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The Common Room / Re: Genealogical term
« on: Thursday 25 January 24 09:35 GMT (UK) »Is there a genealogical term for this? if not, what term would you use to describe it?Consanguinity ?
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The Common Room / Re: Missing GRO death?
« on: Wednesday 24 January 24 09:23 GMT (UK) »It appears there is a group of entries missing, as reported by rosie99. If the entry is not there you will not get a copy in any format. Maybe try a contact-us email.I have ordered dozens of digital images in the last few weeks. For a few of my requests only PDFs and full certs have been available, and I would guess that in those cases all entries on those register pages would be unavailable ? In my experience the chance of getting a digital image is around 90%. Excellent service when it works !
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The Common Room / Re: Deaths of Babies
« on: Saturday 20 January 24 11:57 GMT (UK) »This week, in Yorkshire, a farmer's widow aged 97 was carried on the shoulders of 8 grandchildren from the farm gate to the parish church. Admittedly, only about 300 yards, but following the path of her husband in 2020 and two previous generations which I know of. Probably the last to receive that honour.Don't forget those old 'coffin roads' in the north of England which went over passes in the hills to the church in the (large) parish containing the home of the deceased. A good deal more than 300 yards ...
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The Common Room / Re: Deaths of Babies
« on: Saturday 20 January 24 09:37 GMT (UK) »So many of my ancestors had lots of children but quite a lot died shortly after birth. How did the parents pay for funerals for them or was it free?My g-g-grandparents bred 10 children in Liverpool in the 1830s. While they lived near the densely populated centre several children died young and were buried in the Necropolis, where the burial fee was 19/6d. As g-g-gf had an established business that was probably affordable. After a few years they moved uphill to Everton, which seems to have been healthier.
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The Common Room / Re: GRO showing zero results for EVERYTHING [SOLVED]
« on: Thursday 18 January 24 12:04 GMT (UK) »If a human saw space before a name, he or she would consider it not significant and would disregard it. I don't see why the computer program shouldn't do the same, in the interests of making the system user-friendly.Speaking as a human, I agree with your point - and it is easy for a program to remove leading space characters. But that would remove the ability to actually search with a leading space
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The Common Room / Re: Missing GRO Death - 1945
« on: Thursday 18 January 24 09:35 GMT (UK) »Bearing in mind that the GRO probably works on the same basis as others with customer service teams (ie as long as 80% / insert your own % here) of customer contact results in no further contact) that is the quality of service we have to accept.Expect - yes ; Accept - no
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The Common Room / Re: GRO showing zero results for EVERYTHING [SOLVED]
« on: Thursday 18 January 24 09:32 GMT (UK) »In text fields, a space is a character. <sp> is the usual abbreviation for a space.And then there was the 'hard' space or 'blank' at ASCII 255
which appears as a space but the system sees as different.
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The Common Room / Re: Town Cloth?
« on: Sunday 07 January 24 09:46 GMT (UK) »I had checked the production of broadcloth and it was as you say. Its weave was so dense it could be cut without unravelling.Hanes - I'm surprised you missed the chance to mention that those Welsh places called Pandy must have been fulling mills ?
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The Common Room / Re: Town Cloth?
« on: Saturday 06 January 24 12:52 GMT (UK) »
Might it be anything like the Dunmow Flitch ? After all, Dunmow can't be far away ...