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Norfolk / Re: Norfolk ... coal miners?!
« on: Tuesday 05 July 22 17:30 BST (UK)  »
My norfolk family the Lowns moved to Northumberland to work in the mines.  I read somewhere that in many mining towns the majority were from Norfolk.  I put it down to the change of working habits as looking at previous census they were all agricultural labourers working on estates like Gunton but due to mechanisation they probably didnt need as many people any more. I also think that agricultural labourers houses may have been owned by where they worked so if they didnt have a job they would have been evicted

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The Lighter Side / Re: Ancestry and personal family trees
« on: Saturday 06 March 21 10:31 GMT (UK)  »
I been using the ancestry library edition and noticed how many trees there are that are wrong.  I think though that it's just that people start it and pick up bits from other trees and then put 2 and 2 together and get 5.  I also think this as got my dna done and there lots of through lines that just dont add up.  Someone had a supposed shared 5 times great grandmother linked to my tree that they had put photo of gypsy caravan next to but looking at their tree and mine there was nothing linking that person to me or that they were a gypsy.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Eliza Pooley maybe
« on: Friday 05 March 21 18:03 GMT (UK)  »
Could it maybe be their grandmother. What age were the children in the photos born. 

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Eliza Pooley maybe
« on: Friday 05 March 21 14:50 GMT (UK)  »
Her hairstyle looks very old fashioned for 1890s as looks like something from 1840s.  Age wise maybe 60s or 70s so maybe someone born around 1820ish.

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Lanarkshire / Re: James Johnstone - My White Whale
« on: Friday 05 March 21 12:08 GMT (UK)  »
The 1881 census will have been taken before the wedding and ages can be 5 years out.  It could be that he was working in the shipyards in govan and got a job in the monk lands area for a new foundry as sometimes the best workers got moved over.

I would try the 1891 and 1901 census in England and slightly different spellings. I think it was common for men to go AWOL like that as they couldnt get divorced and they might take labourer jobs and move around a bit.  Might be difficult though as a common name.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Photo date help please - Constance Baggaley
« on: Sunday 28 February 21 08:32 GMT (UK)  »
I think its maybe around 1916 ish as I have a photo of my great gran from around time she got married and she wearing a similar style blouse and the photo was faded like that.  The hair style is a bit unusual but maybe she wore hair like that in early 1900s and didnt change it.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: "Potential" Common Ancestor - Anyone else got one of those?
« on: Tuesday 23 February 21 15:47 GMT (UK)  »
Have you used the timeline function to see where the 2 trees split.  You can get this by clicking on the person it says is your shared ancestor.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: What does common ancestor mean
« on: Sunday 21 February 21 14:50 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for all the replies.

I take it though that the dna is correct even if the people haven't done trees so wouldnt pick up a common ancestor from the tree that way.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: What does common ancestor mean
« on: Sunday 21 February 21 14:00 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks but I am still confused a bit.

I have a 3rd cousin who is showing as a common ancestor and we share a 2nd great grandfather.  There are also lots of 2nd cousins 1 removed who also show as common ancestors.


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