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I too enjoyed this episode, nice mixture. I was surprised that no-one mentioned the striking resemblance of Andrew’s daughter to the photo of his grandmother ( or was it Greatgrandmother?), as to me they had an uncanny likeness. It would have rounded off the programme nicely if his brother Julian ha...

Nul points for the BBC Scotland website for revealing the well-known ancestor of Bear Grylls!. Just let us look at the programmes, please!. That’s typical BBC! BBC Wales are forever advertising new series and practically give the whole plot away. On their current drama series ‘Steel Town Murders’, ...

VALLMO9 wrote: ↑30 Apr 2023, 16:37 Less is more.

That’s certainly true for ancestry ( or was it FMP?) and the Wiltshire baptisms. Put in the Parish, and no results! Leave it as Wiltshire, et voila, results. I came to the conclusion their indexes don’t include the Parish, just the County. You couldn’t make it up

Devonliz, are you forgetting Gretna Green? Many an English marriage took place there

I can’t offer any specific suggestions regards spelling Davison, but it did cross my mind that the middle VI could be mistaken for W, so you could try looking for a Dawson. Just a thought

Just found another quirk in FMP search criteria Whilst searching for Marriage of Drusilla Eliza Holt in 1913, I carelessly left off final a of her first name, and entered Drusill , yet despite ticking use name variants for forename, it failed to find her! I had to include full name to get a result. ...

To add to this debate, I have just found an PR image for a Marriage in Easington, ERY, which clearly shows the date as 21 Dec 1879 . Yet Ancestry, in their England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973 dataset (from Familysearch), have a transcription which shows a date of 16 Dec 1879 . One can only assume t...

I start using search ‘Birth, marriage & deaths’ from home page Insert full name of groom, year of marriage, and county. I use the exact year as I already have GRO reference or a transcription. When I get no result for the Groom, I then double check by searching for Bride. Often this throws up a ...

It explains my experiences lately. I have being going through all my trancribed marriages/baptisms, to see if I could get an actual image of a parish register entry (I never trust transcriptions, until I’ve confirmed them myself :D ) I had previosly found trancriptions in various Findmypast datasets...

Jonwarrn, Many thanks for the clipping. I was aware of her marriage to Thomas Spencer, but not the article. It also makes it clear about Roberts millitary background. I will need to dig further Just googled Colonel Robert Brent, Woodbury, and came across this article, which actually contained a phot...