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Offline Paul Caswell

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Re: What did you learn in genealogy today?
« Reply #18 on: Monday 14 December 09 21:29 GMT (UK) »
Yesterday actually. :)

Some kind person here on RootsChat found for me all of the schools my grandfather taught at along with dates. Before this I only knew him as a military man (from my research) and an old man (I knew him very well in his later years).

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Caswell - Durham(Jarrow), Northumberland(Berwick), Dorset(Netherbury)
Drury - Middlesex(Kensington), Shropshire(Oswestry/Selattyn)
Turner - Dorset(Parkstone)
Speight - Essex(Braintree), Kent(Gravesend), Westmorland(Kendal)
Stockley - Dorset(Corfe Castle)
Amey - Suffolk(Haverhill)
Cousins - Norfolk(Ketteringham)
Sears - Bedfordshire(Potton), Cambridgeshire(Gamlingay)
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Offline EdCan

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Re: What did you learn in genealogy today?
« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 12 January 10 19:01 GMT (UK) »
Well not today but a while ago -never write anything in ink until 100% confimed.It took a lot of correcting fluid to learn this.

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Tindall Greater London
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Offline crozier

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Re: What did you learn in genealogy today?
« Reply #20 on: Tuesday 12 January 10 19:12 GMT (UK) »
Simples! You will never find out everything. There will always be something to surprise you.
Abbott, Surrey&London. Criswell/Cresswell, Painswick Gloucestershire. MacKenzie, Midlothian&London. King, the Tarrant Valley Dorset&London. Foreman, West Ham. Peters, Bolney/Lewes Sussex&London. Sandgrove, West Ham. Sundgren,Sweden.

Offline Gaille

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Re: What did you learn in genealogy today?
« Reply #21 on: Tuesday 12 January 10 21:03 GMT (UK) »
lol

For every person you find ............ theres ALWAYS at least the 2 people who created him/her to find!

Manchester – Bate(s) / Bebbington / Coppock or Coppart / Evans / Mitchell / Prince / Smith

Cheshire Latchford – Bibby / Savage / Smith.
Cheshire Macclesfield,  Bollington & Rainow – Childs / Flint / Mc'rea
Cheshire Crewe – Bate(s) / Bebbington
Shropshire Wellington, Wobwell – Smith
Walsall Midds – Smith
Norfolk - Childs / Hanwell / Smith

Also looking for:
Mc'Rea/McCrea – Ireland to Cheshire

And
any relatives of Margaret Bibby married to Thomas Smith all over country

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Re: What did you learn in genealogy today?
« Reply #22 on: Wednesday 13 January 10 17:02 GMT (UK) »
Talk to elderly relatives, they are an absolute fountain of knowledge for starting out! And if at first you don't succeed, try and try again
Reader (Warwickshire; Yorkshire) Cavill (Yorkshire) Elliott (Yorkshire) Randerson (Yorkshire) Garwood (Suffolk; Yorkshire) Cheatle (London area); Tinnion (Cumbria); Critchley (Lancashire); Naylor (Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire)

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Re: What did you learn in genealogy today?
« Reply #23 on: Wednesday 13 January 10 18:23 GMT (UK) »
Five neanderthals came out of Africa - we are all related to one of them.

Hi cousins!
Beard Voyce, Scrivens in Worcestershire

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Re: What did you learn in genealogy today?
« Reply #24 on: Wednesday 13 January 10 18:43 GMT (UK) »
Perserverence - never found an Irish record 'til today!
Looking for an Irish/Scottish ancestor's actual birth and up popped her mother's death in 1844. Needed a cuppa to get over the shock.  :o :o :o
Hoey, McLuskey - Scotland & Ireland. Eckersley, Rogerson - Lancashire. McGee - Ireland, Lancashire. Barnes - Bolton, Lancs
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