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Louth / Re: Thos Andrew MATHEWS Louth Ire/Aust
« on: Tuesday 21 December 10 09:32 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Shane

1 - tried in IE, still got the 21 hits.

2 - "Our" Francis was born approx 1851 (based on the two available census returns).

3 - I have tried the Beta several times and found it a complete pain to use.  Testing it against known data (i.e. where I have a copy of the relevant cert to hand) will sometimes deliver a correct result.  Most times it does not.

Got the magnifying glass out and agree withyou that the grayed out date is 1934

Seriously, it can only just about be called a Beta version.  It may be the only free, online, game in town, but the interface is rubbish, most of the filters only work sometimes, and entering the same search criteria again can produce wildly differing results.

Done properly, it could be a most valuable resource - but right now it is not being done properly.

Geoff

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Louth / Re: Thos Andrew MATHEWS Louth Ire/Aust
« on: Monday 20 December 10 23:07 GMT (UK)  »
OK, I tried it exactly as in your screenshot - I got 21 hits, none of which was the 1914 death in the greyed-out panel of the screenshot.  Three of them were for dates far outside the search parameters. 
As a matter of interest, which web browser were you using?  This should not make a difference, but I am using Firefox, and I will try it in IE6.
Geoff

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Louth / Re: Thos Andrew MATHEWS Louth Ire/Aust
« on: Monday 20 December 10 21:13 GMT (UK)  »
Well, I just tried this - this time I got no results at all.
The search engine would not even recognise Co. Louth as a location.
Reading the comments on the Beta-site, it is fairly obvious that the only people who like the new site are within the familysearch organisation.
I have just looked for another family member and the site would not even recognise Ireland as a location.
Out of six test searches - only one produced a (correct) result
Makes a chocolate fireguard look rather useful.
Geoff

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Louth / Re: Thos Andrew MATHEWS Louth Ire/Aust
« on: Monday 20 December 10 20:19 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: aghadowey on Saturday 13 November 10 10:29 GMT (UK)
Civil registration index is online (free) and an 1898 death should have been registered. I had a quick look but couldn't find any Thomas Matthews nearly as old as 103 but here's the link so you can search yourself in case I missed it:
http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails&c=fs%3A1408347
Actually, this is not the Civil Registration Index - just a link to the Familysearch Pilot beta-test site.  I have not yet heard of anyone who likes it (the alpha-test was a whole lot better).  Put in a name and a fairly accurate date and you will get every instance of that name in the records. I looked for the death of Francis Mathews, in Ardee, in the period 1910-1930. What I got was 83008 results returned, covering the world fromAustralia to California to Co.Louth.  Not a lot of use until the Familysearch people get the filters on their search engine sorted out.
Geoff

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Surrey Lookup Requests / Cooper - Twickenham
« on: Monday 13 December 10 21:27 GMT (UK)  »
Can SKS with access to a 1905 directory of Northern Surrey please identify one of the Cooper family residing at:
"Chandos"
Hampton Road
Twickenham
They were not there in 1901.
TIA
Geoff

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Date only please.
« on: Monday 13 December 10 16:17 GMT (UK)  »
If the picture was made in the 1830s, then it is almost certainly John Poole - born in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, in 1788. This would fit the inscription on the back "Grandmother's Uncle from Dumfries", and on the back of the second: "Great Uncle John Poole".  This assumes that the subject in the picture is aged in the mid 40s.  If I am right, and the picture is a Calotype, then the Scottish connection gets stronger (it was a popular technique in Scotland) so there is another assumption that he moved up from Hampshire to Dumfries.
Tracing him up there will be a whole lot of fun.
Thanks everyone
Geoff

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Date only please.
« on: Friday 10 December 10 20:28 GMT (UK)  »
John Poole is "grandmother's Uncle from Dumfries".
This is just a bit odd, because all Grandmother Pools's family were from Hampshire.
This did include a John Pool (they kept altering the spelling) and he could have gone to Scotland.  There are a lot of Pool(e)s in the Annan area of Dumfries - mostly sheep-farmers.
My lot were mostly tailors.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Date only please.
« on: Friday 10 December 10 14:16 GMT (UK)  »
This picture is someone who is clearly identified on the back of the picture.  two copies of the picture have different inscriptions.  A date will hopefully pin down which bit of the family tree this person should be connected to.  TIA.

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Louth / Re: Hoey Louth - Kilsaran/ Castlebellingham
« on: Friday 10 December 10 10:27 GMT (UK)  »
For what it is worth ...
My wife's Great Grandparents were Francis Mathews and Mary Hoey.
Mary was born in Scotland, with a father in the British Army.
There was a lot of movement between Ireland and Scotland in the mid to late 18thC.
Mary seems to have also had a connection with Bessbrook (just outside Newry), and it may be that a sister married there.

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