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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: I need some advice on choosing a Family History Program
« on: Monday 24 December 07 01:35 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: loo on Sunday 23 December 07 19:40 GMT (UK)

I'm a little leery of the sites that appear to be LDS-owned, as I have a lingering fear that they would consider that they then owned my information, especially if they were free access sites.  They seem to be so aggressive about acquiring data.

The free LDS family tree program resides on your computer once you have downloaded it.....the data that you load into it can't go anywhere unless you send it somewhere! I don't believe the LDS is interested in stealing anyone's data and in fact I am in awe of the amount of free data that is available through the LDS Family History Library....and on the web.

Gedcom files are a great way to share the info with family and friends but they will need some kind of program in order to read the files.

I have managed to get a 6 generation chart on one document (with help from Mr Alice and Excel!)....anything bigger than that will have to go on a roll of white wallpaper....or I will have to start printing out multiple sheets and spending more money on Scotch Tape!

I use Family Tree Maker and am happy......although have not taken advantage of all the upgrades

Alice


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Completed Census Requests / Re: Tacko Watton
« on: Tuesday 20 November 07 22:34 GMT (UK)  »
I'm copying this from an old Rootweb posting on the Warwickshire archives.......

There is a place referred to as the Jack O'Watton bends on
the A446 Lichfield
Road between Coleshill and the M42 Motorway. The adjacent
area is marked
as Jack O'Watton on maps and there is a Watton Lane off the
Lichfield Road at this point.
The railway from Birmingham to Leicester also passes right
through this area; so you may well be right with your
information.

It really needs someone from the Coleshill area of
Warwickshire to answer
this one.

Hope this helps in some way

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The Common Room / Re: British Born USA
« on: Sunday 02 September 07 14:43 BST (UK)  »
This could be them although Mary is known as Bridget but maybe because her MIL is Mary?

1870
Archbald Blakely Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania

Commons, Patrick 30 Coal Miner Ireland
Commons, Bridget 30 Ireland

Next Door:
Murphy James 26 Labourer Ireland
Murphy Alice 25 Ireland
Murphy Ann 2 Pennsylvania
Murphy Mary 1 Penn
Murphy Thomas 2month Penn
Commons Mary 65 Ireland.

2 Doors away
Commons, Martin 26 Coal Miner Ireland
Commons Ann 37 Canada
Commons Patrick 6 Penn
Commons Mary J 4 Penn
Commons Michael 3 Penn
Commons William 11 month Penn

Roll M593-1364 Page 102

If it is not the right family, I would think that they might be related.


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Canada / Re: Help with marriage and death please
« on: Saturday 01 September 07 18:09 BST (UK)  »
Another one spelled PORAH.

3rd June 1872
John Francis
Father: John Sumpter Povah
Mother: Mary Jane Galvin
Father's Prof: Carpenter
Residence: Hamilton



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Canada / Re: Help with marriage and death please
« on: Saturday 01 September 07 18:06 BST (UK)  »
I can't find a death for Catherine.
With such a large age difference, maybe John ran off with the younger Mary J?

Anyway, I found a birth for the youngest child born in Ontario, Eva.

Misspelled PORAH on the index.

Birth: Eva Lizetta
Dec 4 1876
Father: John S. Povah
Mother: Mary Jane Galvin.
Father's prof: Joiner
Residence: Marham Village.

Will look for more.


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Canada Lookup Requests Completed / Re: Grattan Stinson Hardy
« on: Monday 27 August 07 23:50 BST (UK)  »
Hello Ladies,
I have a sub to Ancestry and did a look up on those records for Grattan Hardy...sorry to say that they are not much help.

Under Canadian Immigration Records - Part 1 there are 3 records.

1882 - Ships List Arrivals at the Port of Halifax
Grattan Hardy - age 20 - arrived on the Circassian
National Archives of Canada Microfilm reel C-4511 Page 8

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1884 - Passenger List Port of Halifax
Grattan Hardy - age 25 - arrived on the Circassian
National Archives of Canada Microfilm Reel C-4512 Page 2

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1883 - Passenger List Port of Halifax
Grattan Hardy  - age adult - arrived on the Sarmatian
National Archives of Canada Microfil Reel C-4512 Page 8

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Under Passenger an Immigration Lists - 1500s to 1900s - there is 1 record and it is a repeat of the 1884 record but quoting a different source.

Source: SHEARON, JIM. "'Home Children' Research Continues. 'Home Children' Passenger List for the Year 1884." In Anglo Celtic Roots (British Family History Society of Greater Ottawa), vol. 3:4 (Fall 1997), pp. 12, 22-26.
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So it looks as though he may have travelled back and forth to Canada - maybe on business or visiting a relative.....I can find no other record of him - so I don't think he stayed in Canada...if you look at those microfilms, you may be able to find out what he was doing.

Sorry I couldn't help more    :'( :'(

Alice



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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: Incorrect Census transcriptions on Ancestry
« on: Saturday 25 August 07 22:09 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Ecneps on Saturday 25 August 07 21:58 BST (UK)
Quote from: MaryA on Saturday 25 August 07 21:01 BST (UK)
I notice that people are no longer happy with others lack of knowledge of the area in question  but having read the criticisms above about mistranscriptions by people who don't know the area, I feel my efforts aren't worth a jot, why have I ever bothered?

I think the main complaints are about the (possibly) foreign transcribers on ancestry who have seemingly no knowledge of the UK, not the kind people like yourself who answer so many posts for people on Rootschat.  Of course your efforts are appreciated by the many people you've helped, and worth much more than a jot

Barbara  :D

Why foriegn....?......
I am born and raised in England and I transcribe for FreeCen.....I have done over 10,000 entries.....I can assure you that I have no local knowledge of Norfolk or Suffolk or Kent or Essex or Durham or Cornwall.....etc.....I was born and raised in a different part of the country.
There are times that I have spent an hour or more poring over maps and reading Genuki to try and figure out the name of a village or town. I don't think the Ancestry transcribers have that luxury.
If people are so unhappy with Ancestry then I would suggest cancelling one's sub...writing lots of letters of complaint and of course not asking for lookups from the people who have been duped into paying for such a lousy service.

Alice.....who is happy to have Ancestry as I have helped hundreds of people find rellies over the past 4 years.

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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: "Ancestry" search engine
« on: Tuesday 21 August 07 00:04 BST (UK)  »
Hi Aghadowey,

No...I search under all kinds of screens...and have had Ancestry for 5 years.

I know of no page where I can say where a person was born, lived and died...if there is one...I would like to know about it.

All of the screens that I use have a box for where a person was born...and where they may have lived.....nothing about where they died.

Yes....the Canadian census is free on line...and has as many mistakes as Ancestry..in fact finally found my grandfather's brother on Ancestry...living in Ontario.....misspelled badly on the free version.

But...at the end of the day...you either pays yer money or yer don't....I do and am very happy with the results.....even though there are warts on it!

I am not having to rely on other people to do my look ups.

Be Happy  ;D ;D ;D



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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: "Ancestry" search engine
« on: Monday 20 August 07 23:33 BST (UK)  »
Annette,

Yes.....exactly.....all transcribers are told to transcribe what they see...even if they know it is wrong.....this is because of the copywright on the images.

I was transcribing some pieces of the Birmingham census and came across a family named Owell.......I laughed because I knew it should have been Howell...but in Birmingham the H is dropped and maybe the enumerator wasn't familiar with the accent. I had to transcribe it as Owell.
I hope the family finds them.... ;D ;D ;D


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