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The Common Room / Photo Album on BBC
« on: Yesterday at 20:31 »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clw0g0j51zqo

When I saw this my first thought was she needs to get on Rootschat, they will solve the mystery.

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Scotland / Re: Is Mackdonald the same as Macdonald?
« on: Saturday 30 March 24 21:10 GMT (UK)  »
If you put Mackdonald in as a search on Irish Genealogy there are only four results. I am guessing it is a miss spelling. On the same page there are Mc names so It looks like whoever was registering sounded it as Mac(k)

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: What did my great grandmother die of?
« on: Thursday 21 March 24 22:34 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Ray T on Thursday 21 March 24 20:58 GMT (UK)
I’ve never managed to get my head round the school TB testing in the 60s. If I remember correctly, I had the first injection, in the forearm, twice. Whilst the other brats were running round comparing the size of their “lumps”, the injections never gave me the slightest reaction and I was neither sent for an x-ray nor given a further inoculation.

I don’t know if was for TB but I had the same experience I had the initial jag but there was no reaction so didn’t have the follow up I was led to believe the initial jag showed I had a natural immunity so didn’t need the second course so avoided the scar.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: What did my great grandmother die of?
« on: Thursday 21 March 24 19:51 GMT (UK)  »
For how long was TB a major issue? So many people seemed to die from it.

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Scotland / Re: Struggling
« on: Monday 18 March 24 12:56 GMT (UK)  »
All girls that doesn’t help much with guessing the father. Jumping to conclusions but I get a distinct English, perhaps middle class vibe from the names. Also they were Episcopalian, I wonder if the MacArthurs had been in England for a while.

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Scotland / Re: Struggling
« on: Sunday 17 March 24 21:53 GMT (UK)  »
Although born in England Duncan McArthur is a very Scottish name I wonder if he followed the traditional Scottish naming pattern with his children which would perhaps give clues to his parents.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Factory??
« on: Sunday 17 March 24 20:47 GMT (UK)  »
Can’t really make it out but rather than a capstan perhaps a metal press?

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Factory??
« on: Sunday 17 March 24 15:48 GMT (UK)  »
I don’t think it is that old perhaps early fifties, obviously lots of engineering firms in Glasgow at that time.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Factory??
« on: Saturday 16 March 24 21:52 GMT (UK)  »
Is that a turntable they are standing on with tracks, some sort of heavy engineering factory?

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