On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:49:48 +0200, john <john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr> wrote: >On 30/07/2013 19:13, Charles Ellson wrote: >> On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:37:28 +0200, john >> <john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr> wrote: >> >>> On 30/07/2013 16:57, Norma Clay wrote: >>>> On Sunday, July 28, 2013 10:25:28 AM UTC-5, Norma Clay wrote: >>>>> I ask before, I ask again. Is anyone here from Fish Guard, Wales ? >>>>> My 5x great Grandfather left there in 1650. >>>> >>>> No problem. Just wonder if there is any member of the Job family >>>> still there.My ancestors' name was Andrew Job. He was a Quaker; I >>>> guess that there was religious prosecution of them they caused him to >>>> immigrate to America.He sent his son ( born at sea) back to England >>>> to be educated. He returned to Pennsylvania. The nest generation, >>>> Moses, went to fight in the American Revolution. He was then expelled >>>> from the Quaker meeting.I guess you don't understand the # of >>>> generations as I am older than dirt. I am 82. >>>> >>> If you search at www.192.com (fees charged for results after 2002) >>> or the Electoral Register at www.findmypast.co.uk (subscription or >>> chargeable credits for 2002-2013) for Job surname in Dyfed (the county >>> Fishguard is in) >>> >> It is in Pembrokeshire, Welsh local government was re-organised >> (again) in 1996. 192's breakdown of records into sub-national areas is >> not that accurate WRT current areas but unlike Ancestry it does >> usually manage to put places into a county/region/whatever that they >> actually were in at some time. >> >>> you will find about 30+ individuals with the Job >>> surname, including a few in Fishguard itself. >>> >>> Individuals have to register for the Electoral Roll but after 2002 you >>> could opt out of being included in public databases. > >If you use Pembrokeshire in a 192.com search you get "multiple locations >found and a choice of West Glamorgan or Dyfed. > Sounds like they're employing an ex-Ancestry programmer ? :-(

On 30/07/2013 19:14, Charles Ellson wrote: >> If you use Pembrokeshire in a 192.com search you get "multiple locations >> >found and a choice of West Glamorgan or Dyfed. >> > > Sounds like they're employing an ex-Ancestry programmer ?:-( Probably even worse from the complete mess they have made of Scotland - presuming it is 192.com who screwed up rather than the Electoral Commission.

On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:23:25 +0100, MB <MB@nospam.nospam> wrote: >On 30/07/2013 19:14, Charles Ellson wrote: >>> If you use Pembrokeshire in a 192.com search you get "multiple locations >>> >found and a choice of West Glamorgan or Dyfed. >>> > >> Sounds like they're employing an ex-Ancestry programmer ?:-( > > >Probably even worse from the complete mess they have made of Scotland - >presuming it is 192.com who screwed up rather than the Electoral Commission. > AFAICT they seem to be using sheriffdoms (i.e. judicial areas) such as e.g. South Strathclyde - Dumfries and Galloway which don't match to electoral areas, local authorities or postal areas, effectively meaningless for most people.

On 30/07/2013 20:14, Charles Ellson wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:49:48 +0200, john > <john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr> wrote: > >> On 30/07/2013 19:13, Charles Ellson wrote: >>> On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:37:28 +0200, john >>> <john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr> wrote: >>> >>>> On 30/07/2013 16:57, Norma Clay wrote: >>>>> On Sunday, July 28, 2013 10:25:28 AM UTC-5, Norma Clay wrote: >>>>>> I ask before, I ask again. Is anyone here from Fish Guard, Wales ? >>>>>> My 5x great Grandfather left there in 1650. >>>>> >>>>> No problem. Just wonder if there is any member of the Job family >>>>> still there.My ancestors' name was Andrew Job. He was a Quaker; I >>>>> guess that there was religious prosecution of them they caused him to >>>>> immigrate to America.He sent his son ( born at sea) back to England >>>>> to be educated. He returned to Pennsylvania. The nest generation, >>>>> Moses, went to fight in the American Revolution. He was then expelled >>>>> from the Quaker meeting.I guess you don't understand the # of >>>>> generations as I am older than dirt. I am 82. >>>>> >>>> If you search at www.192.com (fees charged for results after 2002) >>>> or the Electoral Register at www.findmypast.co.uk (subscription or >>>> chargeable credits for 2002-2013) for Job surname in Dyfed (the county >>>> Fishguard is in) >>>> >>> It is in Pembrokeshire, Welsh local government was re-organised >>> (again) in 1996. 192's breakdown of records into sub-national areas is >>> not that accurate WRT current areas but unlike Ancestry it does >>> usually manage to put places into a county/region/whatever that they >>> actually were in at some time. >>> >>>> you will find about 30+ individuals with the Job >>>> surname, including a few in Fishguard itself. >>>> >>>> Individuals have to register for the Electoral Roll but after 2002 you >>>> could opt out of being included in public databases. >> >> If you use Pembrokeshire in a 192.com search you get "multiple locations >> found and a choice of West Glamorgan or Dyfed. >> > Sounds like they're employing an ex-Ancestry programmer ? :-( > Findmypast doesn't use Pembrokeshire for their Electoral Register search either - probably for similar reasons. There are sometimes discussions here as to how people handle all the changes of boundaries that have occurred when there isn't a one-to-one correlation between the various divisions. There was little point in explaining all the complexities of the various boundary changes to someone when I could just tell the OP how to get some possibly relevant information without any problems most easily. You could easily have checked what 192.com actually does, as I did, before posting your incorrect comment.