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Technical Help / Re: Ancestry Two-step verification with DNA accounts not your own
« on: Saturday 20 April 24 01:08 BST (UK)  »
Good morning Judi,
Have experienced the same problem and got no satisfaction. Like you, no gmail a/c or need for it otherwise, don't use an apple computer, and when request a code nothing happens. Have noticed the two step verification code is "disabled" in account settings and when changed, nothing happens and it stays or reverts to disabled. Calls to the call centre are answered by someone whose first language is not English and they appear to be continually checking the "play book" or referring to a "supervisor" and have little or no understanding of the issue. Very dissatisfied, but will try the call centre again.
Best wishes,
Garry

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Anyone know of Jessie Pilmer - 1870 Dundee?
« on: Sunday 03 March 19 00:29 GMT (UK)  »
A followup on Alex Anth Pilmer - he married Margaret Roxburgh in Dundee shortly after Jessie's birth, was noted as a customs officer in Dundee in 1851, went to the Ballarat goldfields (Victoria) shortly after, Margaret followed in 1854 but drowned when the "Tayleur" sank off Ireland. Alex remarried in Ballarat in 1860, shortly after they went to NZ and were in Wellington mostly. In abt 1881 they went to Cooktown in Qld where Alex died in 1885. His widow Rosa returned to NZ where she died in 1913. Some of their children remained in NZ and are the family Colin referred to earlier under the Anzac line.
Garry

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry DNA questions
« on: Sunday 24 June 18 06:37 BST (UK)  »
Hello Rebecca,
The info from Ancestry indicates that the regional origins relate to inhabitants from those areas a couple of thousand years ago.
Matches will only be from people who have also done the Ancestry DNA test and have some similarities to your DNA. If you have a reasonably researched tree on Ancestry going back at least 4-5 generations, anyone with a tree also on Ancestry with ancestors at some point identical to yours, will come up as a match to you. Your tree and theirs will be displayed side by side back to the common ancestor.
The predominant results are from people in UK, USA and Australasia, with a very small no. from Europe.
The results don't appear to be as precise as we would like since we get half our genes from each parent and then only a part of each parent's DNA makeup, so we are not identical to siblings.
Like you, we have matches that don't seem to have links that the closeness of relationship suggests. In one case we have a reasonably close match in USA, but the tree for that person has no-one even close to a match for many generations back. I wonder if something went on behind the sheltershed that no-one knows about or wants to know about?
In another instance, 2 sisters come up as different generation relations to my wife.
While the results are very interesting, there is still a fair amount of explanation needed to grasp the implications in some cases.
I also wonder if fluke combinations show up as matches when in reality they aren't genealogical matches.
Best wishes,
Garry   
   

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: South Australian Electoral Roll - Keeble (completed))
« on: Monday 07 March 16 23:18 GMT (UK)  »
Hi John, Sandie, cando,
Rachel was certainly an interesting lady! Detail from her death cert notes 12 children, however with the Ronald/Roaland's not listed - deaths as babies could mean they/he weren't/wasn't spoken of to be remembered when providing info for the cert. Her story would make an interesting book if we knew the full details, certainly of life for a midwife living on the banks of the Murray at the time. However as noted, it is a sore point with a number of descendants.
John McInerney is acknowledged as the father of the two McInerney named girls in his WWI record - he served under the name Teesdale. This was discovered from an obituary Rachel placed in the Mildura Cultivator in 1917. One of the girls was noted as crippled and would link with being noted as a pensioner in 1936.
Speculation here - was the 1915 ad looking for Geo Hy placed by Lena or was it perhaps by Rachel? Rachel may have been wanting to get a divorce as McInerney had a prime place in her affections. However she possibly wasn't in McInerney's according to his brother.
Also re Geo Hy - a few notices in Newcastle papers in 1943 note a Geo Hy Keeble, seaman, about the right age for our Geo Hy, charged, bailed, forfeited bail then convicted of offensive behaviour in Carrington. A few years earlier, a Geo Keeble was noted as the "wheelman" on a ship that ran aground in Qld. May be a different person, but if he can't be found in conventional electoral rolls, he may fit.
Going back to Josiah Wm Keeble, if interested, there is a report in the North Otago Times in Feb 1868, of a Josiah Wm Keeble, a steward on the "Water Nymph" which ran aground there, covering a case of theft from Josiah.
Best wishes,
Garry       

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Kent Completed Lookup Requests / Re: 1841 census lookup HOOK family
« on: Thursday 23 April 15 12:31 BST (UK)  »
Hi Katharine,
Are you still looking for info on Daniel and Anna Hook?
garrvian

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Canada / Re: james fitzgerald lancelot briarley b abt 1898 in Quebec
« on: Thursday 15 August 13 12:48 BST (UK)  »
The seeming lack of info tying in with the details that we know, suggests all may not be as straightforward as we think.
Possibly the loss of documents on the docks in Melbourne wasn't accidental and there is some mystery to unravel.
Ancestry has a record of a Kathleen Fitzgerald arriving in Halifax, Nova Scotia, however I can't access the record to see if it could fit. If it could, the possibility of her marriage to someone of a different name and subsequent birth of a male child at Three Rivers in 1898 is a slim possibility. Does that seem feasible?

gv   

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Canada / Re: james fitzgerald lancelot briarley b abt 1898 in Quebec
« on: Monday 05 August 13 01:29 BST (UK)  »
The parents names have come from marriage and death certs.
The dob for WWII service is understood to have been advanced in order to fit in with age criteria, so 1898 is correct.
Family knowledge is that Jimmy's place of birth was Three Rivers.

gv

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Canada / Re: james fitzgerald lancelot briarley b abt 1898 in Quebec
« on: Sunday 04 August 13 10:43 BST (UK)  »
Followup
His parents were James Briarley and Kathleen Fitzgerald

gv

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Canada / james fitzgerald lancelot briarley b abt 1898 in Quebec
« on: Sunday 04 August 13 10:36 BST (UK)  »
Hello Chatters,
Jimmy came to Australia in the 1920s and lost his paperwork on the docks, so we have nothing in that regard.
Would like to find details of his birth/baptism and at least his WWI service. Apparently was wounded, had a plate inserted in his skull and came to Aust not long after the war. His parents thought to have died of the Spanish Flu.

Any help gratefully appreciated.

garrvian

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