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Title: Ancestry hint.
Post by: Biggles50 on Friday 18 July 25 21:45 BST (UK)
William H.  Born 1746.

Hint for William H. In Ancestry for the Pension Ledger of WW 1.

There is serving your Country and being dead for over 120 years that do not add up!
Title: Re: Ancestry hint.
Post by: Wexflyer on Saturday 19 July 25 05:00 BST (UK)
Quote from: Biggles50 on Friday 18 July 25 21:45 BST (UK)
William H.  Born 1746.

Hint for William H. In Ancestry for the Pension Ledger of WW 1.

There is serving your Country and being dead for over 120 years that do not add up!

That's nothing!

In the US some folks from the Revolutionary War era are still on Social Security books!
Title: Re: Ancestry hint.
Post by: coombs on Saturday 19 July 25 18:51 BST (UK)
I have an ancestor born in about 1555 and one of the hints for my ancestor was an 1851 census hint for someone of the same name.
Title: Re: Ancestry hint.
Post by: Jebber on Saturday 19 July 25 21:38 BST (UK)
I very rarely bother to look at the hints some of them are utter ridiculous, I did look at two on my home page this morning. My paternal GRANDFATHER Who  was John appears to be a  WOMAN called Joan.

The wife of one of my Father's half brothers they have as a widow in Canada in 1880, that's the same year she was born in Ireland. She actually married in 1905 and died giving birth to her third child in 1915 four years before her husband. All the correct full facts are on my tree so there's no excuse for these howlers.
Title: Re: Ancestry hint.
Post by: Wexflyer on Saturday 19 July 25 21:49 BST (UK)
Quote from: coombs on Saturday 19 July 25 18:51 BST (UK)
I have an ancestor born in about 1555 and one of the hints for my ancestor was an 1851 census hint for someone of the same name.

So, the folks at Ancestry are optimists!