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New additions - no place of birth
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Elizabeth2469049 | Report | 27 Sep 2014 13:21 |
You can't add information you haven't got, you have to build trees by gradually adding information. For example you pick up from one source the names of their children, no other information - you add them to your tree and hope that further complementary information will turn up which you can add. |
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Martin | Report | 26 Sep 2014 23:48 |
I was just checking my surname, it is usually quiet with only the odd new entry. Today there are five screens of new additions but most have no place of birth. Many don't even have a date of birth. A few don't have first name, place of birth or date of birth. Makes you wonder why people bother! |
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Martin | Report | 16 Sep 2014 23:02 |
That could explain it, I have always input my tree from a GEDCOM so not noticed that. |
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Kense | Report | 16 Sep 2014 21:16 |
I think you are right Jax, the old tree required a place of birth. |
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jax | Report | 16 Sep 2014 17:52 |
Did you read my replies.... Where I have stated I have seen it a lot recently |
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Martin | Report | 16 Sep 2014 17:41 |
I know well that the description of a place of birth can vary - as you find when doing searches on the 'improved' Find My Past and Ancestry. |
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DazedConfused | Report | 16 Sep 2014 13:54 |
Born in Richmond UK |
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Elizabeth2469049 | Report | 16 Sep 2014 13:53 |
Place of birth names can vary wildly and still all be accurate, depending on the source. I have two branches from south-east Northumberland, for which the registration place for births is always Tynemouth. However the censuses may well say Blyth, Cowpen or other districts, and other sources such as baptism may be in another named place altogether so it is reckless to dismiss a possible just on the ground of place of birth. |
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DazedConfused | Report | 16 Sep 2014 13:12 |
Then you have the age of problem of area names |
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jax | Report | 16 Sep 2014 12:54 |
But what I have seen especially on the living relatives board are people looking for a person, will mention where and when born....Then when you search the trees for them to see if they are in any others, they haven't bothered to enter a birth place in their own tree |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 16 Sep 2014 10:42 |
There's always the fall back of N/K - not known! |
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Bobtanian | Report | 16 Sep 2014 10:38 |
what qualifies as a place of birth? |
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Martin | Report | 16 Sep 2014 07:30 |
I wonder if there is too much emphasis on entering a date and not enough on place? |
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jax | Report | 16 Sep 2014 02:25 |
I just searched for myself..... There are three trees |
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jax | Report | 16 Sep 2014 02:13 |
I have noticed it a lot recently with new members.....and most know where the people were born, including themselves |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 16 Sep 2014 00:27 |
if you mean you are looking for names that people have added to their trees ................... |
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Martin | Report | 16 Sep 2014 00:03 |
I check for new additions to two surnames every day. |
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