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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Sunday 25 February 24 23:58 GMT (UK)  »
One myth I've seen so many times is "So-and-so had a ticket to sail on the Titanic, but they didn't go because of x reason".

I've seen it so many times, it's a wonder anyone actually made it on board.  ;D

I don't think I had many myths handed down in my own family, as there wasn't much knowledge about the family really at all. The big 'myths' have been the illegitimacies, which were usually open knowledge although hidden in at least one case. That required some debunking.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Looking for the rest of a Newspaper article
« on: Wednesday 14 February 24 21:53 GMT (UK)  »
SOLDIER’S SUDDEN DEATH AT SHORNCLIFFE

An inquest was held at the Men’s Hospital, Shornecliffe on Tuesday afternoon by the County Coroner (Mr. R. M. Mercer) touching the death of Bandsman Donaldson (31) of the Royal Scotts, who died suddenly on Sunday night.

The jury having viewed the body, Surgeon-Capt. O’Gorman, D.S.O said he had made a post-mortem examination of the body of the deceased. There was a rupture of the aorta and aneurism extending into the trachea. Death was probably almost instantaneous. Deceased had been on foreign service. He had not complained of any sickness. A lance-corporal of their corps said deceased had been spitting up blood. There were no marks of violence. Blood was issuing from the nouse and mouth.

Bandsman Eugene MacCarthy said he had known deceased about eight or nine months. He was a band man of the 1st Royal Scots Regiment. He had heard him complain of pains in his heart. He coughed a good deal at night. Witness advised him several times to see a doctor, but he said it was only a cold. He had never known deceased to go on the sick list. He had not been in Hospital since witness had been in the Regiment. He saw deceased sitting in the canteen on Sunday evening. Subsequently he left the canteen and told witness to get him some supper. That was the last witness heard of him.

Mrs. Green of No. 3 K Block, Moore Barracks, said about twenty minutes past nine on Sunday evening she and another woman were standing near their quarters when they heard a man comping up by the blocks retching. He kept retching until he got to the corner, about three or four yards away from where they were standing, then he retched again, twisted round and fell on his hands and knees. He was not sensible when witness went to him and she thought he was dead. She then went for assistance and deceased was taken to the Hospital. He was staggering when they first saw him, but witness did not think he was under the influence of drink. 

The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: ancestor
« on: Monday 12 February 24 00:02 GMT (UK)  »
With him being a noted person in history, I think your best bet would be to look for any books that discuss his career. I notice that he was alive during the reign of Elizabeth I, so it seems likely he's mentioned somewhere.

I doubt we'd be able to find anything that a professional historian has not already found.

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I don't know what that is, but I will look into it.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: She fell off a step ladder
« on: Monday 05 February 24 16:20 GMT (UK)  »
I found it, the name Zillah has been slightly mistranscribed, because there is a printing error over her name.

I found it by searching for 'Finch'.

Then I used the filters on the left hand side to narrow it down to the county of Derbyshire.

Then I picked 1909.

Then I picked the right year, month etc.

Edit: I found it in the Derbyshire Times - Saturday 06 March 1909

The one GR2 found might be longer.

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Hi,

I'm in the process of writing out my family tree.

I would like to be able to add locations to a map, and then add that to a document.

I've done this with Google Maps, but it's 'live' online and I don't know how to add a picture of the map to a document.

Is there anyway to do this?

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The Lighter Side / Re: Ancestors almost born somehwere else to where they were.
« on: Saturday 03 February 24 23:45 GMT (UK)  »
I've got a few cases of that sort of thing in my family tree.

It has caught me out before, on census records, because as adults they will sometimes say they were born in say, Hull, which is where they grew up, but actually they were born in Durham or something like that.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Recording family treasures
« on: Friday 02 February 24 14:16 GMT (UK)  »
I do understand that it can be strange and uncomfortable to see and hear yourself.

I always remember though, when I was a new mum, reading an account of a mother who was looking back at her life with her children one day. They were looking through photographs together. The children were upset because their Mum was barely in any of the photographs. She'd always avoided it because she hated the way she looked. She said she regretted it, and from that point onwards she made the effort to be in the photographs.

I've done the same, even though I hate seeing myself. Because I know I'd love more photographs of my grandparents and great grand parents.

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