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By Roz, on December 18th, 2006% John has come up with a beta tree for uploading onto this site, as I have well over 1200 individuals listed in my tree and it is getting increasingly difficult to keep track of what I have blogged or not blogged already…you need to see the tree! Where do you draw “the line”? Do you include all or only dead people in your tree? Do you cut the tree off at a specific generation band? Do you remove all those born after date X whether living or dead?
What we are hoping to do is to cut the tree off . . . → Read More: Data Privacy
By Roz, on November 7th, 2006% My mother showed me a walnut writing box a few months ago, containing letters, wills, certificates etc pertaining to her father’s side of the family – the Birds and the Moores.
I hadn’t really had a chance to look carefully at it until today, but I’m glad I found the time to read through the contents and understand the implications of some of the items.
A yellowing copy of the 1944 Baptist Times, reporting on the sad death of my grandfather’s father, mentioned that he had been in the RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps) during the Great War. I . . . → Read More: Stuff Pandora’s Box, what about Elsie’s?!
By Roz, on October 27th, 2006% Yesterday’s task: to determine the death date of Priscilla Bird and from thereon to determine her maiden name and marriage date to William Bird.
Task 1: Date of death.
We know from the 1901 Census that Priscilla was living with her daughter Amy and her family (the Readings) and was listed as being an “imbecile” and a Widow. Therefore the earliest she can have died is Q2 1901. The latest, realistically, she can have died is 1920, so I started the search from there and worked backwards. Not relying on the “Partial” searches on Ancestry, I started a quarter . . . → Read More: Priscilla Bird
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