What is your wildest coincidence?

[Nick_Ips]

I went there to check a 1933 birth entry of a distant relative many years ago, and it got me hooked on genealogy ever since. When i looked at the ledgers, I thought "Well where is the date of birth then?" and I was told I had to send off for the birth cert to get the DOB.

I then had a sneak look at the birth entry of a close friend and work colleague born in December 1944.

Do you remember the queue to submit and pay for the application?  Filling in the form and self-addressing an envelope as the queue slowly moved forward.  Happy days

[coombs]

Oh yes I remember that queue. When I started learning more about the GRO birth records I was told 6 weeks was usually allowed to register a birth and that a birth could have taken place in the quarter following the birth.

One other coincidence I can mention is, my dad used to get a ferry from Plymouth to Lisbon sometimes, and his Essex mariner ancestor lost one of his sloops down there in 1812 near Plymouth. He returned to Leigh On Sea and had to get another boat and register it at Maldon.