Anyone gone onto the 'new' Ancestry.com?

[KGarrad]

I find the Notes for Historians and Genealogists at the Association of British Counties web site useful http://www.gazetteer.org.uk/notes.php

Stan

I don't like that site, Stan!
They refuse to recognise The City and County of Bristol as being distinct from Gloucestershire!

And that almost caused me to have to play my sport for Gloucestershire rather than Somerset, because the Maternity Hospital I was born in was located in Bristol?!

[StevieSteve]

Thank you Jen 

I know what you mean about not knowing what county to use on your address, I live in Middlesex   

Middlesex, of course!!

(Ex-resident but born and bred)

[rosie99]

Thank you Jen 

I know what you mean about not knowing what county to use on your address, I live in Middlesex   

Middlesex, of course!!

(Ex-resident but born and bred)

I agree but some drop down menu's deny it's existence.

[stanmapstone]

I find the Notes for Historians and Genealogists at the Association of British Counties web site useful http://www.gazetteer.org.uk/notes.php

Stan

I don't like that site, Stan!
They refuse to recognise The City and County of Bristol as being distinct from Gloucestershire!
And that almost caused me to have to play my sport for Gloucestershire rather than Somerset, because the Maternity Hospital I was born in was located in Bristol?!

They are not the only one, from Ancestry and FamilySearch
Stan

[KGarrad]

I find the Notes for Historians and Genealogists at the Association of British Counties web site useful http://www.gazetteer.org.uk/notes.php

Stan

I don't like that site, Stan!
They refuse to recognise The City and County of Bristol as being distinct from Gloucestershire!
And that almost caused me to have to play my sport for Gloucestershire rather than Somerset, because the Maternity Hospital I was born in was located in Bristol?!

They are not the only one, from Ancestry and FamilySearch
Stan

Thus negating over 600 hundred years of history!
I have a chess set commemorating the 600 years anniversary of Bristol's status as a City & County!

[BumbleB]

Errrrrrrrrrrmmmmmm!!!     Even our own beloved RC has Bristol ensconced in Gloucestershire 

[stanmapstone]

BRISTOL, Gloucestershire For genealogical purposes, and specifically in the International Genealogical Index (IGI) the City of Bristol is considered as part of the County of Gloucestershire.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/Bristol/

"Bristol, city, municipal and parliamentary borough, seaport, and county of itself, chiefly in Gloucestershire but partly in Somerset," [Extract from Bartholemew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887]

Stan

[StevieSteve]

Does anyone else ever get halfway through writing a post and then think, "Why am I writing this, I could just look it up?"


Just happened to me

[groom]

Does anyone else ever get halfway through writing a post and then think, "Why am I writing this, I could just look it up?"


Just happened to me

I often get halfway through reading a post and then think, "Why didn't they just Google, or use Freebmd etc?"