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The Common Room / Re: 1939 register
« on: Today at 07:34 »
Unredacting entries requires proof of death.
Have you contacted The National Archives or FindMyPast?

Ancestry update their database on an annual basis.
FindMyPast update more frequently (monthly?).

I thought, and as was earlier pointed out, that unredacting would occur after the person would have been 100 years old, automatically.  In my mother’s case, proof of death would have been needed up until her birthdate in 2023, as she died in Canada in the 1990’s.  For her cousin and aunt, both died many years ago, in England.  Why were they not unredacted when the 1939 was released?  In the same household my aunt’s husband and father were unredacted when it was released.

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The Common Room / Re: 1939 register
« on: Today at 01:09 »
The process of opening up entries must be very slow as my great aunt is still blacked out and she would be 124 years old now.  She died in 1991.  Her daughter is blacked out and she died about 20 years ago.  My mother lived with them, but she would only be 102 later this year.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Sologamy
« on: Today at 00:59 »
Learning can be a gerund (a verb form used as a noun), for example “Learning is a life-long process”, similarly, “Walking is good for you”.  However, I also don’t believe the way it was used in the earlier post is correct, in that is it correct to pluralize a gerund?  I will ponder this while I try to fall asleep tonight and see if it keeps me awake.

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The Common Room / Re: C. O. Sylvester Mawson - Roget's Thesaurus Editor
« on: Sunday 13 July 25 00:21 BST (UK)  »
There are a few references to him in The British Newspaper Archive, but I can see nothing about his death.

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The Stay Safe Board / Re: Diary summary week ending 13th July 2024
« on: Sunday 13 July 25 00:13 BST (UK)  »
We are having a very hot July here in the frozen north.  It felt like 40c with the humidex today.  I went out this morning but went early enough to escape the worst of it.  In a little while will take the dog outside - am dreading it.
Duvets are not very popular here despite the cold winters.  Most of us go with sheets and bedspreads and maybe an extra blanket.

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The Common Room / Re: Father's surname?
« on: Tuesday 08 July 25 01:05 BST (UK)  »
I have an ancestor who was illegitimate and went by his mother’s name but when he married his father was listed under his own surname.  From what I have been able to gather, he acknowledged the two sons (same mother) born out of wedlock, and in fact, the older son switched to his father’s surname in time.  My lot continued on with the female line name.

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The Stay Safe Board / Re: Diary summary week ending 29th June 2025
« on: Tuesday 24 June 25 12:14 BST (UK)  »
Jebber, yes the introduction of suitable bins to store the food waste has been helpful to a great extent, but sadly, there are still some folk who need educating in how to use those facilties and who continue to put food waste  out in such a manner which will instantly attract the gulls.

By-laws here state we must use bins with very secure tops.  Raccoons are very adept at opening things, so sometimes one does see garbage strewn around on pickup mornings.  Crows like to partake as well, though not very talented at opening the bins!

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The Stay Safe Board / Re: Diary summary week ending 29th June 2025
« on: Tuesday 24 June 25 11:49 BST (UK)  »
Although we are about 30 miles inland from the sea we still get flocks of gulls. I try not to encourage them and do not put food out. They find their food from the refuse bags put out for collection. They assemble along the ridge lines of the adjacent houses watching and waiting.We have about four "regular" pigeons who prance around picking up the dropped seeds from the seed feeder, but are generally not a nuisance.

We have gulls here too, must be about 2000 km from the Atlantic.  Fortunately they don’t hang around our suburban area much.  No pigeons either, just mourning doves.

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The Stay Safe Board / Re: Diary summary week ending 29th June 2025
« on: Monday 23 June 25 21:57 BST (UK)  »
Aggressive squirrel or squirrels in the garden. Lst week I had to but a new bird seed holder as the original which had been hanging on the pergola for the past three years had just about given up, not helped by said squirrels who knocked it off its hook and made a "forced entry" to get at the seed.
So a trip to the pet shop for a replacement. Three days it lasted and so another trip to the pet shop to get something, hopefully, a little stronger and more "squirrel proof"./
Picture shows the sad remains of the last one.


Ours is squirrel proof, if one of the varmints manages to climb the pole and get to the seed entries, a wire portion is pulled down by the weight of the little critter and covers the access.  No success for squirrels for several years, and has not been knocked off its hook, either.

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