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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry Managment.
« on: Friday 12 September 25 14:52 BST (UK)  »
Is it possible you were signed in to the old Ancestry account and not to your preferred one when you clicked the link?  Perhaps you use one browser for your primary Ancestry research but a different one for your email, and your old Ancestry account was still signed in on the same browser as you use for your email?  By browser I mean Edge, Firefox, Chrome etc.  I'd suggest you make sure you're logged out of any "spare" Ancestry accounts and ask for the invite to be sent again.

Jane :-)

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The Lighter Side / Anc*y have fixed something!
« on: Wednesday 03 September 25 13:58 BST (UK)  »
Time for a small celebration perhaps.

Working through hints today, one was a probate index record for 1990.  Yes the "England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995" dataset.  And indexed as 1990, both probate date and death date, not 1900.

How long has it taken them to sort this?

Jane :-)

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Y DNA
« on: Saturday 26 July 25 19:51 BST (UK)  »
I wonder if age might have a bearing too, but the technology hasn't been around for long enough for a definitive answer.

Jane :-)

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The Common Room / Re: Elizabeth Harris, Southall
« on: Saturday 26 July 25 19:34 BST (UK)  »
FWIW George and Caroline were in the Birmingham area in 1861 with dau Elizabeth b Southall and also a son.  George was on the railways.

Jane :-)

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The Common Room / Re: Familysearch old maps England
« on: Wednesday 23 July 25 15:33 BST (UK)  »
I second your thoughts pandk2 and don't find the new version at all user-friendly.  It's also a pain that you have to login to use it. 

It's here: https://www.familysearch.org/en/mapp/ for anybody unfamiliar.

In the old days you could list adjacent parishes, or specify a radius in either miles or km and it would list nearby parishes.  You could order the list alphabetically or (for radius) by distance I think.  Where has this useful feature gone?

Jane :-)

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Lancashire Resources / Re: How do I find the maiden Name of my 4GGM - Elizabeth Walmsley?
« on: Wednesday 23 July 25 09:05 BST (UK)  »
I have a similar conundrum with an Elizabeth in Berkshire around the same sort of time, too many generations back for DNA to be of much use.  I presume you've not managed to "kill off" any of the candidates in infancy or childhood?  Or found any Wills left by their fathers?

Jane :-)

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Technical Help / Re: Video digitisation services
« on: Saturday 05 July 25 18:59 BST (UK)  »
If you don't know what's on the camcorder tapes it may be worth obtaining a caddy so you can play them in a vcr.  I presume you no longer have a machine to play them on but you might find one in a charity shop, on freecycle/freegle/gumtree or fb marketplace.  Whereabouts in the country are you?

Jane

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Technical Help / Re: Video digitisation services
« on: Thursday 03 July 25 11:26 BST (UK)  »
Something else I should have said in my previous post regarding "film of different formats".  I've made the assumption it's cine film.  I ran into problems with the first company I went to, they said they could do the job but it was actually beyond their capabilities because my cine file was 9.5mm and they were geared up to the more common 8mm (super 8 ).  Apart from the film being a different size, the sprocket holes are positioned differently, they're also a different pitch and the number of frames per second is different too.  I didn't know this before I entrusted my films to them and they ended up snapping some, which I only discovered after I got the reels back.  The firm refused to refund me let alone compensate me for the damage (which they denied) so I went the Section 75 route (moral PAY BY CREDIT CARD) and was successful.

Jane :-)

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Technical Help / Re: Video digitisation services
« on: Thursday 03 July 25 08:09 BST (UK)  »
I used a local* specialist a good few years back to digitise cine film, but I did my parents' old camcorder tapes myself using the tapes in a vhs caddy to play them in a vhs player which I connected to a dvd recorder and a tv.  Time consuming but it wasn't difficult once I'd worked out what I was doing and meant I had full control.  And helped by the fact that I'm a bit if a hoarder - "I won't chuck out this old piece of tech, it might come in useful one day".

* local - it was important to me that I knew exactly where the reels were, I didn't want to risk them getting lost in the post, local meant I could deliver and collect and meet the specialist in person.

Jane :-)

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