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My own theory is that my father befriended an airman who was the biological father and unknown circumstances lead to Arthur and Myrtle being the choice for adopting couples, this coupled with their recent marriage and still childless status. My own research has produced an airman who was killed in ...

I don't have any experience of researching in Switzerland, but when faced with a new country I'd always have a look at Cyndi's List: https://www.cyndislist.com/ Go to Categories, then there's a whole section for Switzerland. You won't find any actual records there, but you may find links to sites th...

Thanks for that suggestion - looking back through the thread, I don't think we managed to work out exactly where it was. Not long after the previous messages were posted I did in fact manage to reunite the painting with some of the artist's family members, so 8 years on, I'm not sure where it is now...

Since the previous posts were made, there has been a change of policy at SP. I have a fair few unused credits which were due to expire tomorrow and went to the site to check that I could reactivate them at any time, but discovered that this is no longer the case. The current T&Cs (16 March 2021) say...

In England you'd only be able to find a bridegroom's father's name by ordering a marriage certificate; mothers' names aren't recorded in England. However, by comparing the information in the civil registration indexes (at FindMyPast, or FreeBMD, which I used) and the 1901 and 1911 censuses you can, ...

Have you looked at the Anglo-Italian FHS - https://anglo-italianfhs.org.uk/ Thanks Arthur, I did see that site - it said they mainly concentrated on Italians to the UK - & I'm looking for the ancestors of someone who came to Australia - but they may have researchers - I hadn't thought to check that...

Have you looked at the Anglo-Italian FHS - https://anglo-italianfhs.org.uk/ I only know of them through seeing their name in listings of societies, and I don't know how much they'd be able to help if your friend went directly from Italy to Australia, but they might nevertheless be able to offer some...

A good starting point would be FreeBMD, which allows you to include an approximate year of birth in your search. In the period 1911-1970 there are just 5 Lydia Clarkes and 11 John T's. Do any of the places mentioned ring a bell, or do any places in the Lydia list match the John T list? For example, ...

I don't think Derby City Council will be able to help on this occasion, as (a) it's not in their area, and (b) it's a churchyard, not a council cemetery. Sometimes burial registers include a reference to the burial plot, but these ones don't. (They're available at Ancestry, and I've checked.) A few ...

Might it be some code that the cemetery use to record information about what's in the plot, such as Headstone, Kerb, Vase, Statue? Or a note about its condition, eg headstone keeling very slightly? If the cemetery provided you with the plan, they are probably the people who made the handwritten note...