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Or home help, helper at home, or suppress the occupation fact sentence and amend or add a suitable note to the census fact sentence, whilst maintaining an exact transcript of the document attached to the source record.

As I said yesterday, that is why the Occupation attribute should be set to 'Housewife', and only the transcript should say 'Unpaid Domestic Duties'. I agree. I use the term Housewife for the occupation in the grid/fact to aid readability in reports, and edit the transcript in AS to accurately refle...

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26 Feb 2023 14:31

There are English newspapers on newspapers.com, 16 covering Essex 3 of which go past 1995. Not sure though how these would be referenced in Ancestry hints.

UK and Ireland, Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current according to the card catalogue.

Adrian, coincidence or what? I just received an Obituary hint (for my mother!!, in their U.S., Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current . This hint came from Ancestry.com, and for those with a worldwide subscription (which I don’t have), so couldn’t follow it up. It does beg the question why m...

I have seen a number of these, but admittedly not for such a long period of time. They seem to have mostly involved the changeover from the old to new style registers, although I have seen some where a new incumbent has painstakingly copied out an old register into the new register, in one case expl...

I wonder if the number attached to the supplementary entry is not actually a page number, but when identified by the following "/S" simply leads the GRO to a different (internal) index of some kind? I wonder if the "0465/S" is a reference to a supplementary, unpublished, "Amendments Index" It seems...

But then I struggle to see the point of the annotation - how is anyone reading that 0465 supposed to know where to find the amended page (if that's what it is)? They need to know the year and quarter. But if it doesn't tell me where to look, isn't it pointless? I suspect that's why I thought it was...

However, there is one puzzling thing about this entry - if this is a later amendment, why is the original page number of 825 higher than the added page number 0465? Because it was entered in a subsequent quarter or year? We don't know the full index reference for this record, but John could check a...

According to FreeBMD the S suffix ("/S") denotes a supplementary registration. superseding the original registration. For the S to denote the September quarter, it should precede the page number, (e.g. S/245) and it that case would refer to a late entry. See item 40 on this page for a more detailed ...

Perhaps in an earlier release of FH there was a need for users to customise the sentences in their reports so CP created a "pre-processor" designed to process a set of user friendly alias commands {in curly brackets} and translate them into raw expressions that could be sent to the real expression ...

You say that both were shown as single and of full age in both marriages, but have you established that, or that the marriage was otherwise legally valid? I wouldn't necessarily take the information in the registers as completely truthful. I have a GGF who married the same woman twice at different c...

In instances where I have multiple occurrences of the same residence or occupation etc., I suppress the fact sentences for all but one of them - usually the first occurrence - and edit the fact sentence for the remaining one to describe the from and to dates. That way, I still have an easy way to se...

For recording DNA matches, I would recommend taking a look at Jane's GEDmatch custom fact and query. https://www.taubman.org.uk/family/wp/2019/03/13/recording-dna-matches-in-family-historian/ (Also linked from the knowledge base). You can see in the article how she records CM match lengths and start...

Unfortunately, it is not as simple as you propose. Ancestry's implementation is an ethnicity browser, rather than a true chromosome browser that would allow you to identify identical segments or regions on a chromosome that you share with a DNA match. As Ancestry say about their ethnicity browser: W...

On a different tangent to Mike's technical reply, the first thing that came to my mind reading your description of bird-watching as an event, was that if you intend recording every single instance of when an ancestor went on a bird-watching trip, I can see a rationale of sorts for recording each tri...

I created a 1921 Military Census template along with the normal 1921 England template shortly after the census was released on FMP. I thought that I had posted the military template in the forum along with the normal version which I believe was the basis of the template used by Nick. Rather than cha...

OK, thanks both of you, it must be me. Since a bout of Covid back in the summer I have found that my ability to concentrate is not quite what it was, and my memory seems to have suffered as well. Presumably another manifestation of that then

I don't know if my memory is failing me, but I often select a source citation in the citation list pane within the property box by clicking on the edit source citation button, so that I can view the citation details, source text or source media etc. via the citation window. It's a habit that I have ...

I often find when downloading FH updates that they get to about 97-98% completed, and the progress then seems to pause for some time. It may be worth just giving it a bit longer to see if it completes.

The text I would use is "OT purported relationship 3rd Cousin 1R 26cM over two segments" (use your data) I create the individual OT using whatever Information I can glean from Ancestry. OT will have the role match, the 2nd great grandfather is MRCA, and the others are Linkers. I use a screenshot of...

Adrian, I posted again while you were composing your reply. I am aware of the errors that others may make and seek to validate the connections suggested by other research (GRO, parish and census records). Is my conclusion that there is somebody who connects via the names in both our trees which val...

Unless you can check the trees thoroughly via you own research, to confirm the assertions displayed in them, how can you be certain that they are correct? I have found more incorrect trees on Ancestry and elsewhere when researching DNA matches than good ones. Many of the problem trees seem to have b...

I do nothing in that situation. If you can't identify the two private individuals, how are you going to be able to confirm the identity of "OT" and that the line of descent suggested by the Thrulines algorithm is actually correct?

I haven't tried as a non-subscriber, but one of my favourite ways of searching FMPs parish records is to use the Parish Records Browse facility. From the home screen, select Search at the top, then All Record Sets. Type "Lincolnshire" into the search box which contains the greyed text "e.g. census, ...

If it helps, digitised images of Lincolnshire parish registers are on Find My Past, courtesy of Lincolnshire Archives.