When finding someone seems impossible did you carry on?

[AmandaJ]

I would say don't give up I have some people in my tree who are on hold if you like, meaning that every now and then I start to try and trace them.

I recently had a problem which has just been solved where a woman in my tree died and married but wasn't born. it took a while and contact with another realtion before what had occured became clear. It seems she just took her step fathers name. But her mother used two different first names and four different surnames not necessarily when she was married or not, of which she married twice. But she also used her birth name and Step fathers name. On top of this she reverted to her first husbands name after her second husband died. We have yet to find the name that was used when she died and when that was, perhaps we will never know.

I was contacted from putting a message on ancestry, TBH I didn't really expect a reply, but it was wonderful when one came a few weeks later.

[jillynetter]

Amanda It's so suprising you got a reply with all of those names

[Colin D Gronow]

Sometimes you just have to let them slip quietly away, without too much fuss.

Our Grandmother Dorothy Dacey born about 1903 (according to her death certificate & marriage certificate) Can her birth be found, not in 15years of searching.

We have thought we should try a medium apparently she was all into that sort of thing

I think we have given up, which is a shame because being so modern a period 1900's our tree looks a bit lobsided

[LizzieW]

Gwerninion

That's a shame.  Perhaps you'll get a clue when the 1911 census is on-line.  Then again she could have changed her name for some reason.

Liz

[lizdb]

Our Grandmother Dorothy Dacey born about 1903

What part of the country did she hail from?
Have you ruled out:

Ap/MAy/Jun 1899 Dorothy D'Arcy - Bury
Jul/Aug/Sep 1901 Dorothy Eileen J Darcy - Stepney

[stoney]

I keep hoping that one day I'll discover something new about my 2xG-Grandfather and man of mystery - Archibald Meyers (and any other spelling variation you care to think of!)

I'm almost convinced he was beamed up by aliens - there are rumours of his birth c.1815 in "Scotland" (from 1841 and 1851 census); marriage record from PR for Wetheral in 1835; parentage of several children up to March 1851 - then.......zip! He disappears off the face of the earth.

His wife remarries in 1857, but was she divorced, widowed or abandoned - who knows! In desperation I even had a quick look on Ancestry to see if he appears in the convict lists.....

....one day I hope to discover his last resting place!

[kooky]

Or  - Dace  Dorothy Phoebe
        Downham   4b 326
        June 1902

[Colin D Gronow]

Thanks for your messages, Lizdb & Kooky, have about 7 birth certificates including those mentioned.

Don't know anything about her family other than her fathers name (Thomas Dacey, Master Mariner merchant service, on marriage certificate), checked overseas births, Irish births, Scottish, just about everything we can think of.

She never had any pictures of her wedding or family Dad remembers her never talking about her family (he's a famous close up magician, we knw were he gets it from

Had thought of the 1911 Census, but I would put a good wager on her not being with her family

[meles]

I had an seemingly impossible task, finding a birth, and had been looking for 5 years. I asked here ages ago, but no-one could help. 

Then a week ago a Rootschtter found it! 

Never give up!

meles