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ozwendy
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Hi
I think this is a brilliant idea! I have just entered my names with the town/city and county in the comments area and have already come up with someone who has three of the same name interests in the same area. So we will probably find some connection there somewhere. I had, just yesterday, found someone who maybe a second cousin because they noticed my name interests at the bottom of my posts, butthe table is a much more direct and easier way to go about finding connections. The only thing I can suggest is to tell people, explicitly, to put the towns and counties in the comments area after their individual name interests as, especially with common names, as this makes the match up easier.
Good work!
Wendy
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Faricy - Lancs.
Faricy, Gardner, Jones, Aldred, Battersby, Calland, Webb, Jones,Evans - Hindley, Lancs
Coleman, Price, Taylor, Ryan, Joyce, Barrett, Astin - Oldham/Failsworth, Lancs
Gardner, Evans, Jones, Williams,Sambrook, Davies,Wardman,Ellis - Montgomeryshire/Worthern,Salop
Price, Thomas, Jones - Chester/Flint
Jones,Webb,Griffiths,Bagshaw,Bowen,Richards, - Dawley/Wellington,Salop
Faricy - Waterford/Cork - Ireland
Faricy, Robles - Austalia
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Lloydy
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I agree with all the comments made by all you Rootschatters, but I do think it is very important to put a place name/area especially where the surname is a very common one.
I have hundreds of Welsh JONES in my tree, with repeating christian names  which can make searching a real headache. Just putting in JONES from WALES is like looking for a tiny needle in a huge haystack!!!! LOL
Apart from that, the SIT is a wonderful idea and Bob should be very proud of himself 
Jan
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Bennett, Challinor/Challenor, Mills, Evans, Lewis, Owen, Owens, Trow, James, Ashton, Betton/Beaton, Breese, Breeze, Crisp, Davies, Elias, Hudson, Hughes, Jenkins, Turner, Richards, Gethin, Trow, Tudor, Simon....plus tons of Jones!!! - All my Montgomeryshire lot!!
Challinor/Challenor - Shocklach, Cheshire
Betton - Worthen, Shropshire
Trow - emigrated from Wales to New Zealand
Census & BMD information Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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DebbieDee
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Posts: 704
Hepzibah Annie Burge 1887-1969
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I've now entered all my names and it looks like I may have a couple of possible matches...
However, this is mainly because of entering counties which I have also found problematic.
I agree with areas being necessary for more common names but I really don't like the idea of having to enter each name with a single county or 'all'.
For example:
One of my names is Randell or Rendall or Rendell or Randle or Rendle or even Rundle. My branch were only in Somerset from abt 1875 but there was a sighting in Devon in 1870 and mention of Devon as a place of birth in one census (the others saying N/K). So I have put Somerset and Devon as places in the SIT, but for all I know at this stage, they could originate in Dorset or Cornwall or elsewhere. Can you imagine having to enter all those combinations in an attempt to find a match  I can't say 'All' because over the UK as a whole there are too many branches. I could just wait to enter this name until I know more but that way I will probably miss out and not reach that stage anyway.
Another issue is whether this site is exclusive to the UK? I know I have 'cousins' in the US, Canada and Australia. I am very interested in tracing these branches of my tree so if places are going to be compulsory are we going to need a country as well?
As for searching the SIT - when the full version 'goes live' will it be included in the general 'Rootschat Search' ?
Just a few of my thoughts, I don't mean to sound negative. I think it's excellent so far and I'm just off to PM my two new contacts...lucky them 
Debbie
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Price, Morgans: BRE; Assender: HEF & MON; Assinder, Brooks, Greatrex: WAR; Brister, Brown, Burge, Coles, Corfield, Curry, Edmonds, Hooper, Hurst, Jones, Lapthorne, North, Pratlett, Snook, Stabbins, Stevens, Taylor, Twose : SOM; Clapp: DEV; Close, Dones, Jobbins, Phelps: GLS; Rees: GLA & MON; Rendall : DEV & SOM Dunning, Durrant, Tyne: LON Weston-super-Mare FHS http://www.wsmfhs.org.uk/Any lookups are Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Boongie Pam
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Pa is Scottish, Ma is Welsh, Nose is Roamin'
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However, this is mainly because of entering counties which I have also found problematic.
I agree with areas being necessary for more common names but I really don't like the idea of having to enter each name with a single county or 'all'.
Hi Debbie,
One way round this would be to put an area? Maybe in your example put South West England or list counties in the three letter codes - SOM, DEV, DOR etc
I have a problem with Having three lines of Robinson - one in Anglesey, Wales one in Longtown, England and one connected to the latter but not the former in Lochmaben, Scotland. I just plumped for the Cumberland one as "all" is too big.
Pam
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All census look up transcriptions are Crown Copyright
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Dumfrieshire: Fallen, Fallon, Carruthers, Scott, Farish, Aitchison, Green, Ryecroft, Thomson, Stewart
Midlothian: Linn/d, Aitken, Martin
North Wales: Robins(on), Hughes, Parry, Jones
Cumberland: Lowther, Young, Steward, Miller
Somerset: Palmer, Cork, Greedy, Clothier
Currently offline due to work reasons- sorry for the silence!
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Linda_J
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Hi all
I added my name interests with no problem, but listing them made me wonder as one "Sussex and Hampshire 1800-1900" looks kinda untidy. I noticed that listing all who share the same names, most have no area or dates.
Is there a suggestion for a better way ?
Linda
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Dove - Maidstone Kent Ralph - Relf - Cranbrook Kent Cottrell - Barcombe Sussex Ecclestone - Norfolk and Suffolk Gooch - Norfolk Burgess - Sussex and Hampshire Stanton - Breconshire Other names; French, Beale, Higgins (all Kent) Census information is Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Biker
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Bob,
Was thinking, when for instance one lists surname interests would it be a good idea instead of going to a PM when clicking on another members name to perhaps opening their profile ?
Just a thought ..
Jonathan
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Berlin-Bob
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by: My Daughter. Chatting to find her Roots !
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Jonathan,
funnily enough, that was my first idea too !! (see somewhere in the first pages of this thread) where I said " .... so they can then send this member a PM", and then SS from the Rhondda suggested going straight to the PM, which I did !!
I am easy, one small change and it's done !!
But: ".... and now, after repeated public demand, we present ...... "
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Searching for Coleman, Moore, Kallnung in London; Margulies, Remenyi in E. Europe; Ancestors of Hessie Stevenson-Coleman-Baxter (Ireland, 1861) and, of course, any other ancestors for my web-site. All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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celia
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He every one
I have just added some more name interests,as said at the moment it's not much use contacting anyone looking for, Jones Manchester (no clues)? So this time i have put for instance
Baron Richard B. B/Burn1868 P Jane, George
Baron James B.Rishton 1881 P.Richard,Jane
Don't know if this will work because no Baron's enlisted so far but early day yet, great site
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Nick Carver
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Can I make a plea for someone to consider spelling variations in a name? I have two problemmatical names in my tree: one is variously spelled Hazelrigg, Hesilrigg, Hesilrigge, Heselrigg amongst others, the other is Laybourn, Laybourne, Leybourn, Leybourne. It is highly likely that there are some lines that have followed one spelling and others, another.
Is there anything that can easily be done to allow people entering one variant to pick up people following another? Presumably one can simply put in a note saying that people should check spelling variations, but whilst that is fine when the table is in its infancy, I am sure it will mushroom over time.
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E Yorks - Carver, Steels, Cross, Maltby, Whiting, Moor, Laybourn
W Yorks - Wilkinson, Kershaw, Rawnsley, Shaw
Norfolk - Carver, Dowson
Cheshire - Berry, Cooper
Lincs - Berry
London/Ireland/Scotland/Lincs - Sullivan
Northumberland/Durham - Nicholson, Cuthbert, Turner, Robertson
Berks - May
Beds - Brownell
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Berlin-Bob
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Hi,
Here is one possibility, that is already available:
Find a "common" bit and look for that.
This will catch some (but not all)variations !
For instance, using Nick's examples,
enter "rigg" and click on "within word" (or "rig" for variations with one R)
enter "bourn" and click on "within word" (follow up with "born" for more variations)
Anything more sophisticated than that will require a lot of programming !!
Hope this helps,
Bob
ps: I'm merging this into the SIT Suggestion Box.
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Searching for Coleman, Moore, Kallnung in London; Margulies, Remenyi in E. Europe; Ancestors of Hessie Stevenson-Coleman-Baxter (Ireland, 1861) and, of course, any other ancestors for my web-site. All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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Berlin-Bob
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Hi All,
I've now got round to implementing some, yes, some, of your suggestions 
See this topic:
Topic: SIT-News: Search by County, search by Place
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,73944.0.html
Keep the suggestions coming - who knows what I will have a go at next
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Searching for Coleman, Moore, Kallnung in London; Margulies, Remenyi in E. Europe; Ancestors of Hessie Stevenson-Coleman-Baxter (Ireland, 1861) and, of course, any other ancestors for my web-site. All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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