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The Common Room / Re: Miscarriages of Justice
« on: Monday 04 July 22 18:12 BST (UK)  »
People start family history research for all sorts of reasons, one of those reasons is because they suspect something is wrong or something bad happened.  This is a fact I'm not in need of your agreement.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Roman Citizens
« on: Sunday 03 July 22 23:02 BST (UK)  »
Do citizens of Ancient Rome have a precise DNA ? If so does it prove they originally came from one of the Ancient Greek city states ?

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The Common Room / Re: Miscarriages of Justice
« on: Sunday 03 July 22 22:52 BST (UK)  »
Ruskie,  I don't agree with you. Many people start family history research BECAUSE they suspect something is wrong or bad and it has dogged their family for some time.

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Family History Beginners Board / Ancestry "Suggested Parent" Feature
« on: Saturday 02 July 22 19:42 BST (UK)  »
I was quite shocked that Ancestry is full of inaccuracy and sometimes to a ridiculous level.  As a total novice I trusted Ancestry's "suggested parent" feature and ended up related to Mary Tudor ! I had to delete hundreds of records from my tree. Is this a deliberate way to embarrass novices ?

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The Common Room / Re: Findagrave swamped with inaccurate entries?
« on: Saturday 02 July 22 19:38 BST (UK)  »
Ancestry is full of inaccuracy and sometimes to a ridiculous level.  As a total novice I trusted Ancestry's "suggested parent" feature and ended up related to Mary Tudor ! I had to delete hundreds of records from my tree.

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The Common Room / Re: Miscarriages of Justice
« on: Saturday 02 July 22 14:20 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Andy J2022 on Saturday 02 July 22 13:01 BST (UK)
While there is no centralised database of miscarriages of justice, there are plenty of lists of some of the better known cases (eg Here)
If you are seeking details of miscarriages which have been legally acknowledged as such then the best place to look is the annals of the Courts of Appeal within the various jurisdictions (Scotland, Northern Ireland and England and Wales) of the United Kingdom.
If you are more interested in alleged miscarriages, then this is a more contentious area. There is a huge number of projects (like the Innocence Project in the USA) run by various charities and academic institutions (eg here) which look at claims of this sort, some of which make it as far as the Criminal Case Review Commission. Then there are a number of campaigning groups who are perhaps slightly amateur in their approach and some of these border on conspiracy theorists.

Thank you very much. I will follow up those sources. ( and a copy of Ludovic Kennedy's biography if I can find one)

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The Common Room / Miscarriages of Justice
« on: Saturday 02 July 22 12:25 BST (UK)  »
In recent decades the "True Crimes" genre has greatly expanded with autobiographies of criminals, new films about famous crimes, they often seem to be making crime "a lark". There is however a much less glamorous side to these events.

Going back to Ludovic Kennedy and his campaign against miscarriages of justice it has always been very hard to find out about "frames" or miscarriages of justice which protected the in-crowd and took the lives of powerless innocents. Nobody helped them they were just laughed at.

The Old Bailey online site has court cases but there is no database of established miscarriages of justice and none of suspected miscarriages either. No wonder the establishment is laughing at us.

My London family was the victim of several "frames", anybody else discovered something in their family ?

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World War One / Labour Corp
« on: Thursday 23 June 22 11:42 BST (UK)  »
Recently discovered that a relative of mine was put into the Labour Corp from the infantry, I assume this was because he was injured.  (Oddly I read that there was a Chinese Labour Corp in British forces too.)

Mine was listed as a railwayman after being in an "Agricultural Company" . Gravedigging, trenches, roads, water supply etc. He was put in military hospital with a hernia.

Any experts on the Labour Corp out there ?


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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: Occupation of Joseph Davis ?
« on: Tuesday 21 June 22 16:50 BST (UK)  »
Thanks to you all.  Never seen a double entry marriage record  before.  Commercial Traveller is someone who collects orders from customers ? Or a Sales  Rep.  ?

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