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pinkypinky · 20-04-2018 4:33pm

Have you checked death notices in the paper for the wife?

tabbey · 20-04-2018 4:44pm

pinkypinky wrote: »

Have you checked death notices in the paper for the wife?

Or rip.ie ?

JDERIC2017 · 20-04-2018 8:07pm

As sad as it seems I set up an alert on rip.ie. I bit the bullet and send an email asking after them...will see if I get a reply. Thanks.

JDERIC2017 · 24-04-2018 9:55pm

Just to let you know I got a reply to my email and meeting this man next week, am beyond excited &#55357;&#56860;

Jellybaby1 · 25-04-2018 12:07am

That's great news, best of luck. I've also been blessed by communications online with new cousins I never even knew before. Its been brilliant chatting and meeting some of them and sharing the family history and we all said that we were sorry we never knew each other growing up. Unfortunately one or two who started off online with high hopes of us getting together have suddenly clammed up and there is no reply to emails or messages on Ancestry. God knows why, maybe they just got cold feet. Hope to hear again from them at some time in the future.

pinkypinky · 25-04-2018 9:37am

I always include my email in Ancestry communications because you never know whether people have a subscription or not. They may not be able to reply.

Jellybaby1 · 25-04-2018 8:08pm

pinkypinky wrote: »

I always include my email in Ancestry communications because you never know whether people have a subscription or not. They may not be able to reply.

Always a good idea. This is what I normally do anyway. One of my contacts did give me their email as well but they still don't reply to mine now. Oh well, I live in hope.

srmf5 · 26-04-2018 9:43pm

pinkypinky wrote: »

I always include my email in Ancestry communications because you never know whether people have a subscription or not. They may not be able to reply.

I'm pretty sure that you don't need a subscription to message DNA matches. Users without a subscription can also reply to messages from non DNA matches once another user with a subscription has initiated contact. I could be wrong but I think that's right.

Jellybaby1 · 27-04-2018 1:26am

You're right 'cos that's how we started communicating and I don't have a sub. but they just stopped replying after a few messages.

pinkypinky · 27-04-2018 9:33am

They may well have changed the rules but I don't want to shut down avenues of contact. It might be me with the subscription someday waiting for someone else to contact.

pedroeibar1 · 04-05-2018 1:03pm

I’ve been doing some more research on famine-era emigration (concentrating on Irish) to Canada. Although names, etc., are missing for that period, there are some good overall figures and comments in the official reports.
Here is a snippet from a report on Quebec 1854:-

"The number aided in their emigration from Ireland was 2963, viz., 61 male, 2591 female adults, and 311 children, being an increase of 1,559 of the same class of persons, sent out in 1853 They were from 58 different Unions, chiefly from the South and west of Ireland.

This class of our emigration continues to give great satisfaction, and, notwithstanding the large number who have been sent out during the past season, complaints of misconduct have only reached me against two, the South Dublin and Cork Unions, and I regret to say that the conduct of a portion of the females from the Dublin Union, has been anything but good. 26 of the females from this Union have been committed to the Montreal Gaol, as loose, idle and disorderly, and from a report received, 12 of them have been committed twice, and one for the third time. These girls were all offered to be forwarded into the country settlements, where they would have at once obtained employment among the farmers, but they refused to leave the city, preferring a life of idleness and vice, to that of honest industry."

Brazen hussies from South Dublin!

KildareFan · 05-05-2018 5:14pm

I've just tried to log on to Irish Genealogy and have got a blank screen with this message:

You have been blocked because of a suspicious activity. We are aware of that.

Has anyone else got this message?

On Dive · 05-05-2018 6:24pm

Yes, I too got that message when I tried to log on.

KildareFan · 05-05-2018 6:27pm

On Dive wrote: »

Yes, I too got that message when I tried to log on.

Thanks - looks like they've been hacked....

pinkypinky · 26-07-2018 2:32pm

I've added over 100 people to my family tree this week through 2 DNA links, who turn out to be related to each other and descend from a sister of my gg grandmother. Absolutely chuffed, particularly because one of those people only responded on my third attempt in 2 years and I had correctly surmised which part of the family she must come from.

spurious · 26-07-2018 3:12pm

Does anyone else get a weird security message when they click on the recent thread about findmypast?

Perhaps it is my anti-virus being over enthusiastic.
I get the following message:

Deceptive site ahead
Attackers on raptr.com may trick you into doing something dangerous like installing software or revealing your personal information (for example, passwords, phone numbers, or credit cards). Learn more

Automatically send some system information and page content to Google to help detect dangerous apps and sites. Privacy policy

Jellybaby1 · 26-07-2018 3:21pm

I'm too scared to look now.

pinkypinky · 26-07-2018 3:25pm

No, works for me just fine. Did you click on a link in there or just the thread?

spurious · 26-07-2018 3:41pm

pinkypinky wrote: »

No, works for me just fine. Did you click on a link in there or just the thread?

It's strange. It is only that thread and I get it whether I go in through the list of recent posts, or for example by clicking on pinkypinky and then clicking on it in a list of your posts.

I wonder is it maybe because of an ad on that page? I have ads switched off, so can't see what ads are displaying on it.

I might post this for the admins to have a look at.

pinkypinky · 26-07-2018 3:42pm

Do. I have ads switched off too.

spurious · 26-07-2018 6:21pm

I reported it. Mark says it has happened before and is caused by someone having an image hosted on raptr.com in their signature (or something like that). Anyway, he is looking at it and my computer is not going to blow up (today).

pinkypinky · 27-07-2018 9:54pm

Claire thinks we're the best free forum for Irish genealogy!

kanadams123 · 27-07-2018 10:44pm

spurious wrote: »

Does anyone else get a weird security message when they click on the recent thread about findmypast?

Perhaps it is my anti-virus being over enthusiastic.
I get the following message:

Deceptive site ahead
Attackers on raptr.com may trick you into doing something dangerous like installing software or revealing your personal information (for example, passwords, phone numbers, or credit cards). Learn more

Automatically send some system information and page content to Google to help detect dangerous apps and sites. Privacy policy

Yes, I got the same message, its not just you, haven't checked it since yesterday though.

Jellybaby1 · 28-07-2018 12:40am

pinkypinky wrote: »

Claire thinks we're the best free forum for Irish genealogy!

shhhh.....which means she's here......maybe even now! (waves at Claire!)

DamoRed · 28-07-2018 2:51pm

Its a fair bet to say that the Boards.ie forum is the go to resource for countless subjects and interests, within Ireland and beyond. The diversity of topics is incredible, and it's great to know that fount of knowledge is there for all.

Whenever I've got a new problem that needs solving, my first thought is regularly 'What do the good people of Boards have to say?'

rhapsody · 01-10-2018 6:08pm

DamoRed wrote: »

Whenever I've got a new problem that needs solving, my first thought is regularly 'What do the good people of Boards have to say?'

I have an access problem, so here I am to see if anyone can help. I wonder would anyone with an Ancestry subscription mind looking up Edward Mohan in the 1914 New Zealand Census?

srmf5 · 01-10-2018 6:11pm

rhapsody wrote: »

I have an access problem, so here I am to see if anyone can help. I wonder would anyone with an Ancestry subscription mind looking up Edward Mohan in the 1914 New Zealand Census?

I don't see the 1914 census but I see an Edward Mohan in the 1914 Electoral Rolls living at 31 Dixon Street, Wellington Central. He was a labourer.

rhapsody · 01-10-2018 6:14pm

srmf5 wrote: »

I don't see the 1914 census but I see an Edward Mohan in the 1914 Electoral Rolls living at 31 Dixon Street, Wellington Central. He was a labourer.

Excuse the typo- I went looking for census records and ended up with electoral rolls. Thanks for looking this up- is there any further info i.e. age, country of origin?

srmf5 · 01-10-2018 6:16pm

rhapsody wrote: »

Excuse the typo- I went looking for census records and ended up with electoral rolls. Thanks for looking this up- is there any further info i.e. age, country of origin?

No, it just gives his name, address and occupation.

rhapsody · 01-10-2018 6:17pm

srmf5 wrote: »

No, it just gives his name, address and occupation.

Ok, thanks again

spurious · 01-10-2018 6:20pm

There is an Edward Mohan listed in the 'New Zealand Army WWI Nominal Rolls, 1914-1918' and his father is given as M Mohan in Drogheda.
Died in France in 1918?

Presumably this is him in 1901.http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Louth/Drogheda_Town/Hand_Street/1566472/

rhapsody · 01-10-2018 6:24pm

spurious wrote: »

There is an Edward Mohan listed in the 'New Zealand Army WWI Nominal Rolls, 1914-1918' and his father is given as M Mohan in Drogheda.
Died in France in 1918?

Yes, that's my guy. When he enlisted in 1917, he said he'd been living in NZ for 14 years. He was a marine fireman before the war, and I have him on some shipping records in Australia in 1909, but nothing between then and his first attempt at enlistment in 1915.

Oh I just saw your edit, yes that's him before he went away across the ocean

spurious · 01-10-2018 6:26pm

I will have a root and see is there anything else.

rhapsody · 01-10-2018 6:30pm

spurious wrote: »

I will have a root and see is there anything else.

Thanks very much! FYI I have his birth cert & service record, and I'm looking at shipping records around Aus/NZ at the minute.

spurious · 01-10-2018 6:35pm

You can order his death cert from NZ.
https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search

There is a record showing he left a will too, but I'm not sure how to get that.

One of these kind folk might point you in the right direction: https://www.raogk.org/lookups/region/new-zealand/

rhapsody · 01-10-2018 6:41pm

spurious wrote: »

You can order his death cert from NZ.
https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search

There is a record showing he left a will too, but I'm not sure how to get that.

One of these kind folk might point you in the right direction: https://www.raogk.org/lookups/region/new-zealand/

Hey thanks for these. I have his will, it was in the middle of his service record. I'll look up those two links- thanks again!

spurious · 01-10-2018 6:42pm

Sent you a PM.

DamoRed · 20-10-2018 11:17pm

What am I missing here?

https://www.google.ie/search?ei=F6fLW_TLF6vWgAbAp46QCQ&q=Rourk+Glasnevin+cemetery&oq=Rourk+Glasnevin+cemetery&gs_l=psy-ab.3...50531.52194.0.54335.5.5.0.0.0.0.81.294.5.5.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.4.221...0i7i30k1j0i8i7i30k1j0i7i5i30k1j0i13k1j0i8i13i30k1.0.N2ThVmwrzEs

Where do I get tickets? Which section is the gig in? Who or what will be racing? Are they diversifying?

pinkypinky · 20-10-2018 11:24pm

Bizarre

L1011 · 20-10-2018 11:59pm

Some would probably say Def Leppard are close to playing cemeteries anyway!

pedroeibar1 · 21-10-2018 11:15pm

pinkypinky wrote: »

Bizarre

L1011 wrote: »

Some would probably say Def Leppard are close to playing cemeteries anyway!

Nope. Joe Elliot won’t be 60 until next year. The band is still huge in the US and has sold more than 100 million albums. Not bizarre, but Hysteria

DamoRed · 18-11-2018 6:35pm

What does the l or L refer to on each address? Is it a value of the property or business as in L,S,D,
or pounds, shillings & pence?

It's impossible not to notice there are 5 comb manufacturers between numbers 48 and 55 of this street, which is Pill Lane. I'd be curious to know when was the last year a comb manufacturer existed as a business, given that it was such a thriving business, 5 existed on the one street.

L1011 · 18-11-2018 6:54pm

Definitely pounds, its the rateable valuation; Thoms (that is what that directory became) continued that until very late in its printing history, even beyond the death of domestic rates.

I've skim-read an entire Thoms Street Directory (1986), most of another (1965) and far too much of one of the full Commercial Directories (1943) in my non-genealogical research. Could recognise that layout anywhere!

I actually use the valuation as a way to pick out a possible pub from a street, they were always valued much higher.

kanadams123 · 18-01-2019 7:42pm

Is it just my internet or is Findmypast currently not working?

Everything else seems to be working fine

srmf5 · 18-01-2019 7:44pm

kanadams123 wrote: »

Is it just my internet or is Findmypast currently not working?

Everything else seems to be working fine

It's working fine for me using Chrome.

Hermy · 19-01-2019 3:16am

Hadn't used Find My Past today but Roots Ireland, Family Search and Irish News Archive all gave trouble today.

kanadams123 · 19-01-2019 5:23pm

Hermy wrote: »

Hadn't used Find My Past today but Roots Ireland, Family Search and Irish News Archive all gave trouble today.

I also noticed Irish News archive and Ancestry wouldnt work for me yesterday.

All seems ok again today!

Hermy · 19-01-2019 5:49pm

My partner mentioned she saw something on Twitter about 3 having technical issues yesterday.
I wonder would that explain it?

kanadams123 · 19-01-2019 8:34pm

Hermy wrote: »

My partner mentioned she saw something on Twitter about 3 having technical issues yesterday.
I wonder would that explain it?

I too have been using three so that could be it. It would explain why it wasnt working on my phone (whilst using 3 data) and on my laptop (while using 3 wifi)!!

Deja Boo · 30-01-2019 9:38pm

Does anyone know of a good online genealogy course?

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