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I am researching the baptisms of my 4x Gt-Grandmother, Meriah KING, and her siblings. Her parents, Caesar KING & Mary WRIGHT were married in Budbrook(e), Warwickshire, on 29 Oct 1792. Looking through the Warks. parish registers on Ancestry, I have found the baptisms of three children in Budbrooke pa...

Just to clarify for others, that statement only applies to the X-Chromosome (X) which is passed from father to son only, and is of most benefit in Surname research, as Surnames generally follow the Male line. The other two tests are Y-Chromosome (Y), which passes from Mother to Daughters only, and ...

I knew that, under Russian rule, Finalnd was certainly autonomous. That said, I have never seen a map from the time that showed Finland as being anything other than a part of Russia. Interest piqued, I had a dig around online and found reference to the Organic Law (constitution) of the Russian Empir...

Another aspect at which I should raise a Spock-like eyebrow at my own conduct is whether to capitalise "street", "road", "avenue" etc., in addresses - not so very long ago, they were not capitalised but I confess to capitalising them regardless. Not only uncapitalised, but seemingly also hyphenated...

While LostCousins' point is not completely without merit, I"m afraid I'm not buying it entirely. If the GRO have held their prices for 8 years then, fair enough, some increase is probably to be expected. However, unless the GRO's operating costs have unexpectedly gone up 22% overnight (despite publi...

That's an increase of about 22% - that's outrageous!

A very slight tangent here: Is it possible to default to the more secular Common Era notation (CE / BCE) within FH, rather than AD / BC, or would one need to resort to date phrases?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era for details.

It was the case that a woman effectively ceased to have her own legal personality on marriage. It affected all areas of life - contract law, property, etc - not just nationality. Thankfully that's changed now, although it was still the case on the Channel Island of Sark until very recently. It may e...

For what it's worth, I would enter "Aliénor // " with an a.k.a. of "Eleanor // of Aquitaine". The simple fact of the matter is these people just did not have surnames; a house is a useful descriptive for lumping families together, but it is not a name. In the case of the King, I would probably enter...

Windows File Explorer, or Windows Explorer as it use to be called, is just the program that displays all the files and folders on your computer.

You get to it it either by opening the program directly, or clicking on the My Computer icon.

That would be a definite improvement. As an alternative, if it cannot be surpressed entirely, it would be better displayed as (? - ?). I would extend this to scenarios where one date was missing too - for example (? - 1820) or (1688 - ?). For missing death dates, the "?" should appear only when ther...

Gowermick wrote:... I found the odd cementery...

That brought to mind visions of mobsters sending rivals to 'sleep with the fishes' in 'concrete overshoes'...

Everyone does things their own way, but I am curious why you might need such a flag – Is it not immediately apparent from the siblings' birth date that they are twins?

Peter - so you're the UK genealogist who uses "Great Britain" and "United Kingdom" as a country! ;) Yup. I use England, Scotland, and Ireland up to 1706, Ireland and Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and United Kingdom from 1801 (with Ireland separate again from 1922, of course). Originally I too ju...

... what is wrong with Adelaide, , Province of South Australia (empty middle column)? ... Err - not sure I really thought of that one, I was mentally keeping the Adelaide and SA nodes together. I guess my reaction to that is that while it keeps the Adelaides in the same column, it still leaves the ...

I believe some studies have postulated that you need go back only 3000 years for there to be one single person ancestral to every person alive on the face of the earth today. Restrict yourself to Europeans, and you need only go back as far as the middle ages. The coomon ancestors for mtDNA and YDNA ...

Thanks for the link, Adrian. Generally speaking, what would be the right time period?

Free!? I must be doing something wrong. They charged me about €4 a pop, if I recall correctly.

Frustratingly, after holding off for a long time, I had finally just ordered 8 birth certificates quite literally the very day before! Just 24 hours more and I could have saved myself £26. :cry: These PDFs can't be used for anything one might normally need an actual certificate for; one is literally...

I think rigidly applying only one framework to your placenames is always going to cause problems, because there are always exceptions. Everyone just needs to find an internally consistent system that best suits the locations and times they are covering. For my part, the first/lowest part of any plac...

Because nothing is ever easy, the situation is different in each of the home nations. My knowledge on Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland is limited; but as far as England is concerned, I can say for sure that Unitary Authorities are established in law as counties . Therefore, if you prefer to use...

Bill - many thanks for going above and beyond!

You can email to me on petecollier [at-sign] btinternet [dot] com – Thanks again for your trouble!

I can't really elucidate; to a certain extent I was just thinking out loud. One of the family lines I am following is leading back to Ukraine, where I will be faced with Cyrillic of course, and this thread brought it to mind. I'm not yet at the stage though where I need to think about it in any prec...

I hope this is not hijacking the thread - please move the post if you see fit - but this topic has me wondering something. If you had a personal or place name normally wrtten in a different script, such as here with Hebrew, which you wanted to use as the primary name but also always to display with ...

Not much, Mike, beyond what I already gave. Here is a wider shot of the page anyway, the entry in question being the one dated 2 October 1815. screengrab.jpg Unfortunately, Castleton seems to be a very large parish full of many very small settlements. I may just have to go with the Parish name rathe...