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Warwickshire / Re: Family member possible Jewish heratige
« on: Tuesday 31 October 23 22:36 GMT (UK)  »
His burial record can be downloaded from here for £10 but it doesn't look like it would answer your question:
https://birminghamburialrecords.co.uk/search/records

He wasn't buried in a Jewish cemetery, so I'm guessing the possible Jewish heritage is farther back in time?

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Warwickshire / Re: Family member possible Jewish heratige
« on: Tuesday 31 October 23 22:31 GMT (UK)  »
As a starting point:

The Birmingham Post & Gazette
Fri., May 17, 1957

“GAZE. – Charles, passed away peacefully on May 16 at the residence of his daughter, [redacted in case she is still living] Mrs. W. G. Coventry, in his 89th year. Funeral private.”

If correct, this means he was born circa 1868.

[Edited to add daughter's name, since she was born in 1900.]

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry family trees full of lazy errors
« on: Tuesday 31 October 23 16:58 GMT (UK)  »
Re. the DNA name collectors.

I was contacted by someone who has a distant DNA connection to my brother (I manage my brother's DNA page). This man saw my extremely basic tree but, because I've shared my various trees with relatives who've turned around and put them all onto Ancestry, this man has copied and pasted both of my parents' trees and all of their relatives' trees into his own.

The weird thing is that this man is probably related to me through some shared ancestor from the late 1700s on my mother's English side but he doesn't know how and I haven't been able to figure it out. He doesn't need my mother's Scottish trees and he most certainly doesn't need my father's ancestry at all but he's been a very busy beaver, copying and pasting like mad, and for what? It won't help him solve the question of how we are related! This is inexplicable to me.

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry family trees full of lazy errors
« on: Tuesday 31 October 23 16:50 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: JAKnighton on Wednesday 25 October 23 15:40 BST (UK)
My tree is quite large (15,000+ individuals) but that's because I do a lot of descendancy research. So not just my direct ancestors and their children, but cousins across multiple generations, including their spouses. I've also done research for the in-laws of my aunts and uncles, and a few of my friends, which I have all connected back to my main tree. That causes the tree to grow quite quickly. Despite this my tree doesn't go any further back than 1540 and most ancestral lines fizzle out in the early 1700s.

I don't have quite as many people in my tree but it's big because I do the same thing. I also have my husband's various family lines in the same database. I don't have any trees online.

I document everything I can. If I can't find (or afford) to get source documents when I'm adding someone to my tree, I'll make a note of where I found the info (from a descendant, in a book, an online tree of someone who appears to actually be related to the line in question, etc.) with TO BE PROVEN in all caps.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Half Aunt or Cousin
« on: Saturday 02 September 23 15:22 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for the helpful information, everyone! I'm always learning something new here!

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Half Aunt or Cousin
« on: Thursday 31 August 23 00:55 BST (UK)  »
Hmmm, I've just looked at it again, and I think I've misunderstood their use of the hyphen. Silly me!

I thought it meant that she fell under the broader category of Close Family and, more specifically, was a 1st Cousin match (because the title "Close Family" also appears directly over her icon).

But now I'm wondering if it actually indicates that she falls into the range of Close Family through to Cousin. When I click on the link, it takes me to a list of possible ways that we could be related, including grandparent, grandchild, half sibling, aunt/uncle or niece/nephew (with a 99% chance); under that list, there's another list with 1st cousin, great-grandparent, etc., (with a 1% chance).

Is that linked list new or am I only just noticing it now? LOL.

Thank you, brigidmac! And apologies to the OP!

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The Lighter Side / Re: Mind your own business…
« on: Tuesday 29 August 23 03:41 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: DianaCanada on Monday 28 August 23 23:37 BST (UK)
Quote from: Josephine on Monday 28 August 23 23:18 BST (UK)
We were also told, "Don't be a nosy Parker."

Oh, I heard that one many time (Lancs. father)!

Interesting! My mother's grandparents were from England but not Lancashire.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Mind your own business…
« on: Monday 28 August 23 23:18 BST (UK)  »
We were also told, "Don't be a nosy Parker."

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The Lighter Side / Re: Mind your own business…
« on: Sunday 27 August 23 17:45 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: DianaCanada on Sunday 27 August 23 17:31 BST (UK)
Quote from: Josephine on Sunday 27 August 23 17:19 BST (UK)
I'm Canadian. We used to say, "mind your beeswax." I don't know if anyone says that anymore.


I still say it occasionally, but not directly at anyone, that would be rude!

LOL, yeah, you could only say it to someone who wouldn't take it the wrong way.

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