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- 12 Jun 2022, 09:39
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: Resticting Search on Ancestry
- Replies: 9
- Views: 735
Re: Resticting Search on Ancestry
I would assume the search is taking into account Wakefield District rather than simply the city of Wakefield, Wakefield District covers an area of about 338 square kilometres and takes in many surrounding small towns and villages. It may help to try searching using "Wakefield City" but I h...
- 04 May 2022, 17:21
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: GRO death certificates
- Replies: 2
- Views: 422
Re: GRO death certificates
Knowing Royal mail you may get both certificates (original and the replacement) on the same day.
Cheers
Guy
Cheers
Guy
- 28 Apr 2022, 08:46
- Forum: General research queries
- Topic: Should I continue doing my Family Tree?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 551
Re: Should I continue doing my Family Tree?
Six months ago my sister sadly passed away with Cancer. Once a week for a few years I went to her home so we could do the family tree together. She loved doing it and that made me happy as well. I have not done anything to our family tree for six months now. To be honest, I do not know if I want to...
- 25 Mar 2022, 07:39
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: Newspapers.com
- Replies: 4
- Views: 531
Re: Newspapers.com
Do ancestry think we are made of money to access this website at almost £15 a month!. No, but they are a commercial enterprise who have a duty to make money for their investors. It costs money to digitise, store & index the resulting scans not to mention the internet bandwidth fees. We also hav...
- 19 Mar 2022, 10:48
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: 1921 Census: UAG discussions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 602
Re: 1921 Census: UAG discussions
Adrian, I agree, each of the digitised Censuses have had problems, did we have problems before when we had microfilm copies, no we didn't, apart from it not being available to people at home at a cost, which was true if you lived outside London. Not sure why you think people could not purchase micr...
- 25 Jan 2022, 20:47
- Forum: Useful resources
- Topic: When All You Need is a Little Prompt
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2193
- 25 Jan 2022, 07:42
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: 1921 census talk
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1726
Re: 1921 census talk
I am sure that if the work had been given to family historians to do the work under a confidential undertaking it would have been a far better result. The result should have been accuracy, FMP were supposed to be aiming for 97.5% accuracy not something like 27.5%, and not just making a lot of money...
- 24 Jan 2022, 21:02
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: 1921 census talk
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1726
Re: 1921 census talk
We have to pay for FMP's errors!. As I have said to FMP they should reduce the cost until they get the transcriptions correct. I prefer it the way it is now, in around 3 years at the most it will be part of the subscription, I don't mind paying for the images I desperately want now and waiting for ...
- 20 Jan 2022, 06:21
- Forum: Genealogy chat
- Topic: How it Started, How it's Going
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2024
Re: How it Started, How it's Going
This raises a very interesting point, have you tried to access the 1921 Scottish census if the filming has finished and the transcription phase has started the census should be back and the National Records of Scotland and be open to inspection as 100 years has passed. There is no legal reason to pr...
- 19 Jan 2022, 07:51
- Forum: Tips
- Topic: GRO Certified Copy (BMD) "Reference Number" (e.g. MXJ 137949)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3614
Re: GRO Certified Copy (BMD) "Reference Number" (e.g. MXJ 137949)
The reference number is very simply the identification number of that particular certificate. It cannot be traced back to the person who bought the certificate but it can be traced to a sequence of certificates issued, in other words it helps to prove that the certificate is genuine. It is very simi...