Genealogy Chat

We discovered that my grandfather had a daughter before he and my grandmother got together. So I spent a lot of last year trying to find her. I would suggest that the first thing you do is try and get your fathers birth certificate. This might be an expensive process if as you say there are lots of possible spellings, but if you want it it will be worth it. The 1837 site has a complete list of births, but you have to pay for every page you view. As you have the year he was born it narrows it down a bit. As you ahve his parents names you might end up asking for a general help from Southport Once you have his birth certificate You could then start to look at electoral registers for that area. The 192 site has current electoral registers and you can do a search. I found the birth certificate of my mothers half sister and quite by chance I came upon the grave of her mother which led me to get her death certificate. Fortunately for me, the daughter was the informant and it had an address for her. The lady died in 1994, but again I struck lucky as me aunt is still living a tthe address. Because I was worried about upsetting her as she is 73, I set about finding out if she had any children. By looking at the old electoral registers I found two, but unfortunately I could not work out where they lived now. In the end my mum wrote to her sister and luckily for us she replied and was more than happy to meet us. If this doesn't make sense, email me Good luck Barbara

You need to get in touch with Joan Allan at myfolks(.)co(.)uk You need to take out the brackets George

I am trying to find my biological father. I was born out of wedlock in 1968. He was never named on my birth certificate and when my Mum did marry (when I was approx 6 months old) I took on my new Dad's surname. My mum only told me all this a couple of years ago, and after giving it long and hard thought, I've decided I would like to find him. He knows I exist, but I must tread carefully as obviously I don't know what his family situation is now, or whether they know about me. I have scant information on him, his parents forenames, his year of birth, the town he lived in when my mum knew him, but that's about it - even his surname could be spelled 4 different ways. I'm new to all this, can anyone tell me where on earth I should start? Thanks for any hints or pointers you can give me.