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Hello,

I'd like to create a calendar entry/reminder of anniversaries for some of my ancestors in Apple's Calendar app, on my Mac and iPhone, for things like birthdays and weddings. I thought it'd just be a quick and interesting way to bring my predecessors into my daily life.

The attached screenshot is what I'm looking to achieve - a dynamic update, taking into account the year the event happened to generate "xxxx's yy-th birthday".

But the only way I appear to be able to achieve this is by creating fake contact entries in my address book for my ancestors who are no longer alive, which would be more than a little spooky! Is there any other way of achieving this?

It's something I thought would be pretty simple initially, but in practice appears to be anything but. For example, an alternative would involve creating a static yearly event in the Calendar app, but then I wouldn't get the dynamic information about how many years its been since they were born/married, which is one of the main things I'm trying to achieve.

Ideally, the other thing I'd like to do would be able to have these in a filterable calendar, in the same way that's possible for "Work", "Family', etc, and distinct from the birthdays of friends/family who are alive, so that I could switch it on and off when it would be useful to do so.

Hello!

I wondered if I could call upon your powers of deduction to help me find out more about my great-great uncle, Frank Smith.

I can find him on censuses when he’s a kid, and I know some bits and pieces about him in later life, but nothing in-between.

This is what I know for sure:

Born: 4 December 1866, Walls Quarry, Brimscombe, Gloucestershire (from his birth certificate - can I post a scan of it?)

1871 census: Avening, Gloucestershire, 4yo - Scholar
RG10/2641/16/7

1881 census: Avening, Gloucestershire, 14yo - Farm labourer
RG11/2550/110/10

April 1940: his older sister Elizabeth Mary Smith leaves him some money in her will, and the probate calendar entry describes him as “Frank Smith, retired chief steward”.

Between 1881 and 1940, and thereafter, I’m stumped!

This is *potentially* him on the 1939 Register in Lambeth, given that the birthday matches the birth certificate:
RG101/0347F/004/41

It would also make sense in the wider context of most of his siblings having moved to London. Within the household is a lady called Blanche, but I’m finding it hard to find a marriage entry which makes sense.

More broadly, several of his siblings are just [first name] Smith with no middle names to distinguish them when searching - I’d be interested to hear how you tend to approach this, and verify that you’ve found the right one!

This link is amazing, thank you so much!
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/cs/offers/subscribe?dna=crossAct

I received an email from Ancestry a few days ago offering a 6 month worldwide membership for £79.99 (discounted from £99.99) which seemed pretty extortionate.

I'm very glad I checked on here, and was able to get an annual worldwide membership for £89.99!

Ah, fair point. I'll try sending you a private message on here.