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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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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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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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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:
Baptism
Gerard Van Osmael. (c ...
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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.
Does this mean that I have a half sister I didn'...
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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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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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How do you find where a person is in your Ancestry tree?
When you ask on your Ancestry tree to Find a person and your tree has the person, how do you find exactly where the person is located within your very large tree. It gives a partial answer and just ...
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Township Tax Lists, 18th Century
Regarding township tax lists in ... say ... 1775 ... if one person owned a parcel of land that spanned two townships, would that person owe tax to both townships? And could/would that person appear ...
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My father's military records of WW2 [duplicate]
I am trying to obtain my father's military records during World War 2.
His details are
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Transcribing medical notes from 1878
I am attempting to transcribe the medical notes for Maria Coke in my family. I did a similar exercise in the past for my great-great-grandmother Martha Coke, and these records are for one of her ...
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Could a child have registered a death in England?
I have just downloaded a death registration from 1837 in England. The person who registered the death appears to have been about 11 years old, and was registering the death of her younger brother. The ...
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Handshake error where when connecting Legacy to Family Search
I'm new here, so if I am posting in the wrong place, let me know. Stack Exchnage was one of the results I was given by google when attempting some trouble shooting. I'm hoping someone out there can ...
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Why does Edward Drinker Cope's signature look like "E. W. Cope" instead of "E. D. Cope"?
The following image comes from The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans (1904)'s entry on paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope. It struck me as odd that the signature (...
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Going to lunatic asylums - Date of Order v Date of Admission
I am doing some research on a family member from 1893 when she went to a lunatic asylum.
I have visited the Dorset History Centre and obtained photos of the relevant documentation:
Pauper Order Paper....
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