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The following is the birthplace of someone who was baptised in the Parish of Castleton, Roxburghshire, in 1815: I can read that about half a dozen different ways. Can anyone familiar with the geography of that area tell me what it actually says?

I would say that _____shire County would be odd to British eyes, since shire and county are (more or less) synonymous. However, your work needs to be accessible to the people who are going to read it. If including the word "county" achieves that and removes ambiguity, then go for it.

With apologies in advance for my linguistic pedancy, but why would an immigration or emigration event ever be associated with two places? E migrate -- to migrate from a place (from Latin EX : out of + MIGRARE : move ) Im migrate -- to migrate to a place (from Latin IN : in to + MIGRARE : move ) It i...

A fellow pedant :) . The thing is, as I see it, if you aren't going to be accurate, why bother? Pre-Confederation Canada is a geographical mishmash that can be hard to untangle. What is now southern Ontario was part of the French colony of "Canada" from 1534 to 1763. These days that colony is also r...

AdrianBruce wrote:whatever you choose to finish off WW1

03 October 2010, by some reckonings:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -ends.html

(useless bit of completely OT trivia there... sorry!)

You're not wrong. If I know for sure someone worked from the ages of, say, 14 to 65 then I would use from-to dates. In a lot of cases though I can only date their employment from two censuses -- so I know they were working in that period but can't say for sure when they began or finished -- in which...

I'm sort of thinking aloud here, but if someone can point me in the right direction... An occupation gets recorded against an individual multiple times (from censuses, BMD & Parish records etc.). Left untouched, this leads to an unwieldy string of "In (year) (name) was an (occupation)" sentences in ...

Might it be "convulsions"?

I have a death certificate on which the cause of death is a little hard to read. Can anyone make out the secondary cause here?
Diarrhoea 4 days
___[?]___
20 hours

Thanks, Mike. The source type for the BMD certificates I hold is set to Marriage (or Birth or Death as appropriate) but this is also the case for other pertinent sources - parish records, newspaper announcements and so on. To match by type would be easier for sure, but it would return a lot of false...

No, I'd missed that one. The one disadvantage to such an active forum - so much info to plough through!

Thanks for the pointer, Jane. I'll give that a go and see how I do.

I have some icons I want to use on diagrams to indicate when I hold a copy of somebody's B, M or D certificate. I need a little help with some expression syntax please. For birth certificates I use the expression =ContainsText(%INDI.BIRT.SOUR>ABBR%,"Birth Certificate",STD) and I get the result I wan...

Marvellous news. Hopefully, that should see the end of expensive red herrings. I had to buy some information from the Irish GRO quite recently, and was very pleased to find I could just order a photocopy of the register entry for €4, rather than paying full whack for an official birth certificate. T...

Indeed, Mike and Mervyn. My wife's grandmother is a first cousin (n-times removed) of Sir Francis, as of course are my wife and our kids. The closest shared ancestor of them all is Sir Francis' father who I think - if memory serves in the absence of my notes - was called Edmund. John [Drake] of Ashe...

Although not an answer to your original question the phrase 'John of Ashe' suggests to me that he might be a known historical figure. A quick Google throws up a couple of possibilities: John Stretch of Ashe http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/stretch-john-1418 who might...

There are no details at all really, Jim. It's a line in a genealogical text with words to the effect of "the family line can be traced back to John of Ashe in 1360" before detailing the descendants of an individual who lived in the early 19th century; just a wee 450-year gap to investigate and fill ...

What attribute are various FH users using to record that someone was alive at a certain time, if they do not otherwise have a date of birth or death, or a place of residence? For example, there is a 'John of Ashe' at one end of my wife's tree. I have no dates for him, other than one document which s...

I have a man on a distant branch of my tree who was married three times. He had two daughters by one of those marriages, but I do not know which. Is there a way to unlink the daughters from a mother only, rather than both parents? Otherwise it seems my only options are (a) hazard a guess as to which...

Some relationships are easy, such as father/mother replaced by parent and brother/sister replaced by sibling , but others such as nephew/niece and uncle/aunt are more difficult. I did see written once, I don't remember where, that perhaps English speakers should coin the word "nibling" as general t...

Theoretically, yes. However, if you discover you need to restore some data you accidentally changed several days ago, but you only have a back up from 24 hours ago...

I have an unmarried couple in my tree. They are linked to each other as spouses with the status of "unmarried couple". There is no marriage event. The couple have been together since 1994. Obviously, I don't want to create a marriage event, but is there something else this date can be entered agains...

The blurb on the download page only makes reference to Windows up to version 8.1. Does this need to be edited to include Windows 10? It certainly seems to run fine for me using that OS.

Adrian, Rather than put a full credit on the image file which, as you say, doesn't look great and may not scale well, could you not instead just embed some sort of short reference number/code in the image and have a single, full reference as a note somewhere else in your document? If the number/code...

Eeh by gum, why mither thissen. 'appen tha's getting flummoxed o'er summat tha can do nowt about. Sithee

Ar, y'am roight theer, mate.