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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Is this a good enough scan to be improved ?
« on: Tuesday 15 October 13 16:16 BST (UK)  »
Was sent this by a cousin, I do not know the resolution at which he scanned it.
I can ask him to rescan it if necessary.
If it is a high enough resolution, please can a kind restorer do the "magic" on it.
If it isn't please let me know.
Thanks
Pip

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Family History Beginners Board / 1911 Wales Census
« on: Friday 04 October 13 22:57 BST (UK)  »
I can find grandad on 1911 Wales census on find my past
RG14PN33755 RG78PN1947 RD616 SD1 ED17 SN80.
How do I enter this reference into ancestry,
My tree is on ancestry so need to find grandad there to link it to my tree!!!!
thanks

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The Common Room / recorded twice on 1861 census?
« on: Thursday 12 September 13 20:26 BST (UK)  »
Is it possible for people to have been recorded twice on census.
I am asking because I think that I have found this.
1st   Elizabeth at family home with husband, son, daughter and baby.  Correct address, I have the baby's bc.
2nd   Elizabeth at her parents home with her father and mother, son and baby daughter.  She was married from this address and her parents' names match.
Help please.
Thanks

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US Lookup Requests / looking for New York marriage of Mary Hughes c1892
« on: Thursday 22 August 13 18:29 BST (UK)  »
Mary Hughes born in Montgomeryshire, Wales emigrated to USA before 1891 census.
I have traced her sister from postcards she sent to her brothers.
An**try has a tree showing her sister and I have checked that she was the correct one. Easy really as she had nine children and had sent named photos back home.
But the Mary Hughes shown in that tree has a middle name, Catherine. It makes me doubt that she is the correct one.
I feel I should  find a marriage for her ( around 1891) just for her father's name.
I do not know what is shown on USA marriage records and I do not know where to start looking.
Any help would be appreciated
Thank
Pip
Modified as I have found 1910 census where Mary is shown as having been married for 18 yrs

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Please can this be improved and dated
« on: Thursday 15 August 13 16:49 BST (UK)  »
If I have correctly identified the girl in the photo, it was taken around 1907.
If so can anyone give a guesstimate of the age of the lady.
Any improvement on the photo would be very acceptable also.
I have cropped a larger photo to get this but the proportions do not look right, can that be corrected please.
Diolch

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The Common Room / Advice needed please
« on: Saturday 06 April 13 12:48 BST (UK)  »
I have been following the women of my family and thought that I had followed them to 1780.
The way I have been working is to get a birth certificate for a child to get the maiden surname, then a marriage certificate to find the father's name to find a birth certificate and so on.
But one lady was accidentally killed in 1910.  Received the coroner's report of the inquest this week.
That proved that the family story of the accident was correct but threw doubt on the lady's date of birth.
Amongst the papers was  a declaration by her son that she had been born in 1838.  If that was correct she had been adding around 7 years to her age on every census after her marriage and on the marriage certificate.
On another page in the coroner's handwriting is the comment, birth certificate received and the date given in her son's declaration. If a proper birth certificate had been produced should it not be with the coroner's report?
Should I scrap everything and go back to the beginning again or is it possible  that her son did not know her correct age?
Would like to know what others think and would do.
Thanks
Pip

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Caernarvonshire / John Jones, Caeglas, Llandwrog (or Llanwnda)
« on: Thursday 28 March 13 23:02 GMT (UK)  »
Went to the churchyard at Llanwnda at the beginning of the week hoping to find my gggrandparents grave.
Not a profitable exercise due to the cold and the size of the churchyard.
Now I am wondering if anyone who has access to the MIs would be willing to look it up for me.
John and Elizabeth Jones, Talysarn, formerly of Caeglas.  John died around 1896. I was hoping that I could find out when Elizabeth died from the headstone.
Thanks
Pip

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / how to post here,what is allowed ?
« on: Friday 22 February 13 16:52 GMT (UK)  »
Have the report of my gg grandmother inquest.
I can not read one page.  The copy that I have from the archives is stamped  "not to be copied or published without permission"
Would it be permitted for me to ask for help here?
thanks
Pip

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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / how to economically print threads
« on: Saturday 16 February 13 19:45 GMT (UK)  »
I have just printed out my last thread as I wished to send the information I received to my cousin who will not try to use a computer.
I ended up with six sides of A4.
If anyone knows of a way of just getting the information on paper, other than "file then print" please let me know.
thanks
Pip

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