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Reading entry from Quarter Sessions Order Book of Dorset, England 1682-1693?
The clipped image below comes from the Dorset, England, Quarter Sessions Order Books, 1625-1905 via Ancestry.com:
Name: Arthurus Bewsey
Event Date: 1682-1693
Event Place: Dorset, England
Reference Number: QSM 2/1
My 8th great…
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Understanding my father's Army service records (1946-1948)
I have obtained the army service records for my father (he did his national service between 1946 and 1948.)
Not unexpectedly, the documents contain a wealth of abbreviations (or possibly acronyms) and Army terms and reference numbers. Rather than…
user104
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Accessing Italian World War I records online?
Is there a way to access Italian war records pertaining to individual soldiers (I'm looking specifically for World War I) online?
For example, I know Australia does but my somewhat limited knowledge of Italian didn't get me far with my searches.
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Y-DNA match a false positive?
I completed a Family Tree DNA test for Y-DNA. My results show I have only six matches. I have viewed the available trees of 4 of the 6 trees, the others are private and unwilling to cooperate. I cannot find any matches but unsure if the Y-DNA is…
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What is FTDNA's Chromosome Browser showing for the X chromosome?
FamilyTreeDNA's Chromosome Browser shows segment matches on each of the 23 chromosomes with up to 5 people at once who are represented by different colors.
Technically these are half-matches because each chromosome has two halves and either half of…
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Fractal display of a family tree on a computer screen
Is there a computer program that allows you to see a whole family tree, on screen, and expand, compact and shift, vertically and horizontally, just as you can in Google Earth?
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Meaning of abbreviation "(O.K.)" on 1939 Michigan death certificate?
I have located my grandfather's Michigan death certificate from 1939.
Following his father's name is the abbreviation "(O.K.)". What does that mean?
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Researching German soldiers who were prisoners of war in US during WWII?
My father-in-law was in the Latvian army then conscripted into the German army. We believe he was captured by American forces in either North Africa or Italy and brought to the US. He was in a camp along the East Coast or New England area. I have…
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Meaning of "c" notation at end of St Louis obituaries?
The image below is an portion of obituaries from this full page (page 21 of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on 5 Feb 1923). Right aligned on the last line of most obituaries is one of the following:
(c)
(c1)
(c2)
(c48)
What do these mean?
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Seeking census records earlier than 1900 for Indiana ancestor named Delmain?
I have hit a brickwall trying to research my GG Grandfather. The first census I can find him on is a 1900 census. It says he's from Indiana and I've even went through the ENTIRE census for that county on the next decade after his birth in 1861.
His…
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Reference Key for Injuries for WWI German Casualty Lists?
Is anyone aware of a quick reference or list of injuries / cause of death for world-war-1 German Casualty lists, such as in the following example.
This doesn't appear to be just a death list, but any injury from translating a few but also seems to…
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After a Big-Y test on FamilyTreeDNA does it make sense to order further SNP tests?
I ordered the Big-Y on top of my yDNA-111 STR test and it specifies many SNPs now that Big-Y is complete, but FTDNA continues to offer to sell me additional SNP tests and packets, in particular the I1 - Z60 SNP Pack.
Does it make any sense to order…
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No trace of grandfather in 1891 or 1901 census?
My grandfather Charles Thomas Gigg was born in Kensington, London in 1887. He appears to be illegitimate -- no father shown on birth certificate.
He is in the 1911 census -- married with own family.
But I can find no trace of him or his mother…
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Benefits of joining the Guild of One-Name Studies?
For years I have been conducting an informal (and/or obsessive) one-name study. There are only 150 or so people who bear our surname globally, all but a handful of those in England.
I have many times considered registering the surname with the…
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What year is this photo likely taken?
I've got a glossy photo that measures 3"×4.75" of a man near Devil's River, Texas with a car in the background.
The back of the photo has a blue 10 on it from the film processing.
What is the approximate date this photograph appears to have been…
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