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The Common Room / Re: GRO website
« on: Sunday 09 November 25 19:25 GMT (UK)  »
The GRO Index does show mmn from 1837.  If you want to search an extended period, say find all the children in a large family, step the date up 5 years at a time, i.e. your chosen year +/- 2years.  But you have to search for males and females separately, so it's a bit tedious.

GRO will show mmns after 1924, but only if you put the name into the search, it confirms it.  It only runs to 1934 anyway, because the project was not finished, and restarts at 1984.  For births with no father named it shows dashes, rather than repeating the mother's surname as in FreeBMD.

There are known to be errors and missing entries, which you can report from the foot of the search page, but only AFTER you have done a search.

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World War Two / Re: 1940 Casualty Card
« on: Saturday 08 November 25 23:27 GMT (UK)  »
In WW1 my great uncle named his mother as next-of-kin on enlistment, I have often wondered why.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Mistranscription
« on: Friday 07 November 25 19:47 GMT (UK)  »
Paul Howes would be glad to receive any details you may collect.  He has found House concentrated in Hampshire, Dorset and Somerset.

https://www.howesfamilies.com



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Cheshire / Re: Help with look up for 1st Cousin 1 x rem in Birkenhead
« on: Friday 07 November 25 17:40 GMT (UK)  »
Deleted - Tatham link does not work

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The Lighter Side / Re: Mistranscription
« on: Friday 07 November 25 08:36 GMT (UK)  »
Is he in the Howes one-name study, with occupation?

https://www.howesfamilies.com/search.php?mylastname=house&lnqualify=&myfirstname=joseph&fnqualify=&mybool=AND&nr=50&showspouse=&showdeath=&offset=100&tree=&tngpage=3

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Dumfriesshire / Re: Blakbakheid Location Query
« on: Wednesday 05 November 25 22:43 GMT (UK)  »
I have been searching for this in NLS Maps list of Placenames c1900.  All the Black Becks seem to be in Cumberland.  In Dumfriesshire there is a Blackburn, a farm name here and a stream named Black Burn, c1960:
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14.0&lat=55.20458&lon=-3.45275&layers=11&b=ESRIWorld&o=100

It rises to the north, in the Hazlebank Plantation, and flows southwards, on the west side of Blackburn, to the River Annan.

1857 survey - the stream name is further south:
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=55.21290&lon=-3.45207&layers=6&b=ESRIWorld&o=100

No guarantee this is the correct place.

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Scotland Resources / Re: Link: Watt Library online index of BMDs
« on: Tuesday 04 November 25 22:41 GMT (UK)  »
Well, that is an achievement for "accessibilty".  They are obliged to take it down so it becomes inaccessible.  Who thinks up these standards?

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The Common Room / Re: Reporting a FreeBMD missing page
« on: Tuesday 04 November 25 16:11 GMT (UK)  »
Findmypast probably obtained the same set from the LDS as did FreeBMD, but it may depend on the date when received.  Presumably the GRO still has any handwritten ones which existed, but not available to check.  If the LDS had filmed them, they should have reached both databases, so if both have the scan missing perhaps it was never scanned.  Having watched the LDS at work doing some filming (of card indexes) in the 1980s it would not surprise me if they missed the odd one!  This comes to light in FamilySearch occasionally.

I think there is more than one version of some scans on FreeBMD but I have never checked systematically.  I just try to avoid the very pale ones.  There would always be room for errors when indexes were typed or typeset.

Some of the worst seem to be when they filmed a carbon copy of a typescript, 1920s & 1930s, and nobody had cleaned their typewriter keys, so they filled with paper fluff.  (Requires methylated spirit and an old toothbrush!)

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The Common Room / Re: Reporting a FreeBMD missing page
« on: Tuesday 04 November 25 14:36 GMT (UK)  »
You could try reporting multiple missing entries as instructed, by working from the last entry in the preceding image (Mayor, Charles) and ticking the "Missing entries" and "Multiple entries" boxes.  Fill in the details for the first missing entry.

Looking at the GRO index, it seems the first missing entry would be:
MAYOR, GEORGE  WILLIAM           BELL 
GRO Reference: 1855  S Quarter in KENDAL  Volume 10B  Page 539
(The only female Mayor in the quarter is Annie Laura)

Use as few words as possible in the "Source" box. e.g. "Entries are in GRO Index".

It would be helpful if FreeBMD would publish a list of what they know to be missing and explain what can be  done to obtain them.  I daresay a few existing volunteers would be willing to go to the libraries, mentioned previously, to copy or enter the missing pages.  I think those would be considered reasonable extracts for copyright purposes and FreeBMD is not making money from it.

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