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Figure this one out? .....

Post by emanday » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:13 pm

I thought I'd found my chap on Ancestry, but I was wrong. However, this chap's occupation is new to me. Any ideas?

Occupation: Loeometer's Storken

:lol: :lol:
[b]Mary[/b]
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McDonald or MacDonald (some couldn't make up their mind!), Bonner, Crichton, McKillop, Campbell, Cameron, Gitrig (+other spellings), Clark, Sloan, Stewart, McCutcheon, Ireland (the surname)

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Post by Rab » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:21 pm

The beauty of an ancestry transcript. :D

I have no idea but would hazzard a guess at Locomotive Stoker. It could be anything though. If it's a match it would probably be worth viewing the original image on SP. When I had my ancestry acccount I found it really useful for searching but more often that not I had to download the original image from SP. It still though saves wasting alot of credits on searches if you have an account.

Rab
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[color=darkred]Marr, McCann, Parker, Kennedy, Sharp, Connor, Robinson, Russell, Drummond and a few others.[/color]

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Post by emanday » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:38 pm

Sounds like a fairly good guess to me, especially when you see his address (albeit another milder Ancestry special :lol: )

Address: Railway Stateon Hennottal
[b]Mary[/b]
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McDonald or MacDonald (some couldn't make up their mind!), Bonner, Crichton, McKillop, Campbell, Cameron, Gitrig (+other spellings), Clark, Sloan, Stewart, McCutcheon, Ireland (the surname)

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Post by Rab » Sat Jul 21, 2007 3:54 pm

If I got that right then I'm amazed as I usually don't. :lol:
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Post by killearnan » Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:13 am

Bumping an older thread for a good Ancestry bit.....not finding who I'm looking for, so I need get my amusement where I can. :lol:


1871 Cookham, Berkshire, England

Yook Isapoae aged 8 months

Some kind person has added an alternate name of George Seagrove, which looks like a reasonable interpretation of the original record.

BJ
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Post by Currie » Fri Sep 07, 2007 2:41 am

Hello BJ,

Yes, it’s nice to see that Ancestry sometimes gets things right.

I didn’t have any trouble tracing my family.

Cheers,
Yook Isapoae XII

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Post by annpa » Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:05 pm

Yes, I agree with Rab. With a subscription to ancestry, you can search as much as you like, and then go to SP to see the details.
I have at last found my grandmother in 1901. I have been looking for her for as long as the 1901 census has been available. Tying to find an Annie Kelly in Scotland was horrendous. Even giving the approximate age still left a tremendous number of results. I couldn't pin it down anywhere as I knew she was away from home working at the time, but I had no idea where. The beauty of the ancestry search meant that I could put in her place of birth and hey presto, there she was, working in Falkirk. (which, by the way was also her place of birth!!)
I'm also enjoying looking through all the WWI pension records.
Cheers
Annpa
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[b]FARQUHAR[/b] Paisley, Glenlivet;
[b]CASEY, CRAMPSEY, KELLY, CROSSAN[/b] Glasgow, Stirlingshire, Lanarkshire;
[b]SPARKS[/b] Inverness-shire, Glasgow, Norwich;
[b]MATHESON[/b] Banff, Ross[/size]

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Post by Currie » Sat Sep 08, 2007 4:21 am

Yes Annpa,

It's an odd situation, you search for your relative over what period of time? spending how many credits? buying how many images? without success - you then search elsewhere, find her more or less instanty? return to the other source which had failed you, (for want of a better term) and quite possibly have to pay for yet another search, even though you now know exactly where she is.

Nice work if you can get it.
Alan