Hi Everyone, I have membership for My Heritage which I recall I started with some nice offer via GOONS. When it comes to renew you have to be careful as there is one membership for doing stuff like you would on Ancestry and another membership for having a tree on there - which you may not need but they add on at renewal. I did the same as I do with The Times subscriptions and all subscriptions like that - which is never renew on time - let it lapse then they will usually come back and make some offer you can hardly refuse - so I have signed up once or probably twice. Both times I have managed to keep my tree on there without paying for it. The people in the call centre are nice polite Americans and one told me last time that although it was marked up 'inactive' or such like I could still use it. I never ever ring call centres so I guess they must have rung me eventually at work. To be fair the Times called our bluff last time so that was the end of that for a few months - but back they came with some daft offer for week-ends only which we now have. Getting back to My Heritage I find two issues with it that might annoy some of you - particularly those of you that have done a lot of work over the years or are very clever or indeed both. One is that the search criteria does not seem very refined - so I only use exact match mostly which is probably OK for a small study like Mutum - and then I search again using obvious variations - but if you have a large study you might find you cannot 'drill down' deep enough for your liking. The other issue is that they like sending you e mails with 'hot matches' or some equally daft expression - and having put a lot of information you have researched yourself into your tree - some of which you may have found and checked on their site - they then send e mails finding a load of stuff you just told them about! I guess you can probably stop the e mails but as I have to deal with e mails at work I find it a great pleasure to fill up my home e mail box with garbage and mass delete it occasionally. I do not recall all the costs now - but I have had subscriptions with Find My Past which changed into something else - which I got rid of - and Ancestry. With My Heritage you get the same as Ancestry World or whatever it is called now - so if like me you want to look at US stuff I find it worthwhile. Like most things it is probably worth going to the family history equivalent of 'Go Compare' and deciding what is the best product and best value for what you want to do. Best wishes to all, Paul Mutum study - 4221 -----Original Message----- From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Fíona Tipple via Sent: 15 November 2014 18:19 To: Corinne Curtis; goons@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [G] MyHeritage membership - US109 Corinne, Id be very interested to hear how you get on with Wikitree, because Im looking around for something similar. Ive had a little prowl around there, and wasnt over-impressed with what I found - a lot of the same dodgy, unreferenced stuff that Ive seen before on other sites. But maybe it's the name I'm researching Fiona 5538 - Duignan & variants On 15 Nov 2014, at 17:49, Corinne Curtis via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > I have a limited budget for subscriptions and prefer to stick with > ancestry worldwide. I will also get a year of either findmypast > (British only) or the Britishnewspaperarchive periodically, but I > don't keep those going all the time. I've chosen not to subscribe to > sites like myheritage. I did get the free offer via GOONS when it was > offered some time ago, and I didn't think it gave me significant extra > to make it worth while to continue with it. For family tree sharing, > I've decided I'm going to work more with wikitree now - seems to have > far more potential for collaborative and well researched and sourced > work. > > Corinne Curtis #5579 > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Valerie Barbara Garton via > <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: >> Could I have some comments as to whether members consider paying for >> a membership of MyHeritage worthwhile please ? >> >> Cheers from Valerie in sunny Sydney >> >> > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Hi Paul I think that the numbering ignores the word saint, so Christ Church is in the correct alphabetical place between Benedict and Clement. I seem to remember this was in Michael Foster's book, Comedy of Errors, but I don't have time to check that at the moment. June Willing Guild of One-Name Studies member no 2117 Willing/Willings One-Name Study http://one-name.org/name_profile/Willing/ Willing/Willings DNA Project http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Willing/ Dominicus One-Name Study http://one-name.org/name_profile/dominicus-2/ On 17 Nov 2014, at 15:42, Paul Howes via wrote: > A few emails on this forum ten days or so back discussed the trouble I > was having locating a particular marriage within Norwich registration > district and the apparent rather strange approach to alphabetical > ordering of parishes within an RD. > > A kindly correspondent consulted some microfilm for me at the > Millennium Library in Norwich and has confirmed that the marriage of > John Howes and Mary Periment took place at Christ Church, New Catton. > You may recall that the page number of the marriage is in a sequence > between St Benedict parish and St Clement within Norwich RD. > > This particular church was like a branch office (I'm sure there's a > proper technical term but I don't know it!) of St Clement parish and > thus it seems that that is the reason it appears next to St Clement in > the alphabetical order of parishes. Next year when I'm back in > Norfolk, I will record the cardinal points for this and a few other > more obscure parishes/churches to try to make Norwich marriage lookups > a lot simpler for everyone. > > Regards > Paul > > -- > Paul Howes > www.howesfamilies.com > Researching House, Howes, Hows, Howse & Howze worldwide > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message
Chapel of ease, probably. Geoff On 17 November 2014 15:42, Paul Howes via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > This particular church was like a branch office (I'm sure there's a > proper technical term but I don't know it!) of St Clement parish
Valerie, What makes you think it might be Irish? It’s not a surname I’ve ever heard here (not that that proves anything!), and is not recorded as an Irish surname by either MacLysaght or Woulfe. It’s not in the Irish phone book either. It could be masking an Irish surname I suppose - MacLysaght mentions the name (Mac) Culleton/Colleton, from Irish Mac Codlatain, which *might* transmogrify itself into Culloden outside Ireland, but I doubt it. Fiona — 5538 - Duignan & variants On 17 Nov 2014, at 12:09, Valerie Barbara Garton via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > I have never been able to find out anything about the surname CULLODEN. The > surname has never been found in Scotland. Any suggestions please ? > > Also is there any way of putting Culloden in my signature that will not come > up in Outlook searches please ? > > Cheers from Valerie in sunny Sydney > >
Thanks for this Debbie, I have watched several and learnt so much. Grateful thanks to all concerned for making them available. Evelyn Roope/Rope ONS On 16 November 2014 13:25, Debbie Kennett via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > All the links to the recordings, handouts and slides for the Guild's Next > Stage Seminar are now available in the Members' Room: > > http://one-name.org/seminars/2014_Nov_BurgessHill/seminar_2014nov_nextsteps. > html > > In case the link breaks here's a short URL: > > http://tinyurl.com/NextStageSeminar > > I wasn't able to attend this conference but I'm very grateful to Bob > Cumberbatch and SemSub for making the recordings available along with all > the other associated material so that we can all learn from these excellent > talks. Thanks also to Anne Shankland for putting the material up on the > website so promptly. > > Just in case anyone is not aware you can find a list of all the previous > seminars and conferences on this page in the Members' Room together with > links to slides, handouts and recordings where available: > > http://www.one-name.org/members/seminars.html > > Debbie > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Debbie said: "... just work at your own pace and focus on whatever part of the research you find the most enjoyable." This is the most important ENJOY it, do not feel that you are under pressure to do anything in a given timescale. I find I put myself under enough time pressure without letting myself think that the Guild is putting me under any more <grin>. ENJOY. -----Original Message----- From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Debbie Kennett via Sent: 16 November 2014 17:32 To: 'Neil Hartwell'; goons@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [G] Hartwell ONS - starting from scratch Neil Welcome to the Guild. You've already been given some good advice. I would also recommend that you download a copy of the Members' Handbook so that you have it handy on your PC or mobile device. This will also make it easier for you to click through to all the links. You can download the handbook in a variety of formats from this link: http://www.one-name.org/members/MembersHandbook.html There are are some useful members' checklists in the handbook (starting on page 20 in the PDF version). On the final page (page 35 in the PDF) there is a very helpful one-name study plan. I would suggest that you start by looking at the distribution of your surname and getting some idea of its frequency. You can find lots of useful links here: http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Surname_mapping Otherwise you should just work at your own pace and focus on whatever part of the research you find the most enjoyable. You've already made an excellent start by setting up your profile page! Best wishes Debbie Kennett http://cruwys.blogspot.com http://one-name.org/name_profile/cruwys http://www.familytreedna.com/public/CruwysDNA _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
I have had My Heritage for several years now - I did make use of the free offer that came through the GUild but discovered that it had taken over the old Gencircles site and already had a very old tree of mine through that. Although I have gotten some useful contacts and I love their charting program, I'm thinking of dropping my subscription. I like to work on my computer and load a revised gedcom to update a tree. However , unlike other sites, My Heritage ADDS the new gedcom - not overwriting the old. Their suggestion is to just make a new tree. This leads to identical smart matches showing up for your tree that are really just some one else's version 1, ver. 2, ver.3, etc. If you have a couple 'famous names this can become very burdensome. I did acquire their FTB program and will keep that for the charting but when I want to use it I have to turn my wifi, as it is very insistent about syncing with the online tree - and I certainly don't want it doing that when I am working with a custom gedcom for a contact. In short, it nags when I'm on wifi and show it any attention and then gives me thousands (literally) of useless matches because of the numerous versions of the same tree. It has become more trouble than it is worth to me at this point. Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' http://cranberry.tribalpages.com Pepler DNA Study http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ 'Scroops, Scropes and Scroopes' http://dentonlk.tribalpages.com > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Valerie Barbara Garton via > <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: >> Could I have some comments as to whether members consider paying for >> a membership of MyHeritage worthwhile please ? >> >> Cheers from Valerie in sunny Sydney >> >> > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Some may be interested to know of my experience with a new toy - the IRIScan mouse. {Google} This has a 40x20mm scan window, and uses modern photo stitching software to recombine the images into a single file. The great advantage being that you can see the result in real time as the document in question is traversed. I would be interested to know of any other experiences. (and possibly for Marriage Challenges) This is what I commented to one of Dick Eastman's items on Scanners:- I have now received my IRIScan Mouse and it does seem to have some interesting potential. I did have a problem at first as, to work fully, it requires either 128MB of dedicated video memory or 384MB of shared video memory. For some reason my "mainframe" PC with Dual 1920x1080 screens did not meet this demand (and I am still trying to find out why). However my old Sony Laptop does meet this requirement and the scanner works a treat. It is most satisfying to see the required scan result appear dynamically as the area is traversed steadily: The screen view scales dynamically to fit the screen as the scanned area is increased. When scanning is stopped, the software jumps straight into an editing mode where the result can be cropped (and rotated if nec, but it is clever enough to put lines of text horizontally anyway). It is very comforting to be able to see exactly the scan result you want before saving the file. I have yet to see how practical this is in a record office environment: but the colour and contrast of the scan is superb. Best regards Gordon +Z [+Z] <http://www.adshead.com/> Gordon Adshead <gordon@adshead.com> [+Z] Beaumont House, 2 Goodrington Road, Handforth, Cheshire, SK9 3AT, UK [+Z] Tel:+44-1625-549770 Mob:+44-7776-145602
A few emails on this forum ten days or so back discussed the trouble I was having locating a particular marriage within Norwich registration district and the apparent rather strange approach to alphabetical ordering of parishes within an RD. A kindly correspondent consulted some microfilm for me at the Millennium Library in Norwich and has confirmed that the marriage of John Howes and Mary Periment took place at Christ Church, New Catton. You may recall that the page number of the marriage is in a sequence between St Benedict parish and St Clement within Norwich RD. This particular church was like a branch office (I'm sure there's a proper technical term but I don't know it!) of St Clement parish and thus it seems that that is the reason it appears next to St Clement in the alphabetical order of parishes. Next year when I'm back in Norfolk, I will record the cardinal points for this and a few other more obscure parishes/churches to try to make Norwich marriage lookups a lot simpler for everyone. Regards Paul -- Paul Howes www.howesfamilies.com Researching House, Howes, Hows, Howse & Howze worldwide
Looking for new volunteers to take part in the Newswatch Project full details of what is involved can be found here http://one-name.org/members/newswatch.html . If you go to this site it will give you the names of the current papers being researched and what is invovled It is not very time consuming it takes me about 10 minutes a week to check the Surrey Mirror and then forward on to the member. It can be any type on newspaper local daily or even magazine or company newspapers. Members who have gained from marriage challenges may find this a way of repaying other members. If you have any further question feel free to contact me Jim Isard newswatch@one-name.org
Neil Welcome to the Guild. You've already been given some good advice. I would also recommend that you download a copy of the Members' Handbook so that you have it handy on your PC or mobile device. This will also make it easier for you to click through to all the links. You can download the handbook in a variety of formats from this link: http://www.one-name.org/members/MembersHandbook.html There are are some useful members' checklists in the handbook (starting on page 20 in the PDF version). On the final page (page 35 in the PDF) there is a very helpful one-name study plan. I would suggest that you start by looking at the distribution of your surname and getting some idea of its frequency. You can find lots of useful links here: http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Surname_mapping Otherwise you should just work at your own pace and focus on whatever part of the research you find the most enjoyable. You've already made an excellent start by setting up your profile page! Best wishes Debbie Kennett http://cruwys.blogspot.com http://one-name.org/name_profile/cruwys http://www.familytreedna.com/public/CruwysDNA
Keith William was born in Caverswall and Harriet in Stoke Ken Mycock Mycock / Micock ONS - lots in this area! http://www.one-name.org/profiles/mycock/ On 16/11/2014 15:26, Keith Jacobs via wrote: > Hi All > > > > Would SKS with access to Staffordshire Census returns have a look at > > > > RG10 Piece 2888 Folio 15 Page 5 > > > > And see if they can decipher where William and Harriett Baggarley were born. > > > > I don't know the area so I am unable to make scene of same. > > > > Thanks > > Keith Jacobs > > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
Hi Keith He was born in Cavereswall which lies East of Stoke and she was born in stoke itself, so come sE down the Uttoxeter Road the A50 to Blythe Bridge then go due north -----Original Message----- From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Keith Jacobs via Sent: 16 November 2014 15:26 To: goons@rootsweb.com Subject: [G] 1871 Census of Cheadle - help with Where Born Please. Hi All Would SKS with access to Staffordshire Census returns have a look at RG10 Piece 2888 Folio 15 Page 5 And see if they can decipher where William and Harriett Baggarley were born. I don't know the area so I am unable to make scene of same. Thanks Keith Jacobs _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
William: Caverswall Harriett: Stoke Geoff On 16 November 2014 15:26, Keith Jacobs via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi All > > > > Would SKS with access to Staffordshire Census returns have a look at > > > > RG10 Piece 2888 Folio 15 Page 5 > > > > And see if they can decipher where William and Harriett Baggarley were born. > > > > I don't know the area so I am unable to make scene of same. > > > > Thanks > > Keith Jacobs > > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Geoff Chew geoffchew1@gmail.com
Hi All Would SKS with access to Staffordshire Census returns have a look at RG10 Piece 2888 Folio 15 Page 5 And see if they can decipher where William and Harriett Baggarley were born. I don't know the area so I am unable to make scene of same. Thanks Keith Jacobs
All the links to the recordings, handouts and slides for the Guild's Next Stage Seminar are now available in the Members' Room: http://one-name.org/seminars/2014_Nov_BurgessHill/seminar_2014nov_nextsteps. html In case the link breaks here's a short URL: http://tinyurl.com/NextStageSeminar I wasn't able to attend this conference but I'm very grateful to Bob Cumberbatch and SemSub for making the recordings available along with all the other associated material so that we can all learn from these excellent talks. Thanks also to Anne Shankland for putting the material up on the website so promptly. Just in case anyone is not aware you can find a list of all the previous seminars and conferences on this page in the Members' Room together with links to slides, handouts and recordings where available: http://www.one-name.org/members/seminars.html Debbie
For those members who may be interested Among the URL web-links that Debbie posted, in the final one there is an interesting downloadable PDF on DNA Based Identification of Human Remains. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14636778.2014.946002 Worth a look for those who are using DNA research for their One-Name Studies Rennison Rennison's List on http://www.upperdalesfhg.org.uk/rennisons.htm The Vayro Ancestry on http://www.vayro.name Vayro Database on http://vayro.tribalpages.com Vayro Guild of One-Name Studies Profile http://one-name.org/name_profile/vayro/ http://www.rennisonprimarydesigntechnology.info Searching for VAYRO, VARO, VARAH and variations worldwide
Hi Everyone, I have just found something rather strange. There is an entry for Grayce M Gummerson in the California Death Index for 11 July 1967. The Ancestry version says she was born in Michigan but the FamilySearch version has birthplace as Minnesota. All other details are the same. Census returns etc agree with the FamilySearch version of Minnesota. Has anyone else come across this, presumably the records were indexed separately by Ancestry and FamilySearch? I just wonder if other instances of Michigan in the Ancestry version might be Minnesota instead. Debbie Gomersall Member 808 Gomersall - Gummerson
This was probably a transcription/data entry error by a volunteer for Ancestry. A majority of the data entries are made by volunteers who work towards payment in the form of subscriptions to Ancestry. I have found numerous errors, as many of these individuals simply do not have the skills to be doing the job - especially when it comes to handwritten records. Consider it a mistake. I see things like this all of the time. Unfortunately, Ancestry does not host the original record so you cannot easily double check it. Jim On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Debbie Gomersall via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have just found something rather strange. There is an entry for Grayce M Gummerson in the California Death Index for 11 July 1967. The Ancestry version says she was born in Michigan but the FamilySearch version has birthplace as Minnesota. All other details are the same. Census returns etc agree with the FamilySearch version of Minnesota. > > Has anyone else come across this, presumably the records were indexed separately by Ancestry and FamilySearch? I just wonder if other instances of Michigan in the Ancestry version might be Minnesota instead. > > Debbie Gomersall > Member 808 > Gomersall - Gummerson > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Jim James M. Owston, EdD Owston One-Name Study #5647 owston@one-name.org http://www.one-name.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?find=5647
Whenever reading death information, an old rule is to keep in mind that the information on the death record was seldom,if ever, provided by the deceased. Peter Wells Fifield, etc. ONS 2599 -----Original Message----- From: DonJGrant via Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2014 6:51 AM To: goons@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [G] California Death Index I've have also had some cases of this in this index. I wondered if it was a misunderstanding of the state codes MI and MN that had caused the errors. Don Grant SCOON ONS 5642 -------------------------------------------------- In a message dated 16/11/2014 11:02:59 GMT Standard Time, goons@rootsweb.com writes: Hi Everyone, I have just found something rather strange. There is an entry for Grayce M Gummerson in the California Death Index for 11 July 1967. The Ancestry version says she was born in Michigan but the FamilySearch version has birthplace as Minnesota. All other details are the same. Census returns etc agree with the FamilySearch version of Minnesota. Has anyone else come across this, presumably the records were indexed separately by Ancestry and FamilySearch? I just wonder if other instances of Michigan in the Ancestry version might be Minnesota instead. Debbie Gomersall Member 808 Gomersall - Gummerson _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message