But I would add one more thing - wills may appoint not just executors but also trustees. I've not tried to record trustees as "witnesses" (in the FH sense) to probate events yet, but I forsee a potential issue if people can only be reported in one witness role per event???? Adrian, wouldn...

Paula I have just looked on the GRO Index pages where you would normally order a certificate ( https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp ) and could only find Drusilla Tar Hawes listed in the last quarter of 1843 in Wangford. Where did you get the other details from? Brian

I have been out most of the day and the topic has moved on. Whilst agreeing with Mike that you cannot annotate the adopted,step or birth relationship in FH via AS, you can do everything else. It is possible to add a new set of parents in AS in addition to those already recorded. So if you enter all ...

Sorry Mike, I don't really follow what you are saying about being a step-child. Although I realise that "step" can be added as a relationship in the Focus Window, I have never used this on re- marriage . That would be confusing as the children would be listed under both marriages and only ...

Such as when one of the existing parents needs a new spouse with existing children as step-children. So for these more complex families, enter the fundamental relationships in FH before using AS. Then you can set the step/adoptive/foster details and create new parents, etc, more easily. Mike, just ...

Not sure if this will be helpful but I believe that Lloyds Register may record deaths of seamen as well as ships lost. Unfortunately I don't have access to their records although I did find at https://hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/archive-library/casualty-returns that the Norwegian ship Thalatta was lost ...

Paula

Have a look at Knowledge Base > Ancestral Sources Template ~ Electoral Register UK to see if that will help.

Brian

Your attachment shows a topic that has been read. If you have any unread posts you can go to Quick Links at the top right of this page and the drop down menu includes "Unread Posts". If you click that item it then gives a summary page of all unread posts and you should see that there is an...

I suspect what happened is that Bill read a posting, but by his next visit somebody had added a Reply that needed reading. If Bill had not scrolled through all the postings, then on 2nd visit he won't know for sure whether one had been added or not. If you click the small square next to the subject...

@Senelstune

Have you tried the Delete Witnesses for Role Plugin provided earlier in this thread? It worked for me so unless you had a different setup in TMG it should work for you. Please make a backup before running the Plugin just in case there are some unexpected results.

Brian

As it is a copy from the GRO I think that I would phone the Registrars Office where the original registers are held to see if they would have a look at the register to check for any possible annotations. You may be lucky and get hold of a helpful person who would like to assist in establishing why a...

Like Mike, I am always curious when the unusual turns up. Just a couple of thoughts that you may have already covered but maybe worth saying. 1) Was there a subsequent registration of the name? 2) Is the birth certificate an original or a certified copy and if the latter did it come from the Registr...

I do know what happened to my parents. Before the war they lived above a shop where my father was manager. He signed up for service and wanted to pass the manager's job to my mother so they could continue to live above the shop. This was rejected so the whole family had to move out. They found a ho...

Just to add that if you use Gedsite fhugdownloads:contents:utility_gedsite|> Utility ~ GedSite the embedded contact system details the page that was open at the time the email link was clicked which if it happens to be a page containing details of a person will include the person's name and ID. Brian

I am sorry if you feel offended by my posting. I have also been researching my family history for over 20 years and I am always willing to listen to the advice of others. Of course, you are quite at liberty to carry on in whatever way you wish, and it was only in a spirit of helpfulness that I made ...

I am with Mike Loney on this as, in FH, I never need to refer back to the original image as it can be called up from within the program. Yes, I do keep the original images but in a named file system and not a reference or ID form but that is only there if the unthinkable happens and I lose everythin...

Has anyone re-done their tree and can they please offer any advice which would be most gratefully received Returning to the original question my response would be "not exactly"! Your file is slightly larger than mine when I started with FH and maybe yours is a bit more overloaded with wha...

I think that the last word is acres - here is an extract of the previous page on the census


Compare 'acres' in that extract with the one in your image and I think they are very similar, so my conclusion is that it is 'Farmer of eight acres'

Brian

Exactly how I did it

Sorry I should have posted those amendments myself.

Brian

Mike (Tatewise) Thought I would try this query and was surprised to find that I had over 500 orphans in my project of just over 5000 individuals. Having wondered how I had accumulated so many I then realised that if I then filtered out those that were entered as part of a census the numbers dropped ...

Thanks Mike - I did search the forum for "witness name only" but drew a blank. I thought that there must be a query or plugin somewhere but didn't fancy trawling through all the results for "witness".

BTW: Edit > Find with Search for the Name and only Other Fields ticked will find any Witness Name Only items.

Mike - this presumes that you know the name. Is there an easy way to get a list of all Witness Name Only items?

AdrianBruce wrote: Possibly evacuees - my great-aunt and -uncle have one open entry for a child and one redaction bar - I think my Mum mentioned that her aunt had evacuees from Liverpool but there's no way to check that now... That thought had crossed my mind as their ages must be 22 or less. Howev...

Slightly off topic but I guess we all have frustrations with the redacted entries. My parents are listed at the address I was born with three other entries that are redacted and I would love to know who they are. Both my brother and myself were born later and as far as I know there are no other sibl...

From my perspective the KB reads well but perhaps I have been too close to the subject - it would help if someone new to recording Electoral Register entries could comment. The British Library fact sheet is the rather long one that was quoted earlier in this thread https://www.bl.uk/voices-of-scienc...