Who When Where

If I recall correctly, I recently read that it's easy to get the wrong idea about the DNA differences between 2 human beans - you end up thinking that there is virtually nothing in common between you and your tenth cousin - but since so many bits of DNA do basically the same thing across all plants ...

Without plunging into reference material that I barely understood the first time round, I think that the answer that the matching process is a lot more complicated than just counting "the votes from the Norwegian Jury".... (Old TV phrase if it means nothing to you...) Each site has differe...

... Ancestry has his WW1 medal card, but a service number is not indicated. ... That will be because officers had no service number in WW1. His personal files are at TNA under WO 374/37165 - this is only available at Kew. Officers personal files from WW1 can be very interesting. They are not the of...

I tried that myself and immediately thought that I also had no results for the chap in 1864. However, given that most of us will be looking for probate issued before 31 December 1995, I contend that page is badly designed. What happened with me was that since it isn't a probate issued before 1995, w...

... Ancestry’s definition is anyone under legal age??? That is a proper legal usage. However, it's a bit unusual, in my view , to see it being used for someone that old by anyone outside m'learned friends of the legal profession. Then there's Infants' School - I don't know what today's terminology ...

... searching for Marriage of Drusilla Eliza Holt in 1913, I carelessly left off final a of her first name, and entered Drusill , yet despite ticking use name variants for forename, it failed to find her! ... One would think that Drusill was close enough to Drusilla to meet their name variant crite...

meekhcs wrote: ↑05 Jan 2023, 10:40 I think the asterisks and the C/84 all refer to George ...

I'd agree with that - basically, there wasn't any room left on his line on the R/H page, so it (the red addition) had to go adjacently.

... and thank you Team!

... as the TNA Youtube clip states: "There would also be some caveats to protect personal information, specifically this meant that for individuals born less than 100 years ago -- and therefore considered likely to still be alive -- we would redact the descriptions to show just the initials an...

He is the same guy.... (Contrary to my instinct, I might add...) See https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35657/supplement/3448 This is the London Gazette of 4 August 1942, Supplement 35657, page 3448 Screenshot 2022-11-05 210904.jpg (Crown copyright I presume) Basically, expanding a bit... War...