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The Common Room / Re: Does anyone know of any current Ancestry special offers?
« on: Friday 04 July 25 08:12 BST (UK)  »
I've just renewed my subscription at the reduced rate for the fifth time. I suppose Ancestry work on the principal that some money is better than none.

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The Common Room / Re: "Out of Work" in 1921
« on: Wednesday 15 January 25 09:40 GMT (UK)  »
I believe the whole of Southsea promenade was built and sea defences added in order to provide work imp the '20s and I came across an estate of smallholdings set up for families from the north.

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The Common Room / Re: "Out of Work" in 1921
« on: Tuesday 14 January 25 16:20 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Fiddlerslass. Very interesting and quite frightening.

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The Common Room / "Out of Work" in 1921
« on: Tuesday 14 January 25 14:48 GMT (UK)  »
Having spent some time going through the 1921 census for anyone in my tree I'm surprised at how many were out of work. I knew of the depression and the Jarrow March as a Geordie but I didn't realise how close it was to home.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Has anyone made contact with "lost" but still living family members?
« on: Saturday 11 January 25 18:24 GMT (UK)  »
I've contacted several second cousins through Ancestry to start with. I've visited two a few times and been contacted by another who reminded me that I'd met him at his mother's home when I was about five. I was also contacted by the executor of a second cousins husband and visited him in Croydon and was given several documents and photographs. I've never had any luck in messaging people with a DNA match though.

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Armed Forces / Re: Posted to Durham mines 1917
« on: Tuesday 07 January 25 16:18 GMT (UK)  »
It seems to have been relatively common for a trained person to be posted to do work in the UK. My maternal grandfather was a private but spent the entire war in the armament factory in Newcastle as he was a trained engineer.

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Midlothian / Re: Death and burial at sea while on a cruise
« on: Saturday 30 November 24 14:28 GMT (UK)  »
My uncle was a third engineer on a merchant ship. He died of a heart problem at sea in 1940. The death is recorded in series BT334- Registers and indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths of Passengers and Seamen at sea in the National Archives.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: family tree
« on: Tuesday 26 November 24 15:26 GMT (UK)  »
I found that my Ancestry tree was going off in all sorts of directions with big families which seems to get bigger the further back they go, so I now have a separate linear tree, as well, which just covers parents and grandparents etc.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Would someone lie about who their father was?
« on: Thursday 29 August 24 11:54 BST (UK)  »
My father and his sister used their uncle's name as father when registering their marriages.

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