I have deliberately disabled adding and editing records until the whole database is loaded.
Apart from the test aspects, I want people to be able to search the whole database to see if "their" Home Children are already in the database before before they start adding their records. Otherwise we may end up with duplicates.
I can give more details about his life if neededThis will be the next step when I've finished loading all the records. Normally if you want to add details, you would send the Submitter a PM directly, or add something to the "Readers Comments" field and then PM the Submitter. However, as these records have all been submitted from another database, we don't have a "Submitter".
I'm now itching to put my name against them as researcher and maybe add a few notes if that facility exists.
When the bits for adding extra info & adding myself as researcher are operational, I have a lot more info/detail regarding him to add.
Thank you for your feedback, glad you like it :)
Those "bits" are already operational. Go to the page view of any of your ancestors and look at the bottom of the page.
I was also wondering about the usefulness if the ship's name included the year e.g. 1909 : Scythian and 1911 : Scythian were separate entities for sorting. Not foolproof as some ships made three trips a year but gives a tighter search result.That seemed the quickest way for the Quick Search. But it does bring up a lot of hits, so I'll have a think about that one.
Thank you for your feedback, glad you like it :)When the bits for adding extra info & adding myself as researcher are operational, I have a lot more info/detail regarding him to add.
Those "bits" are already operational. Go to the page view of any of your ancestors and look at the bottom of the page.
see also: http://surname.rootschat.com/lexicon/dbsig/dbsig-help.php?dbsig_num=1&show=gi#gi
regards,
Bob
If you hover with the mouse over that "little icon" you should see a tooltip "Page view" (see also the Help page from my previous reply.
And you can always enter the ship's name and year in the Advanced Search, if you (or anybody) are really interested in just one year
Thank you janetm - very interesting!
I have found this listing - https://personal.uwaterloo.ca/marj/genealogy/children/manitoban.html
This shows all the children - quite a few, mostly from Scotland.
I will take a look at the details and this should be added to the database in the near future.
I really just wanted to know where the original post information came from 'Created : 2012-03-11 19:32:38 / From original database', since there is a lot of information listed here that my family was previously unaware of. I assume some of it's taken from the BHC landing records. But certain things like the 'marriage of Elizabeth in 1902 to John Alex Stewart, 35, laborer, born in Memphis, USA' are a mystery to us and would not have been included in the BHC records since it happened 19 years after her arrival in Canada. I wonder where this info came from?
James
I really just wanted to know where the original post information came from 'Created : 2012-03-11 19:32:38 / From original database', since there is a lot of information listed here that my family was previously unaware of.
Very exciting news!
In collaboration with the British Home Child Group International (BHCGI) a database of over 20,000 British Home Children (BHC) compiled by Norah Dennis will be added to the Database for Special Interest Groups - DBSIG.
A few hundred records will be added this weekend, so the BHC admins can test the data and layouts, before the rest of the records. Until the database is fully loaded, the add and edit buttons will be disabled.
Please see Berlin-Bob's thread for more information.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=716206.0
And a link to the Database for Special Interest Groups
http://surname.rootschat.com/lexicon/dbsig/index.php
Karen
Static Data Sarmatian Aug 1872
DOB Year status = "approx"
Country of Arrival = "CAN"
Date of arrival = 17-08-1872
Status = "exact"
Ship = "Sarmatian"
Agency (Canada) = Macpherson Homes
No family Link/created by alanmack
Hi Robyn
Possible is Walter Bevis ALLEN (1901-1981), who arrived aboard Belgic in 1913 and was at Fairbridge.
He married Edith Blanche BRANSBY in 1929, they divorced in 1935. But I can't see her in the index to Fairbridge. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/94903238
He remarried in 1940 to Hilda WHITWORTH and died in South Australia.