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Today I've broken down a brickwall which has stood firm for 20 years. It seemed that everything fell into place after finding one tiny piece of information , I feel ridiculously pleased . So don't give up , you never know what's around the corner . ;D
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Oh wonderful, congratulations. Lovely to see the pure joy in your post.
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Excellent ;D Could you ever have imagined 20 years ago that this would take 20 years!
I've just received a message relating to dna - been waiting nearly 2 years - hoping I can now move forward with it.
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So very envious .... I keep on searching for the origins of two lines, before they emerged from the Irish Sea, but no luck so far. I'll try to maintain my efforts, in the hope of emulating your success ... someday! Congratulations.
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I've just received a message relating to dna - been waiting nearly 2 years - hoping I can now move forward with it.
Was that on Ancestry?
Peter Calver was saying in the latest Lost Cousins newsletter that he had just had replies to two messages he sent in 2016 and 2017. He wondered if it was anything to do with the ne messaging system. I note mine said 14 new messages, but they were old ones. But it did prompt me to look at them and check I'd replied.
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Today I've broken down a brickwall which has stood firm for 20 years. It seemed that everything fell into place after finding one tiny piece of information , I feel ridiculously pleased . So don't give up , you never know what's around the corner . ;D
Congratulations ;D I know how you are feeling as the same happened with me last year after 20 odd years of researching and like you say from one tiny bit of information...wonderful break through
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LizzieL
They said they had missed my earlier messages - each previous message has a different "read" time ::)
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Great to hear your good news Christine :D It gives us all hope that one our brick walls will be demolished!!
Carol
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So happy for you. It's those breakthroughs that keep us going!
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Sometimes new records become available, sometimes you get a moment of inspiration, sometimes someone else sees a different approach...
But I do know that the harder you have to look for information the happier you are when you find it. I was chuffed after years of searching to find my gt x 3 x gt grandmother Kezia. I had her burial with age, so a good idea when she was baptised but couldn't find a baptism in the likely parishes for Kezia Seals, which was how her maiden name was recorded on the marriage entry. I tried variants - Sale, Searl, Scale, which appeared as surnames in the register of the parishes where she lived but to no avail.
Finally I looked slightly further afield to a more distant parish and there she was - Kezia Saul! The name seems to have been turned into Seals just for the wedding and later morphed into Sales for her brothers and sisters in censuses, marriages and deaths.
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Finally I looked slightly further afield to a more distant parish and there she was - Kezia Saul! The name seems to have been turned into Seals just for the wedding and later morphed into Sales for her brothers and sisters in censuses, marriages and deaths.
Three letters the same, and in the right order? That's pretty close for a five-letter name.
It was well into the 19th century before spelling "settled down". People, even when literate, would be unlikely to correct someone in authority. Surnames changes as people moved from place to place. People wrote down what the thought they heard, rather than what was actually said.
I have seen many marriage entries where the signature does not match the name in the main entry, and the record might be indexed under either version, or indeed another one wholly in the mind of a transcriber.
We also seem to believe that dyslexia is a modern thing. I'm sure that the proportion was similar in previous centuries - currently 10%, with 4% at the severe end. I bet that I've come across the work of some clergymen who were in that 4%. :)