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DavidWW
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Post by DavidWW » Tue Feb 14, 2006 5:59 pm

Jack

Is ED15 at the beginning or end of a film?

Assuming that the omission lies at the GROS end, such an omission is very worrying. While I wouldn't expect a quality control procedure to check that every page of every ED of every RD had been microfilmed I'd have thought that QC would have checked that every ED was present :!: (plus a selection of RD's being checked on a page by page basis).

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ninatoo
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Post by ninatoo » Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:18 pm

Thanks so much sporran...email sent!

I am so grateful this forum is here....otherwise we may not have had the chance to find this error!

Nina
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Jack
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Post by Jack » Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:48 pm

Hi folks,
Here's the census details meanwhile.
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1861 cens 644-4 Ed 15 pp 11-12 (Calton - St. Andrews)
38 London Lane.
James McCORMICK, head, marr, 26, jeweller hawker, b England
Catherine McCORMICK, wife, marr, 24, -----------------b Ireland
Helen McCORMICK, sister, u/m 16, jeweller hawker, b England
Mary J. McCORMICK, daur, 3, ------------------------- b England
Catherine McCORMICK, daur, 1, ---------------------b Glasgow, LKS
Ann BURNS, servant, u/m 43, domestic servant, b Ireland
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David, do you know i only looked at it 2hrs ago, but still had to think for a good 10 mins to remember! :oops:
I'm "fairly sure" - not positive, that Ed 15 was very near the end of the film (the last being Ed 17).
Jack
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Andy
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Post by Andy » Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:56 pm

Fan-bloomin-tastic Jack! How can you do this and not Scotland's People?
Searching for Keogh, Kelly, Fitzgerald, Riddell, Stewart, Wilson, McQuilkin, Lynch, Boyle, Cairney, Ross, King, McIlravey, McCurdy, Drennan and Woods (to name but a few).

Also looking for any information on Rathlin Island, County Antrim, Ireland.
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Jack
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Post by Jack » Tue Feb 14, 2006 10:01 pm

Hi Andy,
SP don't visit The Mitchell... :lol:
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ninatoo
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Post by ninatoo » Tue Feb 14, 2006 10:11 pm

Jack, you actually went to the Mitchell to look for that? Wow, you are awesome...ALL of the people here are!!! :D

I wrote to SP requesting a refund, so hopefully that will happen...in the meantime, thanks again everyone!

Makes me wonder though...I can't find two children's deaths for this family either...I have searched all of Scotland for them, so I wonder if they somehow got left out too? But then, it isn't as easy to prove that the deaths SHOULD be there is it? Just that these kids disappear before 1871...so sad.

Nina
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DavidWW
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Post by DavidWW » Tue Feb 14, 2006 10:18 pm

Andy wrote:Fan-bloomin-tastic Jack! How can you do this and not Scotland's People?
Various CD resources !!

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DavidWW
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Post by DavidWW » Tue Feb 14, 2006 10:23 pm

ninatoo wrote:Jack, you actually went to the Mitchell to look for that? Wow, you are awesome...ALL of the people here are!!! :D
This is just the norm for TalkingScot regular and much appreciated posters such as Jack !!

It's rumoured that the Mitchell Library/Glasgow City Archives have allocated Jack his own seat !!
ninatoo wrote:I wrote to SP requesting a refund, so hopefully that will happen...in the meantime, thanks again everyone!
Nae prob !!

Please keep us all in touch with the response from SP.......
ninatoo wrote:Makes me wonder though...I can't find two children's deaths for this family either...I have searched all of Scotland for them, so I wonder if they somehow got left out too? But then, it isn't as easy to prove that the deaths SHOULD be there is it? Just that these kids disappear before 1871...so sad.

Nina
Most probably a question involving variant spellings ..............

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ninatoo
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Post by ninatoo » Tue Feb 14, 2006 10:38 pm

David...see my other thread about these children on Stat Records Board. ...I have tried EVERYTHING...even "anonymous" McCorm*ck and wildcards in all places I can think of.

This family just doesn't want to be found, hehe.

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Post by DavidWW » Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:15 pm

ninatoo wrote:David...see my other thread about these children on Stat Records Board. ...I have tried EVERYTHING...even "anonymous" McCorm*ck and wildcards in all places I can think of.

This family just doesn't want to be found, hehe.

Nina
Hi Nina

I presented a lecture at Glasgow & West of Scotland FHS last November ...

I ended up with challenging the audience to find a certain family in the 1871 census in N Lanarkshire in one of a small number of parishes, in the context that they were to be found there in censuses before and after 1871, but couldn't be found in 1871 ...........

I ended up with the speculation that the enumerator, faced with having to walk up a mile and a half long lane late on the Sunday in bad weather in order to deliver the census schedule to the farm involved, didn't quite make it.

After my G&WSFHS lecture, a member of the audience with local knowledge commented that it was indeed the case that the farm in question was at the end of a mile and a half long lane :!: :!:

David
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