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Thank you Jim - that's how it looks to me too.

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Thank you very much.

I'm also looking for an opinion on the young woman bottom left. Is it possible she's quite young, given the different neckline she's wearing? Mary Hooppell (the mother in the middle) only had 3 daughters so I'm trying to establish which one wasn't hers.

Her daughters were born in 1871, 1880 and 1882. Her eldest daughter didn't marry and died in 1906.

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Thank you for your help - I'll take a look at the link.

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Thank you - I didn't know you were also a fashion expert. I apologise if I've offended you.

Perhaps I'm being too ambitious with my question but I'm going by some dating Jim did for me a few years ago when he dated something within 2 years due to the collars of the men and sleeves of the women.

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Thank you for the reply. I appreciate your help.

If possible, I'm hoping that one of the fashion experts here could give me a more precise estimate of date. I think the photo is not later than 1906 due to death dates but I could be wrong.

I'm also wondering if the fashion worn by the woman at bottom left suggests she's younger than the others?


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Mary Hooppell, England - date please?
« on: Wednesday 13 December 23 18:09 GMT (UK)  »
Please could someone date this photograph and possibly give an age for the 2 women in front?
many thanks

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Technical Help / Re: Life Story on Ancestry
« on: Sunday 15 November 20 09:03 GMT (UK)  »
Good news!
Ancestry have been very helpful and after I sent them some screenshots they requested, they've agreed to add Tiverton, Devon to their locations, which will solve the problem.

They can't add Devonshire because as an old name, it comes up less often than Devonshire, Bermuda so I can live with that as almost all records use Devon.

It just goes to show that if you know they can and should fix a problem, you should pursue it because once they can see you have a strong case for changing something, they'll do it.

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Technical Help / Re: Life Story on Ancestry
« on: Friday 06 November 20 07:06 GMT (UK)  »
OK the problem is worse than I thought and I've decided I'm not going to live with it. I've been a member of Ancestry for 16 years and I pay them a lot of money for a service that's now not working for me. It's not just the LifeStory that's messed up. I could live without that but due to Ancestry's failure to include Tiverton, Devon in their locations, I can't search on any of my people that have Tiverton as a location for their events. For example, I just looked at one that I have entered the births, census returns & marriage for Tiverton, Devon (which is reflected accurately in the facts) and tried to search further but the search defaults to Tiverton, Cheshire.

This might seem like a minor problem affecting one small place but it isn't. Tiverton, Devon is a significant town in Devon (pop 20,000) and also an official registration district of BMD for a wider area. Tiverton, Cheshire is tiny village (pop 300) so the default to it is utterly ridiculous.

It gets worse... The old name for Devon is Devonshire so it comes up a lot in records but instead of defaulting to Devon, England (pop 200,000) Ancestry defaults to Devonshire, Bermuda (pop 7,000). I am not going to accept this. Ancestry needs to do its homework on English place names and their significance. I've filed another query with them and I'll keep you updated on their response.

Update: 12 hours later and I've just received a generic reply telling me to fill in the locations properly. I've responded that I know how to do that and I want them to pass my complaint up the chain to people with the power to deal with it.


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Technical Help / Re: Life Story on Ancestry
« on: Thursday 05 November 20 18:39 GMT (UK)  »
I had a very helpful chat with an Ancestry adviser and she confirmed what people said above that Ancestry has a bank of recognised names that it defaults to. I'll just have to live with it and not use the LifeStory - to be honest I'm not that keen on it anyway but the errors in it are annoying me.

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