What delightful feedback Mary. I am pleased for you. I also hope that the marriages of widows in the early years will help those whose female ancestors were first married before 1837 when fathers' names weren't given. There are a great number of them, including some 70 year olds. I have begun to make a note when the bride or groom are elderly as it is often forgotten that people did marry, perhaps for the first time, in old age. Anne Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ Lincolnshire Family History Society http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk -----Original Message----- From: eng-lincsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-lincsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mary Skipworth Sent: 27 March 2012 20:15 To: eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com Subject: [LIN] Lincs Marriage Index Update Special thanks to Anne Cole and the transcriptions team for their help with a brick wall.   Eliza Skipworth was born after the 1851 census, at Halton Holegate. There is apparantly no surviving census return for Halton Holegate in 1861, so she is not recorded with her family. In the 1871 census she is a 19 year old servant, living away from home, in Spilsby, born Halton Holegate.   Now the marriage index tells me that her father was Owen Skipworth so I am in no doubt where to place her, although there were a number of Skipworth families in and around Halton Holegate.   Apart from purchasing the birth certificate (not considered as she belongs to a remote branch of the family), the only other possibility was FreeReg (assuming she was baptised).  I wonder if the FreeReg coordinators are aware that the missing census records make Halton Holegate parish records particularly valuable?   I have digressed rather from the original intention of sending a big thank you to the Index team, and hope the feedback will be of interest.   Mary in NZ ________________________________ From: "eng-lincsgen-request@rootsweb.com" <eng-lincsgen-request@rootsweb.com> To: eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, 27 March 2012 8:00 PM Subject: ENG-LINCSGEN Digest, Vol 7, Issue 155 ----- Forwarded Message ----- Today's Topics:   1. Re: Admin. note:  To-Do list- Sharp/e Family. (Fay Fraser)   2. Re: Admin. note:  To-Do list- Sharp/e Family.       (John & Jan Marchant) Apologies Lou  & List Members. Fay Queensland Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis Mills" <louis_mills@att.net> To: <eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 6:41 AM Subject: Re: [LIN] Admin. note: To-Do list- Sharp/e Family. Let's trim some of these messages. You guys are causing multiple Digests to be sent with only one or two real new messages in them. Lou (list admin.) Apologies from me too, Lou and All. I'll try to remember to remove the string of emails. Regards Jan Marchant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fay Fraser" <lekahfay@bigpond.net.au> To: "Louis Mills" <louis_mills@att.net>; <eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 8:04 PM Subject: Re: [LIN] Admin. note: To-Do list- Sharp/e Family. > Apologies Lou  & List Members. > > Fay > Queensland > Australia > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis Mills" <louis_mills@att..net> > To: <eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 6:41 AM > Subject: Re: [LIN] Admin. note: To-Do list- Sharp/e Family. > > > > > Let's trim some of these messages. You guys are causing multiple Digests to > be sent with only one or two real new messages in them. > > Lou (list admin.) > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0..1913 / Virus Database: 2114/4896 - Release Date: 03/26/12 > To contact the ENG-LINCSGEN list administrator, send an email to ENG-LINCSGEN-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the ENG-LINCSGEN mailing list, send an email to ENG-LINCSGEN@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thank you, Anne Cole, for reminding me of something.  One of my co-workers *way back before I retired) often complained of people showing up in his office with no paperwork, not even a valid identification.  Now, it's not yet law where I live that a person MUST carry ID at all times, but I do know a country where it is required.  I'm often surprised that the government hasn't put a microchip in each of us so they can keep track.  Hmmm, maybe they already have! Anyway, my co-worker's complaint was focused on young people who haven't yet trained themselves to keep records.  Some just threw away bills and payroll records, thinking that they didn't need them and could, if needed, drop by the bank to pay their credit card bill.  They'd know, they think, when they're in credit card trouble because the card won't work any longer. Now, it's a mindset I've only seen once.  I know a young woman who lost her home simply because she couldn't "organize" herself to pay her bills on time. I raise this issue because you've got to look everywhere when doing family history research.  It isn't enough to depend on baptism and marriage records alone.  Learn to browse thru those poorlaw records, the census records, even confirmation and tax records.  And just because I tell you who your ancestors were, you'd better spend some time to prove it.  And keep some kind of record.  Some of you make copies of everything and that's OK.  But it's also OK to say, "I found this in the 1850 census of Zircon in Poobah county, Ref: K-1764".  Sound like a lot of work?  Tough.  Do it.  This is a hobby for organized people. Now, go write your Will so that some future researcher will be able to verify some of your relatives.     Lou (list admin.)

There's another concern when tracking people relatively recently. Up until about year 2000 I had a trust address book. When someone moved, I put a line through the old address and added the new one beneath it. Thus, when one of my offspring needed a full account when he had lived where for some qualification paperwork, I was able to provide it. But now, with electronic everything, when we put in a new address, the old one is gone. There is no longer an ongoing record. Something to think about - especially for people who move fairly often. Happy hunting!   Diana Robinson (nee Gardner) Now in Rochester, NY, USA -----Original Message----- From: Louis Mills [mailto:louis_mills@att.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 5:58 PM To: eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LIN] Lincs Marriage Index Update Thank you, Anne Cole, for reminding me of something.  One of my co-workers *way back before I retired) often complained of people showing up in his office with no paperwork, not even a valid identification.  Now, it's not yet law where I live that a person MUST carry ID at all times, but I do know a country where it is required.  I'm often surprised that the government hasn't put a microchip in each of us so they can keep track.  Hmmm, maybe they already have! Anyway, my co-worker's complaint was focused on young people who haven't yet trained themselves to keep records.  Some just threw away bills and payroll records, thinking that they didn't need them and could, if needed, drop by the bank to pay their credit card bill.  They'd know, they think, when they're in credit card trouble because the card won't work any longer. Now, it's a mindset I've only seen once.  I know a young woman who lost her home simply because she couldn't "organize" herself to pay her bills on time. I raise this issue because you've got to look everywhere when doing family history research.  It isn't enough to depend on baptism and marriage records alone.  Learn to browse thru those poorlaw records, the census records, even confirmation and tax records.  And just because I tell you who your ancestors were, you'd better spend some time to prove it.  And keep some kind of record.  Some of you make copies of everything and that's OK.  But it's also OK to say, "I found this in the 1850 census of Zircon in Poobah county, Ref: K-1764".  Sound like a lot of work?  Tough.  Do it.  This is a hobby for organized people. Now, go write your Will so that some future researcher will be able to verify some of your relatives.     Lou (list admin.)

Yes, that is a potential problem. However, I always cut and paste the old addy etc into the notes section of my address book. Another concern is the possibility of the machine breaking down or being infected with a virus & all data being lost. So, the sensible thing is to back up at least weekly. Richard Brown On 29 March 2012 04:24, Diana Robinson <drobins6@rochester.rr.com> wrote: > There's another concern when tracking people relatively recently. Up until > about year 2000 I had a trust address book. When someone moved, I put a line > through the old address and added the new one beneath it. Thus, when one of > my offspring needed a full account when he had lived where for some > qualification paperwork, I was able to provide it. But now, with electronic > everything, when we put in a new address, the old one is gone. There is no > longer an ongoing record. > > Something to think about - especially for people who move fairly often. > > Happy hunting! > > Diana Robinson (nee Gardner) > Now in Rochester, NY, USA -- Richard Brown Bromley, Kent U.K. Member of: - E. Surrey Family History Society          )   And in http://www.eastsurreyfhs.org.uk/           )   very Lincolnshire Family History Society       )  good http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk/          )  company.