I'm not knowledgable enough to be certain that these are miss-filed, but there's a number of parishes/towns gathered under Leeds at Ancestry, including Birstall, and when I spoke to Ancestry about hundreds of missing Cliffords they just basically shrugged and told me to expand my search criteria, which barely made any difference at all. I think it went from no Cliffords to about 20 Cliffords, when the name seems as common in Yorkshire as Smith is in all of England. in trying to find the parents of Sarah Clifford, I ran into numerous ones, born within 5 years of the estimated b. date of the Sarah I'm looking for, and born within 10 miles of where my Sarah was married. if anyone's research Cliffords in the Birstall/Armley/Batley/Hightown area, perhaps there is a relation. Sarah Clifford/Clifforth m. 6 Apr 1801 Birstall, by banns to Charles Murfitt estimate she was b. abt 1790+-5 years in one of the towns listed above. Cornelia Oregon, USA
1790 seems a bit of a late birth date for someone married in 1801. I'd take at least another 5 years before that into account. Maggie -----Original Message----- From: fenenga <fenenga@connpoint.net> To: west-riding <west-riding@rootsweb.com> Sent: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:05 Subject: Re: [WRY] Another mix up on Ancestry I'm not knowledgable enough to be certain that these are miss-filed, but there's a number of parishes/towns gathered under Leeds at Ancestry, including Birstall, and when I spoke to Ancestry about hundreds of missing Cliffords they just basically shrugged and told me to expand my search criteria, which barely made any difference at all. I think it went from no Cliffords to about 20 Cliffords, when the name seems as common in Yorkshire as Smith is in all of England. in trying to find the parents of Sarah Clifford, I ran into numerous ones, born within 5 years of the estimated b. date of the Sarah I'm looking for, and born within 10 miles of where my Sarah was married. if anyone's research Cliffords in the Birstall/Armley/Batley/Hightown area, perhaps there is a relation. Sarah Clifford/Clifforth m. 6 Apr 1801 Birstall, by banns to Charles Murfitt estimate she was b. abt 1790+-5 years in one of the towns listed above. Cornelia Oregon, USA Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message