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  In the old calendar, the year started on 26 March (not April 1).

    WinReg, the program used for FreeReg transcribing makes you put eg 1750/1751.


    I think the OP was labouring under the misapprehension that Rootschatters are profressional genealogists!

Quote from: rancegal on Sunday 25 November 12 15:37 GMT (UK)

  Don't forget www.freereg.org.uk  folks.

I did mention it in reply #17 

Quote from: JenB on Friday 23 November 12 14:51 GMT (UK)

A vast amount of information is now on the internet that wasn't there only a few years. The Bishops Transcripts are a case in point - they've only been available for a short time. More and more is coming on line every day via, for instance, free Reg or Durham records Online.

    I did see that,thanks, Jen, but thought I would post a link as well

  It may have been done so that they could claim Parish Relief or the equivalent in those parishes.


   It was common among Traveller families for that reason.

  Have you looked up your grandfather on the CWGC website?

  I too was conscious of a photo, on my grandmother's piano. It was her husband's younger brother who was killed in WW1. They used to talk about him, I know that, because my mother told me things about him. Luckily he had an unusual first name, so when the CWGC went online, I couldn't wait to look him up.
      I would love to go and visit his grave in France (he was killed in one of the minor Somme battles) but he hasn't got one, at least not one that has been identified. He is one of the many thousands commemorated on the Thiepval memorial.
    It is really only looking back that we can see what a tragedy WW1 was.