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How accurate are birth dates on the 1939 Register?
One of the most useful pieces of information on the 1939 Register is the date of birth, since there are no other country-wide records containing birth dates other than civil registration records. Finding a birth date on the Register has solved a…
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Naturalized in 1896, but cannot be found anywhere in the US 1900 or 1910 censuses?
I have Naturalization papers of my Grandfather & it states he became Naturalized 20th of April 1896. We can find him in the 1920 & 1930 census...but nothing for the 1900 & 1910 census. Why can't I find him?
Grandfather's name was William Yensule,…
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Citing or crediting leads to sources?
Many of the sources that I have found were a direct result of finding references to them on genealogy websites. For example, a reference on Ancestry.com to FindAGrave.com led me to performing my own searches directly from the originating source…
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Was traditional Scottish naming pattern the same for Highlands, Lowlands and Ulster Scots?
I've recently started checking my Scottish ancestors' families against this traditional Scottish naming pattern:
For sons:
1st Son = Father's Father
2nd Son = Mother's Father
3rd Son = Father
For daughters:
1st Daughter = Mother's Mother …
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Can I register for ancestry.co.uk if I live somewhere else?
Is it possible to register for an ancestry.co.uk account if I live in a different country? What would be the benefit of doing so? Would my tree connect better to UK member trees?
I can't afford the world subscription right now, so am wondering if my…
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What is the best way to store my own text records into the future?
Here is what I want to do:
Record my memories somewhere they will last for the next 200 years (or as long as possible), so my posterity etc can get at them
I'd prefer to use a digital format so they can be easily distributed and accessed (i.e.,…
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Verifying that Josef Berg died as shown in WWI German military record and finding his grave?
My GGF Josef Berg died a few days before 1 Jan 1915 (probably on 27 Dec 1914 (World War I). I want to find his grave. I also want to verify that the information I'm giving here is actually my GGF's information. It is the closest thing I've…
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What is the first word in this baptism record?
My transcript from Bishop's Transcripts, Church of England, Parish of Melbourne, Cambridgeshire. 1616 https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9T9-6BN5?i=41&cat=1109075
J***rimis Thomas Sonne of John Casbold and Joan baptized the 28th of
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If you plan on getting a Big Y test, is there any value in going beyond yDNA-37?
For the FamilyTreeDNA.com yDNA tests, if you are pretty confident you are going to buy the Big Y test, would that fill in your SNPs up to yDNA-111 if you had only purchased yDNA-37 before upgrading to Big Y? If so, then it would seem like it is…
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Half sisters or aunt/niece relationship?
I do not know who my father is and a woman (who also doesn't know who her father is) recently came up matching me on Ancestry.com as a close relative. She and I both uploaded our raw data to gedmatch.com.
For the Xdna we matched:
Largest segment…
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Is the Autosomal DNA testing ever wrong on relationships?
I have done the Autosomal DNA test through Ancestry.com and uploaded it gedmatch.com.
In Ancestry.com I matched several people that would be 1st or 2nd cousins. I also matched with them on gedmatch.com.
The problem is that I do not have any of…
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What does "ads" stand for in a Chancery Court record index?
I found the following index page at Family Search:
I would like to know what "ads" stands for in the unlabeled column and what it implies. Does it stand for "administrator"and imply that that person to the right administered the estate of the…
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Researching family member that immigrated to USA from Poland in 1831
I'm looking for information on the surname Lyskowinski in Poland. I know he came on a ship named Northumber that departed from London, England and arrived in America on Aug. 23, 1852. His place of birth was Łódź, Poland on Dec 24, 1831. I can't…
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Accessing returns from the Marriage Duty Act (1695)?
In The Oxford Companion to Family and Local History, on the subject of the Marriage Duty Act (1695), David Hey writes:
A tax on 'Marriages, Births and Burials and upon Bachelors and
Widowers for the term of five years' lasted eleven years, from…
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Tracing child adopted from Washington County, Tennessee Poor Farm in the 1930s?
I am looking for a 3rd cousin. I have been working on ancestry information, and came across a close family member Florence who was adopted out.
She was born in 1927 in Johnson City, Tennessee. In the early 1930's her parents divorced, and the mother…
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