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Thanks Jan, will take a look

Thanks Anne. It does seem to be this.

(It turned out to be a fair bit more complicated than a straight adoption though, but i don't feel comfortable posting the details on an open forum)

Actually that last post is a bit too cryptic and therefore looks a little odd

What i can say is that person in question is my niece and the mother is my 'estranged' sister

I met the 1979 person in 1987 and i'm 100% sure i would of heard if they had died. Also no record (it's a unique name) of a death in the bdm's. Additionally i think i've found them on facebook, but due to the delicacy of the situation (which i can't expand on on a public forum unfortunately) i can't...

Was wondering if anyone could shed any light on the following please? If a woman with a child from a previous marriage remarries and then the new husband officially adopts the child would it be re-registered in the birth register please? I have someone who was born in Q3 1979, but then their birth r...

Hi Margaret,

Thanks for the info. No sign of a time of birth. Am thinking now that the 'triplets' story was just a red herring

Thanks
Tony

I'd like the option for 'individuals' record list (or a seperate tab) to show all names for an individual please i.e. if the individual is a married female she'd appear at least twice. Once under her maiden name and again under each of her married names. Also the indivdual should be listed again for...

Just a bit of closure on this I recently decided to get a find my past subscription and have managed to find Hannah Cox in the 1881 census (not sure why i didn't find her on ancestry) Seems she was living with her great uncle George Townsend and it turns out she had a brother (a year older) called G...

Hi Jane,

Just been thru the faq for genelines and found i had to edit the categories so it showed notes for occupation and place for residence. By default it just used the event type

All working now

Many thanks
Tony

I've recently purchased genelines as i wanted to be able to show a persons life in context with historical events But unlike Janes example above all i see for residence/occupation sections is the words residence/occupation than than the actual address/job Have i entered my data wrongly in FH? or am ...

Ok, that makes sense

Many thanks
Tony

Hi Jan,

Thanks for the info

In this case though they defintely never married (the child was adopted and given a completely new name, i currently only know the new christian name) and there's no additional notes on the index page

Thanks
Tony

Hi Patrick,

Thanks for the reply

The child was born about 1967/8 (gro entry is in Q1 1969). I know the child was born no earlier than 1967 though.

I can see that S might be september, but not sure i understand where 5888 might come into it?

Many thanks
Tony

Hi all, Was wondering if anyone could shed any light on why a Birth entry in the BDM records might be edited please? The record was originally written as vol 5b and crossed out is page 635 (i think, it's been crossed thru so a bit unclear) and next to it has been written 5888/S (which looks unusual ...

Does seem Ancestry is pretty much THE site to use

Have decided, based on replies above, to sit tight for now

Have enough mysterys to work on for now anyway!

Thanks
Tony

I forgot about genes, yes i use genes too. Mainly for hot matches/contacts. Have come into contact with loads of distant (and some not so distant) relations

Will take a look at one-name.org thanks

Thanks for the replies I use ancestry and the lds site the most, but also make use of findmypast and fhss etc thegenealogist looks like it _might_ have some additional databases that might be useful to me but to get full access means an annual subscription. I guess i'll probably have to bite the bul...

Hi all,

I currently subscribe to ancestry.co.uk

But was wondering how people found thegenealogist.co.uk please?

Is it worth subscribing to both?

Many thanks
Tony

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An option i've used a couple of times with my WM5 mobile phone is to remote desktop to my home pc that is running FH

Only possible if you have a cellular data connection or wifi

The screens a bit small and fiddly though!

I would assume 'transported' meant being sent to prison Australia or another colony

With regards to 'hard labour' it would mean physical labour of some sort. I guess it would depend on the authorities at the prison whether a 60 year old was given 'lighter' duties

Thanks for the link I guess the following: '8. Government policy is not to authorise the copying of completed certificates except in the following circumstances:' 'd) within works of genealogical research undertaken by or on behalf of the family concerned where the work in question will be given lim...

I should say though that i'm currently working on some code to parse the FH website into asp format that will be password only access

I'm not 100% on what the rules are, but i do it and without any user login I only publish the certificate reproduction part, not the whole certificate, though And only for people long dead I also publish the census sheets in full (with hotspots that link back to the relevant web pages, well only 184...

Thanks Jane Don't think i took enough pictures, but each part has a different electrical connector so i can tell roughly where everything goes back from them I have a huge pile of parts on the dining room floor which fit in to the top 3rd of the printer, and looking at the pile and the printer the w...

Been wanting a plotter for many reasons over the years, and having got into my family history i've wanted one more than ever... And i've just been given a Xerox 8825 A0 plotter (and A0 scanner) that's only a few years old and fully working (well it was, see below) Problem is the printer part weighed...