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I got the death certificate for my ancestor Sarah Blud nee Thompson/Tipson.  She died 23rd April 1841 in Shifnal, age 72, widow of Thomas Blud, decay of nature, Informant Elizabeth Blud, present at the death, Shifnal.

I had been unable to find death records for her husband Thomas Blud, born 1770 Shifnal, Shropshire, married 4th January 1790 Birmingham.

My ancestor was their daughter Ann Blud, born 29th January 1806 Shifnal, died January 1877 Whitchurch, Shropshire, burial 12th January 1877 Badger.

Ann Blud's husband was Walter Scott, Farm Bailiff in Badger, on whose death certificate the Informant was Harriet Blud, most likely Ann's sister Harriet, born 8th May 1808 Shifnal, died 23 July 1882 Badger.  Unmarried, domestic servant, left a will with the Executor Thomas Scott (Ann's son).

I have a DNA match which links to a private Ancestry tree, the Hope-Brown tree which has Elizabeth Blud 1811-1893 born Shropshire, spouse William Ellis. I don't know if this is the same Elizabeth Blud who was the Informant on Sarah Blud's death certificate.

I am finding the Blud family difficult to find any information about.  It does look from Sarah's death certificate that she was the mother of Ann Blud.

I added information from Geneanet tree to my Ancestry tree by clicking on the information on Ancestry.  It added my ancestor and his full siblings to their stepfather rather than his father.  I tried deleting him below his stepfather, but it deleted him from both under his father and his stepfather.

How do I delete my ancestor's full siblings from appearing under his mother and stepfather without deleting them from their father at the same time?  I made a complete mess of losing my ancestor completely, I seem to have been able to restore some of it but I will never use Geneanet again, they replaced my hard-researched information with a stepfather.

Recently Ancestry seems to have introduced a lot of "help" and useless nuisance hints, some of which I have been able to turn off and unsubscribe from.  Ancestry used to be so good, but in the past few months they seem to deluge you with irrelevant information and mess up your tree when you accept it, and I have even been getting emails about information I thought I had long ago unsubscribed from.

Has anyone tried to use the National Archives at Kew, either online or visiting in person?

I think there could be information I want about my ancestors there, in particular Bridget Greenwood nee Ward 1823-1867 who got 6 months imprisonment for Receiving, City of Manchester on 12th October 1853.  Not penal servitude/transportation.

I want any information I can find on these ancestors, such as where Bridget was imprisoned, and what happened to the family after 1856, why they weren't on the 1860 census and if I have the correct 1867 death certificate for Bridget and 1873 for Thomas, and whether Thomas and Ann Greenwood on the 1871 census in Manchester are the same Thomas Greenwood, and Ann is Bridget's sister, nee Ward and previously McGuire?

I want to know what happened to her.  There was another occasion, reported in the (Manchester) Guardian on 27th October 1856, when she and another woman who I think was her sister were arrested for carrying melted lead in a cup, and the newspaper report suggested they and her Marine Store Keeper husband Thomas Greenwood would at least lose his licence and probably worse.

I looked on the National Archives website and at every stage just felt totally confused, from whether you need to register or book to visit, or not, to where to look online to see in advance of a visit if they have any information.

I did listen to one of their educational videos, but found it so boring and alienating that I didn't take anything in. 

Is is best to just turn up with ID, and go from there?  If I hit a brick wall, I could always give up and have a few nice hours in nearby Kew Gardens.

The train strikes are making it difficult at the moment, which is just another layer of difficulties, and not the worst one.

Has anyone used MacFamilyTree10?

It seems it is selling on the Mac App Store for half price between now and December 4th.

If you have a huge Ancestry tree GEDCOM to upload, will it take a lot of space on your Mac?  Or is it stored in iCloud?