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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #387 on: Wednesday 14 October 15 11:37 BST (UK) »
Lovely walking round Bletchingdon and Wootton and Oxford city itself, very vibrant. Where my great gran was born is now the entrance area to Westgate Shopping Centre.

Spending hours in RO's ordering original documents for poor law records for ancestral villages to see if they appear on them.
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #388 on: Friday 11 December 15 00:22 GMT (UK) »
I am addicted to genealogy when I get annoyed at totally irrelevant search results even when I type exact search on FindMyPast, Ancestry or FamilySearch. Cant remember where but someone else said they type a certain surname into newspapers on FindMyPast and get a verb. I hate that, that is sooooo annoying. I think FindMyPast seem to have remedied that a bit, the surname should be just that, not a verb esp if the surname is Childs, Waters, or Wood.

Also being disappointed, as if the world is ending when a lovely theory that you think you have an ancestors baptism is blown away by a brutal fact that there was a burial record for that person as a child, and no subsequent baptisms in that parish or further. Or you think you have an ancestors baptism in a PR only to find a marriage in the next parish 20 years later to a different spouse.
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #389 on: Friday 11 December 15 06:03 GMT (UK) »
Brutal isn't the word, Coombs. When I find my theories blown away by a very inconvenient baptism/burial/marriage, I am absolutely devastated.
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #390 on: Friday 11 December 15 12:26 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: pinefamily on Friday 11 December 15 06:03 GMT (UK)
Brutal isn't the word, Coombs. When I find my theories blown away by a very inconvenient baptism/burial/marriage, I am absolutely devastated.

Same here. It is like the end of the world, as we are so addicted to genealogy and when we have our hopes smashed to pieces by a very inconvenient baptism. Or if you find a likely marriage because you have a baptism, you inconveniently find there was 2 "James Bradford's" who married a Susannah in the area at the same time. Police officers hate coincidences, and I dont blame them. I am a genealogist who hates loose ends.
Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #391 on: Thursday 31 December 15 23:33 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: coombs on Friday 11 December 15 00:22 GMT (UK)
Cant remember where but someone else said they type a certain surname into newspapers on FindMyPast and get a verb.

This happens to me with the surname Revell, I know "revel" is a verb but I also get a lot of "Revelations" results. Very confusing to me how little results for the actual surname comes up.
Knighton in Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire
Tweedie in Lanarkshire and Co. Down
Rodgers in Durham and Co. Monaghan
McMillan in Lanarkshire and Argyllshire

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #392 on: Thursday 31 December 15 23:36 GMT (UK) »
My memory is sometimes faulty, but isn't/wasn't Revell a brand of model planes and cars?
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #393 on: Thursday 31 December 15 23:40 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: JAKnighton on Thursday 31 December 15 23:33 GMT (UK)
Quote from: coombs on Friday 11 December 15 00:22 GMT (UK)
Cant remember where but someone else said they type a certain surname into newspapers on FindMyPast and get a verb.

This happens to me with the surname Revell, I know "revel" is a verb but I also get a lot of "Revelations" results. Very confusing to me how little results for the actual surname comes up.

It is annoying isn't it? They have a surname search yet get hundreds of totally irrelevant results, ie if I type "Edward Childs" I get a few exact results but buried within the endless "Edwards and child" or "Mrs Edwards and one child" results.
Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #394 on: Thursday 31 December 15 23:50 GMT (UK) »
You should try Pine.....  ::)
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #395 on: Thursday 31 December 15 23:57 GMT (UK) »
Couldn't agree more, try googling or otherwise searching the surname Marr, it is a total nightmare. But I think it's time to raise a glass to welcome 2016.  Happy New Year to all genealogy addicts. isk
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