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The Common Room / Re: Password
« on: Sunday 11 June 23 11:05 BST (UK) »
If you’re using a Mac /iPad etc the suggested passwords usually include a “-“ between the strings of letters and numbers which aren’t always accepted
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The Common Room / Re: Does anyone know of any current Ancestry special offers?
« on: Friday 12 May 23 18:29 BST (UK) »
Thank you, Sandra. Renewed today 
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Death details in Lockerbie, Dumfries-shire
« on: Monday 24 April 23 19:42 BST (UK) »
I wonder if the second condition is hemiplegia - following the stroke?
Jo
Jo
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: How are DNA matches affected by marriages within families
« on: Friday 24 February 23 19:24 GMT (UK) »
Not sure if it will help but : my cousin , from my maternal aunt J, shares 902 cm with me. We have a mutual first cousin once removed , JS who shares 461 cm with me. His grandmother, P, is the sister of my mother and my cousin’s mother, J . My aunt P married her first cousin once removed ( he was my second cousin.)
So, my cousin from that marriage ( JS’s mum) has two grandfather’s who are brothers. The DNA I share with JS is within expected amounts though, not higher.
Edit. Didn’t get that quite right!~ one grandfather and a great grandfather who were brothers
So, my cousin from that marriage ( JS’s mum) has two grandfather’s who are brothers. The DNA I share with JS is within expected amounts though, not higher.
Edit. Didn’t get that quite right!~ one grandfather and a great grandfather who were brothers
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The Common Room / Re: Time of Birth
« on: Sunday 01 January 23 22:36 GMT (UK) »
Obstetric records are held for 25 years in the UK years to allow the infant to reach maturity and then allow time to pursue a court case, if problems occurred. ( I believe you have three years from when issues become apparent to start a claim but the child can start a claim from age 18 if the parents did not do so). The mother’s records will certainly have the time of birth, including for home births, but years ago the baby wouldn’t have its own records unless unwell and admitted to SCBU. They do now.
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The Common Room / Re: How can I find gt grandparents’ missing children?
« on: Wednesday 30 November 22 18:08 GMT (UK) »Another premise is that possibly the other children were actually "Stillborn" and therefore not registered.
Hmmmmm ...
Would they not have been registered at all?
Some don’t seem to have been registered or they may have been stillborn before viability ( no idea what it would have been then) so legally considered a miscarriage. Stillborn children are registered but you can’t search for them now so probably not then either. My grandmother had 17 children on the 1911 census of which 6 died. I’ve only found 14 of them
Jo
* it seems stillbirths were only registered as such from 1927 in England and Wales.
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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Marriage age range - Opinion Please
« on: Monday 14 November 22 22:33 GMT (UK) »I read it as Henry Robert and SusanI’ve looked again and you’re probably right!
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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Marriage age range - Opinion Please
« on: Monday 14 November 22 22:15 GMT (UK) »
Is the Henry born in 1826 the one baptised at St Dunstan and All Saints on 17th December? If so the parents seem to be Henry Robert and Sarah - rather than Susan as transcribed, so maybe a different couple.. Are there other children? - a first marriage at 39 might be unusual but a first child 16 years later more so.
Jo
Jo
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The Common Room / Re: Guy Etchells
« on: Sunday 16 October 22 16:33 BST (UK) »
This is very sad news. Many condolences to his family
Jo
Jo