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Technical Help / Re: Where's the FindMyPast 1 month subscription gone?
« on: Sunday 15 January 23 18:30 GMT (UK)  »
Well I'm glad it's not just me and I'm not being daft, but that is very frustrating. It's just tripled the price of doing this for me. I suppose I'll try Ancestry instead. Thanks for your help, everyone!

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Technical Help / Re: Where's the FindMyPast 1 month subscription gone?
« on: Sunday 15 January 23 05:02 GMT (UK)  »
That option doesn't seem to be there on .co.uk. It's just 3 months or 12 months. The help documents still say there's a 1 month sub available so I'm not sure what's going on.

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Technical Help / Where's the FindMyPast 1 month subscription gone?
« on: Sunday 15 January 23 04:22 GMT (UK)  »
Been clicking around for at least ten minutes and I can only find the 3 and 12 month options which are no help to me at all ... do they even still offer a 1 month subscription? I tend to have one or two genealogy binges lasting a 2 weeks to a month per year so even the 3 month sub is a bit of a waste for me ...

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The Common Room / Re: Where exactly are these records from?
« on: Thursday 18 August 22 16:02 BST (UK)  »
Thanks everyone!

Jon_ni, thank you! That's exactly what I was looking for. Wasn't quite sure where to find the info so your links are very useful. All the ones I'm finding don't have images so it's difficult to verify transcriptions but now I know where to go if I want to look it up myself.

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The Common Room / Where exactly are these records from?
« on: Wednesday 17 August 22 20:50 BST (UK)  »
I use FindMyPast to search for records and lately I've been getting a lot of records which I can't figure out where the information is actually coming from.

For instance, I found a baptism record that seems to have useful information on it. It's in the "England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England" record set. At the bottom of the record it states "Index (c) IRI. Used by permission of FamilySearch Intl". The record itself doesn't have a location, page number, reference number, or anything of the kind.

If I go to FamilySearch and try to search their records I generally can't find the records on their website. Sometimes I've found the record but FamilySearch say they got it from FindMyPast and FindMyPast says they got it from FamilySearch. I understand these two entities have agreements with each other but it doesn't help me understand where the information ACTUALLY comes from! Someone must have transcribed it from somewhere at some point ...

Given the inaccuracies rife on FamilySearch I'm a little wary to just take it at face value and enter it into my family tree. Can anyone enlighten me as to what's going on?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Job title on baptism
« on: Thursday 28 July 16 17:24 BST (UK)  »
Ah brilliant! Scissors makes perfect sense as this is from Sheffield at the height of its steel industry. Thanks everyone for your help. :)

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Job title on baptism
« on: Thursday 28 July 16 16:11 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I'm wondering if someone can help me figure out a word on a baptism record. I think it's the name of the father's job but it looks like "supors" to me. Maybe it's an abbreviation for a job? It occurs elsewhere in the document too.

https://snag.gy/nBzrKi.jpg

The line reads "... D of William + Mary Alsop *something* *wiggle* born Aug"

There's also a little wiggle that looks like an afterthought just to the right of the word which I'd be interested to know what it means!

Thanks.

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