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The Common Room / genealogy websites uk
« on: Monday 06 September 21 11:11 BST (UK) »
Apart from ancestry, are there any other UK orientated genealogy websites that allow you to view other peoples trees?
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The Common Room / downloading records and using the information
« on: Friday 21 August 20 12:29 BST (UK) »
Does any one know if the copies of census pages, weddings records, Baptism records or any other records found on such sites such as Ancestry, The Genealogist or Find My Past are copyrighted. Can i download a copy of a record and post it on a blog without needing to ask or gain permission?.
What about other written records that are collected through using the sites? Im only talking about the picture type records, the scans from church register books or baptism books, not actual site generated captions or wording.
thanks for any help
Tez
What about other written records that are collected through using the sites? Im only talking about the picture type records, the scans from church register books or baptism books, not actual site generated captions or wording.
thanks for any help
Tez
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The Common Room / mapco.net
« on: Monday 20 July 20 07:44 BST (UK) »
Does any one know what's happened to Mapco.Net?. Ive tried accessing the site a number of times over the last couple of weeks but it just comes back that mapco.net server ip address cant be found. i know there where issues a few years back and it was going to shut down, but when it was saved i assumed the problems had been sorted out ...it would be a shame if its down for good. the maps of London on the site where invaluable to me and my research. i will be lost with out it.
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The Common Room / 1800/early 1900 marriage certs
« on: Thursday 09 July 20 21:17 BST (UK) »
during the 1800s/early 1900s like today happy couples and witnesses had to sign the register book in the church. but as far as i can find out a copy had to be given to the local register office. does this mean that early copies of wedding certs actually have copies of signatures on them rather than the real signature. For quite a number of years Ive been stuck looking for a connection between two parts of my family, Ive recently come across a few wedding certs on line containing signatures. Which i have started to compare, but it dawned on me these my be just copies of signatures
does any one know the answer please
does any one know the answer please
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London and Middlesex / music printers
« on: Friday 27 May 16 21:30 BST (UK) »
I have an ancestor john Joyce who first census showing is in the 1851 census in London's st Giles area. he's around 20 and is shown on every record I have as being a music printer .the first record I have for him is the birth of my great grandad in 1844 by which time he is living with his future wife Mary I have no records of him connected to any family before 1844 ..I have his wedd cert naming his father as also a john Joyce and he's a whitesmith at the time
I have a few clues to where he came from he gives his birth area as Lambeth/borough/Southwark depending on which record you look at , and I suspect he has a brother William also a music printer and two sisters but I can't tie any of them together ...as a music printer would john have needed to do an apprenticeship if so where could I find any records to search it would of been sometime in the 1830s I guess
I have a few clues to where he came from he gives his birth area as Lambeth/borough/Southwark depending on which record you look at , and I suspect he has a brother William also a music printer and two sisters but I can't tie any of them together ...as a music printer would john have needed to do an apprenticeship if so where could I find any records to search it would of been sometime in the 1830s I guess
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The Common Room / victorian social life books
« on: Friday 27 February 15 20:42 GMT (UK) »
For quite a while now I've been fascinated by the way my Victorian and Georgian ancestors would have lived. As a result of this I have read many books covering the era. I have a large collection of general books about Victorian life as well as factual accounts of life in those days. My family has lived in London during this whole period. From the research I have done I gather my family where from the poorer end of society. Most of the books I have cover the better off way of life with great detail. The factual accounts also cover the better off people too.
I wondered if any one out there could recommend a good book describing the day to day life/living conditions of the poor. I have a number of very good books by Henry Mayhew giving accounts of London life, but although the give great accounts, and are great sources of information they tend to be a bit vague as to what it was like to actually live day to day from hand to mouth in Victorian England
Thanks
Tezzer
I wondered if any one out there could recommend a good book describing the day to day life/living conditions of the poor. I have a number of very good books by Henry Mayhew giving accounts of London life, but although the give great accounts, and are great sources of information they tend to be a bit vague as to what it was like to actually live day to day from hand to mouth in Victorian England
Thanks
Tezzer
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London and Middlesex / house numbers
« on: Wednesday 28 January 15 22:01 GMT (UK) »
im researching a relative who lived at No442 Caledonian road Islington London in the 1890s I know Caledonian road quite well and found no 442 but have since been told this was probably not the number of that house in the 1890s. Are there any records kept that would tell me which house it would have been? From the census for 1891 the block im looking for starts at No428 which is on the corner of what was then called roman road which is now roman way and runs along to No466 which is on the corner of St James road or Mackenzie road as its called now. I've worked it out that it would be seven houses along the block from roman way assuming these houses are the old houses renumbered and have seen the house but is there any way I can be sure??
thanks
tezzer
thanks
tezzer
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / help with address
« on: Sunday 28 December 14 23:06 GMT (UK) »
Hi all ..I'm hoping someone can tell me what this address is. It has been taken from a burial record for Finchley cemetery, its the last address of the person being buried.
the burials are labelled Finchley for st Marys Islington so I guess it would be a road in the st Marys area, the year is 1889
I look forward to reading any replies
thanks
Tezzer
the burials are labelled Finchley for st Marys Islington so I guess it would be a road in the st Marys area, the year is 1889
I look forward to reading any replies
thanks
Tezzer
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London and Middlesex / birth, marrige and death certs
« on: Wednesday 24 December 14 19:41 GMT (UK) »
Did certificates for births marriages and deaths always get given to the people concerned during the 1800s and early 1900s or are the certs we receive for each of the events now, a relatively modern thing. If they did would they all have been a standard format? I just wondered if these old records would have been around in houses??, or if they where only records kept by the authorities? the church and the state??