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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Isabella Reid Birthplace somewhere in Fife
« on: Friday 05 April 24 20:04 BST (UK) »
Could it be Ceres?
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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Servant at Home? Meaning?
« on: Sunday 11 February 24 10:40 GMT (UK) »
Perhaps being paid a wage to fulfill that role? Like earning your pocket money.
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Scotland / Re: Cousins...who married who?
« on: Friday 02 February 24 10:57 GMT (UK) »
SP index shows the 1893 marriage, and birth Maria Jane Mckenzie in 1872 mmn Tennant. I don't see any similar birth in 1870, so there seems to be just the one Maria/Maria Jane with various spellings.
Do you have the marriage record from SP showing the whole page of the register? Did the bride sign or make her mark? If the latter, maybe someone else gave mistaken information about her parents.
Or, could she perhaps, like an illiterate woman in my husband's family, have named the people she lived with who were seemingly her guardians, not her parents? Where was Maria prior to her marriage?
What other names are on the register page? It's a remote possibility, but could a mistake have crept in when the Register was copied to send to Edinburgh? It's easy enough for someone's eye to skip a line when copying.
Do you have the marriage record from SP showing the whole page of the register? Did the bride sign or make her mark? If the latter, maybe someone else gave mistaken information about her parents.
Or, could she perhaps, like an illiterate woman in my husband's family, have named the people she lived with who were seemingly her guardians, not her parents? Where was Maria prior to her marriage?
What other names are on the register page? It's a remote possibility, but could a mistake have crept in when the Register was copied to send to Edinburgh? It's easy enough for someone's eye to skip a line when copying.
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help deciphering convict record
« on: Friday 05 January 24 09:04 GMT (UK) »
gr(ey) eyes might be more likely if they are described elsewhere as blue.
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1851 Census, help to decipher wording please
« on: Tuesday 02 January 24 09:36 GMT (UK) »
Have you asked SP for a clearer copy? Use the Report Issue button, top right above the image on their website. They are usually very helpful.
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The Common Room / Re: Find My Past Newspaper search changing
« on: Wednesday 06 December 23 09:02 GMT (UK) »Just tried it again, and it’s back to normal from the search button at the top
I had exactly the same experience as you a few days ago. No matter which way I tried to access the newspaper search, all I got was newspaper bmd announcements with no way to do other searches and utterly useless for my purposes. Next time I tried it had reverted to normal. I concluded that FindMyPast are tinkering again and we can expect changes.
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The Common Room / Re: Find A Grave biographies
« on: Saturday 25 November 23 09:04 GMT (UK) »
Enumerated,
Thanks, I'll try that.
Thanks, I'll try that.
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The Common Room / Re: Find A Grave biographies
« on: Saturday 18 November 23 09:48 GMT (UK) »
I have contributed photos to Findagrave but have been put off by being asked to approve/reject changes to bios that I am unable to check.
On the positive side, I have had a mystery solved by a kind person who photographed a stone for me, in a cemetery I would never have been able to visit.
However I have also come across a bio of one of my relatives attached to the wrong person. Same name, different person, place and dates. I offered proof and asked for it to be corrected but was ignored.
On the positive side, I have had a mystery solved by a kind person who photographed a stone for me, in a cemetery I would never have been able to visit.
However I have also come across a bio of one of my relatives attached to the wrong person. Same name, different person, place and dates. I offered proof and asked for it to be corrected but was ignored.
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