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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Brechfa, Welsh cottage name help please

« on: Wednesday 20 March 24 03:09 GMT (UK) »

Hi,
Could anyone make out what the cottage name at number 26 reads? .
It looks to me as if it says "gwau ( or n) malchnai", but that doesn't make much sense.

Refs for the whole census page:

1861
Civil Parish or Township   Brechfa
County/Island   Carmarthenshire
Country   Wales
Registration district   Llandilofawr
Sub-registration district   Llanfynydd
ED, institution, or vessel   6
Household schedule number   26
Piece   4128
Folio   62
Page number   6
Kind regards

Antrim / St Patrick's COI Ballymoney

« on: Monday 24 July 23 11:03 BST (UK) »

Hi,
Could anyone please tell me where are the records for Baptisms held for the year of 1907 with St Patrick's Ballymoney.
Are they still with the church? The records office don't seem to hold them those years. (?)
who do I contact ? ( email , I am in
Aus) within the church to check for me?

I am still trying to chase up my grandfather's baptism ( he was born in 1907 in Ballymoney but moved to Carrickfergus when he was a baby - he is not baptised there ( a kind person checked the churches for me many years ago who lives around carrickfergus) . I believe my grandfather most likely was baptised in Ballymoney .

He and his family were were COI

Thanks for any help
Kind regards

World War Two / Paying for Army records TNA ref numbers?

« on: Saturday 15 April 23 02:20 BST (UK) »

Hi,
Rather than writing another email to the TNA , as every email I've recieved from them it takes them two to three weeks to respond - I am wondering if anyone here has gone through applying and paying for their records , and can answer my question.

I have received an email yesterday with a link to pay for the service records I wish to obtain :

"Thank you for your recent request for information from The National Archives.

Check your enquiry details below and follow the link to Worldpay to proceed to payment.[/i][/b][/u]

Enquiry reference number: PAY 02xxx-Cxxxxx

Fee request:

Fee amount: 24.35 GBP (no VAT added "

Xxx ( link here to pay which I've crossed out) "

The email I recieved prior to that ( and which I responded to, saying I wish to proceed with the request ) quoted a ref number which was assigned to my case, which is totally different to the above ref number ( and one digit more too)
Part of the Email below ( the rest of the email is blurb about Freedom of Information and fees and so on, the name of my grandfather and his service number , and if I wish to proceed please let them know so they can give me a final cost and a pay link) :

"Your reference number is CAS-1XXXXX-YXXXXX . Please quote this reference number in future correspondence with regards to your case to enable us to identify your request more easily. "

My question is , were your Enquiry Ref numbers to pay for the records completely different from your Case Ref numbers ( minus the PAY , and CAS letters of course) ?
I don't want to pay for it , if they've mixed me up with someone else. ( they have my own name right - it's just the completely different Enquiry and Case ref numbers that I am querying - as I would have expected them to be the same ref numbers, and they're not). The link which I am taken to , to pay for it ,and their email does not give any other info except my own name and the completely different ref numbers ( and no name of the soldier unlike their previous email - so it's not enough to check if it's correct before I hit the pay button - The only thing I know is correct is my own name )

Kind regards
Ps I am in Australia , so it's bit difficult to phone them within their business hours , and it seems their phones aren't manned according to their site - you apparently have to leave you phone number with them and they'll call you ( which I guess could be weeks if it's anything like their time response with emails) .
They have a live chat it seems Tuesday to Saturday , which I may try using *tonight (* my time here) if that works
I just wondered if anyone here has gone through the whole process ,and could confirm that their own ref numbers were completely different to eachother too , and if it is just the way the TNA do it . It saves me trying to get in contact with them to ask the question.

Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help with a name or a word please

« on: Wednesday 15 February 23 06:15 GMT (UK) »

Hi,
Can anyone read the last word please, (after Graham).
I don't have any other handwriting by the same person to compare the letters/word to.

It's out of a baptism bible , where indvidual people have signed their own names, so posting more or the page wouldn't be of any help.
.
I can't for the life of me work out the word. It just looks like capital letters and two numbers to me , which really doesn't make sense to me.

Thank you for any help.
Kind regards

Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / My Heritage notifications ( or more to the point no notifications)

« on: Monday 09 January 23 12:53 GMT (UK) »

Hi,
For the past year I've had notifications from My Heritage sent to me every week in emails ( basically every week without fail) of new matches.

More importantly if anyone messages me I used to get an email immediately ( I don't get one at all now!)

For the past few months I haven't received anything from them at all- for example, I messaged someone months ago, and I didn't even realise they replied to me ! ( the person who replied to me actually had exactly same problem as me , they are not receiving any notifications at all sent to them)

I get zilch emails from my heritage, where I used to get them every week, and basically immediately if anyone messaged me- is it because I am not a fully paid up subscriber ? It almost seems to me they have stopped with the emails after 12 months. Everything was great until a few months ago .

Is anyone else having this problem ? After around about a year has elapsed of an unloading a kit ( non subscriber, uploaded ancestry kit, and paid for unlock) ,
not revieving any weekly emails of matches and much more importantly
No notifications sent to you informing you of a message ?

Kind regards
Ps it is.is not my settings , or anything I've changed.

Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Shared matches on Ancestry? Bit of an odd one

« on: Friday 06 January 23 14:16 GMT (UK) »

Bit of an odd one .Does anyone know the reason why ancestry computers don't seem to pick up on some of the shared matches of a lower cm match , ie they tell you that you that you dont have any shared matches at all with the match - when you know for certain that you do have shared matches with that match? If that makes sense .( ie under the shared matches tab on each of your matches)

For example , I have a proven common ancestor , who I share 8cm with my 5th cousin . The match is also on my through lines ( not that really matters)

What I don't understand is that between myself and my 5th cousin is that we don't have any shared matches between us at all ( which of course is perfectly normal when it's that far back because we are only sharing 8cm between the two of us ) - BUT, and this is a massive big BUT! - Because we should definitely have a shared match showing between us - as my child should be showing as our shared match.

In my child's DNA matches , my child has the very same person/cousin as a match, and it is also showing on my child's through lines too , going though his mum if course - me ( the match is 5th cousin once removed to my child) . My child shares a tiny bit more than I share with the same cousin (but it's only 9cm, whilst mine is 8cm).- common ancestors is the same as mine of course.

But according to ancestry " shared matches " my child and this match does not share any shared matches with the cousin either lol ( same as it's showing on my shared matches with the same person - ie zilch shared matches )

Why is ancestry not picking up on both mother and child are genetically matching to this same person under the " shared matches " tab ".- when clearly we are both genetically related to the same person by 8cm and 9cm ? It doesn't happen on any if the high cm matches between myself and child , but I have noticed it on quite a few of the low cms shared matches between myself and child.
It makes me wonder how many other shared matches between matches really should be there , and they are not showing them .

( the DNA of myself, my child's, and the matches are not recent uploads, so it is not because of awaiting updates etc )

Kind regards

Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / COMPLETED .Help with surname please Mc"something"

« on: Friday 30 December 22 02:40 GMT (UK) »

Hi,
Could anyone decipher Martha's surname please ( the informant , aunt of the child)?
The birth is in North Of Ireland in 1865. Mc something , I think the last letter may be a Y , and the third letter a C.
McC .....Y ?
Thank you for any help

Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Jones Meats Mumbles 1925. Grocery shop and Grandmother.

« on: Wednesday 06 November 19 02:24 GMT (UK) »

Hi,
This is a photograph of a photo. I don't hold the original ( that is back home in Wales with my mother-in-law and stuck to a sheet of paper ). Hubby took this photo with his phone and he has taken it at a slight angle.

Is it possible that it could be tidied up as It's so dark and not clear, and if at all possible a colour version?

It was taken in the village of Mumbles Swansea in 1925 (the shop was probably on the main drag of shops - Newton Rd )
The lady pictured is my hubby's grandmother.

My Grandmother in-law would have been just 16 in the picture.
She was working in the shop pictured. It's probably how she met my grandfather-in law who grew up in Mumbles ( Grandmother was not a native born./raised there)

Her hair was dark , black ,and those are hams hanging up in the background in the shop.

I imagine the paintwork on the wood around the shop at the time would have been a dark green, or a blackish colour.
I've tried to google.the shop to see if there are any other old photos of the Jones meats and grocery shop but in colour ( for a colour guide), but I can't seem to find any of this shop with or even without colour.

I also don't know what the number of the shop was , or on what street. ( I am guessing it was on Newton rd as thats where the majority of shops are and were). The building is very most likely still there and being used as another shop.

Thank you so much for any help.
I was thinking of framing an improved version and sending it to mum-in law in her Christmas parcel to hang on her wall. It's such a lovely photo of an era gone by ( mum in-law still lives in there in the village)

Kind regards

Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help to decipher name please

« on: Tuesday 29 January 19 01:48 GMT (UK) »

Hi,
Could anyone please help with this person's name. I think the initial maybe a J, but I haven't got a clue what the surname reads. ( it looks as if it ends with an el as the e looks like the one in November) The beginning of the name looks like either a H to me or a G, it's driving me nuts. The more I look at it - the more I haven't a clue.

The only writing to compare it to is the date below
Thanks for any help