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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Pro Tools Offer
« on: Saturday 26 April 25 15:35 BST (UK)  »
Yes I've had the same offer and have taken them up on it, confirmation states £7.99 per month starting next month (I'll be cancelling!).  And I have checked, my card hasn't been charged this far.

Code is ProTime1MO if anybody else fancies it.

Jane :-)

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Nottinghamshire / Re: What happened to Denby Wood
« on: Sunday 20 April 25 15:46 BST (UK)  »
Is it possible he chose to be known as William after his father's death?

Jane :-)

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Surrey / Re: Chiddingfold 1750-1770
« on: Sunday 13 April 25 16:22 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the offer but I have enough on my plate keeping my own tree tidy, let alone anyone else's!

Ancestry has some Surrey registers in both the London dataset and the Surrey one, BTs in one and PRs in the other,   I don't know if Chiddingfold might be one of these parishes.

Jane :-)

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Surrey / Re: Chiddingfold 1750-1770
« on: Sunday 13 April 25 13:49 BST (UK)  »
You don't say where you've found these problem registers.  From memory there are copies on Ancestry and on Familysearch, presume one set are PRs and the other BTs.

I've extracted lots of DENYERs if that surname features in your own research.

Jane :-)

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The Lighter Side / Re: Sadly the time has come.....
« on: Wednesday 09 April 25 14:02 BST (UK)  »
Yes Mrs Zaph I know.  After the first time I meticulously took a backup at the end of every day, as you say it takes very little time, but I got bored when it seemed to behaving itself!

I think I may have got away with it (just) without needing to do too much re-keying.  I tried importing my old file into a more recent version of the same product and it told me to compact my file and try again.  So I did that (took a long time, did a bit of weeding in the garden while I was waiting!) and have now successfully imported it with no nasty errors.  I've created a ged using the new software and imported that into RM for their "problem search".  It's found a few, possibly one of them might be the root cause of the corruption but I'm not taking any chances, I'll correct them in the new software and bid a fond farewell to the old.

Jane :-)

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The Lighter Side / Sadly the time has come.....
« on: Wednesday 09 April 25 13:27 BST (UK)  »
When I feel I must retire my old FH software.

It's served me well over the years, and fair flies when compared with more recent offerings with all the extra features that I have no use for.  But periodically my main file decides it has become corrupt, for no apparent reason (but I suspect I just have too many people in it!).  When I monitor it daily it behaves itself, take my eye off the ball and it happens again.  Earlier in the year it happened and I had about 3 weeks worth of updates to reapply to a backup version.  Today I find it's done it again, and my March end of month backup is corrupt too.  Could be a month's worth to put right this time (I last created a clean copy on 10th March).

The plan today was a bit of gardening and taking up curtains, instead I'll be sitting on my posterior staring at a screen  :(

Jane :-)

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The Common Room / Re: Which marriage (if any?)
« on: Sunday 30 March 25 16:36 BST (UK)  »
Are you able to compare George Boulton signatures (or did he make his mark?)

Jane :-)

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The Common Room / Re: Downloading Gov.UK will
« on: Thursday 27 March 25 16:57 GMT (UK)  »
I'm guessing that the ones that are available instantly have already been scanned for someone else, very likely a distant relative with a shared interest in genealogy.  I know it will never happen, because unlike gravestonephotos.com it's a government enterprise, but wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a way of making contact!

Jane :-)

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Staffordshire / Re: Possilbe Illegitmate child
« on: Tuesday 25 March 25 15:08 GMT (UK)  »
Some years 1920s and 1930s I think don't show mmn on the gro site unless you key it in.  Is that the time frame you're looking at?

Jane :-)

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