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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry.com Unwanted Comments Added to My Tree
« on: Monday 01 January 24 12:36 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Jebber on Monday 01 January 24 12:22 GMT (UK)
Quote from: jnomad on Monday 01 January 24 11:51 GMT (UK)
I have added comments on a tree that is documentably wrong about people in my family after the tree owner ignored my attempts to message him.

I have had similar experiences, one in particular is an incorrect marriage. The tree owner attached their relative as the wife of a cousin of mine, simply because the women  have the same first names. I provided documentary evidence of the correct marriage, also a newspaper account of the wedding in which I am named as a bridesmaid, all of which was ignored.

Now I simply leave a comment, if the tree owner ignores it that  is their loss.  Hopefully, if others look to copying the trees,  see the comments, it's up to them whether or not they check the facts for themselves

I would be very glad if I made an error and someone pointed it out to me, no matter how careful we are we are not perfect and can all make mistakes.

I so agree with your last sentence!

I would always welcome someone contacting me about possible errors. Apart from having the opportunity to correct my tree, I'd be able to think through where my logic and research might have gone wrong, and hopefully become a better researcher in future.

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry.com Unwanted Comments Added to My Tree
« on: Monday 01 January 24 09:38 GMT (UK)  »
I have no personal experience of this problem... I have no unwanted comments on my tree, because no one has ever left a comment on it! ;D

However, this is what it says in Ancestry's Help pages...

Deleting: You can delete your comments and the comments others leave on a tree you own. To delete a comment, click Delete beneath the comment. To undo the deletion, click Undo. Once click the x to hide the "undo" option, you won't be able to reverse the deletion anymore. 

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The Common Room / Re: Does anyone know of any current Ancestry special offers?
« on: Tuesday 12 December 23 16:06 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: DavidG02 on Tuesday 12 December 23 15:35 GMT (UK)
Hoping someone can help clarify

I got a 6 month subscription say a month ago or so and I keep getting upgrade on my header

I can ignore that but now I have a big ! button

Clicked on it tonight and its telling me

*You will be billed in one payment of $99.99 for a 6-month subscription to Key Australia and UK Records, and you will be issued a prorated refund for the time remaining on your current subscription. Your subscription will automatically renew at list price after the introductory one-month offer unless you are notified otherwise. If you don't want to renew, cancel at least two days before your renewal date. Cancel by visiting the Account Settings section or by contacting us. See our Renewal and Cancellation Terms for further details.

Does this mean I am getting a discounted price ie I originally paid $139aud

If I accept will another $99 get taken out or will they just discount the remainder?

Its very confusing (to me )

I don't know the answer to your question, but a strange, large button appeared in my screen header a couple of days ago, and it is still there.

When I click on it, it offers me the opportunity to take out a subscription to view UK-only records for £10.99 a month.

I am only 4 months into a 12-month worldwide subscription, so that message makes no sense at all to me.

I've assumed it is some sort of mistake, and maybe the button will disappear!

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Northumberland / Re: What a man
« on: Saturday 25 November 23 20:04 GMT (UK)  »
I actually came across that gravestone a few weeks ago, and took a photo of it to upload to Find a Grave. Not surprisingly, someone had already created a memorial to David.

I was on a short break to Norfolk and visited Great Yarmouth, where that gravestone is in the grounds of the Minster. As someone with a tree full of 'Agricultural Labourers' I felt quite jealous!

Several of my relatives were baptised and married in the Minster, and buried in that graveyard. I didn't find any headstones but I enjoyed being in a place with such significance for my ancestors.

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Glamorganshire / Re: GRO Indexs on line
« on: Sunday 29 October 23 15:08 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Dannemois on Saturday 28 October 23 16:26 BST (UK)
Hi
Does anyone know what you get on a 'digital copy' of a GRO Index birth.  The birth of W.C. Digby was registered in Pontypridd and I wondered if it would state the actual place of birth (eg home address).

I've ordered quite a few of these copies and the information has been very variable.

Sometimes it has given a house number and street; sometimes just the street; sometimes just the general area of the town; and sometimes just the name of a village if the birth was somewhere very small.

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Glamorganshire / Re: GRO Indexs on line
« on: Sunday 29 October 23 15:05 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Pheno on Saturday 28 October 23 16:33 BST (UK)
Hi, you get exactly the same as you would on a certificate, where the information is reproduced.

However, it is copied onto a blank certificate, which if it is not lined up properly, will mean that you wont be able to read all the info clearly - but for an instaneous £2.50 probably worth a try.  If unclear you can go down the usual route or ordering the actual certificate.

Pheno

... and if there is missing information chopped off, it is easy to request a refund of the fee on line. I've done that a few times now.

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry family trees full of lazy errors
« on: Wednesday 25 October 23 21:58 BST (UK)  »
I’ve found a few ‘lost’ people when they’ve turned up on Censuses as lodgers or visitors in the home of some distant relative somewhere… perhaps a transcriber had mistakenly given them the same surname as the family they were staying with, so they didn’t turn up in searches. I love those ‘found you!’ moments!  :)

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry family trees full of lazy errors
« on: Wednesday 25 October 23 21:13 BST (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 have the same approach. I find myself curious about anyone with a connection to my family.

I have some horrible brick walls which don't even go very far back, so if I focused solely on direct ancestors, I'd be extremely frustrated.

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The Common Room / Re: Surname used as a middle name
« on: Friday 20 October 23 10:52 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Jebber on Friday 20 October 23 08:56 BST (UK)
I have  numerous surnames as middle names in my family. Some are named after employers, others after friends.

 One particular couple gave all their children middle names which were the surnames of the people their own siblings married.

One of my sons has my own maiden name as a middle name, because he  was born six days after my father died, my father was the last male in our line to bear that name.

The idea of an employer as a middle name made me chuckle.

I wonder if any current births have middle names such as Amazon, Vodaphone or Royal Mail?  ;D

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