More Hedges’
Following my post a couple of days ago about the family of Henry Hedges, I have actively searched for them in the 1871 census. Knowing that they were living at 2 Orcus Street in Marylebone in 1866 when Henry was … Continue reading
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Family of Henry Hedges
For years, my brick wall was Henry Hedges, my grandfather. Just over 2 years ago, that wall tumbled and I moved onto his father, also Henry Hedges. I knew from the older Henry’s marriage certificate that his father was John … Continue reading
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Updates to my family tree website
I have removed the links to the family tree pages created using Ged4Web as I wasn’t maintaining them and they didn’t offer anything over phpGedView. The only link to my family tree database is now http://familydb1.ijhedges.com/phpGedView/index.php It is straight forward … Continue reading
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Misled by FindMyPast
I had an email this morning from the Helpdesk at Find My Past regarding my query about the 1911 Census and their Explorer subscription. Dear Ian Thank you for your email. The 1911 census will be coming to findmypast.com under … Continue reading
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Tagged 1911 census, brightsolid, Consumer Direct, FindMyPast, genealogy subscriptions
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No response from FindMyPast
I emailed FindMyPast.com over the ‘extra’ subscription that they will introduce later in the year to view the 1911 Census and have not yet received a response. I think this level of customer support is disgusting. Many other people are … Continue reading
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Will I have to pay extra for the 1911 census?
The 1911 Census is available online at http://www.1911census.co.uk on a pay as you go basis. I have already tried this when it was in beta and concluded that it would be too expensive for me to use that way. Just … Continue reading
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Trying out the 1911 census
I was invited on Friday to try out the latest beta of the 1911 census website run by FindMyPast. The temptation was too great to resist, so I headed over to the site. I searched first for my grandfather Henry … Continue reading
Additions from incoming passenger lists
Last Friday, I searched the Incoming Passenger lists on Ancestry.co.uk and found Henry Hedges several times in the index. I did also find one of his return voyages by manually searching the voyages about the time he was due to … Continue reading
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Tagged ancestry.co.uk, elder dempster, henry hedges, passenger lists
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Incoming Passenger Lists
Ancestry.co.uk have the Incoming Passenger Lists 1878-1960 available to search if you have a Premium or Worldwide subscription. I have a Premium subscription and so I have searched for my grandfather, Henry Hedges returning to the UK from Africa. Appam … Continue reading
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Tagged ancestry.co.uk, elder dempster, henry hedges, Nigeria, passenger lists
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Data from Marriage Certificates
Last weekend I applied on the General Register Office for four copy marriage certificates including Henry Hedges’ parents Henry and Louisa. The certificates arrived yesterday and have provided a feast of information: Henry Hedges and Louisa Copp 16 Jul 1894 … Continue reading
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Tagged general register office, henry hedges, marriage certificate
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