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Did not know about the threads I jsut thought you got a email response Now I know I will check regularly
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The only way to know whether you have replies to your threads is to click on the "my threads" link on the left. Email notifications are not sent. I, personally, never reply to posts on the boards by private message (unless the information is personal to someone living, or otherwise sensitive), for two reasons

- I have no desire to get into a long correspondence about somebody else's family where I have to keep trying to figure out what the person is talking about; in a thread, everything is visible at a glance

- if replies are sent by PM, nobody else reading the thread has any idea that a response has been given, and once again, effort may be duplicated

Feel free to reply in your thread about the Hong Kong journalist Burton-Sayer, now that you know I provided what information I could find.


on edit: Forgive me if I'm missing something here, Karen, but there is no message in my inbox from you or from any Karen subsequent to the date of the posts in your Burton-Sayers thread until your reply to my PM today, and there is no reply in that thread.

I did thank you go back and check

Did not realise I had duplicated my informaiton I was thrilled with two wonderful people who had helped me DID NOT mean to upset any one have ancestry but not found anything waiting for it to expire and go to findmypast Seems this may be the way to go

By the way I did send a reply to Bernice and thanked her very much throught he web site

I am very irritated by your comments and take offence to this I pride myself in alsway aknowleding any one who helps me !!!!

Karen -- in your duplicate thread, you say, regarding the marriage, "We have just recently found out this informatin".

As I understand it, you "found out" the information because Rebecca provided it to you in the thread I referenced:

http://genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=979088

As I understand it, you did not acknowledge that assistance either publicly or privately. Perhaps you simply do not read your replies, and found that information independently, of course.

I would strongly suggest that if you are going to post queries here and get replies to them, you make the minimal effort of reading those replies and have the courtesy to acknowledge them, whether you find them blindingly helpful or not.

On second thought, it's unlikely that a birth on 31 Dec 1943 would have been registered in 1943, so that probably isn't your James Jr.

To find a marriage for your James Jr., if he married, someone is going to have to trawl through GRO images for the period when he might have been marrying (say, 1960 to 1983), hoping to find one identified as James V (there is no James V marriage in 1984 or later). Have you considered taking out even a trial subscription at Ancestry so you can do that yourself?

Karen -- you should delete the other post with identical info in it:

http://genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=979786

One post per request -- house rules!

The risk is that different people will see different posts, and spend time (and sometimes money) doing the same work to try to find info for you.

This may be unfortunate news, but it seems James born 1943 may have died in 2005:

Name: James Connolly
Birth Date: 31 Dec 1943
Death Registration Month/Year: Mar 2005
Age at death (estimated): 61
Registration district: Islington
Inferred County: London
Register number: C42
Entry Number: 174

If that is him -- do you have your James's exact date of birth? -- the death certificate, and hopefully a newspaper obituary you might be able to find in a library, once you have the date of death, could provide family info.

Oh, now I remember your George Sydney Burton Sayer. I don't recall whether you noticed/replied to my responses to that query.

Apparently not:

http://genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=972650

Do you read replies to the queries you post?

I see the reply you got here:

http://genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=979088

is the source of this new query ...

If you obtain the marriage certificate for the marriage cited in that post, you should have age and father's name for James Sr., which should help you identify his birth. Not really much point in asking for that info when you can easily obtain it from the marriage certificate.

Looking for the family of James V Connolly last known to reside in London in 1943
James V Connolly married Margaret Burton Sayer in 1941 They had a son James V Connolly in 1943 birth registered in Paddington
Margaret was to daughter of my great uncle George Sydney Burton Sayer journalist


Thank you