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Census and Resource Discussion / Help with 1891 annotations
« on: Tuesday 31 March 20 12:11 BST (UK)  »
Hello. I hope someone can explain this for me.

I am researching John Harewood who was born 21st Oct 1878 at Warley, near Halifax, Yorkshire.
He was part of a large family and can be easily found in the 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911 and 1939 Censuses.

My query is about the 1891 Census where his age is given as 9, when in fact he was 12. I know that mistakes like this are fairly, but I am curious as to why someone has underlined and circled his age and put a cross at the end of the row.

Was this done by someone at the time to draw attention to the error, and if so, why didn't they correct it? Or is there another reason why his age was underlined and circled?

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Unknown beer drinking men
« on: Saturday 28 March 20 22:24 GMT (UK)  »
There seem to be pansies in the flower bed, so that fits with Rena's observation for time of year.

It also looks like the man in the distinctive pale hat is the focus, since he is stood on the path, and two of the men seem to be looking his way.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Please date Great-Great-Granny Burris !
« on: Tuesday 17 March 20 23:07 GMT (UK)  »
There seems to be some faded writing on the back of the photo, under the words "Nana's Grandmother", plus a number that ends in 96.

1896 would fit with the photographer, and with jim1's opinion.

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Midlothian / Re: McAndrews of Edinburgh
« on: Tuesday 03 March 20 23:53 GMT (UK)  »
Wow! Thank you very much Forfarian and Crumblie. You have certainly put me on what looks to be the right track. As seems likely, Ellen Cornish made contact with the family in Devon, and then traveled up to Scotland. But in what year that happened, and for how long, is still a mystery.

Ellen would have been 14 years younger than Miss MacAndrew. She was 15 in 1891, when Miss MacAndrew was 29. In 1901 Ellen would be 25 and Miss MacAndrew 39. I wonder if that would have been an appropriate age difference for a Lady's Companion? Maybe Ellen was actually employed as a Lady's Maid, which would allow for her younger age?

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Midlothian / McAndrews of Edinburgh
« on: Tuesday 03 March 20 00:47 GMT (UK)  »
I am hoping some kind Root-chatter can help me with this.

My great grandmother was Ellen Cornish, born in 1876 in Exeter, Devon. She appears in Exeter in the 1881 and 1891 Censuses, married in Exeter in 1903 and lived in Topshan, Devon until she died in 1958.

However, people who knew her have told me that before she married she was a Lady's Companion to a Miss McAndrew, and lived in Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh. I would love to know more about her life there, how she got to be so far from her home, and what happened to Miss McAndrew for Ellen to leave her service. Did her lady die or get married, or was Ellen Cornish only hired for a set period or dismissed?

Does anyone know if there was a McAndrew family living in Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh in the 1890s or early 1900s? If I can get some context it will help fill out the possibilities.

Thank you in advance.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Decipher please
« on: Tuesday 21 January 20 23:39 GMT (UK)  »
If you reverse the image it looks like;

rememb...
hillside
ever your
[monogram signature]

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Should couples on ThruLines provide the same number of dna matches?
« on: Friday 29 November 19 21:55 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: davidft on Friday 29 November 19 15:24 GMT (UK)
Quote from: IJDisney on Friday 29 November 19 14:53 GMT (UK)

Do not trust what Ancestry claims on ThruLines - just as you shouldn't trust the Ancestry Hints it throws up.

I think that is a bit unfair. Ancestry does not tell you to trust Thrulines or Hints. It tells you that they are tools that you need to verify, or otherwise, yourself.

When it says at the top of the page that "ThruLines are generated using [your] DNA results", or when you hover over an ancestor and it reads "you are currently the only DNA tested descendant", it certainly suggests that the DNA is the at the forefront of the connection, not a tree comparison program.

Another thing on ThruLines is that my 3xgreat grandfather appears with "9 DNA matches", but his father only appears with "7 DNA matches", and his father with only "4 DNA matches". I should have more DNA matches as I go back each generation, not less. And this appears on other lines, so is not to do with undeclared illegitimacy. It is because ThruLines is based on a comparison of Ancestry trees, not on any analyses of DNA.


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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Should couples on ThruLines provide the same number of dna matches?
« on: Friday 29 November 19 14:53 GMT (UK)  »
The ThruLines matches are not based upon actual DNA, but only that this particular ancestor appears in the family tree of those you have a DNA match with.

The identification of two people from different trees is a guess, and has no relation to the real DNA you share with the DNA match whose tree it is. The guessed at match might just be a coincidence in name/date, or be based on inaccurate information on one or both of the trees, or be Ancestry making a wild guess based on a similar surname.

One of my ThruLine matches claimed that one of my DNA matches descended from an ancestral sibling who chronologically and geographically could not have been the claimed link between us. The worst of it was that her online tree didn't even make the claim - it was something Ancestry had made up using similar names appearing in trees of non-DNA matches.

Do not trust what Ancestry claims on ThruLines - just as you shouldn't trust the Ancestry Hints it throws up.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Is there feint writing on this photo? Gran & Grandad Rooney
« on: Thursday 21 November 19 19:27 GMT (UK)  »
If you turn the image sideways, the writing looks like a large scrawled "MUM". Since the photo looks like it has seen some rough handling, it is possible it has had writing ink transferred or imprinted upon it, or been used itself to write upon.

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