Who When Where

You could see if he was away on military duties, hospital or prison

Hardwork, We’ll have to agree to disagree on this. I think these people without a tree are expecting others to do the work for them. I’ll only contact a DNA match if they have a tree. Why should I waste my time writing to people who can’t be bothered to trust other genealogists, and who most probabl...

Sally,
They’re not from Norfolk by any chance, as tha saying goes ‘Normal for Norfolk’

Hardwork,
You’re missing the biggest bugbear of all, people not linking to a tree, or having a very minimalist tree, where all people are hidden, presumably because they are still living!

Hardwork
I do have my tree on Gedmatch, but my Ancestry match doesn’t, mores the pity. I’ll see if I can persuade her to the benefits,

Had an interesting DNA match on Ancestry the other day, and looking through both our trees, discovered the same Kinchin family from St George in the East in both our trees. Result! Our most recent common ancestor being ‘my’ 5’ggparents. It wasn’t unlil I dug further this morning, when I realised it ...

On top of this, they have added three more children with the same surname so giving him 9 children which is ridiculous. What do you think ridiculous, adding the 3 extra children or the thought of someone having 9 children? I have plenty of families with 12 or more children, so not ridiculous to say...

21 October 1966, driving on M1 on way to Stone, Staffordshire, when I heard news of the Aberfan Disaster, truly tragic. A couple of years ago we visited the cemetery where the children are buried, truly moving experience, to see so many graves laid out as a memorial

The three bars icon in the top right, aka the hamburger icon, only appears when your FMP screen is below a certain width. (Don't ask me whether that's a pixel count or something more complex - I dunno). Normally with a full-width FMP home screen, I see a down-pointing arrow next to "Search&quo...

That's the risk one takes when transcribing columns independently. One error and they all become mis-aligned.