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In another thread Viktoria mentioned a wedding photo, and it reminded me of one that I have:

In my grandparents’photo my grandmother is standing whilst grandad sits!
Emancipation had not yet arrived!
Viktoria.

These are my great grandparents, and I'd always assumed that they were posed like that because she was quite petite and it might have looked odd the other way round, but maybe for a time that was the way it tended to be done.

However, it had never occurred to me that it might be a wedding photo, but on checking my dating books, I now think it could well be. They married in 1883 when he was 28 and she was 26 - what do others think? (No restores, please - I'll ask if/when I need one.)

I've just discovered an issue with folio numbers in the 1851 Census, relating to the Tadcaster Registration District (HO107/2352). This has been mentioned here before, but without any further investigation - https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=754807.msg6042950#msg6042950

My interest in this piece is with families named Wheatley in the village of Ulleskelf, for example Ann: at FindMyPast she is on folio 468 page 10, but the image at Ancestry has the 468 crossed out and replaced with 523. Consequently I was wondering which was the correct reference.

By looking at the piece description at TNA (https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3763086) and comparing images throughout the piece I think this is what may have happened:

The numbering originally began with the village of Kirk Fenton (aka Church Fenton), where the first name listed is William Bennett, the station master. This was originally fo4 p1. The numbering then continued through the piece to (I think) Long Marston, which ended on fo681. These pages, with their numbering, were filmed, and the images are now at FindMyPast.

Later it was discovered that Sub-district 1 (Appleton Roebuck) had been missed out, so that was merged with the rest, with its folio numbers starting with 1. This section ends on fo55 p16. (As an aside, the final household is the Rectory in Bolton Percy, where the head is William Vernon Harcourt, who founded the British Association for the Advancement of Science and was the son of an Archbishop of York. The household also includes a son William, the future Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer.)

The folio numbers in all the later pages were amended, the difference between 'old' and 'new' being about 54 or 55 - it seems to vary a little - and Long Marston now finishes on fo736. There was a further filming after the numbers had been changed, and it is these images which are at Ancestry and The Genealogist.

For recording my own relatives in the renumbered section, it seems to me that I need to use the amended folio numbers, which are unambiguous. In contrast, FindMyPast's images have two versions of fo4 p1, for example - one starting with William Bennett (as above), and the other with the Francis Myers household in Acaster Selby. At Ancestry, William Bennett is now on fo59 p1.

Having worked all this out, I don't really need any help with it now, but I'm putting it down here in case it helps anyone else who's found it confusing.

Does anyone know where I might be able to obtain a copy of "B is for Bingley: the second notebook" by Randal Bingley, please?

Randal Bingley wrote two books on the Bingley family. I've seen a copy of the first one ("Bingley - An English Family Notebook") and it's the second one that I'm now trying to track down. It was published privately in 1981 in a limited edition, so there won't be many copies around.

If no-one knows of one for sale, I'd also be interested to hear of any FHS etc which has a copy in its library. (I'm in Yorkshire, and the nearer the better.) I tried to get it on inter-library loan a few months ago, without success, but that wouldn't have included FHS's and the like.

While reading around stories relating to the plans for a Church of England churchyards survey and database (see https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=852647.0 and  https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=852650.0) I came across the Church Heritage Record:

https://facultyonline.churchofengland.org/churches

There's a bit more about it at https://facultyonline.churchofengland.org/about-the-church-heritage-record

By using the more detailed search box you can specify the age, size and diocese (location) of a church, and I think that could potentially be of some use in tracking down those that we can't identify.

Having said that, I've just tried it with one which I think we were told was in Cumberland (ie Diocese of Carlisle) and not found it, though I might have got the parameters wrong. And now I can't find the thread it was in either - the photo was entitled "UID church 07.jpg". I've added a copy below.

During the pandemic my local library (Cheshire East) has been allowing members to access the library version of Ancestry from home. However, when I went to use it yesterday I found the following:

Unfortunately, due to a change in supplier, at home access to Ancestry will not be available after April.
However, you will be able to use it again at your library when we re-open.

You might like to check your own library's site to see if the same will happen there. I'm not sure what is meant by 'supplier', though I see that the link provided by Cheshire East initially goes to a page at ancestrylibrary.proquest.com before redirecting to one at ancestrylibraryedition.co.uk