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Occupation Interests / Grandfather - Merchant Navy
« on: Sunday 17 March 24 20:54 GMT (UK)  »
I was wondering if anyone could help me with interpreting the attached and give me some guidance on how to find out more information about my grandfather's time in the merchant navy?

Many thanks

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The Lighter Side / Who Do You Think You Are? - US
« on: Thursday 16 December 10 20:48 GMT (UK)  »
I had this notification sent to me today about the next series of the US version of "Who Do You Think You Are?"



http://www.nbc.com/news/2010/12/16/who-do-you-think-you-are-nbc-announces-the-celebrities-tracing-their-family-trees-on-season-two/


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The Lighter Side / A Roots Chat Challenge
« on: Wednesday 09 December 09 22:31 GMT (UK)  »
Just been reading this article on Walesonline today - sounds like a challenge for Roots Chat to me  :)

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/rugbynation/rugby-news/2009/12/09/search-on-to-find-relatives-of-the-late-rhys-gabe-91466-25349585/


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The Common Room / Help with a census entry
« on: Tuesday 18 November 08 23:39 GMT (UK)  »
Could anyone help me reading this occupation please?

Many thanks

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The Common Room / Help with a census entry
« on: Saturday 25 October 08 12:50 BST (UK)  »
I think I've finally found the 1841 census entry for my Morgan/Morgans family in Merthyr Tydfil but I'm having problems reading the place they were living. Also, the occupation of William Morgans is given as "agent" could anyone help me on what that would mean? Most of the other men on the page are colliers or iron workers.

Many thanks


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The Lighter Side / Interesting news story
« on: Thursday 16 October 08 09:03 BST (UK)  »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/7671583.stm



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The Common Room / Unclear occupation
« on: Monday 13 October 08 14:18 BST (UK)  »
Could someone help me to read this please? I can see "school" in the middle but not sure what the words either side are.

Many thanks



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The Lighter Side / Coming Home on BBC Wales
« on: Wednesday 01 October 08 23:04 BST (UK)  »
The last few weeks have seen episodes of the programme "Coming Home" on BBC Wales where celebrities with Welsh roots come back to the place they or their parents lived as children to discover their Welsh ancestry.

This week saw Lord Heseltine visiting Swansea, where he was born, and finding out that his mother's side of the family, whose roots are firmly set in Wales, were general labourers in Carmarthen and dockers in Swansea. He also found relatives who died of diseases suchh as TB and Typhus and young children dying of malnutrition.

It was a long way away from some the programmes we get to see on WDYTYA and certainly a family history far closer the ones most of us discover in our own ancestry.

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The Lighter Side / Ancestors' Graves
« on: Saturday 18 August 07 19:10 BST (UK)  »
Next weekend I'm off to Cornwall as my parents are on holiday down there for 3 weeks and my partner and I are taking advantage of their hospitality over the Bank Holiday.

In the last year I've discovered that one branch of the family came from Cornwall, and via a relative, (I've also discovered while undertaking this research), I know where some of my ancestors are buried as she's sent me photographs of the graves.

So next weekend my father and I are going to visit the grave of his GGG grandparents and my GGGG grandparents. So what would everyone do? Would you take flowers? They died in the mid 1800s.

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