Laurie, I am 60 years old and my father is 86. I am asking for information from the 1950's primarily to gain access to information that will unlock additional information from 1850 - 1880, primarily to learn more about my early great grandparents. Death information will, hopefully, allow me a glimpse into their birth data, which, for some reason or another, is currently obscured. For instance, I can find no record of my great grandfather's birth (circa 1852) or my great grandmothers official birth (exactly 6 June 1850), but the death certificate in 1906 for my great grandfather confirms that he was born in 1852. Sometimes you have to clarify the present to uncover the past. My inquiry into Smethwicks Safest Milk, in 1925, was to learn about my cousins potential aunts and uncles in the area of Smethwich/Birmingham, not to learn about milk - although the comments have been very enlightening. My great grandfather's worked on the British railway system in the 1800's. By learning more about that system, I hope to learn more about THEM. My aunt's death in the 1950's will, hopefully provide clues to her date and place of birth in 1873. Hope this helps. Regards, John Farrall Burke, Virginia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marilyn M Coster" <marilyn@mcoster.freeserve.co.uk> To: <BIRKENHEAD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 7:29 PM Subject: [BKHD] I do not Mind but do you > Hello Listers, > > I thought, may I am wrong list holders, that the sites were for Genealogy, ( maybe I misunderstand the word Genealogy) but I see people,asking about the 1930's, 40s. 50's 60's 70's 80's and even the 1990's trying to trace relatives. Should these people not better off with the Salvation Army instead of Glogging up these sites. we cannot look at records after 1901 in general terms in England- Other countries are earlier but never, or rarely later, so can someone not put something in the rules to stop this or advise people of the reason for the Web site. > > I have never objected to supplying data to people that I have that is prior to 1901, some have but they also agree that the data requested is Genealogical, and tell then were to go to get the data. That said it is wrong in my opinion to be requested of who lived where and who lived where for the aforementioned dates. > > Laurie. > > > > > ==== BIRKENHEAD Mailing List ==== > Search the archives of Birkenhead-L > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ENG/BIRKENHEAD.html > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >