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Messages - Chris Doran

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For Halloween. Worldwide death, burial, cemetery, and obituary records. Exact end time not stated, but it's usually 11:59 pm Mountain Time on the last day, which I make to be 6:59 am GMT on Monday 3rd.

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Collection catalogue

It says it has 18 collections added or updated sibce last year. I am pleased to see that on a few spot checks, My Heritage's "United Kingdom Deaths, 1980-2024" register doesn't suffer from the transcription errors resulting from assuming American date order found in Ancestry's similarly-named "United Kingdom Deaths, 1989-2024" which may or may not be related. If you have used the Ancestry one in the past, I suggest you take the opportunity to check, especially if you got a low-numbered month and day. They usually noticed the problem for "impossible" dates but didn't always fix it correctly.  >:(

You need an account (free) but do not need to sign up for a free trial of the whole site. No payment details are taken on registration.

As always with free periods, save anything of interest on your own device, as you'll need a sub to see it after the offer closes.

Note that some of these records are free at all times elsewhere, like FreeBMD, so check before expending too much midnight oil.

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The Common Room / Free Access to My Heritage German Records
« on: Sunday 05 October 25 15:25 BST (UK)  »
Until 6th October. No end time given, but it's usually 11:59p.m. Mountain Time, which I think is 6:59a.m. BST on Tuesday 7th.
Links to collections.

You need an account (free, no payment details taken on registration).

As always with free periods, save anything of interest on your own device, as you'll need a sub to see it after the offer closes.

Some of these records may be free at all times elsewhere, so check before you waste any midnight oil.

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The Common Room / Re: Grave photo or memorial?
« on: Tuesday 30 September 25 23:53 BST (UK)  »
It just means that whoever created the Find a Grave memorial had good reason to believe that there is a burial at the churchyard/cemetery (or maybe just scattered ashes or the name on an inscription), but no one has yet investigated and added a photo. How easy that would be depends on a wide range of individual circumstances.

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Armed Forces / Re: RAF crash 13 or 14 June 1940 near Le Grand Luce , Sarthe France.
« on: Saturday 20 September 25 10:55 BST (UK)  »
... Also photographs taken at the time of the burial of the 11 airmen in 1946 clearly show crosses on the “vacant” graves, although there are no markers today...
I've just read somewhere that the practice was to reserve plots with (presumably blank) crosses and remove them later if the plots weren't used.

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World War Two / Re: Soldier's burial
« on: Friday 19 September 25 18:15 BST (UK)  »
This doesn't answer your question, but for the record, the CWGC site has a page explaining some of the abbreviations in their documents (scroll down), including those you can get from most casualty details pages:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/about-our-records/glossary

I think there used to be a link to this on each details page, but it's no longer there. The URL implies it should be mentioned on the About our Records page off Find Records, but it's not there either. I've been looking on the Wayback Machine, but so far can't see when it went.

Having said all that, CH isn't there, but my recollection is that the list was once longer.

You could ask the CWGC what CH means, and incidentally prompt them to make this useful page more visible. For example, some of the abbreviations give a clue as to whether to look for one of their distinctive headstones or whether it's more likely to be a private family monument, some of which are now in a parlous state, or even removed entirely in cemeteries' reuse of graves.

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The Common Room / Re: Findmypast subscription
« on: Thursday 18 September 25 23:16 BST (UK)  »
Extended to 30th September according to an e-mail from TNA just received. See here.

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Lancashire Lookup Requests / Re: Allen/ Allen nee Ellum
« on: Friday 12 September 25 18:07 BST (UK)  »
Just for the record.

From Thornton's 1885 & 1887 Beckenham Directory (the earliest I have which goes house-by-house):
Allen Albert Harry, 49 Eden Road, Elmers End

Also there in 1889 Strong's Bromley; gone in 1891 Strong's.

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Technical Help / Re: New Laptop
« on: Thursday 11 September 25 08:41 BST (UK)  »
According to some YouTube videos I've seen recently (sorry, no details to hand) it will be possible to sign up to receive security updates to Windows 10 *free* for a further year. This should be adequate for people with minimal requirements such as described by the OP. Some people will already have invites at Start/Settings/Update & Security, others may receive them shortly or may have to tweak their registry to receive them.

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The Common Room / Free Access to MyHeritage US & Canadian Censuses. Last Day
« on: Tuesday 02 September 25 07:54 BST (UK)  »
For U.S. Labor Day. Ends today (apologies for the short notice), presumably 11:59p.m. Mountain Time, which I think is 6:59a.m. BST tomorrow, Wednesday 3rd.

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US Census
Canadian Census

The US census collection includes federal census records as well as some state and county census records and special census records. The Canadian collection includes national census records as well as some more specialised or location-specific census records. It says it has millions of additions since last year. Some of this may be free elsewhere at all times, so check before spending too much time on a particular set.

You need an account (free) but don't have to sign up for a free trial of the whole site. No payment details are taken on registration.

As always with free periods, save anything you find on your own device, as you'll need a sub to see it after the offer closes.

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