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Additions to Genealogy Websites - Apr 2022

Ancestry
UK and Ireland, Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current
UK, Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Service Records, 1917-1920
UK, Women’s Royal Air Force Service Records, 1918-1920
Edinburgh,

The Irish Group annual social event, The Four Courts Lunch commemorating the destruction of the Record Treasury at the Public Record Office in the Four courts Precint during the Civil war 1922 is coming up on the  1st of July, at O'Reillys West Leederville

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There is a way to ask Google to find terms near each other!

Enter AROUND(1) between terms to do this. An example would be: “James Wilcox” AROUND(10) 1837. That means we want Google to look for pages where the exact name James Wilcox appears within 10 words of the date 1837. You can change the modifying number to anything

Family Tree Maker 2019 is sold by MacKiev Software.  You can get your copy here.  There are three options when you purchase.  I recommend that you choose the Download option.

The answer to the most frequently asked

Dewey Classification - Outline of Relevant Classes

The Dewey classification originated in the nineteenth century, and knowledge has vastly expanded since then.

Although it is regularly updated, the main classes

NEW from Ancestry - DNA ethnicity inheritance now shows a split between regions inherited from each parent, even if they haven't done a DNA test. Mine looks reasonably accurate

Links

• 3 Things to Do Immediately After Finding a Genealogy Source (* getting the most from a source)
• FamilySearch GEDCOM - genealogical data exchange - FamilySearch GEDCOM (* GEDCOM

Before asking your nerdy nephew/friend/neighbour about that niggling technological problem, ask yourself the following questions:

What actually is the issue?

1. If you are getting an error, what is the exact wording of the error? This is often critical to determining the solution.
2. Can you provide a full

A family of no fortune, a tale of redemption after a convict past and and a story of hidden family

Northern Counties

• Cumberland
• Durham
     www.ndfhs.org.uk
• Lancashire
     www.lfhhs.org.uk
     www.lprs.org.uk