One hint in Ancestry, from another family tree entry, gives a place of death as "1682149, Yorkshire, England". The information I already had was "Middlesborough, Yorkshire, England". [This was for William Battersby, born Osgodby / Hemingbrough region in 1810.] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] Using numbers for locations > Hi Pam > > Can you give some examples > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > > >>I have come across various listings for people giving numbers instead of a >>name for the location. >> Presumably this is some sort of code and I think I have heard of it >> before, but would like to know where I can find a key or directory, so I >> can work out where these places are. >> >> Thanks in anticipation. >> Pam >

Sounds like 14 Sept 1682 Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: "Pam" <pam.thorley@bigpond.com> Sender: yorksgen-bounces@rootsweb.com Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 20:51:19 To: Nivard Ovington<ovington1@sky.com>; <YORKSGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] Using numbers for locations One hint in Ancestry, from another family tree entry, gives a place of death as "1682149, Yorkshire, England". The information I already had was "Middlesborough, Yorkshire, England". [This was for William Battersby, born Osgodby / Hemingbrough region in 1810.] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] Using numbers for locations > Hi Pam > > Can you give some examples > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > > >>I have come across various listings for people giving numbers instead of a >>name for the location. >> Presumably this is some sort of code and I think I have heard of it >> before, but would like to know where I can find a key or directory, so I >> can work out where these places are. >> >> Thanks in anticipation. >> Pam > ..... Ancestors in Yorkshire? http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html; www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org; www.wharfedalefhg.org.uk; www.yorkshireparishregisters.com; www.yorkshireroots.org.uk; ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

From: victor@markham.me.uk > Sounds like 14 Sept 1682 > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Pam" <pam.thorley@bigpond.com> > Sender: yorksgen-bounces@rootsweb.com > Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 20:51:19 > To: Nivard Ovington<ovington1@sky.com>; <YORKSGEN-L@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] Using numbers for locations > > One hint in Ancestry, from another family tree entry, gives a place > of death as "1682149, Yorkshire, England".< Sounds quite likely, Victor. It's probably the American system of writing dates, i.e. year, day, month, and not a place reference. Americans seem to do most things backwards to us. If Pam could post the details of the death to which she is referring, then this would confirm it. Though why Ancestry cannot understand that a UK audience expects things to be written according to UK English is beyond me. But that's perverse Ancestry for you (cue Nivard)! It seems to me most unlikely that they would be so stupid and obscure as to link places to OS grid references, as someone suggested, since how many people would own OS maps or know how to find them online? Surely this would be quite absurdly complicated? -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

Hi Pam Can you give the specific reference as nothing comes up using any combination of search words on Ancestry in their databases or trees I can see several trees with your mentioned man passing away in 1888 but none have Middlesborough as a place or 1682149 as far as I can see If you can give the specific place you found it we may be able to say more I checked Linthorpe just in case it was a grave reference but nothing there Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > One hint in Ancestry, from another family tree entry, gives a place of death as "1682149, > Yorkshire, England". > The information I already had was "Middlesborough, Yorkshire, England". > > [This was for William Battersby, born Osgodby / Hemingbrough region in 1810.]