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Canada Resources / MOVED: Search for digitised copy of an application for a homestead, Saskatchewan, 1908
« on: Thursday 18 September 25 20:29 BST (UK) »4
The Common Room / MOVED: The hell that is two factor authorisation
« on: Thursday 18 September 25 20:19 BST (UK) »
This topic has been moved to Totally Off Topic Bit.
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=893921.0
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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Help finding John Herbert
« on: Thursday 11 September 25 20:35 BST (UK) »
Ecchinswell registers for the earlier part of the 19th century do not appear to be online, nothing on FamilySearch or Freereg. It was originally a chapelry of Kingsclere, becoming a separate parish in 1852. I can't find him in any transcription that I have either.
Nell
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The Common Room / Re: Access to my own posts - keeps staying 'An error has occurred'
« on: Monday 08 September 25 15:06 BST (UK) »
It's happening to just about everyone at the moment including the moderating team, so your patience, please, while things are being looked at.
Magic spanners have been requested and it may take some time for things to get sorted. Sometimes tweaks have an unexpected side-effect and might cause more problems than before.
Nell
Magic spanners have been requested and it may take some time for things to get sorted. Sometimes tweaks have an unexpected side-effect and might cause more problems than before.
Nell
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Where Am I? No. 228 - Church
« on: Sunday 31 August 25 17:14 BST (UK) »
This is St. Saviour's Church, Greyabbey in Northern Ireland
https://www.churchofireland.org/find-a-church/parish/12080/greyabbey-st-saviour
Nell
https://www.churchofireland.org/find-a-church/parish/12080/greyabbey-st-saviour
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The Common Room / Re: Really Stuck and need help
« on: Sunday 31 August 25 11:48 BST (UK) »
Well, I decided to use some credits to look at the marriage entry for Robert & Helen in 1835 in Dundee. Robert was described as a ropemaker and I think it says that Helen was the daughter of David Porteous.
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The Common Room / Re: Really Stuck and need help
« on: Sunday 31 August 25 11:38 BST (UK) »
FamilySearch trees can be edited by anyone who has an account. The researchers are not necessarily professionals. They are trying to build a family tree, just like you.
I think many of us here on RootsChat would advise time and time again, don't take anything you find while meandering through online trees as necessarily true.
The ages of parents, especially mothers, should be considered carefully. A family history researcher who was also a retired doctor helped me work out whether it was likely that a woman of more advanced years (based on possible baptisms) was likely to be the correct mother. If there is doubt, look for other possible candidates where the age is more likely. The problem of course arises when not every record has survived. This is often true in Scotland. Perth OPR (Church of Scotland) don't have deaths/burials recorded at all in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Nell
I think many of us here on RootsChat would advise time and time again, don't take anything you find while meandering through online trees as necessarily true.
The ages of parents, especially mothers, should be considered carefully. A family history researcher who was also a retired doctor helped me work out whether it was likely that a woman of more advanced years (based on possible baptisms) was likely to be the correct mother. If there is doubt, look for other possible candidates where the age is more likely. The problem of course arises when not every record has survived. This is often true in Scotland. Perth OPR (Church of Scotland) don't have deaths/burials recorded at all in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Nell