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Fife / Re: Has he remarried???
« on: Friday 04 February 22 13:06 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for your help. The anawer to my question is "yes" and I have found the exact register details but...

I cannot see a way. order a copy. I have purchased credits but this doesn't take me up further forward. Instead I end up going round and round searching the registers, finding the entry, no way through from there. Can anybody advise? Many thanks in advance,

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Fife / Has he remarried???
« on: Tuesday 01 February 22 17:00 GMT (UK)  »
How do I go about finding out if someone has recently "remarried"? He won't communicate and as far as we're concerned, he is still married to our daughter!!!

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London and Middlesex / Closing my Bardouleau Research Permanently1
« on: Thursday 17 June 21 10:03 BST (UK)  »
It has been some considerable while since I pursued any research in this "Bardouleau" that I started  to build as a memory to my late stepmother Anne Rose Bardouleau. I am no longer able to invest any further effort.

The tree is "public" on ancestry.co.uk and will remain available  as long as my subscription remains in place. Please feel free to help yourself to any of the research and photos that I have scanned in. I cannot speak to those who have been kind enough to let me copy their images into my tree and perhaps you should deal directly with them?

The Bardouleaus/Bardonlews/et al have a fascinating history. My stepmother was convinced they were Hugueneots but in fact they were Catholic refugees fleeing the excesses of the French Revolution snd subsequent persecution.

They settled into main areas: Mile End Old Town and Lambeth. Annie as of the Lambeth tribe.

Thank you Annie; you kept me honest.

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The Common Room / Re: New Ancestry hints help
« on: Friday 16 April 21 00:12 BST (UK)  »
not sure I agree. genealogy is often about finding that nugget hidden inthe mud (and I have 12,750 unviewrd hints!!!!).

i now try once each week to virw the “past seven days” hints and save any of interest to shoebox. i only need one hont for each perso as an-aide memoir.

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The Common Room / Re: New Ancestry hints help
« on: Saturday 10 April 21 17:07 BST (UK)  »
Despite my reputation as a Luddite, I am open to change... but not this one. The new hints "management" simply can't cope with a family with children from two or more different mothers who are subsequently reported as all born by one mother.

I think the new matching application is awful and please, Ancestry, throw it back at the developers and invite them to speak to users next time.

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London and Middlesex / Re: Any clue where this is in Camberwell.
« on: Thursday 01 October 20 06:58 BST (UK)  »
My thanks to you all for your assistance.

Malcolm

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Carmarthenshire / Re: Whibonog, Llanybydder. Finding deeds or rent books?
« on: Thursday 01 October 20 06:54 BST (UK)  »
Shwmae,

Great-uncle Hereward (who I never met) was my Mamgu's brother-in-law (Rachel Anne in Glanamman). We are 1st cousins, twice-removed!!

There is indeed a lot of Thomas DNA still circulating round Llanybydder.

It is nice to "meet you". I'll send a private message with some more personal info.

Kind regards,
Malcolm

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Suffolk / Re: Windmill Millers of Suffolk
« on: Saturday 16 May 20 08:36 BST (UK)  »
Windy wrote: This might add a bit more to your tree, but another branch?  There was a miller in Brundish (who I have not been able to pin to a mill yet) called William Cook in 1809.  He had died still linked to Brundish by 1820.  Yet another William Cook was selling the (unidentified) mill in and advertisement in the Ipswich Journal in 1828.  (I have not been able to see the contents of this advert so I cannot say which mill its was likely to be).  Either of these men could well been George's father-in-law.  This would explain his employment as a journeyman miller.

Windy, I have just revisited this post and realised that I can add a little flesh to the Brundish mill story...

In 1829, George Vincent my ggg-grandfather married Charlotte (nee Davis) young widow of William Cook who died in 1823 and whom she had married in 1820.

The William Cook advertising the mill is probably a relation to the miller William. George Vincent is the journeyman miller in Brundish in 1841 but moved south into Essex by 1851.

I haven't pursued William Cook's line as his ancestors are not related to me either by blood or by marriage.

Kind regards,
Malcolm

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: What I did when I got my DNA results
« on: Monday 02 December 19 03:55 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Martin,

Thanks for your posting. There were a couple of sites that were new (and looked pretty useful) to me.

The latest improvements on Ancestry had eliminated one of the previous frustrating aspects of DNA match results. I have processed all my matches back to 15.0cM and promised myself not to venture below that value until I have finished processing any match >15.

The "matches not yet viewed" means I can quickly locate "newcomers" >15.0cM. I flag them with a gold star and then can filter and work down the list again.

I also use a flag I have entitled "no shared matches" and again, using filter can quickly revisit occasionally to see if they now match a recently arrived new result.

Finally, I always place the date of my latest visit as the first entry in the notes section. This enables me to whizz through passing anything 'recent' on the assumption that stuff doesn't change that often.

Ancestry DNA has proved fascinating for me. I even identified two fourth cousins, living in the same street in a Welsh village, who knew each other but had no idea of their connection to each other!

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