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by AdrianBruce
30 Jul 2023, 16:08
Forum: Military
Topic: Fold3 - New UK Military Records (WW1)
Replies: 21
Views: 3195

Re: Fold3 - New UK Military Records (WW1)

One should also be able to fully access the records with the full Ancestry sub unless they have changed the rules since my sub expired. Depends what you mean by "Full"... My "Full" membership is actually officially a "Worldwide" membership. There is a step beyond which...
by AdrianBruce
27 Jul 2023, 12:00
Forum: Genealogy chat
Topic: Ancestry Hints
Replies: 2
Views: 652

Re: Ancestry Hints

Mind you... Slightly playing Devil's Advocate here - what if the death that you have for him is wrong? And the 1939 was the first evidence that you'd actually deceased the wrong George?
by AdrianBruce
14 Jul 2023, 23:35
Forum: Genealogy chat
Topic: GRO (England & Wales) Digital Images
Replies: 12
Views: 2741

Re: GRO (England & Wales) Digital Images

... GRO are correct - for all registration purposes a maiden name is the name in which a woman "first contracts a marriage", usually, but not always , their name at birth. So an unmarried woman doesn't have one, hence the "dash" in the on-line GRO indexes. Thanks for the succinc...
by AdrianBruce
13 Jul 2023, 12:58
Forum: Genealogy chat
Topic: GRO (England & Wales) Digital Images
Replies: 12
Views: 2741

Re: GRO (England & Wales) Digital Images

I succumbed - one of my long-standing mysteries is a Frank Taylor who appears as an 8-year-old in the 1891 census. He's living in my GG-GM's household and is just described as her grandson. Similar in 1901 and 1911, just adding 10y each time. Unfortunately, he's b Newton Heath in the 1st census and ...
by AdrianBruce
12 Jul 2023, 22:31
Forum: Genealogy chat
Topic: Canadian census 1921 and 1931
Replies: 2
Views: 1237

Re: Canadian census 1921 and 1931

1931 is there on Ancestry - https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/62640/ (I went to their Card Catalogue , filtered by location Canada , then clicked Census & Electoral Rolls - the 1931 Census of Canada is at the top of the list if you are sorting by Date Added.) It is indeed searchable ...
by AdrianBruce
06 Jul 2023, 23:31
Forum: Genealogy chat
Topic: GRO (England & Wales) Digital Images
Replies: 12
Views: 2741

Re: GRO (England & Wales) Digital Images

Thanks for the heads-up - and warnings...
by AdrianBruce
24 Jun 2023, 23:11
Forum: Genealogy chat
Topic: WDYTYA 2023 Series
Replies: 20
Views: 2124

Re: WDYTYA 2023 Series

... No, I meant Matooskie is suddenly declared his ancestor, with no lead up. They may have known a lot about her, but their audience didn’t :D It didn’t help that kevin kept referring to his ancestor as his great-great-great-great-great-grand… etc rather than using numbers like my 5’ggmother. ... ...
by AdrianBruce
24 Jun 2023, 20:31
Forum: Genealogy chat
Topic: WDYTYA 2023 Series
Replies: 20
Views: 2124

Re: WDYTYA 2023 Series

Mick Loney wrote: 24 Jun 2023, 13:48... who then miraculously became Matooskie. ...
I think that Matooskie was referred to as being already well-known to historians of First Nations, simply because of the number of letters and documents that survive referring to her. And the number of Google references to her, bear this out.
by AdrianBruce
24 Jun 2023, 20:14
Forum: Genealogy chat
Topic: WDYTYA 2023 Series
Replies: 20
Views: 2124

Re: WDYTYA 2023 Series

Dipping into and out of iPlayer and listening to commentory or reading certificates... Too many Graces... His 3rd GPs John Russell (cab driver) marr Jan 1882 Grace Gorridge (16y old so b abt 1866) (this Grace is the battered wife). The marr cert says Grace's parents are Alexander(?not sure?) & G...
by AdrianBruce
24 Jun 2023, 19:27
Forum: Genealogy chat
Topic: WDYTYA 2023 Series
Replies: 20
Views: 2124

Re: WDYTYA 2023 Series

That's what I thought but... Just been Googling as bit more... I think a generation was rushed over, at best. Maybe edited badly. From https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/episode/kevin-clifton-who-do-you-think-you-are/ A check of census records reveals that Kevin’s 2x great grandmother, Emma...