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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: money saving tip
« on: Saturday 15 October 11 20:47 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: stonechat on Friday 14 October 11 20:04 BST (UK)
I was truly shocked when I saw the price of FTM 2012 on Ancestry

£61.27!!!!!


If you go to familytreemaker.com
select buy now and select the upgrade option(assuming you have a version already)
With shipping to UK the bill is still only $36.99

Do you get a 6 month subscription to Ancestry with the upgrade option (a 6 month World subscription is included in the full World Edition of FTM 2012 - currently £102.12 on Ancestry or £61.85 at amazon.co.uk)?

£61.27 on Ancestry appears to be the price for the Platinum Edition (currently £37.73 at amazon.co.uk) and which includes a 6 month Premiurm subscription to Ancestry.

Nigel

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Wiltshire / Re: George GRAY - Britford (or Harnham), Wiltshire
« on: Wednesday 15 June 11 22:52 BST (UK)  »
He married Elizabeth Read at Britford on 8 November 1797 and was buried at Britford on 5 November 1827.

Nigel

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Wiltshire / Re: George GRAY - Britford (or Harnham), Wiltshire
« on: Wednesday 15 June 11 21:29 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Family Therese on Wednesday 15 June 11 14:08 BST (UK)

I take it the marriage/christenings aren't in the Britford PRs, if you've already looked at them?


Hi Therese,

I have looked at them. However, they aren't easy to read - hence the lack of transcriptions.

Nigel

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Wiltshire / Re: George GRAY - Britford (or Harnham), Wiltshire
« on: Wednesday 15 June 11 11:01 BST (UK)  »
Hi Therese,

I'm not sure what you mean by "usual sources".

The information was obtained on a visit to Wiltshire Records Office (Britford baptisms).

Nigel

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Please a London marriage
« on: Sunday 15 May 11 12:41 BST (UK)  »
28 October 1912, St Stephens Church, Walworth
James Alexander Whitmore, age 41, bachelor, marble polisher, 72 Villa Street, father - Thomas Whitmore (deceased), marble mason &
Elizabeth Harman, age 40, spinster, 72 Villa Street, father - Charles Harman (deceased), paper layer and painter
By banns. Witnesses - William / Foot? and Jane? Harman

Nigel

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Please a London marriage
« on: Saturday 14 May 11 23:55 BST (UK)  »
24 July 1898, All Saints, Clapton Park
William Henry Batten, age 27, bachelor, cabinet maker, 308 (Glyn?) Rd, father - Robert Batten, carman &
Lois Noyes Salmon, age 26, spinster, 87 Oswald St, father - Charles Salmon, cabinet maker
By banns. Witnesses - Florence Noyes Salmon and William Noyes Salmon

Nigel

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Gloucestershire / Re: Records office day out
« on: Thursday 12 May 11 22:15 BST (UK)  »
Have you found the marriage(s) of a William and/or John Ash to an Elizabeth?

Nigel

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Devon / Re: William Edward SPARKES of Plymouth
« on: Thursday 05 May 11 22:19 BST (UK)  »
Unless you know the names of his parents simply ordering the birth certificate is unlikely to be helpful since it presumably won't contain anything you can actually verify.

If he married I would first obtain his marriage certificate. This should give you the name and occupation of his father (unless he was illegitimate). This will hopefully enable you to find him in the 1901 and 1911 Censuses as well as then confirm details in a birth certificate or baptism entry. Work backwards one stage at a time.

Nigel

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Devon / Re: William Edward SPARKES of Plymouth
« on: Thursday 05 May 11 21:53 BST (UK)  »
Welcome to Rootschat!

Some further research is clearly required.

I wouldn't worry about spelling since handwriting can easily be misread when writing up an index. Additionally, with someone else writing up the original entry it is easy for them to provide their own interpretation on the spelling of the name. The name Sparkes appears in my own tree (albeit from Norfolk rather than Devon) and I have come across a number of entries where the name has been spelt Sparks rather than Sparkes.

Registration of births, marriages and deaths is informant driven. It is not uncommon for the date of birth entered against a death entry to be incorect as a result of the informant not knowing the information or being confused. There is no check on the information which the informant provides.

Nigel

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