Hi Joanne That's fantastic news!. I hope the birth certificate holds a lot more answers about your family and helps you to trace your family further back. Cheers Karen On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Joanne Humphrey <joanne1humphrey@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear Listers > > I thought I would share this news with the list because no one else really > quite understands my excitement. After 16 years of searching I have found > my > great grandad! I always had plenty of records of him from his marriage in > 1897 onwards, but no matter what I tried I could never seem to find him in > any censuses prior to that and never a hint of a birth record. In > desperation I tried looking for possible fathers for him and planned to > work > them forwards to try to prove a link. Thanks to the help of some people on > this list a few weeks back, I discovered that one of those possible > fathers, > William Humphrey, was living in virtually the same street as my great > grandad, also William Humphrey, in 1901. After following the family of > William senior both backwards and forwards I managed to trace members of > his > family to a village in Cambridgeshire and last night I found my William as > a > six-year-old living with his aunt, William's senior's sister in 1881. This > gave me the link I needed to prove that William senior did actually have a > son, William, of the exact age to be my William and born about 20 miles > from > where I have always thought my William was born. > > I hardly slept last night in the excitement and will be a bag of nerves > until the birth certificate arrives in the post later this week. > > I am sure you will all understand my excitement. I always said I was never > going to stop looking and I am so thrilled that I didn't. > > Joanne > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. > Other people can learn from them! > > Be sure list mail is in PLAIN TEXT. > > Please SNIP when replying. > > Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No > fees! > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. > Other people can learn from them! > > Be sure list mail is in PLAIN TEXT. > > Please SNIP when replying. > > Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No > fees! > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Thank you. If the birth certificate does name the father it will be like Christmas, but since I don't think the parents married I am not holding out too much hope. I'll just be delighted to have a date of birth and an address. Joanne > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. > Other people can learn from them! > > Be sure list mail is in PLAIN TEXT. > > Please SNIP when replying. > > Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No > fees! > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: