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Inverness / Re: Care for a stomp around Boleskine Graveyard?
« on: Friday 21 September 12 10:31 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much ghostwhisperer.  Where have you been all my genealogical life?  :D

It is so great to have local people who know what they are doing...
and so quick at it!

I will be sure to look at your website when I am not so tired (2:30 am here).

Nick

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Pls decipher Inverness (?) places
« on: Friday 21 September 12 08:50 BST (UK)  »
Thak you Prue... I suppose if I was awake enough to think to look at my other death certs I would have realized it was a time, but still wouldn't have been able to read it.   :P

And I agree with you and James that is could well be Auch.. rather than Crick... after all, it IS Scotland.  I'll see if I can look at a detailed map of the area, but I suppose it could be the name of a lodging house rather than a village/town.

Nick

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Pls decipher Inverness (?) places
« on: Friday 21 September 12 07:29 BST (UK)  »
Thanks James... just interested in 2 lines noted of 2nd column because I am unfamiliar with place names in the Inverness area.

Nick

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Pls decipher Inverness (?) places
« on: Friday 21 September 12 06:37 BST (UK)  »
This from Death Reg.  It is all readable for me except second column 4th line, and second column 6th line.  I believe they are place names.

The last bit (lines 6 &7), looks to me like "Cricklewood Lodgings".  Anyone else old enough to remember the Ten Years After album, "Cricklewood Green"?

Nick

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Inverness / Care for a stomp around Boleskine Graveyard?
« on: Friday 21 September 12 05:45 BST (UK)  »
I understand Boleskine Graveyard still exists although the old parish church has fallen to ruin.  My 3x grt grandfather's older brother was the minister there from before 1840 until ?.  His name was Donald Chisholm, and he died 2 Aug 1857. and death cert says he was to be buried (or already had been) "Churchyard of Boleskine".

In 1841 his 70+ year old widowed mother, a sister, and a niece, were living with him at the Glebe:

(Piece: SCT1841/92 Place: Boleskine & Abertarf-Inverness-shire Enumeration District: 1
Civil Parish: Boleskine&abertarff Ecclesiastical Parish, Village or Island: -
Folio: 1 Page: 2
Address: Glebe)

So, it is quite likely that his mother, Mary Chisholm nee Robertson is also buried there.

I'll probably be looking for more on this family with a Common Room thread, or even a Scavenger Hunt.

Thanks very much.

Nick   

 

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: I'm really not likin' lichen
« on: Friday 21 September 12 05:25 BST (UK)  »
Oh Jeez!  I do believe you are right... please excuse me while I go kick myself hard.  The tombstone scribe must have had some extra flourishes in him that made him decide to choose a different script.

I think I will stick with 12 Nov as his death date though, since that is what both his obit and death registration says.  (I have one ancestor who was definitely born 1823 who's tombstone says 1832.)

Many thanks.  I might be putting more inquiries up on this family because I just learned some new info.

Nick

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / I'm really not likin' lichen
« on: Friday 21 September 12 03:21 BST (UK)  »
New photo of 3x great gpa Hugh Chisholm's gravestone.  Below "Scotland" and above death date there appears to be a line of text... or is it just a flourish?  I am hoping it either says when he was born or when he came to Nova Scotia.  I won't influence anyone by stating my opinion and/or knowledge of when these two events might have happened.

Thanks!

Nick

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The Common Room / 1940 US Census Complete
« on: Saturday 04 August 12 05:55 BST (UK)  »
That was quick!

I don't think that this has been announced here yet.  Ancestry apparently stated that they had completed the 1940 census today.  (It is still August 3rd where I am)

Now, the Family History site also appears to be showing as complete, in spite of an earlier blog posting saying that 7 of the remaining 9 states would be up Monday, and the final 2 or 3 somewhat later.  The latter has happened within the last 30-40 minutes.

The FHS site seems to have cleaner records (fewer mis-transcriptions, etc.) from my point of view.

Still can't find my dad on either, who was in transport between Virginia and a New York posting with the US Navy at the time... maybe someday.

Mod:  I just looked at FHS and apparently they have jumped the gun with their search page at 
https://familysearch.org/1940census/?cid=fsHomeT1940Text_v2

If you try to search the few states they claimed earlier were not yet released, you still can not. 

Nick

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA test relationships UK and USA?
« on: Monday 30 July 12 03:11 BST (UK)  »
Hi Chrissie,

Your calculation that 5th cousins date to the late 1800s confuses me.  I am not that old, but I know of 5th cousins (no removals) who go back to a linkage in 1760s Scotland.  My 4th great grandmother and her sister were born in Aberdeen.  My 4x GGM's descendants went to Canada and her sister's descendants ended up in Australia.  We recently connected.

Also, don't dismiss the very good likelihood that the people you are corresponding with have very incomplete genealogies (don't we all?) and simply don't know for sure when and where all their ancestors came from for the last 300 years.

Nick

 

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