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[Rosinish]

I wonder which parish they married in! Both are dated 14th June 1840 one is in Dunnichen and the other Montrose

If you know which was where the bride was from then most likely her parish but of course I may be wrong but it was the norm.

Annie

[Gadget]

Quicker to save them to pdf, Annie. Then you can do what you want with them afterwards. The particular will I was looking at was 20 pages long - that's 20 files that I'll have to sort into a folder!

I hasten to add that it's not one of my ancestors  - it's the bloke who bought up all the land and lived in the South (Derbyshire and Isle of Wight!)

 

[Rosinish]

 

it's the bloke who bought up all the land and lived in the South (Derbyshire and Isle of Wight!)

Pourquoi 

Annie

[Rosinish]

I thought the new site might make it easier to find elusive deaths but it now only has options for year range and age range. The old way let you set the year range along with a birth date range which determined the age at death for you, but now you're stuck with two options that are basically the same if you don't know when someone died.

Fab,

Can you not just leave those options blank?

I haven't searched for a death which I didn't know the year.

The 1 I downloaded, I knew the year which was on the Index but I'm sure I only put the County (Lanark) & place name (Cambusnethan) because I already knew it but was allowing for any mistake with the info. I was given.

Annie

[lanercost]

I thought the new site might make it easier to find elusive deaths but it now only has options for year range and age range. The old way let you set the year range along with a birth date range which determined the age at death for you, but now you're stuck with two options that are basically the same if you don't know when someone died.

Fab,

Can you not just leave those options blank?

I haven't searched for a death which I didn't know the year.

The 1 I downloaded, I knew the year which was on the Index but I'm sure I only put the County (Lanark) & place name (Cambusnethan) because I already knew it but was allowing for any mistake with the info. I was given.

Annie

Hi Annie. My recent searches have been quite different to yours. I've wanted to find all the deaths for all the children of my direct ancestors to help paint the picture of their lives, but for the children who have disappeared as adults, it's only with the help of a birth date in the search options that helps to narrow down and pinpoint when and where they died.

[Rosinish]

What years were they born & when were they last seen on census'?

The other thing is, you could leave the surname blank for females (incase married) & insert their maiden name in "Other name" option?

I need to look at SP tomorrow to find out what you mean as I haven't tried what you're explaining so I'm still thinking in "old site" terms.

You could open a thread with your queries for help though.

I'm off to bed for now.

Annie

[lanercost]

What years were they born & when were they last seen on census'?

The other thing is, you could leave the surname blank for females (incase married) & insert their maiden name in "Other name" option?

I need to look at SP tomorrow to find out what you mean as I haven't tried what you're explaining so I'm still thinking in "old site" terms.

You could open a thread with your queries for help though.

I'm off to bed for now.

Annie

I'll give you an example Annie

Mary Murray, born around 1844, last seen in the 1851 census in Ecclefechan (parish of Hoddom, county of Dumfriesshire). I can't find a death for her in Ecclefechan so I'm lead to believe she's gone to live elsewhere (I've bought every death for a Murray in Hoddom so she's either somewhere else or died in those 4 years before civil registration). I don't know her death year, death age or death parish, but at least I know her birth year. So before I could include that in the search and get deaths for Mary Murrays of the right age, but now without that I'm left with results of 100s of different ages. I've contacted them about it so hopefully it can be returned at some stage.

"Surname" and "other name" have always been interchangeable unfortunately, so that wouldn't help. Once all the mother's maiden names have been transcribed, I don't think there will be such a thing as an elusive death in Scotland.

[lydiaann]

Not happy with it at all.  I know I haven't gone into it in great detail, but - having tried to search for a particular person - the dates "from" and "to" in the Statutory Registers search will not alter from 1855 to 2016.  This means that, if there is someone with a 'common' name (e.g. MacDonald) it will pull up pages of results.  I find it extremely confusing.

[larkspur]

I have just searched statutory regs and put in the dates 1869 and 1870 and it worked for me. You cannot cancel the dates already there but just type your date in the box on top and that works, click the 1855 date box and the cursor flashes at the start of the box...