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Brickwalls
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°o.OOº°‘¨Claire in Wales¨‘°ºOO.o° | Report | 18 Aug 2008 10:10 |
A much overused term |
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Megs Dicky Island | Report | 18 Aug 2008 10:23 |
Hi Claire |
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Sam | Report | 18 Aug 2008 10:26 |
I agree Claire, I have seen the phrase 'I've hit a brickwall! so many times, then when you ask what the fathers name was from the marriage cert or something similar, they will say 'I don't know, I haven't ordered it yet'! |
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KathleenBell | Report | 18 Aug 2008 10:28 |
Hi Meg, |
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Merlin38 | Report | 18 Aug 2008 10:30 |
Claire |
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Nickydownsouth | Report | 18 Aug 2008 10:32 |
I think your preaching to the converted Claire.......there`s been a lot of "Brickwalls" lately, most simply removable by a £7.00 payment, I know this isn`t a cheap hobby, Iv`e been doing this 5 years now, and still havn`t got ALL the certs. I want, but I carefully chose to buy the ones that remove obstacles, and let me proceed further, if the surnames arn`t common., with census returns and freeBMD you can sometimes pinpoint the correct people back to 1841 quite easily,even if you don`t have the exact date of birth. The marriage certs. I feel are the most useful for giving you information on both parties, and checking you have the correct line........ I agree with you....., that saying "Brickwall" should be banned......... |
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Huia | Report | 18 Aug 2008 10:38 |
My gt gt grandfather was b pre 1837 so I cannot buy his b cert. I do have his m cert from 1839. I have looked on the 1841 census for him but he wasnt to be found. A relative did find his wife for me. He died before the 1851 census and I have his d cert. Unfortunately I have no idea where he was born and I dont get much chance to go to the LDS to research now. I much prefer to go there to see the films of the original rather than rely on transcripts on computers. |
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°o.OOº°‘¨Claire in Wales¨‘°ºOO.o° | Report | 18 Aug 2008 10:50 |
I do indeed mean the ones where the registrations can be found in a matter of seconds but no certs have been ordered. |
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Nickydownsouth | Report | 18 Aug 2008 10:51 |
Huia...... Yes we all have problems with those born before 1837.......I`m sure Claire just means, people asking for information, for say a" John Smith who married Jane Brown in 1875", can anyone find out who their parents were?, and any other info .......... when to purchase a cert. would be all that required to get the correct line, occupations, addresses and ages at time of marriage, not to mention witnesses, who are often family members, so tie it all in together..... no ones having a pop at anyone with a genuine brickwall, Claires just asking people to look at what information they already have, and purchase the relevant certs. to enable them to progress, before asking for help with their "Brickwalls".... |
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Julie | Report | 18 Aug 2008 12:09 |
I saw the other day that someone had come to a dead end.........that was in 1927 |
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Ellen | Report | 18 Aug 2008 17:38 |
Had my cousin not required a passport, her birth would never have been found by future researchers...she was never registered and so never had a birth certificate, and she was only born in 1950. However she was able to take posession of her passport last year because she had, fortunately been baptised and 'officials' accepted her Baptism lines as a 'record of her birth' |
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Fire | Report | 20 Sep 2008 10:01 |
My great Gran does not seem to have her birth registred in the 1890's. |