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Researching and documenting apparent change of Family Surname
Stephen Use the GRO’s own website to search for the birth or death (update 1924 for births and 1957 for deaths) using https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp Click on the re
Stephen Use the GRO’s own website to search for the birth or death (update 1924 for births and 1957 for deaths) using https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp Click on the re
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Researching and documenting apparent change of Family Surname
Colin Unfortunately not what this list is really for as it is for issues with the software or the way it works However having looked at the family on the 1911 and checked the birth registrations both
Colin Unfortunately not what this list is really for as it is for issues with the software or the way it works However having looked at the family on the 1911 and checked the birth registrations both
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John Hanson
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Possible Error Bug?
Andrew You haven’t said how you are adding the child as it can have some relevance Are you using the property box, Focus window, diagram or something else? Regards John Hanson - researching the Halste
Andrew You haven’t said how you are adding the child as it can have some relevance Are you using the property box, Focus window, diagram or something else? Regards John Hanson - researching the Halste
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John Hanson
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Mystery
James Without knowing the source of both here are a number of possibilities 1 – as others have said a private and then church baptism 2 – Different churches 3 – one from parish records and the other f
James Without knowing the source of both here are a number of possibilities 1 – as others have said a private and then church baptism 2 – Different churches 3 – one from parish records and the other f
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John Hanson
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Prison record
Thanks – however this one isn’t that easy No record of a court case that I can find in the papers (Battersea area of London is very poorly covered) All I have is the Crime Report from the TNA CRIM9 -
Thanks – however this one isn’t that easy No record of a court case that I can find in the papers (Battersea area of London is very poorly covered) All I have is the Crime Report from the TNA CRIM9 -
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John Hanson
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FH7 and One-name Studies
Robert On a survey of members of the Guild of One-name studies a couple of years ago FH came out top of the list But you are comparing two different things – Custodian is a record recording system (a
Robert On a survey of members of the Guild of One-name studies a couple of years ago FH came out top of the list But you are comparing two different things – Custodian is a record recording system (a
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John Hanson
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Prison record
Family history of course is about all records not jus the good ones I have a 3th cousin three times removed (part of my personal one-name study that does back to a single progenitor in 1670) who was a
Family history of course is about all records not jus the good ones I have a 3th cousin three times removed (part of my personal one-name study that does back to a single progenitor in 1670) who was a
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John Hanson
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Revoked will
Adrian Thanks – I might well have it in the Halstead files with over 3500 wills (going to have to straighten them out when I bring the file over from TMG!) But I think that your idea works – can alway
Adrian Thanks – I might well have it in the Halstead files with over 3500 wills (going to have to straighten them out when I bring the file over from TMG!) But I think that your idea works – can alway
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John Hanson
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Revoked will
Julia As it is an administration there is no will I have sent for both admins – at £1.50 no great loss at £10 I’d be thinking differently I expect Have also found that the administrator on the second
Julia As it is an administration there is no will I have sent for both admins – at £1.50 no great loss at £10 I’d be thinking differently I expect Have also found that the administrator on the second
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John Hanson
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Revoked will
I have just comes across something that is a rarity and can find nothing in the knowledge base or forum that seems to covers it The Louisa and her husband John died together in 1940 in the crypt of St
I have just comes across something that is a rarity and can find nothing in the knowledge base or forum that seems to covers it The Louisa and her husband John died together in 1940 in the crypt of St
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John Hanson
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A silly mistake - how to correct
Mike Thanks – Still sounds counter intuitive to my brain My test database has the test ones set to “project only” just to be certain So if I want to make changes say to the Probate fact (current versi
Mike Thanks – Still sounds counter intuitive to my brain My test database has the test ones set to “project only” just to be certain So if I want to make changes say to the Probate fact (current versi
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John Hanson
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A silly mistake - how to correct
Would have helped to make sure that I was working on my test project when I was playing around with facts. I did it for creating my new ones and thought I was still in it when I used the copy option t
Would have helped to make sure that I was working on my test project when I was playing around with facts. I did it for creating my new ones and thought I was still in it when I used the copy option t
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John Hanson
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Marrying Cousins - reply
Bob As others have said exactly what you should see Regards John Hanson - researching the Halstead/Holstead/Alstead names Researcher, the Halsted Trust - https://www.halsted.org.uk Research website -
Bob As others have said exactly what you should see Regards John Hanson - researching the Halstead/Holstead/Alstead names Researcher, the Halsted Trust - https://www.halsted.org.uk Research website -
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John Hanson
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Marrying Cousins
Bob If you mean in diagrams it is just showing you that the person appears in two trees No way to stop it (unless something sneaked into FH7 that I am yet to find!) but there has been many discussions
Bob If you mean in diagrams it is just showing you that the person appears in two trees No way to stop it (unless something sneaked into FH7 that I am yet to find!) but there has been many discussions
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John Hanson
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Location for a death in WW1
One of my ancestor was killed on HMS Chester at the Battle of Jutland on 31st May 1916 What is the best way to record the place of death? Army is easy – Navy not so sure of Regards John Hanson - resea
One of my ancestor was killed on HMS Chester at the Battle of Jutland on 31st May 1916 What is the best way to record the place of death? Army is easy – Navy not so sure of Regards John Hanson - resea
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John Hanson
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GRO
Victor Assuming that you haven’t renamed your plugins what is the name that it appears under in the list of plugins Regards John Hanson - researching the Halstead/Holstead/Alstead names Researcher, th
Victor Assuming that you haven’t renamed your plugins what is the name that it appears under in the list of plugins Regards John Hanson - researching the Halstead/Holstead/Alstead names Researcher, th
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John Hanson
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GRO
All the commercial websites use the same database provided by the GRO from entries from 1984 onwards It was updated yearly until 2005 when they stopped providing the updates The new GRO website has th
All the commercial websites use the same database provided by the GRO from entries from 1984 onwards It was updated yearly until 2005 when they stopped providing the updates The new GRO website has th
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John Hanson
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Reassign Addresses to Place Names plugin.
One trick that Simon himself showed me a few months ago when talking about this issue was to use the “reverse display order” box at the bottom of the list of button This sort the screen in the reverse
One trick that Simon himself showed me a few months ago when talking about this issue was to use the “reverse display order” box at the bottom of the list of button This sort the screen in the reverse
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John Hanson
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1939 National Register
Andrew My suspicion is that they are acting on instructions from TNA and no one had thought of what happens if an entry goes to two lines – I suspect because it is so rare I have looked at thousands o
Andrew My suspicion is that they are acting on instructions from TNA and no one had thought of what happens if an entry goes to two lines – I suspect because it is so rare I have looked at thousands o
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John Hanson
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1939 National Register
Adrian As you say each page was transcribed by 11 different people and we can’t blame FMP as it was a stipulation from TNA as they were paranoid about the wrong people getting access to all those livi
Adrian As you say each page was transcribed by 11 different people and we can’t blame FMP as it was a stipulation from TNA as they were paranoid about the wrong people getting access to all those livi
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John Hanson
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