who now manages the cemetery and then contact them. I was trying to find out if a couple were buried together when only the husband was known to be in a certain plot. In my case the cemetery was managed by the local council. I e-mailed them, they came back ...

Glamorgan Archives are trying to identify people in photographs from 100 years ago. An interesting project and as we all know, not any easy one!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56843429

Thanks for raising this. I'll see if we can do anything about it and report back.

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Has anyone else been watching this series on BBC 1? I'm afraid my fascination for family history has over ridden my dislike of the presenter and I've watched both episodes. The BBC have obviously jumped on the success of Long Lost Family and tried to reproduce their own version. For me, I think it's...