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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry family trees full of lazy errors
« on: Wednesday 28 January 26 08:48 GMT (UK)  »
I was helping a friend.  A clue came up which meant that her grandmother during WW1 left her children, hopped across to the USA from England.  Changed her first name slightly and married an American then hopped back to England to have a third child with her English husband.  What was worse I found out the tree owner was a direct descendant.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: 4% Gujarati DNA
« on: Tuesday 30 December 25 17:12 GMT (UK)  »
Realistically DNA is a guess.  I’ve had Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Irish and Scottish around the 4% mark come and go with each update.  They have disappeared and I now have 7% Arcadia, which is apparently French Canadian.  I await the next update.

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry, a year in review.
« on: Thursday 18 December 25 09:44 GMT (UK)  »
Ray T I have that problem too.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Tragic families.
« on: Wednesday 10 December 25 11:57 GMT (UK)  »
Out of eleven children born from 1852 to 1877 my great grandparents lost:
1874 Alice aged 1 year, measles
1880, Elizabeth, aged 26.  4 babies in 6 years, 3 pre deceased her.
1881, James aged 17 days, failure to thrive
1884, Eliza aged 12 years
1885, Albert, aged 17 years
1885 George aged 32, mining accident

They left the goldfields around Ballarat around 1888 and moved to Melbourne.

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The Common Room / Re: Falsified age on marriage licence?
« on: Thursday 27 November 25 12:30 GMT (UK)  »
Yes.
I have examples into the early to mid 1900’s.  Making themselves older and younger.  I have come to the conclusion that my ancestors had elastic ages.  Proof of age was not required as it is now.

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The Common Room / Re: Am I missing something in the 1911 and 1921 censuses?
« on: Friday 07 November 25 12:07 GMT (UK)  »
In 1921 my cousin, Edwin Vincent was found under his stage name of Edwin Beverley.  Do you know his stage name?

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The Lighter Side / Re: Ancestry DNA update
« on: Friday 17 October 25 09:18 BST (UK)  »
This new ethnicity has thrown up a conundrum with my son.  They say he has 4% Sweden and 1% Norway on his maternal side.  They also tell me I don’t have anything from either area.  I know his paternal side resembles Heinz 57 varieties, have they added a couple of his to my side?

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Armed Forces / Re: How were the wounded/dead dealt with?
« on: Friday 19 September 25 12:30 BST (UK)  »
I have a cousin killed and buried at Passchendaele in WW1.
Fighting continued in the area and as a consequence his grave was lost in repeated shelling of the area.  Therefore he has no known grave.
El Alamein was another area where there was continual fighting.  It is possible that his grave was lost or disturbed during later attacks.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: An English solider, why did he emigrate?
« on: Tuesday 16 September 25 14:41 BST (UK)  »
Someone my father worked with was born in England.  In 1913 joined the army as an 18 year old, but was discharged as not likely to make a good soldier.  Soon after he came to Australia on a scheme for farm workers landing in mid 1914.  At the outbreak of WW1 he joined the Australian Army and served throughout.  Mid war there was an enquiry about his whereabouts made by the English government, but as he was already serving they couldn’t have him back. 

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