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Jan | Report | 9 Jul 2009 11:01 |
Can anyone help me with this? |
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AllanC | Report | 9 Jul 2009 11:15 |
If your cousin was still living at your grandparents' home when he became eligible to vote you might find him on an electoral roll. I've not gone down that avenue of enquiry myself, so I don't know where you would find old electoral rolls - but the appropriate county record office seems the obvious place to start. |
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RutlandBelle | Report | 9 Jul 2009 11:17 |
do you know his first name, dob and where born? |
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RutlandBelle | Report | 9 Jul 2009 11:18 |
Electoral Rolls are usually held in nearest large library. if you have an address then the library will probably do a look up for you for a small charge. |
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RutlandBelle | Report | 9 Jul 2009 11:54 |
Jonesey, I'd forgotten you can search on first names. Just done my own on Ancestry so know it works. |
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mgnv | Report | 9 Jul 2009 18:04 |
Lets do a worked example - suppose I know my aunt's name was Mary Green, my cousin's name was John, and he was born in Southampton in the 1930s. Well, I can do a free search on Ancestry, and it gives me: |