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HELP PLEASE - BRICK WALL STILL STANDING !!!
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Dea | Report | 19 Jul 2005 19:44 |
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Sarah, You have just given me a thought!!! I hthink I have checked for marriages up until 1991 BUT If he died in 1996 (I think - without looking at my notes) - I had not sent for his death certificate because I know he had died - BUT - would the death certificate prove who he was last actually married to ??? Dea x |
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Dea | Report | 19 Jul 2005 21:41 |
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Thanks Lib, This really is a tricky one and you just confirmed what I thought re the death cert. I will 'crack it' one day. Dea x |
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Andrea | Report | 19 Jul 2005 22:01 |
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Hi Dea Yes, it was the same census page. Looking with a fresh pair of eyes today, I can see it looks like Joiner. Your brick wall is beginning to frustrate me now. I was looking for ages last night and was determined to find Mark in the 1871 census. Shame if they were in Ireland. I've got some ancestors with Irish roots and they are a nightmare to find birth and marriages for. Regards Andrea |
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Dea | Report | 19 Jul 2005 22:05 |
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Thanks for looking Andrea. It's just a little bit comforting to know that this is frustrating someone else as well as me. You start to feel a bit of an idiot when you can't get any further forward. I will solve the mystery one day but in the meantime any help is appreciated. Thanks, Dea x |
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Catherine | Report | 19 Jul 2005 22:50 |
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Hi I've just read your thread. I have had 'missing' famillies on census' and they have turned out to be mistranscribed. I have 'Hirst' listed as 'Thuot' that I found by putting in only the first name and birth date of a son along with the county info, I then trawled through all the names until I saw a surname that looked odd - when I viewed it there was the family - the rest of them with shortened or misspelt names. I found one today listed as Johnb Arker, so the rest of the family were Arkers - no points for guessing and it was a capital B! Try putting as much info in that you believe they will have used eg birthplace but not using the names then check the lists. widen and narrow it depending on how many are returned. good lick |
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Merry | Report | 19 Jul 2005 23:15 |
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Did you say you have sent off for the birth certs of the oldest children?? You will post on here when you get them, won't you?? Mark feels like a member of my own family (the B****r!!) - I must find out EVERYTHING you do!! lol Sarah |
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