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Messages - rvchrr

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I've been researching my background for more than 30 years with several lines back to the 1600s so I have a reasonable idea of where my earlier origins lie.  DNA profiles have reflected this in a general way.  However the previous Ancestry update very much moved in a negative direction as far as my profile was concerned.  Rather than refine my profile it seemed to do just the opposite becoming much vaguer and less informative.

This latest profile though has done much better.  It has now taken it back to what I considered more likely before the previous update and refined it rather further - in particular the splits between paternal and maternal now look pretty realistic based on what I know and can speculate on.   

Clearly their reference sets keep changing and presumably depending on who that includes not always in any balanced and positive direction...after all it's not a comprehensive DNA census of all living humans.  I always download a copy of the profile to ensure it doesn't get lost in the next update.

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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: We Are software
« on: Wednesday 17 July 24 11:50 BST (UK)  »
What link?  I didn't include one.

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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / We Are software
« on: Wednesday 17 July 24 10:15 BST (UK)  »
Has anyone any experience of using this relatively new software for building a family archive website?  I see it was reviewed in Family Tree magazine last year.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Gun street spitalfields
« on: Saturday 10 September 22 08:56 BST (UK)  »
This detailed 1890 map produced for the fire insurance companies may help locate the address.  It covers the side of Gun Street you're interested in.  42 isn't explicitly listed but it appears that at that time it was on the corner of Gun Street and Brushfield Street identified as an ironmongers - https://www.oldmapsonline.org/map/britishlibrary/mapsu145ubu22u11uf311r

I'd recommend using the 'View as overlay' link as it's pretty zoomable.

Roger

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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: 1921
« on: Thursday 06 January 22 06:53 GMT (UK)  »
Scroll forward one page from your image for the address page.  You should get this for the fee you've already paid.

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Europe / Re: Death 1897 in Bagneres-de-Bigorre, Hautes-Pyrenees
« on: Tuesday 10 August 21 06:47 BST (UK)  »
Update to my earlier posting:
My French contact advises me that the 'service-public.fr' website only appears to field requests for post 1900 deaths so not of use in my case.  However she applied direct to the local mairie's office who quickly advised her by telephone that they were dealing with her request and she received a paper copy in the mail within a week.  Don't know whether I'd have been so successful with a direct request from England.

So a good result especially as it confirmed Miss Bradstreet's birthplace as Ireland not France.

Thanks again to everybody for your helpful advices.

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Europe / Re: Death 1897 in Bagneres-de-Bigorre, Hautes-Pyrenees
« on: Thursday 08 July 21 15:08 BST (UK)  »
Thanks again joger. 

As I mentioned in my original posting I already have the family pretty well documented.  It's just Alicia's birth that is so far proving elusive.  Undoubtedly recorded but perhaps unindexed and offline at present although if in Ireland the record may not have survived. 

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Europe / Re: Death 1897 in Bagneres-de-Bigorre, Hautes-Pyrenees
« on: Wednesday 07 July 21 19:03 BST (UK)  »
Yes it's certainly a possibility she was born in Ireland.  She appears to have been born at a time when the family could have been in either Ireland or France so am hoping the French death entry will state her place of birth. 

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Europe / Re: Death 1897 in Bagneres-de-Bigorre, Hautes-Pyrenees
« on: Wednesday 07 July 21 14:26 BST (UK)  »
Thanks joger,

Useful to have the confirmation that that's definitely where the death was recorded.  Believe she was about 80y.


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