JM, Some thoughts of my own;
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" The grey cells have grey hair. Some of this stuff's gonna turn it white. And, if no chinks have revealed themselves in Years? The last few synapses are crying out that nothing's off bounds now. It's a survival thing.
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" I don't refer to that outfit as " The Pit " for nothing. I'm all too aware of how they harvest our work, to sell on to others. I used to Really Enjoy accessing the original (transcribed) material and making my own way.
I'm actually very good at painstakingly finger tip searching through pages and pages of basic record lists. Back when FindMyPast was called something else and they really just presented the BMD listings, I loved combing through those.
The Pit too, I remember, showed us lovely, long ~ but well ordered and easily finger tip searchable ~ lists. Now? I can't even get a straight answer to " Deaths ". (Never mind. I trawled through Free BMD)
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". Yes. Brick walls
can be nightmares. Especially when ye the last of ye line. Doing this purely out of personal interest. Knowing that the £1,000's worth of BMD Certs ye have in ye filing cabinet will just go on a fire, when ye go yeself. And that won't be long away.
So, yeah; I'll die a happier man, having cracked a couple of the last great mysteries of my life.
A reply, from anyone, actually addressing my original question, would be great
