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The Common Room / Searching for Patents by name of inventor

« on: Monday 16 August 21 17:08 BST (UK) »

Is it possible to search for any patent applications by the name of the person who applied for them rather than the invention?

Looking at John Gilbert Surman I have found he had applied for two patents for 'invention of improved boat for sub-aqueous warfare' (1878) and 'unfillable bottle' (1897) and wondered if he had any other bright ideas apart from being a vicar/holding an army career and sacking his housekeeper for reading his letters from the patent office.

He was born 13.8.1859, died 20.12.1917.

The Common Room / did she have 54 rooms in her house?

« on: Friday 06 August 21 14:29 BST (UK) »

looking at the 1911 census for Helen Anne Gilby Alston age 62 years, I can't understand the writing showing how many rooms in her house. It looks like 54 or S4 - what does that mean?

Although a widow she has also included the number of children born and living (then crossed out) - that also looks like S4 but I know she had 5.

can anyone help please?
Census ref: RG14PN9856 RG78PN521A RD191 SD2 ED7 SN168

The Common Room / question about laminating old documents?

« on: Saturday 24 April 21 09:40 BST (UK) »

I have just received some old documents from my uncles estate. They include his baptism certificate (1920) which is in really poor condition. Every time you touch it another piece falls off.

I tried to feed it into an acid free document but more came off - it is not very strong and already in about 10 pieces.

I think the only hope of preservation is to laminate it. I would do that straight away but just wondered if there was an obvious reason why one shouldn't.

So to laminate or not, that is the question?

Australia / John and Sarah French emigrated to Australia

« on: Saturday 27 February 21 12:10 GMT (UK) »

I know John and Sarah (nee Mingay) emigrated sometime between 1871 and 1881 census to Australia but do not know on when. They should have had two children with them: Caroline Elizabeth (b1866) and Daniel (b1868)

I believe John died 1883 and Sarah remarried but cannot find where I got this information from. recommend if you move house, don't let anyone else pack up your family record folders as they seem to be half missing!

Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Whether to upgrade family tree maker 2014?

« on: Saturday 19 December 20 15:22 GMT (UK) »

I am wondering whether to upgrade my family treemaker 2014.1 to the (what I think is the newest) 2019 version.

How has anyone got on with it?
Does it give you enough new features? - (I am not linked to Ancestry)
is it worth the extra money?
I see I could get it for a 'mere' £50 as I am already a registered user of 2014.

All comments would be gratefully received.

Technical Help / Trouble signing into IGI

« on: Wednesday 02 December 20 14:47 GMT (UK) »

Is anyone else having trouble signing into their IGI aka FamilySearch account?

I have tried over the last couple of weeks and each time I start get told username or password are incorrect. (I know they are not) but still went through the reset user name and password, to be immediate told it was incorrect (again). I had cut and pasted the new bits to make sure no typo errors.

Still can't get in so any ideas?

The Common Room / What does M'37 mean?

« on: Wednesday 11 November 20 15:15 GMT (UK) »

I am looking at the BMD index for Herbert AK Keene born 1920, died 1976 and wondered what the comment ' see M'37 ' means as a page reference.

Not met this before.

The Common Room / problems on newspaper searches

« on: Sunday 26 July 20 14:16 BST (UK) »

Using findmypast, I searched by entering the county of Suffolk and surname 'Alston' and found lots of wonderful stories about my ancestors.

So trying for other branches of the family eg surnames 'French' or 'Bacon' - oh dear, it is amusing what comes up but they are not linked to people.

Is there anyway I can persuade the search engine to only show me people?

The Common Room / Were Prisoners in Census Records?

« on: Wednesday 10 June 20 12:20 BST (UK) »

I am looking for a Henry Bacon (born 1834 Ardleigh) and Henry Merchant (b1826 Ardleigh) in the 1861 Census.

I now both are in prison at this time but cannot find them or the prison in the records. According to the Millbank prison records they were in 'Medingly' (?) Prison from 15th May 1857 until 23 Oct 1861.

what or where is Medingly?