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Linda -- you can send images directly from Ancestry w/o saving them first.

Looking at the image, there are four little icons just above it on the right side. The third one is "Share". Click there and you get a form for sending it to someone.

The person who receives it has to "Save" because access to the image on the Ancestry site is for a very brief time when it's sent that way.

When you access the image, Harris, try switching between "original" and "enhanced" image using the Options button in the row above the image. Sometimes the original image is easier to read than the enhanced, if it's faint. For the 1841, the enhanced is clearer, but that might help if Linda manages to send you what she's got. (Whatever it is, it's more than I have access to, so I can't help.)

Where's Harris?!? I want my prize.

The birth record is copied straight from scotlandspeople, and the John I think refers to his father. Is that different to what you have? Regards Linda

Anybody want Martha's siblings?


Results for:
British Isles
Father: Joseph Porter, Mother: Mary
Batch Number: C097891

International Genealogical Index / British Isles - 3

1. MARTHA PORTER - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 14 APR 1811 Cathedral, Manchester, Lancashire, England
2. JOHN PORTER - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 28 MAY 1809 Cathedral, Manchester, Lancashire, England
3. THOMAS PORTER - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 18 APR 1813 Cathedral, Manchester, Lancashire, England

OK.....OK....Stop your fighting over who’s better!! You are bother wonderful, I’ve been trying to connect this English family to the American family for a long time. I think you’ve both done it!!. Thank you very much.

Quick Harris, check your emails, I sent it. Thanks for teaching me that evie!! Linda :)

Are we "bother" or "wonderful??? Only joshing, evie and I do this all the time, but we both love it when we can help someone! Just wish someone could find my gt gt grandfathers birth in Mississippi in 1850!! Cheers Linda

You're most welcome. Do send me your email address so I can send you the image.

I looked at FreeBMD for a marriage or death for Mary Kilgour in Lancashire up to 1861, but this is the only thing I found.

Deaths Jun 1846
Kilgour Mary Hamilton West Derby 20 823

The index didn't give age at death until the mid-1860s, and it's hit and miss whether the death cert would state age or parents' names.

There are four marriages elsewhere up to 1858. Two are Mary Ann, which wouldn't likely be her, since that was pretty much a different name.

The other two are probably accounted for by two widowed Mary Kilgours in Northumberland in 1951.

Received the Passenger list for David Kilgour, Thanks Linda.
I’m now having trouble absorbing all this information, it’s coming in so quick.

OK have just sent the slave schedule for 1860 harris, so hopefully they'll both arrive Ok. It doesn't give a ward, only a district, so perhaps someone else can explain that. I have to go home now, fun as it's been. Shall check in again tomorrow. Bye y'all!! Linda :)

Sorry Linda and Evie, the last two Ancestry’s didn’t work, thay ask me to register as a member?

Poop, thats happened to me before. The details aren't really any different to the copies I sent you, but again, if you want me to post them, just email me your address and I'll send them on. Cheers Linda

Thanks for all your assistance Linda, (I didn’t notice I wrote “bother”....SORRY.) You may go home now. I’ll catch you another time...I’m sure.

Thanks for all your assistance Evie, I can’t open your last Ancestry as it says “You’ve reached the maximum number of viewable images”. I presume that means me. I can still use what you have listed on Genes Reunited, so thank you again, I now have to absorb the information and add it into the tree.

Harris -- just go to

http://www.gmail.com

and get yourself a few spare accounts. I have a couple of dozen. When you have, just PM me a new address.

Gmail is wonderful. You'll never regret it if you start using it. One great feature is that it creates threads just like this from emails, which is very handy for genealogy babble. And you can post the address anywhere (like in postems at freebmd) without having to worry about exposing your "real" email address (or name, or location). And I have one called

[me][email protected]
for getting bumph from this place, and one called
[me][email protected]
for getting bumph from Ancestry

and so on.

I think it would mean you, because I've only ever sent about 5, and that one to you in December was the only one in months and months. And the system did tell me the image had been sent. Oh, and just to test it out, I sent myself one right after, and I got it. So it's definitely you. ;)

If you have a different email account, Ancestry won't know it's you.

Oh -- they ask you to register as a member.

You can do that just by signing up for a free account. It happens to me occasionally when I'm using .com instead of .co.uk - I don't pay for US records - and after about 5 searches it makes me sign in with the free account I registered there, then just continues along. So that might work.

I still recommend Gmail. The other thing about it is that it has ginormous storage capacity (and never ever deletes anything), and for getting things like big images, you can just keep them there and not have to store them on your computer.

-- except that wouldn't work with the Ancestry emails, because we're just sending you access, not the image itself.

Oh, duh. *I* can save things to my computer! I just did, and sent you the image directly.

Just gonna answer your last PM here, about Joseph Kilgour.

No marriage shows for him 1841-1851 at FreeBMD, and I don't see him in the 1851 or 1861 either. Unless he's all mistranscribed, but it would be unusual if that happened 3 censuses in a row.

Now you can go hunting for him in the US censuses!

Thanks Evie,
I’ll have to work on Joseph, the only Joseph’s I know of are in a completely separate branch of the Kilgour’s, but I suppose this could always be a first one. He may be a relative of this family?? I think someone needs a kick up the #@1#> for listing that 1841 census under Rilgom, it plainly says Kilgour on the census. I was hoping Linda could send me the 3 Oct 1848 passenger list on the ship Marmion for George, John and Mary (or Martha) for New York.....(dropping hints now) Anyway, I better go and eat, before I fade away, may catch on another hunt. Thanks for everything
Harris

I'm trying, I'm trying!! Decided to try sending it to myself from ancestry and then forwarding, but it wanted me to become a member (duh??!!) so now, I have them both printed out, and scanned onto my comp, but they take so long to download the bally thing switches off, I cooked and ate dinner and it still wasn't done, SO just give in man/woman pm me your postal address and I'll send you the hard copies. I live in tas so at no point am I going to turn up onto your doorstep!! Cheers Linda :)

PS got a cert today for what should have been my gt gt grandmother, wrong one, hardly surprising given her name is emily smith!!!

I've got a Jones and a Morris in my wifes side of the family, nearly as bad as Smith.