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The Common Room / Re: When should you cancel Ancestry's free trial?
« on: Friday 03 February 23 18:53 GMT (UK) »
Thanks. Really, I was under the impression they always cancel trial access the minute you cancel. (Ends this Sunday btw)
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The Common Room / When should you cancel Ancestry's free trial?
« on: Friday 03 February 23 17:05 GMT (UK) »
It's supposed to last fourteen days, but some say you should cancel two days before if you don't want to subscribe, others say they've had no trouble cancelling the day before. One old comment I saw from ancestry support said they recommend two days before in case they "inadvertently" charge you by mistake. I ask in part because I haven't had chance to use it (something came up) so was hoping to utilise it this weekend before it renews on Monday, and won't have time to use it next month either if it does autorenew before I can cancel.
Would be useful to know your experiences, thanks! Is it a quick and easy process?
Would be useful to know your experiences, thanks! Is it a quick and easy process?
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The Common Room / War Remembrance at Sport
« on: Sunday 14 November 21 22:14 GMT (UK) »
When did it start? In British football specifically there was the adoption of the new tradition of a minute's silence almost from the beginning of the last century, but seemingly only for late worthies connected to the club? This then expanded post war much, much later to general tragedies, but war remembrance seemed to come even later? Its universal adoption in British football seems to be a recent thing, with barely any record of it pre-2000 (that I can find anyway).
There is a reference in the link to one in the 1940s, but that's it!
If anyone has a sub for a newspaper archive they can dig deeper than I can beyond the headlines and maybe find out when it was widely adopted and what prompted it?
I’d also to be intrigued to know if there is any commemoration at sport outside of Britain, such as in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, the Commonwealth, anywhere.
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1900-01-01/1949-12-31?basicsearch=minute%20silence%20football%20war&somesearch=minute%20silence%20football%20war&retrievecountrycounts=false&sortorder=score
There is a reference in the link to one in the 1940s, but that's it!
If anyone has a sub for a newspaper archive they can dig deeper than I can beyond the headlines and maybe find out when it was widely adopted and what prompted it?
I’d also to be intrigued to know if there is any commemoration at sport outside of Britain, such as in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, the Commonwealth, anywhere.
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1900-01-01/1949-12-31?basicsearch=minute%20silence%20football%20war&somesearch=minute%20silence%20football%20war&retrievecountrycounts=false&sortorder=score
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Graveyards and Gravestones / What does this symbol mean?
« on: Monday 25 November 19 23:47 GMT (UK) »
It looks a bit like an R on its side? I've seen it more than once.
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Graveyards and Gravestones / Re: How do I search this site?
« on: Monday 25 November 19 00:21 GMT (UK) »
Just to be clear, you can't find results by name search?
Have you had a good look through that site? The Hedon Road one seems completely haphazard, jumping from one random year to a completely different decade.
The General one doesn't contain names that I've seen in other records, so I don't know why they would be missing.
I did find one I haven't seen before in the Northern cemetery though, so it hasn't been a complete waste of time.
Have you had a good look through that site? The Hedon Road one seems completely haphazard, jumping from one random year to a completely different decade.
The General one doesn't contain names that I've seen in other records, so I don't know why they would be missing.
I did find one I haven't seen before in the Northern cemetery though, so it hasn't been a complete waste of time.
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Graveyards and Gravestones / Re: How do I search this site?
« on: Sunday 24 November 19 20:57 GMT (UK) »
Thanks. How do you find them though, by year, by surname? I'll name someone who I know is in some records (the register of burials) who died in 1936, Beatrice Thornton, buried in the General Cemetery. How do I find her? She's not in these records as far as I can see.
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Graveyards and Gravestones / How do I search this site?
« on: Sunday 24 November 19 15:19 GMT (UK) »
How do I find my relatives on here?
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bsubject_id%3A574537
Is this all the Hull cemeteries, or are there other records elsewhere?
I have relatives buried in hedon road cemetery, northern cemetery, general cemetery and sculcoates lane cemeteries, although I don't know how many had gravestones as they were poor. Would it have been common to have been buried pre-WW2 without a gravestone, maybe a wooden cross or something?
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bsubject_id%3A574537
Is this all the Hull cemeteries, or are there other records elsewhere?
I have relatives buried in hedon road cemetery, northern cemetery, general cemetery and sculcoates lane cemeteries, although I don't know how many had gravestones as they were poor. Would it have been common to have been buried pre-WW2 without a gravestone, maybe a wooden cross or something?
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Graveyards and Gravestones / Re: Questions about how UK cemeteries work.
« on: Sunday 24 November 19 15:17 GMT (UK) »If I can just hijack your thread for a second... I had yet another disheartening experience this week when visiting a graveyard for the first time, arriving to find it was basically just a field with only three stones in it, aside from a handful around the wall. Spoke to a dog walker who thought it might have been cleared 20 years ago for safety reasons
So what is likely to have happened to the gravestones that were removed? Are they stored in a climate-controlled clean room with access restricted to security vetted people wearing hairnets and face masks? Or - more likely, I suspect - will they have been used as hardcore on a nearby road?
It's so frustrating as I found my GG Grandma's burial record last week - although she had remarried after her husband died, it turns out she was buried in the same parish as him 10 years later, despite having been living in a neighbouring parish. I would have loved to have seen a gravestone suggesting that the two of them had been reunited at long last, despite the attentions of an unwelcome interloper... (Even if it was for the more prosaic reason of saving money if they'd prepaid for a double grave!)
I was naively shocked when I found out my ancestors gravestones had been cleared, it seemed like a desecration. Luckily a local history society had noted some of the inscriptions before they were removed, so I found one that way. They also have the location, where presumably their bones lay? It would have been nice to be able to see a headstone though.
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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Help to Locate a Grave Hull General Cemetery
« on: Sunday 24 November 19 13:26 GMT (UK) »
Hello. Are all Hull cemetery records online now or only certain ones, and from certain times? I'm trying to find the records for the general cemetery from the 1930s but they don't show up on family search so I wonder how you found them please, what search terms do I need to put in. Thanks.