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World War One / Re: Silver War Badge Abbreviation Help
« on: Saturday 29 April 23 16:33 BST (UK)  »
Thanks so much. That clears it up. The poor fellow must have really suffered.

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World War One / Silver War Badge Abbreviation Help
« on: Friday 28 April 23 21:27 BST (UK)  »
I have a man who was awarded the Silver War Badge although he never served overseas. On the roll, under cause of discharge it has the abbreviation 392(xvi). Please can you tell me what this means? He died in 1922. I understand that this badge was given to those honourably discharged due to illness or injury. Thanks

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The Common Room / Re: GRO Certificates and PDFs
« on: Saturday 15 April 23 21:11 BST (UK)  »
Aha! That explains it. I was ordering a Marriage certificate. I did not realise that not everything has been digitised yet. Thank you very much.

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The Common Room / GRO Certificates and PDFs
« on: Saturday 15 April 23 19:59 BST (UK)  »
Hope I am on the right board for this. I am researching from Canada so must order certificates online. Please, can someone tell me click-by-click how to order a PDF certificate? I have the index reference, but I find it very frustrating that I cannot find how to get the PDF when I am on https://www.gov.uk/order-copy-birth-death-marriage-certificate. They offer only the printed copy. I paid £11 and it has been a month now and it is still not here. Thanks for your help.

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The Common Room / Re: FamilyRelatives.com Privacy Breech -- Help
« on: Sunday 15 May 22 03:54 BST (UK)  »
I did use the password on a few sites, but all but one, aside from Family Relatives, is defunct. Can't do much about that. So I guess all I can do is change the live one and hope for the best.

I have discovered that Family Relatives has, since I stopped using them about a decade ago, has gone from good, to very bad according to several rating sites. They now get about 1 star. Mostly, it is about charging more than the customer contracted for and then being unobtainable, and not refunding money.

Thanks for your help.

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The Common Room / Re: FamilyRelatives.com Privacy Breech -- Help
« on: Saturday 14 May 22 18:08 BST (UK)  »
Oh, dear. Tried to to write to this address. It bounced. "Address not found."

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The Common Room / Re: FamilyRelatives.com Privacy Breech -- Help
« on: Saturday 14 May 22 02:55 BST (UK)  »
Thanks. I will try this.

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The Common Room / FamilyRelatives.com Privacy Breech -- Help
« on: Saturday 14 May 22 00:22 BST (UK)  »
To my horror, my LastPass has told me that FamilyRelatives.com has has a security breech and my password and emails have been compromised. It was recommended that I change my password immediately. I have not done business with this company or been to the site since 2010!

I did as I was instructed by LastPass. I went to the site, put in my email and clicked "lost or change password". It said it would send me an email. It did not. I guess this is because it has been such a long time since I had a subscription.

Next step was to try and find some way to contact them and get some human help. I could find no email address anywhere on the site. Does anybody have one? (I am in Canada and phoning is not too practical.) Advice?

Thanks.

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Graveyards and Gravestones / Re: False Coat of Arms on Tomb
« on: Saturday 08 January 22 02:22 GMT (UK)  »
Fascinating story! My guy is not in Yorkshire, but not far off -- County Durham.

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