how to find siblings?

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Re: THe searching for siblings goes on!

Post by AndrewP » Sun Nov 16, 2008 12:18 am

tracymac wrote:It shows other name as Fairweather but mothers surname is not permissable??
Hi Tracy,

The "not permissible" is for Amy's mother's maiden surname. As you should already have that from the 1932 death certificate, put that name in the search criteria for mother's maiden surname and it will show that name rather than "not permissible". The modern death certificates (less than 50 years back) won't give you the mother's maiden surname unless you have used it as part of the search criteria. If you haven't used the name in the search criteria, then you get the "not permissible" answer.

Another option you have is to search for surname Fairweather and mother's maiden surname (the name you have on the 1932 certificate for that). Then you will get a list of people that meet these criteria. You can choose to narrow it down by years if you want to exclude ones that are definitely not going to be yours. Then if the quantity of results won't bankrupt you, you can look at the death certificates (if they are more than 50 years ago) or search for the birth certificates if the names (including middle names where possible) are not too common to find them for sure. This will of course only work for the years where the mother's maiden surname has been indexed.

All the best,

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Post by AnneM » Sun Nov 16, 2008 12:26 am

Hi

There's an Emma Elizabeth Fairweather born Balquhidder, Perthshire in 1917. Just a thought.

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Re: THe searching for siblings goes on!

Post by nelmit » Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:40 am

tracymac wrote:Now it gets interesting - when I searched for Amy's birth record I could not find her as a Fairweather, her death certificate shows Amy Elizabeth D Hutchins (d 1979 aged 64). It shows other name as Fairweather but mothers surname is not permissable?? Is it possible she was not Agnes Fairweather's by birth? I think I may need to send off fora print of her death certificate for further information.
Hutchins will most likely be her married name.

Regards,
Annette

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Re:searching for siblings

Post by tracymac » Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:00 pm

again many thanks to all of you for your replies! I will need to order a copy of Amy's death certificate to see if I can locate her mothers name on that - and hopefully this will also give me a clue as to where she was born.
I will let you know how I go! :lol:
Tracy


Also looking for Fairweather, Barclay, Richmond, Salton