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The Common Room / Re: Missing lines on Non-Conformist Baptism records ?
« on: Sunday 14 December 25 20:53 GMT (UK)  »
Val,
That's great. I also got a reply from an officer at TNA who said she could authorise viewing. I was going to contact you to pass your details on to her, but you beat me to it.

Steve

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The Common Room / Re: Missing lines on Non-Conformist Baptism records ?
« on: Thursday 04 December 25 12:06 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the FamilySearch input Jon, it was always a long shot on Elizabeth Swan.

I've compared the Ancestry and FamilySearch results for Dec 20 1820 at Masbrough and it looks like Hannah Wright daughter to Mark & Sarah is the missing entry at the bottom of the page.

Ah well, I'll keep looking, if a rescan  is done it will help others in the future. I wonder how many of our brick walls are just missing entries on scans of records that will one day come to light.

[Edit]
PS. Cancel that, I've just found Hannah Wright in the middle of the 1819 entries. Now I'm just confused.

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The Common Room / Re: Missing lines on Non-Conformist Baptism records ?
« on: Tuesday 02 December 25 17:04 GMT (UK)  »
Val, that would be great. Please don't put yourself out though, it's a bit of a longshot that the missing record is that of Elizabeth Swan, it's just been niggling at me since I realised the bottom line was missing.
If I get a positive response from my query to TNA I'll let you know.

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The Common Room / Re: Missing lines on Non-Conformist Baptism records ?
« on: Tuesday 02 December 25 15:35 GMT (UK)  »
Val, all the Non-Conformist records are held at the National Archive in Kew (although probably off site). It is their microfilm that Ancestry and others show. From past experience they won't produce originals if a film exists unless you have a really good reason, however they may do a re-film if they agree with me. I've sent them a query and we'll see what happens. I had a slight hope that other sites had a different filming than Ancestry but it appears not.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: MyHeritage Upgrades Its DNA Tests to Whole Genome Sequencing
« on: Tuesday 02 December 25 15:17 GMT (UK)  »
Romily, that's the point. It's the randomness of the DNA process that makes the Ethnicities so inaccurate.
Even if the measuring of ethnicity was 100% accurate (which it isn't anywhere near) the overall process would still have a very big error rate because of the randomness inherent in the DNA inheritance.
The reality is our full siblings have exactly the same ethnicity as us regardless of DNA inheritance or Ethnicity assigment. Any differences between us highlight the error rate in the whole process.
So if you and your sister show a 23% error that applies to your whole ethnicity prediction.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: MyHeritage Upgrades Its DNA Tests to Whole Genome Sequencing
« on: Tuesday 02 December 25 14:34 GMT (UK)  »
Given the differences I see between my test and my sisters, she is 32% North East England, I am 49%. I would say any number's below 5% (or maybe more) should be taken with a pinch of salt.

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The Common Room / Re: Missing lines on Non-Conformist Baptism records ?
« on: Tuesday 02 December 25 14:22 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for that. That's what I figured 20 lines a page. If you look at the last column on the right hand page they are all signed by the minister James Bennett and below the last visible line you can see the top of the J, B, and two tt's on some pages, implying a further entry.
The last entry that I was interested in was William Swan who was baptised some years after he was born and I think (hope) there may be another sibling below him.

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The Common Room / Missing lines on Non-Conformist Baptism records ?
« on: Tuesday 02 December 25 12:26 GMT (UK)  »
This is a request for anybody who has access to FindMyPast or The Genealogist or BMDRegisters (or indeed is sitting in Kew right now).
I am looking at an image from Non-Conformist baptisms at Masborough Independent Church (RG4/3736) on Ancestry and it seems to me that the bottom entry has been missed by the camera on the page for 1820 and other pages.
I have sent a query to the TNA but in the meantime could anybody with any of the subscriptions above look at the image on those sites and see if it's the same ? The bottom entry I see is Decr. 20th, William Swan, born Aug 27th 1815.
The header page on Ancestry shows a filming in 1986 at the PRO.

Thank you.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Are Yorkshire Wills online anywhere ?
« on: Sunday 30 November 25 10:53 GMT (UK)  »
RowanR - Ironically I'm in York next week but if I broke away from carrying the Christmas shopping to go there I'd be for the high jump !
A trip on my own for family history would cost quite a bit more than all the copy fees added together.

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