I have a few Durham featherstones in my main family tree, it is usher on ancestry, if you are on that, if not, let me know and I will pass on details Chris U > On 28 Mar 2016, at 12:00, W. Paul Featherstone via <[email protected]> wrote: > > I expected to find a lot of Featherstone's since Co. Durham is a hot > bed of the surname, I was not wrong 39 entries, in at least 3 instances > the name being used as a Christian or first name. > But to uncover that many birth dates in a single search a very useful > source. > > Paul 2627 > Featherstone and variants worldwide. > >> On 27/03/2016 15:01, Adrian Abbott via wrote: >> Thanks to the Lost Cousins monthly newsletter I found today that the >> Home Guard Records for County Durham are searchable on line at the >> National Archives: >> >> http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/durham-home-guard-records-1939-1945/ >> >> Currently these are apparently the only county to be covered. You can >> see the name and date of birth on the index; to see the actual record >> by download costs £3.45 each. I found 8 possible ONS entries and >> downloaded two of particular interest, because they were people I >> hadn't found in the 1939 Register. As a result I now have found >> another two Households in the 1939 Register which had been either >> mistranscribed, or in one case it seems a complete page escaped being >> transcribed. >> >> The download gives you: Name, Date of Birth, Birthplace (but not >> always because the pro-forma changed), are you a British subject?, >> Nationality of Parents at birth, Name and address of next of kin, >> boxes to tick on understanding what you are committed to, service and >> discharge dates and there is a space for things like special merit. I >> would think it is only worth the download if you are particularly >> interested in next of kin, which is what gave me the clues to find >> entries in 1939. >> >> Adrian >> >> _____________________________________________ > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message