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- 24 Jan 2024, 10:46
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: Lost medical records
- Replies: 2
- Views: 717
Re: Lost medical records
I've been in the storerooms of a county archive, and fairly recently, which had buckets placed around to catch the drips from their leaky roof, so not that surprising !
- 22 Nov 2023, 10:38
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: Our personal data
- Replies: 1
- Views: 802
Re: Our personal data
Generally, not very safe at all, but you have to consider what data they hold that isn't easily available to find elsewhere....
(although the BL do say that user data isn't involved in this hack ...... but who knows at this stage)
(although the BL do say that user data isn't involved in this hack ...... but who knows at this stage)
- 15 Nov 2023, 11:14
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: GRO (England & Wales) Digital Images
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2755
Re: GRO (England & Wales) Digital Images
The digital download option has now been extended to cover deaths up to 1957
- 16 Aug 2023, 10:44
- Forum: General research queries
- Topic: Census record for Talitha
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1091
Re: Census record for Talitha
They are in Church St, Littleover in 1871 ( the next entry down is for New Road)
RG10
piece 3553
Folio 84
page 24
schedule 124
Ancestry have her transcribed as Thaddea Stopford, FindMyPast as Taltha Stoppard
RG10
piece 3553
Folio 84
page 24
schedule 124
Ancestry have her transcribed as Thaddea Stopford, FindMyPast as Taltha Stoppard
- 14 Jul 2023, 10:10
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: GRO (England & Wales) Digital Images
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2755
Re: GRO (England & Wales) Digital Images
I also had to re-acquaint myself with the rules for unmarried mothers' maiden names (MMN). GRO contends that they have a blank MMN - I guess they were simply indexing the "formerly" name. LancashireBMD records their MMN as their current name. GRO are correct - for all registration purpose...
- 06 Jul 2023, 12:42
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: GRO (England & Wales) Digital Images
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2755
GRO (England & Wales) Digital Images
I understand that GRO have finally made their (not so) "secret" instant digital download system available to the public, although still officially as a beta test system This covers births from 1837, up to 100 years ago, and deaths from 1837 to 1887, which can now be instantly obtained at a...
- 18 Apr 2023, 09:45
- Forum: General research queries
- Topic: Wills on GOV.UK
- Replies: 3
- Views: 774
Re: Wills on GOV.UK
I believe that recent wills have been scanned on receipt and stored digitally for some years, so if you order one of those you will usually receive it very quickly. Older/historic wills that have never been requested before have to be retrieved from storage and scanned when someone orders a copy, so...
- 03 Apr 2023, 11:26
- Forum: General research queries
- Topic: Catholic baptism
- Replies: 50
- Views: 4472
Re: Catholic baptism
This type of annotation in Catholic baptisms usually links to a later marriage, but as that took place in 1928, this appears to be something else. It could say maluminum, which would come from malum , meaning evil, but can also be "misfortune". The next word could be untrasiit = "uncr...
- 21 Sep 2022, 09:28
- Forum: General research queries
- Topic: Death Philip Neri Parmiter Snr
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3161
- 27 Aug 2022, 11:40
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: Amended death certificate
- Replies: 4
- Views: 486
Re: Amended death certificate
For any death that goes to inquest, the cause of death is recorded as whatever the coroner decides it should be - the registrar has no leeway to make any alteration to the exact wording the coroner uses. Sounds like an unusual case and I would expect there to be some discussion between the RG and th...