rfj1611.bsky.social
Genealogist & family historian, studying with the IHGS | 17th century & British/English Civil Wars researcher | Biographer of ECW painter William Dobson | currently cataloguing 1640s British portraits | Loves Jack Russells, tea and peanut butter
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You're welcome! 😁I hope you can find more about him!
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😆 Why am I not in the least surprised!
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it’s from the story of fauvain, a SPIN OFF off the story of fauvel abt a purported relative of fauvel
bsky.app/profile/weir...
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This one does! It's in the 'U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946' dataset on Ancestry. There are several other records that look like they could be the same person, including the 1930 census and a high school yearbook. 😀
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🤩 Thank you!
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This him?
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Thank you. 🤗
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person in the world that I walked away in tears & left it. But there's no bird place nearby, nobody who'd come out & gently euthanise a fatally injured pigeon. Nobody walking by gave a damn.
If it were a kitten or puppy they'd be lining up to help. But I still left it. 😪
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I'd particularly like to bop the nose of the one who sent me on a wild goose chase around Staffordshire, searching for info on a mystery 70yr old ancestor they wrote down as 'Cornelius', who turned out to be a younger woman named 'Cornelia'.... 🤨
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About 600!
But most of my connections are folks in the US with ancestors from the same 2 branches in England, so the number of matches you get might also depend where yr ancestors came from or went to. A bigger FS tree helps!
I've got European ancestors too but nobody has matched with them.
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Brilliant, thanks!
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I'm such a coward, I've skipped it and gone to the next one, for now. There are 6 more pages just like this one! 😳
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Nothing earth shattering. Mostly bequests of a few shillings and pounds to friends and family, although his wife did get a black three year old heifer...☺️
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🤣 I guess at least asking about Lizzy Bennett won't get me sat on the search engine naughty step! 😬
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Trying so hard here NOT to quote his famous 'canoe' line...😬🫢😆
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Exactly! It's not doing any harm, it's just annoying! 😆
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Curious! Do any parts move?
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I used your online catalogue very successfully to complete my first @ihgs.bsky.social family history assignment, so thank you! 😄👩🎓
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Wow, well if you can focus on writing an essay with a child in surgery, I've no excuse for procrastination! 😄
I made some progress last night, so I'm edging towards the 1500 word count!
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Thank you! ☺️😬
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It's Wills and Probate. I need to explain the process of finding some pre 1858 wills and I just can't get my head into it, for some reason. Wills are even my favourite topic in genealogy, so why I'm procrastinating with this one I have no idea. 🤔
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Not disappointed at all, I'm open-minded & looking at all angles of everything, in the absence of much else except the circumstantial. From Dobson family docs I'm still not conviced there's no story, so I can only keep digging.
Lots more papers yet to discover & read. Who knows what's out there! 🙂
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Yes, maybe! Or a family nickname? My grandfather was John-Henry, but always known as Harry, which is why I wondered if that was the answer!