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I never said that the additional entry was DNA related. The named father was actually a young man that lived next door to the mother. As other posts have stated, DNA testing is not for every FT researcher.

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DNA testing can take the fun out of research -- not everyone wants to 'press a button' and build a tree. Often traditional research comes up with information nuggets of gold that have been added to a parish register after the original entry. A good example of this was a great aunt, born out of wedlock, the baptism transcription gave the mother's name, occupation and abode but no father. Eventually found the baptism record and a note in the margin (written in a different hand) gave the father's name, occupation and abode.

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The Common Room / Re: Do you have suggestions for improving ancestry.com?
« on: Sunday 06 July 25 11:04 BST (UK)  »
Seems to me that there is a fundamental misunderstanding at work here.

Ancestry are not looking for suggestions that involve improving/fixing their product that would involve extra expenditure (for no extra return).

The improvements they are looking for are to their profit margin and income stream.

I totally agree!!

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The Common Room / Re: Do you have suggestions for improving ancestry.com?
« on: Saturday 05 July 25 11:11 BST (UK)  »
I agree with all of the above suggestions. I have been a subscriber to Ancestry for over 20 years and I  VERY rarely use it now family tree purposes (fed up with useless suggestions) -- I use it for WW1 military records that are not on other sites.

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World War One / Re: 2 x Service Numbers in RFA
« on: Wednesday 02 July 25 17:43 BST (UK)  »
I have found a surviving service record for a Harold Benjamin Mills who served with the 3rd Wessex Brigade RFA (T) .....

His Attestation shows that he attested on 11/12/1915 into the 3rd Wessex Brigade RFA (T) (part of the 217 Brigade) and given a service number of 2305.

In 1917, the Army renumbered all Territorial Force soldiers, Harold Mills was renumbered to 860679 (a block of numbers, 860001 to 865000 was allocated to the 217 Brigade)

However, he was transferred to the Regular RFA and given a new number of 288041 and he retained this number for the rest of his service.

Your man, Albert T B Green, would have followed the same path. On enlistment he would have had a four digit number just like Mills, then renumbered in 1917 to 860670 but by that time he had been transferred into the Regular RFA and given a new number of 281560.

Snippet images courtesy of Find My Past

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Durham / Re: Marquez
« on: Thursday 26 June 25 17:29 BST (UK)  »
Doesn't answer your question but I don't know if you have seen the marriage licence / bond on Familysearch

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-69BQ-PWW?view=index&personArk=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQ21P-8Q87&action=view&cc=1675690&lang=en&groupId=

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The Common Room / Re: Medallion Identification
« on: Thursday 26 June 25 09:25 BST (UK)  »
Looking at the second image, possibly masonic?-- the triangle and all seeing eye could suggest this.

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Durham / Re: Ann Mayor 1775-1860
« on: Thursday 19 June 25 14:21 BST (UK)  »
The 1861 Census shows that Tween House was occupied by Isabella Ann Nager and her family. Isabella is described as being a 46 year old widowed Inn Keeper.

I can't find anything after this.

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Durham / Re: Ann Mayor 1775-1860
« on: Thursday 19 June 25 14:12 BST (UK)  »
turning her home at Tween House into the Railway Tavern

The OS map shows the name as the Railway Inn

snippet image courtesy of the National Library of Scotland

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