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The Common Room / Re: Least we forget, 6th June 1944.
« on: Yesterday at 14:17 »
So many of us have had family members who served in WWII (as well as WWI).  They were all much younger than we are now, yet faced the prospect of instant oblivion with courage and daring.  Himself and I have reached our (very) late 70s in reasonable peace and all because of these young men and women.  Watching the ceremonies is heart-breaking, I just hope they are all there in spirit and know that this is the only way of saying thanks; but maybe those very few who are left will, over the next little while, be able to meet them and tell them.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Inconsistant Info
« on: Sunday 26 May 24 15:01 BST (UK)  »
Sorry - massive apostrophe error there!

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The Lighter Side / Re: Inconsistant Info
« on: Sunday 26 May 24 15:00 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: coombs on Thursday 09 May 24 16:48 BST (UK)
Welcome to Ancestry family trees.  ;D

Where you can get married aged 1 and have children while in infancy or still be fathering children centuries after you have died.

...or be buried in 3 different Melbourne's throughout the world!!

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The Lighter Side / Re: Revisiting brickwalls and "backburners".
« on: Sunday 26 May 24 14:54 BST (UK)  »
I have 'brick walls' in each of the 5 trees (3 from my side and 2 from Himself's); like you, Coombs, I 'pop in' occasionally and have an hour's blast picking away at the slightest hint.  During lockdown, though, I had a better idea.  I've always loved the 'Shoebox', so much so that I had 32 pages.  So, I devoted 4 'sessions' to going through each entry.  Well, a lot of the entries could just be axed, as research since had ruled them out.  But it was surprising how many entries were actually a person I had been looking for...consequently, my 'Shoebox' is now down to 7 pages - but creeping up once again very slowly.  My main stumbling blocks now are lack of real evidence as I go further back into the 18th centuries and further...and, in 2 cases, trying to match up 2 branches of what I believe are the same family.  One day... ???

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The Common Room / Re: There are people I don't know buried in one of our family graves
« on: Sunday 26 May 24 14:40 BST (UK)  »
The Bradford Parochial Voters Register 1896 (GENUK) gives the residents of the city by street who are entitled to vote.  No. 20 isn't on the list, but then so are other numbers missing.  Does this mean it was rented...I'm not sure what the rules were 'back in the day'.

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The Common Room / Re: There are people I don't know buried in one of our family graves
« on: Sunday 26 May 24 14:33 BST (UK)  »
That looks to me like "Quill" street, it's certainly the way I was taught to write a capital Q.  And a search reveals there IS a Quill Street in said city.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Wednesday 06 March 24 16:27 GMT (UK)  »
I have 'hints' of people who seem to have definite ties to my larger spread of family but who, for one reason only, have allied us to the Kemble Siddons family, despite there being a very comprehensive and public family tree of that family.  The 'connection' doesn't even have a surname that is present anywhere in that tree and certainly neither Kemble nor Siddons (supposedly my rellie is a daughter of that union).!

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The Common Room / Re: Can an 'aunt' be a great-aunt in the 18th century?
« on: Monday 12 February 24 15:26 GMT (UK)  »
I am Auntie 'lydiaann' to my great-nieces and nephews.

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Northumberland / Re: What a man
« on: Saturday 09 December 23 16:14 GMT (UK)  »
I am surprised that there are second-hand copies already, it was only published in summer.  However, it's fascinating to read...very detailed, but very good at creating the pictures in your imagination.  Well worth it (I haven't finished it yet).  John is my 3XGGF.

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