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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Handwriting help - Birth place
« on: Monday 21 April 25 17:14 BST (UK)  »
how exciting ! Well done PatLac.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Handwriting help - Birth place
« on: Friday 28 March 25 15:01 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you JenB. Yes, i'll go along with that.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Handwriting help - Birth place
« on: Friday 28 March 25 14:22 GMT (UK)  »
DELETED. Yes I give up.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Handwriting help - Birth place
« on: Friday 28 March 25 03:21 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: jimbo50 on Friday 28 March 25 00:54 GMT (UK)
Linash seems to get some connection with Russia. I don't know why though  :)
I'd have said Flinash but what is the scroll like a bracket before the f ?
I think his wife is 'Manchester'
Visitor possibly Liverpool
I suspect the letter at start is an S with some of it too faint or missing....Guess...Shi(e)rashovo
Look at the S's beginning the occupations.
This is an AI overview. I don't normally like these. Do you think it's right ?
In 19th-century Russia, the term "Shirash" likely refers to the Circassian genocide, a period of forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of Circassians and other groups from the North Caucasus, resulting in mass emigration to the Ottoman Empire.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Handwriting help - Birth place
« on: Friday 28 March 25 00:54 GMT (UK)  »
Linash seems to get some connection with Russia. I don't know why though  :)
I'd have said Flinash but what is the scroll like a bracket before the f ?
I think his wife is 'Manchester'
Visitor possibly Liverpool

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Travelling People / Re: Lock/Locke/Taylor
« on: Tuesday 18 March 25 01:07 GMT (UK)  »
Hi. Would you be able to send me a copy somehow? I've been looking everywhere for grandad Johns recording but only came across a YouTube cover. I want to hear it played by himself 😊. It had been on a music or audio library apparently but their website was hacked a few years ago and it was lost. You're the first person I've found to still have it. Maybe by email if it would fit or a link to it on Dropbox or Google drive if you have that?
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No probs. I've messaged you. I played fiddle and I think I've got a viol player in my tree, but I'd be so chuffed if I was descended from John.
Cheers. Jim

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Travelling People / Re: Lock/Locke/Taylor
« on: Monday 17 March 25 02:52 GMT (UK)  »
In case there is a faint possibility that you don't know. There is at least one recording of John Locke, it was originally made on a wax cylinder. It sounds beautiful. I often go back to it to listen. I just tried to upload it for you. Unfortunately the file size is too great.

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The Common Room / Re: Germans in London
« on: Friday 07 February 25 01:38 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from Aghadowey, 'and it may be some people that listed their birthplace as 'Germany' in 1911 but as some place else in 1921'
Yes, I only know Saxe-Coburg ended in 1918. Did people put Place of Birth before then as Belgium,Germany, or Saxe-Coburg. Did they not then become born in Belgium or Germany so increasing the numbers ? I've never found any so I have no idea what might have happened.
I know Queen Victoria's grandson was a Nazi politician and German General, quite a mess. His inheritance in Esher Surrey was confiscated by HM Government.

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The Common Room / Re: Germans in London
« on: Friday 07 February 25 01:06 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: DianaCanada on Friday 07 February 25 00:37 GMT (UK)
I must say I have learned quite a bit from this thread, so the original poster's intent is really not that important, is it?
...and me, I came to a stop whilst looking back for my OH's 'Kaizer' family. I've discovered some new avenues because of this.  Thank you Siely. :)

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