Who When Where

Soon after my father died, I was going through some paperwork and found my great-aunt's will. Great aunt Flo Lamin was my birth grandmother's sister and remained a spinster - my mother's birth mother died when my mother was 2½ and my grandfather remarried 2 years later. Said great aunt, I believe, e...

Found the following which may help you to unravel the Family. Baptisms 31 March 1822 at Portsmouth St Thomas Richard Henry Way, parents John and Elizabeth, John a Butcher, abode High st 20 Jan 1823 at Portsmouth St Thomas Jane Way, parents John and Ann, John a Butcher, abode High St No Baptisms for...

Perhaps you or some are all looking at the wrong WAY familes. Without seeing how each researcher traced back to the same WAY family it is hard to say, but it isn't unlikely that much tree copying has occurred. The fact that sister Jane can't be traced suggests it may be that baptisms didn't take pl...

Is this related? Probate England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957 Name Ann Way Death Date 30 January 1860 Beneficiary's Name James Way Event Type Probate Event Date 25 October 1864 Event Place Southampton It appears that Richard Henry Way settled in Australia. Yes, ...

Apologies for the fairly long preamble! I have a DNA match through Ancestry who is descended from this person and am trying to prove it to my own satisfaction rather than just relying on thrulines. John Way (b 1780) was a butcher, the son of John Way (b 1753 Atherfield, d 1820 Shorwell) and Frances ...

Perhaps I should have added that I’m well aware of the fact that the transcribers were limited to one column of data

I recently “upgraded “ my Find my Past subscription to include unlimited access to the 1921 census. Using Family Tree Analyser I extracted all the records from my tree (I use Family Historian) and started going through them. It’s quite a task as I have just under 10000 records, although many hundred...

Wishing you all a very happy Christmas and brick wall demolishing new year on behalf of the admin team

I can also still remember the day when JFK was assassinated. We were watching tv at home and the programme was interrupted. When his brother was killed, I was at school.
The other date I remember was 9/11 - mixed memories, as it was our silver wedding anniversary

Adrian I think you’re right, I often have a smaller window open so I can read someone’s details in family historian- but it’s only recently started as I’ve been using the same method for years!
It also is the same on my ipad