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Norfolk / Re: Harmer Rogers c1753
« on: Yesterday at 18:12 »
I have looked for Harmer's baptism as well to no avail yet. I even checked under his mother's name in case he was baptised before she married. I also checked any Harmer forename (and variants) baptisms across Norfolk 1745-1760 and no likely baptism under Rogers or Rippingale variants.


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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry hint.
« on: Sunday 03 August 25 13:22 BST (UK)  »
Even if you find a hint for a pre census ancestor who lived in rural Suffolk as having married 200 miles away in Staffordshire, while it sounds odd due to the distance in location, one other distant cousin may have found something to prove it, such as a poor law document saying they were in the army and based in Staffordshire at one time, or a will mentioning in laws in Staffordshire. It would take a lot of time to write notes onto their trees explaining their sources and findings. Often our research can rewrite this fallacy that 99.9% of people before 1900 stayed within 10 miles of their birthplace.

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Suffolk / Re: Suffolk parish registers to go online?
« on: Thursday 31 July 25 21:54 BST (UK)  »
Excellent news. I am also liking the new Cambs records, as several of my Essex and some West Suffolk ancestors moved to/from Cambridgeshire.

Yesterday I was at my local affiliate library where you can access many Suffolk records through FamilySearch although many of them are scans of original Suffolk wills and poor law records, but they are an excellent resource and seem to be quite fulsome.

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry hint.
« on: Thursday 31 July 25 12:33 BST (UK)  »
On Ancestry I have even had parent suggestions where the person himself is suggested as the father, and the person's wife is suggested as the mother, or the brides "potential parents" are the grooms parents.

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry hint.
« on: Tuesday 29 July 25 12:35 BST (UK)  »
I like to always check the original not just the transcription. Many people did not sign but left a mark but even a mark can be handy and distinctive. It is such an event that has made me cast doubt on others research that someone born in 1760 was the same guy who wed in a nearby parish in 1782. The 1760 guy witnesses a marriage, and the mark looks quite different to the namesake who left their mark in 1782. Always do your own research.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Drawing board moments.
« on: Monday 28 July 25 12:11 BST (UK)  »
I am off the the affiliate library in Norwich on Wednesday where I can access more FamilySearch records than I can from home or a non affiliate library, so will have another gander at Suffolk wills. I know many Suffolk records are coming onto Ancestry on the 14th August but they will be baptism, marriage and burial registers, and the wills may be sometime in the future so I heard.

Often a drawing board moment can set you free, as it can lead to new leads.

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Suffolk / Re: Suffolk parish registers to go online?
« on: Sunday 27 July 25 15:05 BST (UK)  »
We can also look at marriage witnesses for 1754 onwards marriages. Prior to civil reg debuting in 1837, witnesses are fundamental, often they were relatives but a huge chunk were friends, neighbours, church officials, and so on, as we know.

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Suffolk / Re: Suffolk parish registers to go online?
« on: Saturday 26 July 25 13:24 BST (UK)  »
Good news at least. Will be handy for people who as they say, live hundreds or thousands of miles (Australia, America, Canada, NZ etc) from Suffolk.

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry hint.
« on: Thursday 24 July 25 13:27 BST (UK)  »
Some hints have been fab to be fair. One hint opened up on my great gran, and the fact that she was baptised again, as a teenager in Stamford Hill, London, as she was in a convent nearby at the time. The hint showed a baptism, and the details matched, from DOB to parents names and occupations. And it filled in much of her movements between her birthplace of Oxford in 1905,. and 1911 census when she was in Sussex by then.Until then I had no idea she spent time in London.

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