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Fancy looking for a Smith? UPDATED!
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An Olde Crone | Report | 12 Jun 2006 22:08 |
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Oh dear, Merry, I can feel a Crone-type whole village family tree coming on for you. Start at 1556 and construct a tree for the whole lot of them ...it may all then become clear...or it may not. OC |
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Merry | Report | 12 Jun 2006 22:14 |
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That's not funny, Crone! I am still in the middle of doing a five parish tree in Oxfordshire for my other Smith line. I've been transcribing and constructing families (1575 - 1837ish) for two years. I have several hundred entries out-sorted and SOME are arranged into family groups. All this work and I have managed to add precisely SIX names to my tree on the line in all that time! Not sure I can cope with another the same? Mind you...............maybe if I had some help???????????!!!! lol Merry |
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Merry | Report | 12 Jun 2006 22:16 |
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This flippin' William Smith's will actually states William's father, John Smith, left a will. Why couldn't he have said what he did for a living, when he died, or where he lived? Merry |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 12 Jun 2006 22:35 |
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Merry, Sorry, I am unavailable to help - I am too busy connecting everyone who ever lived in Gawsworth, to everyone else. I also did Wheelton, in Lancs, from 1556, to try to find my missing 2 x GGF - I didnt find him, but if I ever do AND he is really from Wheelton, I shall be able to add six million names to my tree, lol OC |
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Merry | Report | 12 Jun 2006 22:45 |
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For six million more names I would have thought GR would send you a researcher to help!! Merry |
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Kate | Report | 12 Jun 2006 22:47 |
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Merry, I have had no luck with the census, but although William Smith's will was on the National Archives, it doesn't mean that John's would be. If you are lucky it will be at the Hertfordshire Record Office / Archives, though. Assuming he lived in Standon too, that is. But I am having trouble thinking of what else you could try. I can see why you have been leaving this line for so long! Oh, I suppose there are always Standon gravestone inscriptions to look at, if you ever get over there... Kate. |
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Merry | Report | 12 Jun 2006 22:52 |
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Very true on all counts Kate (blue is something you stick in the wash, by the way!) Wonder if I can gets to Herts RO somehow? ....Or I wonder if they have a wills index there? Merry |
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Heather | Report | 12 Jun 2006 23:38 |
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Well, Im just sitting here awe struck at you old pros. Its a bit like Im managing arithmetic and you lot are on logarithms or macro econmics or something. Im off to bed. Nite nite my little geniuses. If you are staying up - Thomas Edroff is still missing in 1841 Middx.:} Nite nite. |
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