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The Common Room / Putting Flesh on Bones
« on: Thursday 12 March 09 21:41 GMT (UK)  »
After you've looked in the two easiest places for basic family info (bmd and census), which other sites would you recommend for fleshing out families and their stories?  So far, mine seem to be a pretty unspectacular bunch and beyond the census and bmd records I'm unsure where to turn for potentially interesting snippets.  Recommendations and opinions greatly appreciated! :)

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The Common Room / Re: Both Places?
« on: Monday 02 March 09 09:02 GMT (UK)  »
That's fantastic - thank you. :)  I definitely needed another opinion because I was going round in circles looking at ages and places of birth. Never thought of the occupation field... doh!

Thank you very much for the time you took to look at this for me.

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The Common Room / Both Places?
« on: Sunday 01 March 09 21:45 GMT (UK)  »
I just thought I'd see if anyone has any thoughts on the following.

I think I've found my relatives in two places on the 1851 census.  I know it's not unusual because they could be filled in where they were and where they lived/were presumed to be.  But does anyone else think that these two census entries might refer to the same people?

Piece: 2291; Folio: 239; Page: 23 - in the family home (HO 107)

Piece: 2115; Folio: 202; Page: 9 - in a guest house (HO 107)

I don't know if this is enough information for you to view the censuses or the transcripts because I can't find the RG number on ancestry.  (I had to use ancestry for this because the FindMyPast 1851 census coverage is very lacking, although I find it easier to follow.)  Please let me know if I need to provide anything else.

I know that lack of evidence to the contrary doesn't constitute as proof that they're the same, but I thought I'd ask those of you with much more census experience than me. :)

Thank you. :)

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The Common Room / Re: Disturbing photograph
« on: Sunday 01 March 09 21:23 GMT (UK)  »
What a sad photo.  :(  Just goes to prove, I suppose, that not all "Kodak moments" are happy ones...

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: MELLARD/MELLERD/MELLOR Yorkshire
« on: Wednesday 11 February 09 20:49 GMT (UK)  »
Huddersfield Mellors in my tree.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Golcar Parish?
« on: Tuesday 20 January 09 20:34 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for looking for me.  I appreciate it. :)

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The Lighter Side / Re: The 1911 Census Swindle.
« on: Tuesday 20 January 09 19:50 GMT (UK)  »
I've been hoping that they'll only charge this way long enough to recoup their costs involved in digitising the images, etc. and then it'll be available as part of a normal FindMyPast subscription - it would still make FindMyPast attractive to new subscribers.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Golcar Parish?
« on: Tuesday 20 January 09 12:07 GMT (UK)  »
No problem - I'm looking for the 'missing child' of Lelia and Sykes Mellor - born, I believe, between the 1891 and 1911 censuses.  (Sorry I can't be more specific).  I already have the names of their other 6 children - Edgar Stanley (1886/7 ), Frank Beaumont (1888), James (1891),  John Beaumont (c. 1893), Annie (c. 1895), Kathleen (c. 1899) and Ellis (1906).

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Golcar Parish?
« on: Monday 19 January 09 14:44 GMT (UK)  »
I don't have any access to any of the parish records apart from on Find My Past and I don't know if they cover the churches I want for baptisms, or if this child was baptised - I'm a Find My Past novice.  I have been using it to serach the burial indexes to see if I can narrow things down any further than I got with Free BMD (which was the whole of Huddersfield.)

I'm probably not looking for the missing child in the right way, but it's certainly still interesting. :)

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