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We've managed to load the software onto the PC but when we try to register or activate the subscription we get a window saying "problem connecting to the registration server, please check Internet connection and try again".

Our Internet connection is working fine and we have temporarily disabled any firewall/security programmes.

Has anyone else had this problem?  Is there anything else we can try?

Thank you

Just posting out of curiosity really. After reading the Emma Ord post further down the page, and finding out that Ord is a fairly common name around Durham, I was wondering if it was related in any way to the surname Awde that I have come across in my own research. There are not too many of them around and they all lived in the North East.
I would be really interested to hear if anyone has come across any Awdes in their trees.

Thanks

Does anyone know how we would go about finding when a relative died and where she would be buried?

An elderly relative died this year and as next of kin we have his ashes. We had thought we might have them buried in his parents plot - and there lies the problem, nobody in the family can remember exactly when they died, whether they were buried or cremated and if they were buried, which cemetary.

I've looked on freeBMD but the dates are too recent.

The details we know are;
They were called Ellen and Fred Carter, they lived in Bradford and their deaths would have been registered in Bradford.  Ellen was born in Feb 1913 and we think she died around 1996 or 1997.
We don't know when Fred died, only that she had been a widow a long time (probably before 1970). If they were buried, my mum thinks it would probably been in Bowling cemetary.

I realise this is a "needle in a haystack" case - it seems to be easier to trace family 100 years  back!!! Everyone in the family just assumed that someone else would know and nobody does!

Ok - thanks for looking for me.

It's a bit of a mystery. I've found him on the 1881 census living with his wife and son in Bradford, then he arrives in New York on 16th May 1881.  In 1891 he's back in Bradford living with the same wife and a four year old son whose place of birth is given as Iowa, USA.

Do you know if the incoming passenger lists are complete or are there known to be parts missing?