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Kent / Re: Medway Archives online
« on: Monday 02 September 24 12:09 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Bearkat and Rosie. So it is a problem at their end. I'll just have to be patient. I really appreciate that their parish records are free to access, and I use them a lot, so I don't want to have a moan to them or bug them about it!


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Kent / Re: Medway Archives online
« on: Monday 02 September 24 11:43 BST (UK)  »
Has anyone else had problems trying to get onto the cityark.medway site? It had been working fine up until about a week ago - since then, I keep getting "can't reach this page, cityark.medway.gov.uk took too long to respond". Is it just me?

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The Common Room / Re: Problem with Ancestry
« on: Sunday 07 April 24 10:46 BST (UK)  »
Re death records wrongly transcribed using the American date format, I've just found a 2003 death record where both birth and death dates were wrong:

Birth date 12 Jan 1912 transcribed as 1 Dec 1912
Death date 3 Oct 2003 transcribed as 10 Mar 2003.

... and when I submit corrections they show up backwards i.e "1912 Dec 1"

Honestly Ancestry, sort yourselves out. It's no wonder so many Ancestry trees are full of errors. If experienced researchers have problems, how on earth are beginners/novices meant to manage?

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The Common Room / Re: Problem with Ancestry
« on: Monday 18 March 24 14:45 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Nifty1 on Monday 18 March 24 11:09 GMT (UK)
It is probably not worth bothering with.

They have recorded the following false info

‘ MS Thelma Eileen Emma Reynolds
Gender   Female
Age   83
Birth Date   7 Jan 1928
Last Residence   Crewkerne, Somerset, England
Postal Code District   Ta18
Death Date   18 May 2011.’

Although the date of death is correct, the birthdate is about six months too early.

What is MS supposed to mean?

The birthdate was probably transcribed by someone from the USA and they've used their usual date formula of month-day-year, instead of the British formula of day-month-year. So I'm guessing her birthdate was actually 1st July 1928?

It took me a while to work out why so many dates were wrong on recent death records, but that's why.

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry Problems...
« on: Friday 15 March 24 15:01 GMT (UK)  »
And a new problem I've just discovered - records from "England and Wales National Probate Calendar 1858-1995" aren't coming up in search results.



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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry Problems...
« on: Thursday 14 March 24 12:08 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the replies. Perhaps the tech people at Ancestry are tinkering away behind the scenes again, making more "improvements" (ha ha). Ancestry was such a good site back when it started but the more they fiddle with it, the worse it gets.

Romilly - I've had a trickle of new DNA matches over the last few months but none in the last few days.

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry Problems...
« on: Thursday 14 March 24 11:54 GMT (UK)  »
Is anyone else having problems with Ancestry being generally glitchy? As well as the "bad gateway" message which has been mentioned elsewehere and which comes up regularly, it's also giving me error messages when I try to save records to my tree. I have to refresh the page before it will save them.

Also when I click on "Find in Tree" and then on "Last viewed" to go back to the last person I was working on, I get an error message saying "that page no longer exists".

Is it just me?

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London and Middlesex / Re: Lionel Moreton, b1893 London - disappears after 1911
« on: Sunday 20 March 22 13:16 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Simon,
 
I couldn't find any trace of Arthur Moreton after that 1911 Luton census, so it's very possible that he and your Great-GF are one and the same. Your Arthur had the middle name George, which was my Arthur's father's name, so I think that lends a bit of weight to the theory.

Have you taken an Ancestry DNA test? I have a DNA match with one of Arthur and Rhoda's 2xGreat Granddaughters - so whether or not you match with her would give you your answer (well, that's assuming, of course, that Arthur Moreton was the father of all of Rhoda's children - I have no reason to suspect otherwise but you can never take anything for granted in genealogy!).


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The Common Room / Re: Very Similar Birth Certificates
« on: Tuesday 14 May 19 14:28 BST (UK)  »
I also have a set of twins in my family tree, called Rosetta Florence and Florence Rosetta.

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