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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: Alternative to FTM
« on: Wednesday 01 April 09 23:32 BST (UK)  »
I mistakenly bought FTM2008 after being told by the vendor that it would display married cousins correctly, in a pedigree view, without duplicating their grandparents.

Do you know of any genealogy software that will do this correctly, i.e. cousins shown linked to each other, and their parents, and linked grandparents, without duplicating subsequent generations?

I've managed to do it quite easily on a spreadsheet, simply by swapping round  one set of parents, but as a newcomer to the hobby I've yet to find a software solution to this problem.

Thanks in advance for any help you folks can give me.

Roger The Hat.

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Who has ancestors moving from NFK to Hull in 1840s
« on: Monday 30 March 09 16:46 BST (UK)  »
NoNoNoNoNo

My apologies if I seemed sarcastic.  The thought of applying for certificates to prove that some one isn't a relative hadn't occurred to me........honest.

I am very new to this hobby (only four certificates collected so far), and this is the first messaging web site I've ever used, so please forgive my blunders.

Also I have limited access to the internet (my son's laptop) so if I don't reply quickly it won't mean I don't want to talk to anyone!

 

Roger The (must try harder) Hat.

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Who has ancestors moving from NFK to Hull in 1840s
« on: Monday 30 March 09 15:58 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, Hunnyb22 and Bee, for the advice.

Christiana was definitely a Major. I've no idea who Clara was.

I feel a bit daft, though - it hadn't occurred to me to get a certificate for a "wrong" family!


Roger The Hat.

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Who has ancestors moving from NFK to Hull in 1840s
« on: Sunday 29 March 09 23:53 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the encouragement, Hunnyb22.

Something that's puzzling me is what we call The Bubbings Conundrum:

I have Robert F. Bubbings, 27, Wife Christiana, 26 (1871 census, Holderness)
           Robert F. Bubbings, 37, Wife Clara, 34        (1881 census, Holderness)
           Robert F. Bubbings, 47, Wife Christiana, 45 (1891 census, Drypool)

The children don't match, either.
Surely that's not a mistake, the names are too dissimilar.

Would he have divorced Christiana, married Clara, then remarried Christiana?
Could he have a double? Was he a bigamist?




Have you come across anything like this before? I'd really value an experienced opinion.

Thanks.

(My son's just turned up, and he wants his laptop back. I'll have to pick this up at the Library, tomorrow. Bye). 

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Who has ancestors moving from NFK to Hull in 1840s
« on: Sunday 29 March 09 18:52 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for responding so quickly - I just assumed that, as it is an old thread, my first post might be overlooked.

I had seen the Bubbinge family, but thought that because of the different spelling.......

It probably won't be my last mistake!

I'll have to get down the Library tomorrow and check the censuses (censi?)
for alternates.

Oops. Dinner time.

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Who has ancestors moving from NFK to Hull in 1840s
« on: Sunday 29 March 09 17:58 BST (UK)  »
I know I'm a bit late, but I've only just started tracing my wife's family as a retirement project. It appears that a whole family of Bubbings (her GGGrandfather Robert) moved to Hull from Ludham, in Norfolk, in the late 1850's. They were wheelwrights, coachbuilders and painters.

And to think I hated History at school....

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