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by AdrianBruce
15 Mar 2024, 16:52
Forum: Genealogy chat
Topic: Digitisation of Home Guard records
Replies: 7
Views: 184

Re: Digitisation of Home Guard records

Did you supply a DC? From https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/our-role/plans-policies-performance-and-projects/our-projects/ministry-of-defence-service-records/ Can I open a record of an individual I know to be deceased? Whether or not the material can be opened will be assessed upon request a...
by AdrianBruce
13 Mar 2024, 11:29
Forum: Genealogy chat
Topic: Digitisation of Home Guard records
Replies: 7
Views: 184

Digitisation of Home Guard records

See https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/the-national-archives-contract-digitise-home-guard-records . That is an interesting article (thanks WDYTYA mag) because it contains the clearest statement I've yet seen about how the commercial relationship works - e.g. no, TNA are not paying thei...
by AdrianBruce
08 Mar 2024, 21:04
Forum: General research queries
Topic: FamilySearch Help
Replies: 3
Views: 188

Re: FamilySearch Help

FreeReg have marriages (only) for Edlesborough. (See https://www.freereg.org.uk/freereg_contents/53cd4937eca9ebee4f000be1/show_place?locale=en - I hope) Buckinghamshire FHS have baptisms 1567-1901 for the parish but it's £1 per search for a single baptism - see https://www.bucksfhs.org.uk/index.php/...
by AdrianBruce
11 Feb 2024, 17:42
Forum: General research queries
Topic: Britten Green marriage
Replies: 2
Views: 218

Re: Britten Green marriage

Curiously the Bishop's Transcript appears to hyphenate her first two names, leaving "Bird" as the surname, i.e. "Elizabeth-Britten Bird" - this happens twice, so isn't just a fly-speck on the paper. The Parish Register omits the hyphen, so it's as if, when copying out the BT, the...
by AdrianBruce
28 Jan 2024, 18:00
Forum: Genealogy chat
Topic: Planned destruction of wills by Ministry of Justice
Replies: 8
Views: 3028

Re: Planned destruction of wills by Ministry of Justice

Brunes08 wrote: 26 Jan 2024, 22:37... If it went ahead, what would be next?
Absolute doom suggestion from me, not specifically intended to scare people but... Could someone carry out a similar exercise on BMD certificates? :(
by AdrianBruce
14 Jan 2024, 17:05
Forum: Genealogy chat
Topic: Family Treemaker
Replies: 4
Views: 1460

Re: Family Treemaker

Looking at my email later I found an email received at just after 7am from TreeVault offering me a reduced subscription for their backup/restore service. I am deeply suspicious of this. Would it be possible for them to sabotage my tree? If you didn't open the mail until after you lost the FTM data,...
by AdrianBruce
08 Jan 2024, 16:58
Forum: DNA
Topic: Lack of Matches
Replies: 13
Views: 3012

Re: Lack of Matches

Science is fine 'cos the science just says "Marker XYZ at position 1234". It's the interpretation about what that marker at that position actually means...
by AdrianBruce
07 Jan 2024, 17:37
Forum: DNA
Topic: Lack of Matches
Replies: 13
Views: 3012

Re: Lack of Matches

I have, so far as I can tell, loads of branches that don't appear to be linked to any of my Ancestry matches. My Griffiths line has DNA matches descended from my G-GP Griffiths and from my GG-GP Griffiths - but then, so far as I can see, nothing further back. Which is a shame since GG-GF Griffiths m...
by AdrianBruce
16 Dec 2023, 21:02
Forum: General research queries
Topic: Cloumarsh, Ireland
Replies: 6
Views: 1356

Re: Cloumarsh, Ireland

Or Clonmelsh, a parish in Co. Carlow...

See https://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents ... ges/372923 for the page containing this one.
by AdrianBruce
25 Nov 2023, 11:24
Forum: General research queries
Topic: Errors in trees on subscription sites
Replies: 6
Views: 2240

Re: Errors in trees on subscription sites

... how do I prevent MyHeritage from including these children as my gt grandfather’s. On top of this, they have added three more children with the same surname so giving him 9 children which is ridiculous. ... I don't know how MyHeritage works - can anyone say where they get their "tree" ...