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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Am I on the right thinking here.
« on: Wednesday 05 November 25 20:53 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

 Glad to hear, I had a similar issue when I tried Libre Office on the PC, obviously all cut and paste is not alike.
 Still, it sounds like you are making solid progress.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help request - deciphering place names Scotland
« on: Wednesday 05 November 25 17:58 GMT (UK)  »
Glad to have helped. It's amazing what confirmation bias can do, now I look at even the blurry version it is a P not a B.
It also shows the perils of not using locals to do the transcription. I have had a few names and places that have undergone some very strange mangling.
I believe Ancestry can be a bit challenging.
However have you checked if SP have transcribed properly? They are very good at correcting the index, even if it is a hard to read transcription, I have had a few that I only know because I found the rest of the family, and they have corrected after their own checks.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Too good to be true?
« on: Wednesday 05 November 25 08:13 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

   As others have said, entirely possible, bear in mind that direct and indirect pedigree collapse can do strange things to cM matching.
   I have said elsewhere, here. I have a match who shares twice as many cM as their parents. I happens that there is shared ancestry in the 1700’s. You need a deep and wide tree to understand this though.
   The march is through a wandering path in Central Scotland, so not even a particularly small population.
   Like others here I have large dangling match pools, in the US mostly in my case, but at either end as it were, they are matches to both my parents.
   It a small world!

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Scotland / Re: Anchor Mills Clark family.
« on: Tuesday 04 November 25 12:37 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

   I think I would agree with Forfarian. I did a bit of noodling and the firm seems to have been set up by brothers James and Patrick, sons of a farmer from Renfrewshire. As Forfarian suggests moving around like that seems unlikely, especially as a proposed son of an established business.
   The only suggestion that I can see that might be plausible would be an even earlier link, and I think only DNA would solve that one.
   That being said there were links between deepest Aberdeenshire and Lesmahagow in the 1850’s as attested by my own family.
   There are also Clarks with deep roots in the Ballater area, so you don’t have to go too far to find possible ancestors of Robert.

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Scotland / Re: Anchor Mills Clark family.
« on: Monday 03 November 25 22:51 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

  A couple of thoughts there, in the 1861 census he was a gas works foreman, not a labourer. So the skill thing would still be valid. I see that gas lighting was expanding in Sydney and also Melbourne, so opportunities there.
  The other is if correct he died of TB? So a possible move for his health?
  You can make up lots of stories! Who knows one might even be right.

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Scotland / Re: Anchor Mills Clark family.
« on: Monday 03 November 25 20:28 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,
   A very reasonable question, from my experience there was no upper age limit, people were travelling later in life as spouses died, farm leases ended etc.
   If we are right in identifying him as a marine engineer, he was a skilled worker and would have been much in demand. There was a lot of emigration at this time and there would be many Deeside relatives out there ahead of him, sending back information by letter or word of mouth.
   I have one relative who was back from Australia in Aberdeenshire in time to be present in the 1871 census before returning to Australia, and another who was a ships engineer on the Australia run, so lots of encouragement to go seek a better life.

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Technical Help / Re: Roots magic 9/10 64bit on Windows 11
« on: Saturday 01 November 25 21:55 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

     I would suggest you reach out to RootsMagic then. There do seem to be some issues if you have a non x86 PC.

https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/compatibility-with-microsoft-copilot-pcs/11981

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Australia / Re: Family of CHARLES CLARK, sailed Aberdeen to Melbourne on "Jane Geary" 1852-53
« on: Saturday 01 November 25 11:36 GMT (UK)  »
Geoff, hi, so I am going to bite, I have a lot of family on Deeside, Clarks peripherally, at the moment!
I will PM you.

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Scotland / Re: Anchor Mills Clark family.
« on: Saturday 01 November 25 11:34 GMT (UK)  »
I may have also inadvertently linked to the wrong post by Geoff Turner, the same family though.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=894666.0

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