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He was 48/49 in 1948 and died before he would have been entitled to a state pension, but would he have needed to register for it around that time? Martin, a will is the only possible reason I can think of so far. That's one thing I haven't yet acquired a copy of, so I must do that. But as far as the...

David, it was issued in 1948 - see my first post. Lorna, thank you. I have just re-read your reply with a clear head after a night's sleep and see that the link you included does show an email address for the GRO. I will give that a try as I feel an email may be more likely to end up with someone wh...

Thank you both. My first thought was the GRO, but I couldn't find an email address on their website. There is a contact form which involves a redirect you You.gov and doesn't seem to be set up to accommodate anything other than briefly worded enquiries about existing orders. There is a phone number,...

When I started researching my family history, one of my main sources of information was an envelope inherited from my parents which contained birth, death and marriage certificates for my parents and grandparents, together with other documents such as National Identity cards and my father's RAF serv...

BTW: I noticed that your great-aunt is her own witness with Resident Role for her Residence facts. So she is both principal and witness to the same facts, which is a little unusual. That would appear to be in addition to her witness Resident Role in her husband's Residence facts. I think what happe...

Mike, you are a star! Thank you so much. Even if I had narrowed the problem down to that source, I would never have found the reason. The note was a direct cut & paste from a relevant section of the original source. For my purposes, the "/../" bits are totally irrelevant, so I have edited the note t...

Thanks Mike, that's very kind of you. I've attached the file. Hopefully you can find something that I'm missing. Edit: Attachment now removed. For anyone subsequently reading the thread, the offending source record contained the following note, which was a direct cut & paste from the original source...

Yes, if I exclude source records in creating a Gedcom file consisting only of the single problematic individual, it uploads fine, so the issue has to be something to do with sources/citations attached to her record and in particular, I think, those connected to the residence facts I mentioned above,...

Mark, Whilst I largely agree with your comments, I have only just realised that the hints function works just as well on a bare tree, as a result of the various permutations that I've been using in creating a number of Gedcom files whilst trying to overcome the problem I've encountered. I've never u...

Yes, that's the route I intend to take. The initial upload was just to see if splitting off a small portion of the file would be successful. If it doesn't narrow down to a single individual record, hopefully I can find what the affected records have in common.

Thanks Mike. I've done as you suggested, and found two "orphaned" source records, for want of a better term, i.e. not having any record links. One I had created and simply neglected to cite in the relevant record, and the second was a duplicate source record that I had somehow managed to create twic...

I have made a little progress. I used Merge/Compare Files this morning to compare my current project file with the full FH project file from which my last successful Ancestry upload was exported. The only differences were related to additional information I had entered in the project between the two...

Ah, thanks again Mike. That makes sense. I looked briefly at the Merge/Compare function when I was initially getting my head around the software. Still a lot to learn though! I will have a play around and see what I can find. If I can discover the nature of the problem, I'll let you know. Thanks aga...

Thank Mike. I am trying to upload the correct <projectname> ANC UTF8.ged file created by your plugin. Strangely, prior to this problem that I have encountered in the last few days, I had uploaded several <projectname>\Public\<projectname>.ged files created directly from the built-in File Export menu...

Hello, I am newly registered on the forum, although I have been using FH v6.2 since February this year and have been browsing the forum regularly since that time. I have been regularly exporting and uploading my FH data to Ancestry as the number of people in the database grows, mainly to take advant...