How to find children

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Hello I'm wondering if anyone can help. I have just done ancestry DNA, and I'm trying to find the children of some of my relatives who are probably still alive. I have googled and googled and cannot find a way to do it! I am probably missing something very simple, but how do I find the children of say, a great aunt?

Many thanks for your help 🙂

You could order the death certificate of your great aunt. It might have the record of who reported the death, who is often a child of the deceased. That would give you a name to work with.

It depends how much information you already have. If you have a rough idea of location, maiden name and marries name, you can search the birth index with that criteria, accuracy of results depending on how common the names are, of course!

Probate register is free to search online, these are useful if your great aunt had a will as often a family member will be listed along with an address

use 192dot com for the names of the children of your late great aunt but this is a payment sight which collects information from electoral registration and phone books, companies house

FreeBMD will give you information about births. After 1911 both parent's surnames were recorded. So you can search under father's surname and add mother's maiden name. It helps if you have a rough idea of the area and it also helps if the names aren't too common. Once you've got the first name of the children you can find out whether they married.