Errands
Every one of these needs a login, a card, an identity check or a human being in a reading room. They are drafted, costed and ordered by what they would settle.
An archive that can only use what is free and unauthenticated will stop at a particular place, and this one has stopped there. What follows is the queue past that point. Each entry says what the source is, what it would settle, and roughly what it costs — so that anyone who wants to help can pick one up without asking what to do.
The queue, in order of what would change most
General Register Office, gro.gov.uk (an account, no visit) · £2.50 as a PDF
It names her mother WITH HER MAIDEN SURNAME. Five Queensland death registrations now say Saniger in four spellings, so the name itself is settled — but not one English record has ever confirmed it, and the 1841 census says Hannah was born OUTSIDE Gloucestershire, which is why no Gloucestershire register will ever find her. This certificate is the only document identified that attacks the question from the English end. Context →
found 13 September 2026, FreeBMD
familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au — free to search · free, ten minutes, but behind a bot check
The entire D'Arcy side were New South Welshmen. George Pitt D'Arcy died at Parramatta in 1849, George Lindsay was born there in 1829, Frederick Robert and Charlotte both crossed. NSW death registrations name the parents of the deceased — which is how Queensland's index settled the Saniger name five times over. This is the largest free index this archive has never searched, and it is shut to an automated browser. Context →
blocked by Cloudflare, 13 September 2026
irishgenealogy.ie — free, no login · free, behind a bot check
This archive has three Irish lines and has never searched an Irish record. The most testable claim is the marriage of Paul Cole Atkinson and Jane Creech at Carrigaline, County Cork, on 27 September 1853, which the site states as fact and has never seen. Then Richard Atkinson of Limerick, and Catherine Margaret Mulcahy of Cork, whose parents are unknown. Context →
blocked by Cloudflare, 13 September 2026
The National Archives, RG 4 · a visit, or a digitised copy via a subscription site
A baptism for Hannah Saniger about 1805. RG 4/2697 Broad Mead Baptist, RG 4/1830 Lewins Mead Presbyterian, RG 4/388 Bridge Street Congregational, RG 4/913 Ebenezer Chapel Wesleyan, RG 4/1792 Castle Green Independent. Five documents, all covering 1805, none transcribed. This replaces the vague instruction to write to Bristol. Context →
identified 13 September 2026 via TNA Discovery
Staffordshire Record Office / Lichfield · an enquiry
The baptism of William Sneyd the weaver, about 1746. FreeREG holds no Bishop's Transcripts for Madeley at all, and his baptism is not in any transcribed Staffordshire register. The diocesan second copy is the obvious next place and nobody has asked for it. Context →
identified 13 September 2026
The National Archives, Kew · about £3.50, digitised, download today
His parentage is the largest open question on this site and no record of his life names a father. A will names family. Found 9 September 2026 and still unordered. Context →
requests/tna-prob11-darcy-will.md
The Corps' own archive · £25 enquiry service
Robert D'Arcy's parentage, from the records of the Corps he served for fifty-one years and the town he died in. Context →
notes/letters/2026-09-re-museum-chatham.md
Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages · a fee per certificate
Three causes of death, and three sets of parents named in a civil record rather than a tree. Registration numbers already identified. Context →
requests/qld-bdm-certificates.md
Medway Archives · an enquiry
Robert D'Arcy, 1827, and Constantine D'Arcy, 1805. A burial register can give an age, an abode and sometimes a relationship. Context →
notes/letters/2026-09-medway-archives.md
Commonwealth War Graves Commission · free, two minutes
The archive says Villers-Bretonneux from the B.2090A's “Not yet to hand”. CWGC would confirm it outright. Bot-blocked here, twice. Context →
requests/cwgc-arthur-hartley-sneyd.md
ScotlandsPeople · credits, a login
The Ayrshire Murdochs are a quarter of the tested descendant and the archive has 25 of 52 ancestor slots filled. The DNA points straight at this gap. Context →
requests/scotlandspeople-murdoch.md
RootsIreland · a subscription
Anything at all. The Atkinsons are five generations deep and stop dead at the emigrant. Context →
requests/rootsireland-atkinson-limerick.md
Queensland State Archives, Runcorn · copy fees, none digitised
Arthur Hartley Sneyd's 1916 intestacy; William Hartley Sneyd's 1873 insolvency — a wholly new fact; four wills, one of which may be the gaol governor's; two police staff files that are probably his sons. Context →
requests/qsa-order-list.md
The National Archives, Kew · an enquiry
WO 47 has been identified along with the reason nobody has found him in it. A archivist could say in a sentence whether it is worth a day. Context →
notes/letters/2026-09-tna-ordnance.md
A Y-DNA test from a male D'Arcy
The Y chromosome descends father to son essentially unchanged. A male-line D'Arcy's would place this family against every other tested D'Arcy in the world — the most direct attack anyone can make on Robert D'Arcy's parentage, and it beats every archive visit on this page.