Hi,
I have not posted here for a while but, was wondering if I could ask for some help again!
I have been talking to some older relatives recently to try and get as much information as I can about Anna Belli (yes, it's her again)
A second cousin claims that Anna sent letters and jewellery to her family while she was in Russia, after she died in England a sister threw them in the bin, I have heard this story before. If it is true then sadly, part of history has been lost forever.
Another second cousin remembers her father talking about a newspaper article on Anna. She thinks it was a Sunday paper and as they read the People it is possible it was in there. She said it was before 1957 as the discussion took place in a the home they moved out of in that year.
My questions are, how feasable would it be to try and find this article (if it exists) and where do I begin? or, am I wasting my time?
all the best
Helen
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Hello Helen,
Here’s the previous thread viewtopic.php?t=12117
“The People” Sunday newspaper was founded in 1881. The British Library at Colindale probably has paper or microfilm copies but it looks like the digital versions only start from year 2000 http://www.bl.uk/eresources/newspapers/colindale2.html
Did you manage to find a death date for Anna. You would think the most likely time for a newspaper article concerning her life would be at the time of her death or maybe beforehand in particular at retirement but less likely to be afterwards unless there was someone in the family with an intense interest in her life.
It would probably be easier to find her death than to find an article in an un-digitised newspaper especially where the date is not known. Ancestry now has a searchable birth index to 2005 and no doubt deaths will appear there before too long. When they do it should be searchable for the death of an Anna with an approximate birth year and location around the time of WW2 and that may detect any name variation. Although chasing too many “possibles” could be the first steps to the Poorhouse.
It seems unlikely to me that she would change her first name and even with her last name someone advanced in years would probably be less inclined to change their name than someone younger say with children who may be subjected to taunts. I’m not sure that anti Italian feeling during WW2 would have been as intense as towards other nationalities, especially towards someone who otherwise would not have seemed foreign. So maybe she kept the Belli name.
Hope there’s something useful there,
All the best,
Alan
Here’s the previous thread viewtopic.php?t=12117
“The People” Sunday newspaper was founded in 1881. The British Library at Colindale probably has paper or microfilm copies but it looks like the digital versions only start from year 2000 http://www.bl.uk/eresources/newspapers/colindale2.html
Did you manage to find a death date for Anna. You would think the most likely time for a newspaper article concerning her life would be at the time of her death or maybe beforehand in particular at retirement but less likely to be afterwards unless there was someone in the family with an intense interest in her life.
It would probably be easier to find her death than to find an article in an un-digitised newspaper especially where the date is not known. Ancestry now has a searchable birth index to 2005 and no doubt deaths will appear there before too long. When they do it should be searchable for the death of an Anna with an approximate birth year and location around the time of WW2 and that may detect any name variation. Although chasing too many “possibles” could be the first steps to the Poorhouse.
It seems unlikely to me that she would change her first name and even with her last name someone advanced in years would probably be less inclined to change their name than someone younger say with children who may be subjected to taunts. I’m not sure that anti Italian feeling during WW2 would have been as intense as towards other nationalities, especially towards someone who otherwise would not have seemed foreign. So maybe she kept the Belli name.
Hope there’s something useful there,
All the best,
Alan
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Thanks for your reply Alan.
That wuman is daen ma heid in.
I have tried everything to find her death, but nothing.
I don't understand why it is such a problem! It is possibly something really simple. I won't be giving up just yet.
I have a couple more older relatives still to contact, they may be able to shed some light. You would have thought that some family member somewhere would have her death certificate. [-o< Wouldn't that be great, just wishful thinking.
all the best
Helen
That wuman is daen ma heid in.
I have tried everything to find her death, but nothing.
I don't understand why it is such a problem! It is possibly something really simple. I won't be giving up just yet.
I have a couple more older relatives still to contact, they may be able to shed some light. You would have thought that some family member somewhere would have her death certificate. [-o< Wouldn't that be great, just wishful thinking.
all the best
Helen
researching Glacken, in Edinburgh and Glasgow and Ireland, McCartney and McAnally in Glasgow, Belli in Italy and Edinburgh, O'farrel in Tyrone and edinburgh, Mchendrie, Dawson and Findlay from Banff then Edinburgh, Main in Edinburgh. Mcdonald.