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St Giles workhouse London, where to find beyond Ancestry
I am looking for entry and departure records for St Giles in the Fields Workhouse around the period of 1851.
My 2x great-grand-mother is listed in the census in 1851 at the address of:
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luftwaffe pilot in spanish civil war Condor Legion named Heinrich Streubel flew Ju 88 and He 111 [duplicate]
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What kind of document to disambiguate two people with same name and parent?
I was looking at Birth (baptism records from 1600-1750) for people of my family and I have an issue disambiguating 2 people that have the same name.
I have as records:
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Gravestones without date of death seems odd. Is it common?
One of my objectives is to find the gravestones of my ancestors. I notice many of them have date of death and age of the deceased instead of the birthday. This makes a certain sense to me since it's ...
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Finding town named Xpucmuanovka in Empire of Russia in 1910
I'm trying to locate a town in the Empire of Russia, Xpucmuanovka. I have been unable to locate it on any map and wonder if the name could have been changed. Grandparents left there in 1910, got on ...
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Verifying half-sister found using 1,030cM at Ancestry DNA
My son just did a dna test with ancestry.com.It shows that he has an aunt or great aunt on the maternal side that is not who my thought-to-be sister is.
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Missing Grandparents 1920 Census
I have been unable to find a record of my grandparents and their children which would have been recorded in the 1920 Census. Most likely were living in Omaha, Nebraska. I found them in the 1930, but ...
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Which tools are available for GEDCOM comparison?
At the moment I work with two programs: Gramps has my master database, and I use RootsMagic to connect to the FamilySearch tree, because it helps me find clues that would otherwise be hard to find.
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Using absolute vs relative paths for Gramps media?
When adding media such as pictures and documents to a gallery in Gramps, you are given the option between an "absolute path" and a "relative path" for linking the media to the source location on the ...
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I uploaded a tree to Ancestry and it has old UID facts. How do I delete them?
I uploaded a tree to Ancestry from a gedcom I had created some years ago. It included some UID facts. How do I delete these from a personal member tree?
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Deciphering 1808 Alsatian German birth record
Having some trouble getting through this civil birth registration record from Issenhausen, Bas-Rhin, Alsace. I've left blanks for words I can't make out.
Maire von Issenhausene Gemeinde ____ von ...
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Mother shown as step-sibling's mother on their page but also own mother as parent
At Ancestry.com, my mother is shown as my step-sibling's mother. I'm sure it's some kind of bug.
If it's not, can anyone explain how?
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Dealing with almost all family trees online identifying particular ancestor wrongly
I have a GGG Grandfather, William VanDeventer, verified as related to me (72 yrs old) and my mother (born 1931, DNA tested but now deceased) thru his children's Lines and DNA matches. His parents are ...
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The Munkittrick family in England
A branch of the Munkittrick family came from Ardee in County Louth in Ireland. One member of the family left Ardee and took up residence in Lancashire (Manchester area) in the early 1800s (certainly ...
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Close family match-help!
I share 1326 cms over 21 segments with a paternal family member, with the longest being 174cm.
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