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Jan 24, 2025 •
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I only come here when I am absolutely stumped. In 15 years as a researcher and social historian I think maybe 3 cases have eluded me, so it\'s rare I can\'t crack the mystery but - at this point I hav...
Sep 6, 2023 •
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I have a few family mysteries yet to solve and this is one conundrum.
I cannot find the resting place of my first cousin Nat Morris and wondering if any members here may have some new searching idea...
May 29, 2023 •
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I'm trying to track Louis M. Slatopolsky, born 1932 Peterborough to Issie Louis (also known as Isaac or Izzy) Slatopolsky and Catherine Violet nee Woodhams.
Louis was the grandson of Maver (Max) Sla...
May 20, 2020 •
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Update: This one I consider to be solved and as I suspected, would be John Sellars Cameron (1906 - 1956) and Muriel Mary Cameron (1907 - 1961); 2 children of John Hendry Cameron and Constance nee McGa...
Oct 3, 2019 •
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A large cache of family photos in the form of glass plate negatives belonging to the Sutton and McGorman families of Christchurch, New Zealand. Featured in it is famous Kiwi artist Bill Sutton. They a...
Jun 17, 2019 •
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Yet again a large collection of photos from one family was being sold off last week on Trade Me. This one is from the Richards and Watkinsons, who intermarried, and along the way there are Taylors, Fi...
Apr 10, 2017 •
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Update: This enquiry has been resolved.
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Lona Jenks, 1938-2014, restyled herself as Anna Karina Hoffman, and crossed the ditch to Sydney to go adventuring.
Hoffman was notorious in bot...
Apr 8, 2017 •
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In 1923, my great aunt Mannia Zam married David Medvidoff in Gorbals, Glasgow.
The family's name was originally Medvedev, and they'd come from Cherkasy in the Kiev province of Russia. Later on, Davi...
Dec 27, 2016 •
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Over the last couple of years there have been issues on and off with FTC journal entries refusing to add images. In the past there's been a couple of workarounds. But at the moment there seems to be n...
Dec 25, 2016 •
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Update: This has now been solved.
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My great uncle was Jacob K. Udovich. He came to New Zealand in the early 1910s and adopted the gentile name 'Jack Mann', although he never made it official. ...
Sep 21, 2015 •
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I bought this stoneware hotel plate in a little junk shop in West Auckland a number of decades ago just because it amused me and it was only a couple of bucks. I am amazed I have owned it this long wi...
Aug 22, 2015 •
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Update: This has now been solved.
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I'm looking for information on Dick's Milk Bar, Henderson, in the 1950s-1960s. It was apparently "a few doors along from ANZ bank on Great North Road." Alth...
Jul 31, 2015 •
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Update: This has now been solved. I am now in touch with the Avidon family and we have worked out the relation.
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This image is noted as being 'cousins Matthew and Kenneth Avidon.' These we...
Jul 17, 2015 •
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Update: This has now been solved. Thanks.
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I am researching a commercial artist named 'Carr' who founded a design studio in Auckland, New Zealand in the 1940s.
His earlier work includes...
Sep 10, 2014 •
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My family came from Feodosiya (now the Ukraine) to Glasgow. In the western world everything was just "Russian" back then. From there they spread out around the world (Brighton, Hove, Melbourne, Sydne...
Jun 26, 2014 •
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I am trying to make a connection with a branch of the family that settled in England, which I don't seem to be able to find out anything much about, so I suspect they changed their name.
My great-...
Jun 22, 2014 •
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I am seeking information on John Osborne of Auckland, New Zealand, known to friends as Johnnie.
He was likely born between 1920-1925. The family resided in the area of the bays along the south shor...
Mar 26, 2014 •
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I'm looking for descendants of the Broughton family in Sydney, Australia to see if they can shed any light on the life of my first cousin, his wife and their child.
The Broughtons were in the Newt...
Oct 2, 2013 •
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Update: This has now been solved. Thanks.
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I am seeking descendants of my first cousin Frederick Medvidoff aka actor Freddie Earlle. He was born 1924 Prestwick, Scotland to my great-aunt ...
Sep 26, 2013 •
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Update: This has now been solved. Thanks.
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I am attempting to get in touch with the Hind family of Glasgow. My great-aunt Sonia Slane(nee Zam)had a daughter Eleanor who married Archie H...