If I were starting out again in this hobby, I'd start researching myself, not my oldest relative.  Getting a copy of your won birth certificate is an education in what it takes to get one of these documents.  then get your parents' marriage certificate, etc. Now, if the marriage date isn't what Mom always told you, don't confront her.  Is the father's name on your birth certificate not who you expected?  Welcome to our world.  A lot of us on this list, me included, got started because we wanted to know who our family really was. And while you are retrieving recent documents remember that "divorce" as we know it today is a relatively recent invention, as was adoption.  A lot of our relatives can't legally account for family members.  Live with it.     Lou

Hello Lou: I have also found a lot of mistakes on forms filled out by close relatives - wrong name for father, wrong location for birth place, wrong date of birth as far as actual person knows. Sometimes you can correct things and sometimes you need to just let them be, as you say Lou. best to you - Carol

Hi Lou Not sure if you got my last message re TODD and James Arthur TODD as I have not seen them on the list nor received an acknowledgement from you. However I happened to be at the Scunthorpe museum today outside there is a war memorial plaque which brings together all the information on the war memorials of the parishes of Scunthorpe. James Arthur TODD is not listed on this memorial [research has shown he was a resident of Hull at the time of his death] although he was recorded on the KENDALL memorial chapel plaque perhaps he wasn't the A. TODD recorded on Ashby's war memorial. As there is an Andrew TODD listed on the Scunthorpe memorial, so this maybe the A. TODD is the on the Ashby war memorial. However I can not see an Andrew TODD on the 1911 census in Ashby, there is one who was born in Hull born C1894, Maria

The "Roll of Honour" website has a "possible" as a young man from the "7th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment".  It does not show a full name for him, either.     Lou ________________________________ From: Maria Borrill <maria.borrill@ntlworld.com> To: Louis Mills <louis_mills@att.net>; eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 11:55 AM Subject: An Ashby TODD Hi Lou Not sure if you got my last message re TODD and James Arthur TODD as I have not seen them on the list nor received an acknowledgement from you. However I happened to be at the Scunthorpe museum today outside there is a war memorial plaque which brings together all the information on the war memorials of the parishes of Scunthorpe. James Arthur TODD is not listed on this memorial [research has shown he was a resident of Hull at the time of his death] although he was recorded on the KENDALL memorial chapel plaque perhaps he wasn't the A. TODD recorded on Ashby's war memorial. As there is an Andrew TODD listed on the Scunthorpe memorial, so this maybe the A. TODD is the on the Ashby war memorial. However I can not see an Andrew TODD on the 1911 census in Ashby, there is one who was born in Hull born C1894, Maria

Lou Checked this ones regimental number and it is Andrew Todd. Bev -----Original Message----- From: eng-lincsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-lincsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Louis Mills Sent: 20 February 2012 18:17 To: Maria Borrill; eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LIN] An Ashby TODD The "Roll of Honour" website has a "possible" as a young man from the "7th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment".  It does not show a full name for him, either.     Lou ________________________________ From: Maria Borrill <maria.borrill@ntlworld.com> To: Louis Mills <louis_mills@att.net>; eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 11:55 AM Subject: An Ashby TODD Hi Lou Not sure if you got my last message re TODD and James Arthur TODD as I have not seen them on the list nor received an acknowledgement from you. However I happened to be at the Scunthorpe museum today outside there is a war memorial plaque which brings together all the information on the war memorials of the parishes of Scunthorpe. James Arthur TODD is not listed on this memorial [research has shown he was a resident of Hull at the time of his death] although he was recorded on the KENDALL memorial chapel plaque perhaps he wasn't the A. TODD recorded on Ashby's war memorial. As there is an Andrew TODD listed on the Scunthorpe memorial, so this maybe the A. TODD is the on the Ashby war memorial. However I can not see an Andrew TODD on the 1911 census in Ashby, there is one who was born in Hull born C1894, Maria ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message