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Export data from FamilySearch.org Family Tree as spreadsheet?
I want to generate a spreadsheet of everyone I have in my FamilySearch.org family tree. I want the data associated with these names as well (birth, marriage, death related info). Is there a tool to do this or do I have to go through manually? I am…
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How can I process this image to extract more of the information
I'm researching my grand-uncles James Daniel Wright and Frank Leslie Wright (brothers of my grand-father) who went over to Canada as British Home Children with their younger sister in 1912. Unfortunately, their younger sister died a year or so after…
user104
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Finding World War 2 Army or Navy service record for resident of Sussex, England?
Peter Evelyn Graham was born in 1923 in London and died in 1972 in Sussex. He was in the services but not sure which one:
Army records, his name hasn't come up.
Navy records have a leading seaman Navy auxillary.
All the sites I have tried that…
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How to photograph documents on the screen of microfilm readers?
You may like it or not – microfilms are still common. Certain resources can only be accessed using microfilm readers. However, it’s much more convenient to work with digital files to find, transcribe and store information.
What are your techniques…
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Understanding chromosomes and centiMorgans
I am very new to this so please be patient with me. I had a DNA test via Ancestry which didn't tell me very much and so I uploaded the data to GEDmatch. My top 3 matches are:
A:11 chr matches, 372.6 cM, longest 62.6 cM
B:13 chr matches,…
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Downloading images from Ancestry trees?
How to download images from those I have personally added to my Ancestry.com tree? I currently do not own or plan on purchasing the now discontinued FamilyTreeMaker.
As mentioned in this "What do FamilyTree Maker users do" question one way is to…
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Finding an elusive ancestor after the 1901 census (who may have deserted his family)
What strategies should I adopt to find an elusive ancestor in the early twentieth century? He may have deserted his family, so I can't rely on records of a wife of children to corroborate identification.
For many years, I thought my…
user104
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Is there any program that automatically imports sources attached to the FamilySearch tree?
There are lots of programs that can import new persons from the shared tree on FamilySearch. I know most of the FamilySearch features of Ancestral Quest, Legacy, and RootsMagic, but they all lack one thing: They don't import the attached sources…
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What uniform is this (US Army branch, where and when)?
I was going through some old photos and newspaper clippings that my grandmother (1913-2007) left behind here in Norway, when I came across this photo of a uniformed young man. To be honest I have no idea who it is, but I know she had an uncle who…
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Reading given name of German great-grandaunt?
I cannot read this name, which is the name of one of the older sisters of my great-grandfather. It is supposed to be a german female name. This was written in 1878.
Sample of handwriting by the same guy:
Bregalad
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Average time between birth and baptism in the Church of England?
Because it is relatively uncommon to find sources of birth dates before the start of civil registration in England in 1837, it is a widespread (and I think not unreasonable) convention for genealogists to assume that the year of birth is the same as…
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Explaining major discrepancies between Bishop's Transcripts and Parish Registers?
Bishop's transcripts were copies of parish registers that were sent periodically to the diocesan bishop.
In the past I have noticed minor discrepancies between parish registers and bishop's transcripts, which are to be expected. However, in…
Harry V.
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Finding records of emigration/immigration from Germany to South Africa?
My paternal grandfather was born in 1900 in Attenhoffen, Germany. He came to South Africa in the 1920s. My quest is to find out how and when? There is a story that he was a seaman who jumped ship in Walvis Bay.
His name was Sebastian Decker born 12…
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Finding birth parents in Utah 1865
One of my (very) great grandmothers is known as Mary Alzina Knapp Smith. She was adopted by Elias and Amy Jane Smith upon the death of her mother in childbirth. Elias wrote a letter (Or so I am assured, I don't have said letter) to Mary informing…
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Making Research Plans for studying the Genetic Genealogy of an Adoptee?
I have accounts on 23andme, gedmatch, ftdna, and ancestry.com's ancestrydna (all autosomal at this point).
I also, even though I'm adopted (from bulgaria, have the full name, most recent address (as of 1992, granted) and Uniform Civil Number (EGN)…
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