How can I find his grandparents with no marriage certificate?

I have been doing my family tree for nearly 2 years and have gone back very far. However, my maternal grandfather I cant get past. I have his birth certificate with his parents James Alfred Moore and Maud Hodder but I cannot find a marriage certificate for them. So I have no dates for them or their parents names. I have searched Ancestry, free bmd, gensereunited, etc. Everywhere. Census is no good as he was born 1927.

What can I do?

Was your grandfather John T Moore, birth registered June quarter 1927 in Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire, who had a brother James, birth registered December quarter 1930?

Might your great grandmother have been married before and therefore had a different surname when she married your great grandfather? I found a marriage in June quarter 1926 for James A Moore and Gladys M Cox in Basford district, Derbyshire/Notts, vol. 7b page 452. It is a pity the indexes at this time only give middle initials – the M could stand for Maud, and perhaps she used her middle name and dropped the Gladys. It may seem a long shot, but it wouldn’t surprise me.

Is there anyone still living from your grandfather’s generation that you could ask if this is possible?

In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past $11.00 Unlike most white Americans who, if they are so inclined, can search their ancestral records, identifying who among their forebears was the first to set foot on this country’s shores, most African Americans, in tracing their family’s past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles. Slavery was a brutally efficient nullifier of identity, willfully denying black men and women even their names. Ye…

---

Trying To Find My Baby $5.49 Trying To Find My Baby

My Forbidden Past $10.99 My Forbidden Past

Deja Vu: Songs From My Past $8.49 Deja Vu: Songs From My Past

Out Of The Past (Build My Gallows High) $6.99 Out Of The Past (Build My Gallows High)

Trying to Find My Baby $8.78 As part of the U.K. release of Martin Scorsese’s miniseries The Blues, the British reissue label Snapper released a number of single-disc compilations of noted blues artists. Most of them are redundant, but the 25-track Lowell Fulson anthology Trying to Find My Baby is far better than many. Largely forgotten to most casual blues fans, except perhaps for those who remembered that Elvis Presley’s brilliant “Reconsider Baby” was a cover of a 1954 Fulson single, Lowell Fulson is hard for neophytes to get a handle on at first. Born in Oklahoma, heavily influenced by acoustic Texas blues singers like Blind Lemon Jefferson and Texas Alexander (although Fulson himself played electric almost exclusively), based in Los Angeles, and spending most of his career recording for Chicago’s Chess Records, he doesn’t fit into the neat geographic box so beloved by blues purists. Furthermore, he recorded in so many different styles for so many different labels that most of the many compilations available focus only on one period of his career at a time. At 25 tracks covering a career that lasted nearly half a century, Trying to Find My Baby is necessarily skimpy, but it’s one of the few genuinely comprehensive overviews of Fulson’s many musical changes. Shockingly, however, it doesn’t include Fulson’s best-known song and biggest hit, the aforementioned and, admittedly, endlessly anthologized “Reconsider Baby,” so it’s not really acceptable for the true neophyte. However, it’s an excellent second step for those wanting a better grasp of Fulson’s career. ~ Stewart Mason, Rovi Performers: Arthur Jackson – Bass; Asai “Count” Carson – Drums; Asal Carson – Drums; Dickie Washington – Drums; Don Hill – Sax (Alto); Earl Singers Brown – Piano; Eldridge McCarty – Piano; Jay McShann – Piano; Kim Solomon – Piano; King Sol

Ancestry In Progress $8.49 Ancestry In Progress

Blast from the Past $10.38 Cover songs have never been a major part of hip-hop the way they have been a major part of rock, R&B, reggae, and blues. Sure, rappers will sample their favorite recordings or incorporate the chorus of songs they like, but you seldom find rappers providing word-for-word covers of tunes by other MCs. And if you do find a word-for-word cover of a hip-hop tune, it’s usually from a rock artist (for example, alt-metal band Dope’s remake of N.W.A’s “Fuck tha Police” or former Veruca Salt member Nina Gordon’s wildly ironic, Joan Baez-like folk-rock arrangement of N.W.A’s “Straight Outta Compton”). So the fact that Blast from the Past is an album that exclusively offers rap covers certainly makes it a rarity. Actually, there is a strong rock influence coming from the Subnoize Souljaz collective, whose participants on this 2009 release include, among others, Sen Dog (of Cypress Hill fame), Big B, the Kottonmouth Kings, the Dirtball, Daddy X, Potluck, and Dogboy. Blast from the Past is the sort of album that is aimed at both hip-hop fans and rock fans, and the disc takes listeners down Hip-Hop Memory Lane with an abundance of songs from the ’80s and ’90s. During those decades, there was much talk of friction between East Coast rappers and West Coast rappers. But true hip-hop fans didn’t get caught up in that regional nonsense; so appropriately, Blast from the Past gives props to both coasts. The Subnoize Souljaz acknowledge the West Coast with remakes of “Fuck tha Police,” Snoop Dogg’s “Murder Was the Case,” the Luniz’ “I Got Five on It,” and AMG’s “Bitch Betta Have My Money,” while the East Coast is acknowledged with LL Cool J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out,” Public Enemy’s “Bring tha Noize,” EPMD’s “Strictly Business,” and Biz Markie’s “Just a Friend.” Blast from the Past doesn’t get into really early hip-hop; the oldest tune covered is the Beastie Boys’ “Paul Revere” from 1986, and the Subnoize Souljaz don’t embrace anything by pre-Run-D.M.C. hip-hoppers like Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Flash, Spoonie Gee, T-Ski Valley, the Treacherous Three, the Sequence, or the Sugarhill Gang. But again, the Souljaz obviously wanted the rock appeal to be strong on this 57-minute CD — and it wasn’t until Run-D.M.C., the Beasties, LL, and the Fat Boys in the mid-’80s that rockers started discovering hip-hop in a major way. Blast from the Past might be too rock-minded for some hip-hop purists, but it’s a fun listen if one is a rocker who is seriously into hip-hop. ~ Alex Henderson, Rovi

Find My Way Back $11.88 Description not provided.

Find My Way $18.39 2008 album from Lance Bulen’s band. Bad Reputation.

---