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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Devlin family connections.
« on: Yesterday at 17:38 »
As an aside there's a Terry Devlin currently a footballer for Northern Ireland and Portsmouth. Is he connected to your Devlins?

Martin

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: 1939 Register notations - Violet Kate Osborne
« on: Yesterday at 17:19 »
Yes a good thought. She had a brother Tom born in 1920 but not April. He's not here because he was in the Royal Navy - HMS Royal Oak. Which was sunk a short while after this but that's another story.

Martin

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / 1939 Register notations - Violet Kate Osborne
« on: Yesterday at 15:03 »
Hello - I've attached a clip of the 1939 Register for my mother Violet Kate Osborne. I'm hoping to decipher the notations in her entry. The dark blue coloured ink with the name HOOPER and 1947 date is her marriage to my father Russell Hooper. In the occupation column the EEP 8.2.51 I believe refers to when they moved out of Portchester to Leigh Park. EEP is the area code for Petersfield which fits that idea. By then she had two babies, my sister and me and she would have probably registered for welfare for us.

I haven't any idea what the two other notations might be. In the birth column 4  20? And in the last column B243/EQA? EQA is the area code for Isle of Wight, so something to do with her working on the IOW before she married?

All help appreciated.

Thanks

Martin

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World War One / Re: Military Service, Cecil Thomas. 2/4thBatllion Duke of Cornwalls light infantry.
« on: Yesterday at 12:23 »
Quote from: Neale1961 on Friday 06 March 26 01:23 GMT (UK)
His Military History Sheet states ----

Home – from 7.9.1914   to   11.12.1914   (96 days)
India – 12.12.1914  to 10.10.1916   (303 days)
Home – 11. 10.1916   to   29.8.1917  (323 days)

Number of days in India is wrong. Should be much greater than 303 if the dates are right.

Martin

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The Common Room / Re: British Newspaper Archive PAYG Option
« on: Wednesday 25 February 26 11:26 GMT (UK)  »
Haha - and then they want you to fill in a feedback chat on how well they did. I had one the other day from British Gas wondering if I'd give some feedback on how I felt making a payment to them.

Do they care how I feel? If I say I was sad will they give me a refund?

Martin

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The Common Room / Re: British Newspaper Archive PAYG Option
« on: Wednesday 25 February 26 10:31 GMT (UK)  »
It's going to be down to what you understand by the word download. When you zoom in on a page it's downloaded to your computer. I suspect that's what BNA means.

Martin

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The Common Room / Re: A major new AI capability
« on: Wednesday 25 February 26 10:28 GMT (UK)  »
Interesting. It underlines that we always need to do our own research, not rely on others.

Martin

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry family trees full of lazy errors
« on: Wednesday 25 February 26 09:56 GMT (UK)  »
Yes I think there must be many people who respond to the advertising by ancestry and take a passing interest in their family history. Not realising that you have to make some effort to get the right results.

It's a shame that they miss out on those eureka moments when you solve a puzzle.

Martin

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Recommendation for best software
« on: Monday 23 February 26 09:07 GMT (UK)  »
Yes Family Tree Maker does synchronise with Ancestry.

Very good, but expensive.

Martin

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