RobertJackson58585858

RobertJackson58585858, 7 months ago to random

#genchat

Hello all! I hope you have had a good fortnight.

Am finding it difficult this afternoon not to drift over into burial records.

I'm aware that our successors (in the UK at least) will have far more helpful info on modern death certificates than we have available to us. This from dealing with those of my parents.

RobertJackson58585858, 9 months ago to random

#FamilyHistory
Am trying to isolate a birth mother of a child adopted away just pre ww2.
I do not have the benefit of the maternal dna matches. Only the paternal. And I know who he is already.
Needle in a haystack.

RobertJackson58585858, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

#FamilyHistory

I have just noticed that on #FindMyPast civilian births records look like they are referencing the #GRO births index "direct", in some sense.

Mother's maiden surname is being shown on a couple of births transcribed records I'm looking for in the 1850s.

(I'll edit this post with an image.)

RobertJackson58585858, 8 months ago to random

#FamilyHistory

Am on another session with the GRO birth index verifying mother's maiden names and checking I have all siblings.

So, mom goes to register her child and is asked:

A ... What's your maiden name?

B ... What's the mom's maiden name?

C ... What's mom's maiden name?

🤔

How else would one child out of the ten born to Mary Ann Cotton, née Benham, in 19thC Smethwick reveal Mary's mother's maiden name of Jones?

RobertJackson58585858, 9 months ago to random

#FamilyHistory

For my Monday light entertainment am looking at an #AncestryDNA match with a very small tree ... only his mother and her parents ... not many cM between us and we have only two matches.

But the matches are my closest paternal CA match and a 2C1R CA match on mom's mother's side.

My saviour seems to be Birmingham being the city of 1000 trades - grandfather a tyre maker per mom's bap post 1901 census. Led to older sibling bap pre 1901 census. Led to parents on 1901 census 😊

RobertJackson58585858, 9 months ago to random

https://youtu.be/6nlurl81z_c?si=H2Pr6DeBfxg2TGVj

Introduction to Dave Annal's series of videos "Setting the record straight"

I thoroughly recommend subscribing to Dave's you tube channel to see this series in proper order. Problems we all face at some time on Ancestry and elsewhere.

More importantly ... how to work around the problems he outlines.

(Thank you to someone who posted one of these recently! You know who you are!!)

#Genchat
#AncestryHour

RobertJackson58585858, 5 months ago to random

#AmWatching

Currently Richard Hannay is having a meal in the Scottish Croft with Peggy Ashcroft.

RobertJackson58585858, 10 months ago to random

Nope.
Ernest was baptised Ernest Sophia, if it's the right one.

RobertJackson58585858, 6 months ago to random

#Geneadons
#FamilyHistory

Does anyone, please, have professional experience of #FindAGrave ?

Someone set up a Findagrave record for Hirsch Hans Hirschfeld with correct date of birth but all else unknown. A quick search on Wiki shows his career as a distinguished German Jewish Haematologist who was arrested by the Nazis then transported to Theresienstadt and murdered in 1944.

Something feels really wrong here.

I've seen zero detail F'grave records set up from #FreeBMD before.

This feels bad.

A Find a Grave record set up for Hirsch Hans Hirschfeld with correct date of birth but no details of his death. In particular with a little research on Wiki to discover he was murdered by the Nazis in Theresienstadt. This feels so wrong to me.

RobertJackson58585858, 8 months ago to mastodon

If #Mastodon is going to be, for us, a gentler kinder space ... which so many say they crave .. how come I get so many posts boosted into my timeline that are littered with expletives?

Maya Angelou had it right ... when folk tell you who they are, believe them the first time.

RobertJackson58585858, 8 months ago to random

#genchat
Most of my maternal ancestors had roots in Birmingham and the Black Country.so their occupations seemed to fit with the times:

Brewer and beer seller
Spade maker (basically as a blacksmith hitting lumps of hot iron).
Pit sinker (digging mine shafts for coal pits)
Wire drawer (making wire)

Paternal grandfather a tram driver after service in WW1 first as a layer of telephone cables in the trenches. He retrained as a "chemist" before being demobbed. I hate to think what "chemicals".

RobertJackson58585858, 9 months ago to random

#genchat

Another fun thing this week ... one of my #AncestryDNA matches who anonymised himself got outed by Thrulines this week. His mom did the test as did his daughter both of whom were recognisable so when their Thrulines popped up he was placed firmly in the middle 😄

RobertJackson58585858, 9 months ago to random

#FamilyHistory

Am I the only person having difficulty with FreeReg dot org dot UK?

It has been very very slow to do anything for several weeks ...even just loading the search page, let alone responding to a search.

Both on android tablet and on PC.

RobertJackson58585858, 8 months ago to random

#FamilyHistory
#AncestryDNA
#Thrulines

This one is likely to disappear. I sincerely hope it does!
The solid box for Humphry Hatton 1806-1809 had been dotted earlier tonight because he wasn't in my tree ... I hadn't previously found his baptism when working downhill from father Humphrey. It had no yob, only dod 1809.
How the blithering heck he had a daughter Phebe back in 1782 beats me. And granddaughter Mary in 1801 🤪

Thrulines is crazy brilliant. Truly it is. That's why I adore it.

RobertJackson58585858, 1 month ago to random

Feels like everyone in #Tewkesbury knows I've got the decorator in the house.

Just had friendly conversation in the café with a couple who hitherto we'd only exchanged smiles.

First Q: "How's the decorator getting on?"

It started a few weeks ago when I shared it in the street with someone who occasionally joins the coffee table after which it's become the opening line with more folk than I thought I knew.

(Am somewhat flattered, in truth.)

RobertJackson58585858, 11 months ago to random

Well, it's started persisting in Malvern.

Had the car washed and polished yesterday.

🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🤨🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧

#UKRain

RobertJackson58585858, 9 months ago to gardening

#Gardening
#Hellebore

My hellebore planted last winter in full flower got hit a couple of months ago by a branch washed off in a heavy shower. Broke all the remaining few leaf stems so to all intents and purposes it has "disappeared".

I know where it was as I put a twig in the ground.

Should I just buy another one or might it be "dormant" and just waiting to burst back to life this winter?

RobertJackson58585858, 8 months ago to random

#genchat
This is the immigrating relative I wanted to remember today. He travelled alone from England to New York to live and work with relatives. He was there for the 1850 census and appears in immigration records.

Such a courageous move in such a short life.

Elijah Webb.

From Wolverhampton.

RobertJackson58585858, 7 months ago to random

#genchat

Finding my ggf's death was problematical because grandad was I suspect reticent to tell his children what happened.
His dad had gone with the oldest sons to Cumberland/Cumbria for spademaking work, ending up in Cleator Moor in 1891.

On the way back he was working in Sheffield, got drunk and cracked his head, dying in the police offices a few days later.

It was only after my mom's death that I found press reports confirming.

Meanwhile folk had scoured FreeBMD and picked a random.

RobertJackson58585858, 8 months ago to random

#FamilyHistory

I have an anecdote to share in this afternoon's chat session.

It needs me to find the person whose name I forgot.

I know he died in New York.

But it seems there is no way to search my Ancestry tree for places of death of members of my tree.

🤔

What a silly situation! Somewhat self inflicted.

RobertJackson58585858, 5 months ago to random

#FamilyHistory

#Ancestry has added #Dudley burials as a "New" record set.

This is a straight copy of the Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council burials index on the Dudley MBC website. Been on the internet for years.

The old website is a bit old fashioned, clunky and it works. The new has lost the "same grave" function but just needs grave details fed back in again.

The data seems to have been copied across "as is". Mr X and Mrs X were filed under "M" :))

My Gaius's are still "Gains".

RobertJackson58585858, 7 months ago to random

#FamilyHistory

In the past hour I received a message on #Ancestry from the daughter of a DNA match with whom I have two reported common matches. One is my closest paternal match via my dad's great grandfather. The other is via mom's mother's father.

Haven't a clue what the two paths are yet. No thrulines are reported. Very small amounts of DNA.

But there's a twist in the tail. By doing a "W" by marriage at the end of a proven throughline I get to the match. Not a DNA route, obvs.

RobertJackson58585858, 4 months ago to Horizon

#PostOfficeScandal
#Horizon

Have just started watching the committee hearing ... "There is a risk that some post masters who HAVE engaged in fraud will be acquitted/compensated" ... seems like a slow smearing of post masters ... needs to be nipped in the bud.

RobertJackson58585858, 4 months ago to random

#FamilyHistory
#AncestryDNA

I received a message via Ancestry last night from a distant paternal relative who tells me he has found potentially my great grandfather's father's grave.

My rellie hasn't done the dna test and is puzzled why I reckon he'd be my gt gt grandfather

My great grandfather was born illegitimate in 1852 after his mom was in service the previous year to the family whose grave my distant rellie tells me he found.

I'm confident through DNA it will be the correct grave./1

RobertJackson58585858, 11 days ago to random

#FamilyHistory

Has anyone had the new #AncestryDNA beta matches list?

I really don't like it and have submitted feedback to that effect.

On my android tablet it's really slow and clunky.

Only the first few words of my notes are now shown.

Having to click through to successive pages of matches is a pest.

It might work OK on a modern pc with lots of memory but for me it's a retrograde step.

Makes things deeply unpleasant :((