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Midlothian / Re: Richard Hood 1819 • Inveresk, Midlothian, Scotland?
« on: Wednesday 19 March 25 02:25 GMT (UK) »
All the comments have been most useful. Thank you
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Midlothian / Re: Richard Hood 1819 • Inveresk, Midlothian, Scotland?
« on: Saturday 08 March 25 23:12 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for all the replies. I've been in hospital for a while and will get to read through all these when I've recovered a bit more. Thanks again for the help
Garth
Garth
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Midlothian / Richard Hood 1819 • Inveresk, Midlothian, Scotland?
« on: Tuesday 25 February 25 09:57 GMT (UK) »
I'm trying to verify this Richard Hood who, in my Ancestry tree, was born in 1819 • Inveresk, Midlothian, Scotland. I cant find any other ancestors. This would be my g.g.grandfather on my mothers side. Searching ScotlandsPeople I only see a Richard Hood born in Gladsmuir on 30 Aug 1818 whith parents David Hood and Jane Steel.
I see another Hood family in FamilySearch who have these David Hood(LQ5L-3FS) and Jean Steel (224Z-M48) parents who have a Richard Hood (224F-7PY) as a child. I wonder if this Richard is the same as mine?
I don't have any access to birth certificates etc and I'm hoping someone can help.
All I have is a Death Certificate for my Richard Hood which is attached, It says he was born NEAR Edinburgh.
I believe my Richard Hood's birth detail was inserted by a cousin who had full membership of Ancestry and I presume the birth details were from an Ancestry hint, but we don't have the birth certificate. The death certificate is correct that Richard died on 2 Oct 1887 in King WilliamsTown, Eastern Cape,South Africa. The children listed are all of my family.
I see another Hood family in FamilySearch who have these David Hood(LQ5L-3FS) and Jean Steel (224Z-M48) parents who have a Richard Hood (224F-7PY) as a child. I wonder if this Richard is the same as mine?
I don't have any access to birth certificates etc and I'm hoping someone can help.
All I have is a Death Certificate for my Richard Hood which is attached, It says he was born NEAR Edinburgh.
I believe my Richard Hood's birth detail was inserted by a cousin who had full membership of Ancestry and I presume the birth details were from an Ancestry hint, but we don't have the birth certificate. The death certificate is correct that Richard died on 2 Oct 1887 in King WilliamsTown, Eastern Cape,South Africa. The children listed are all of my family.
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Technical Help / Re: Converting Ancestry Gedcom file in MS Excel or another s/w prog.......
« on: Wednesday 15 January 25 07:37 GMT (UK) »
Yes it is complicated and needs code.
I found a fellow on YouTube who take one through a tutorial on using VBA. I followed it right through and it works but he stopped short of sorting the relationships out. I contacted him and he has sent me some code to look through which I'm slowly doing. Hopefully, I'll get to understand it.
I found a fellow on YouTube who take one through a tutorial on using VBA. I followed it right through and it works but he stopped short of sorting the relationships out. I contacted him and he has sent me some code to look through which I'm slowly doing. Hopefully, I'll get to understand it.
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Technical Help / Re: Converting Ancestry Gedcom file in MS Excel or another s/w prog.......
« on: Wednesday 15 January 25 02:25 GMT (UK) »
Hi. RootsMagic is able to define groups that you can put profiles into. It's not free (about US$30 once off) You can download it and use it free but will not open the many options. The free version is able to download directly from Ancestry and FamilySearch, and upload a new tree into Ancestry. The licensed version will sync with both. Lots of user help available on their sites and in a FaceBook group.
Hope this helps
Hope this helps
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Fife / Re: Hardes / Hards Family of Kilconquhar 1700s
« on: Monday 07 October 24 10:14 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the search details. I struggled to find where the parents details could be entered in. Found that now and I'll see how it goes now. I use FS and I try to update FS too as it helps sometimes to get hold of the actual documents free. They are reasonably good and I can, at least, pull down branches of my tree that I find using my RootsMagic program - which works pretty well with both FS and Ancestry.
The Hards name variations seem to depend on where they have been living and, I guess, names were written down by literate officials and spelling how they heard it pronounced.
The Hards name variations seem to depend on where they have been living and, I guess, names were written down by literate officials and spelling how they heard it pronounced.
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Fife / Hardes / Hards Family of Kilconquhar 1700s
« on: Monday 07 October 24 01:35 BST (UK) »
I had great help in RootsChat for clearing a brick wall for our Fraser family. I now am looking for help please to chart my Hardes/Hards roots in the Kilconquhar, Fife area.
Background:- Some years back there was a Hards Family Society in England who had created a database of the Hards/ Hardes/Hardres etc families that had their main roots in Kent - all the way along the lower south of England. They used to provide A3 paper family charts to subscribers. I have 5 pages of my branch of the huge tree. There were many branches (over 100 it seems). That Society stopped when the managers passed away and, it seems, a few family members were left with some records. The person I got my paper charts from said she had a corrupt database of her fathers which I offered to try and resurrect for her. I managed to salvage a list of names and some data which I copied to a Excel spreadsheet for easy sorting etc. (4500 names)
Together with a cousin here in Australia we are trying to piece together some of the tree, and we have created a private FaceBook group called Hards Family Genealogy Group.
One of the family groups of Hardes in the spreadsheet come from Fife (Kilconquhar area) and I'm hoping that someone in this RootsChat group can help me piece together the tree structure of this small group. I have managed only to identify a few parent child relationships as you can see from the one attachment. Looking at Scotland's People I see there are more Hardes that my spreadsheet doesn't include.
FamilySearch have most of the names I have in the spreadsheet but with no links to any other family members. I have managed to piece together using the FS records the image of the attached piece of the tree.
I would love to hear from anyone who can help
Background:- Some years back there was a Hards Family Society in England who had created a database of the Hards/ Hardes/Hardres etc families that had their main roots in Kent - all the way along the lower south of England. They used to provide A3 paper family charts to subscribers. I have 5 pages of my branch of the huge tree. There were many branches (over 100 it seems). That Society stopped when the managers passed away and, it seems, a few family members were left with some records. The person I got my paper charts from said she had a corrupt database of her fathers which I offered to try and resurrect for her. I managed to salvage a list of names and some data which I copied to a Excel spreadsheet for easy sorting etc. (4500 names)
Together with a cousin here in Australia we are trying to piece together some of the tree, and we have created a private FaceBook group called Hards Family Genealogy Group.
One of the family groups of Hardes in the spreadsheet come from Fife (Kilconquhar area) and I'm hoping that someone in this RootsChat group can help me piece together the tree structure of this small group. I have managed only to identify a few parent child relationships as you can see from the one attachment. Looking at Scotland's People I see there are more Hardes that my spreadsheet doesn't include.
FamilySearch have most of the names I have in the spreadsheet but with no links to any other family members. I have managed to piece together using the FS records the image of the attached piece of the tree.
I would love to hear from anyone who can help
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Aberdeenshire / Re: The name "Thirlow" or Thurlow Fraser
« on: Wednesday 28 August 24 21:06 BST (UK) »
Thank you GR2. I'll also add these details to my tree.
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Aberdeenshire / Re: The name "Thirlow" or Thurlow Fraser
« on: Tuesday 27 August 24 23:41 BST (UK) »
Thank you GR2. You have pointed out a few errors I've had. I had these two duplicated. The image above (the wrong duplicate) shows her as a sister to Thurlow, so I have deleted the two from there. I also have her below as daughter of Thurlow and Jane. And with her husband spelt correctly as Imlah. You've also fixed the name as I didn't have Dunbar in this record or her date of death. Do you have the place of death?
Thanks again.
Thanks again.