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Surname mapping
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Here's a fun site to play with: Great Britain Family Names. Type in a surname, choose 1881 or 1998, and see maps of the distribution of the name, with dark blue showing the highest concentration of a name. The areas shown are Royal Mail postcode areas. Oxfordshire is in fact not one of the Oliver strong...
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Just for fun - Bizarre, unusual and interesting name findings
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Well Jane, as requested, following your 'Mr Urban Cheese' find, herewith is your light-hearted and fun 'names' thread. I can kick you off with a sesonal one. There were quite a few births of this name registered between 1837-1915, a few less between 1915-2005, the latest one I found was in 1968, reg...
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Useful genealogy websites
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As this is my 100th posting to the board, I thought I would make it a special one. So just in case you haven't got enough to do at the moment, here are links to some useful genealogy websites. I hope you find some new favourites here. Happy New Year! Jane SOME USEFUL WEBSITES FOR GENEALOGISTS ‘£’ indica...
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1841-1911 censuses online
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In another thread on pre-1841 censuses, our discussion wandered onto later censuses. Here I'm going to try to answer Linda's question "Do you know if each company does their own transcribing or whether it is a universal transcription and everyone is the same?" I have been meaning to do a...
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New War Memorials Project
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For anyone that didn't receive it directly, here's a copy of an email regarding a new project I've been working on. Thanks Shane ______________ Hi Everyone,Apologies for the unsolicited nature of this email however I wanted to tell you all about a new project that I’ve been working on over the last...
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BMD Certificates
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Advice from Jane needed. I have always ordered my BMD certificates online from the GRO mainly because it is so easy to do from home. However, following your comments on my recent post regarding Mary Oliver's death certificate I am now wondering if it is better to get the local certificate. It sounds...
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'A history of the world in 100 objects'
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Hello everyone and Happy New Year to you all
This new series on Radio 4 (which I think will be well worth tuning into) is encouraging people to join in the debate on man-made objects. It has made me think about the kind of things I've inherited or collected over the years, and their significance as bits...
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New genealogy series
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Hello everyone
There’s a new series of ‘Tracing your roots’ on the radio at the moment. The first episode, aired yesterday (Monday), had a Second World War theme to tie in with the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the War. It was well worth tuning into, I thought. If you missed the broadcast, don’t...
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Old Photographs - Charlbury Community Website
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Hi All, You may already be aware of this one, but I have only just found it myself, so I thought I would pass it on just in case it's of interest to anyone. The Charlbury community website has a gallery area with around 150-200 'old' photos. They're categorised into 'Events', 'People' and 'Places' and s...
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