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Finding a town in Russia-Poland from 1910
I've left in my wrong turns below on purpose, to show the process of genealogical research and how to build evidence. This manifest is both correct and a red herring. It led me to some hypotheses ...
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How to determine county from county number in Texas birth index?
Since you are accessing the database Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997 on Ancestry.com, look the database up in the Card Catalog.
Under the section About Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997 there is a ...
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Ancestor born in Bristol City workhouse?
An address would only be shown in column 5 (mother's name) when the mother's usual address at the time of the birth is different to that shown as the place of birth. So you would read that she was ...
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Ancestor born in Bristol City workhouse?
A good place to start researching workhouses is workhouses.org.uk. They have a page about Bristol Workhouse.
Bristol actually maintained two workhouses:
The Clifton Union workhouse at 100 Fishponds ...
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Dealing with different birthplace and names of parents in England?
To expand on @JanMurphy's first method, there's a set of rules that genealogists use when they get stuck:
If you can't go backwards, go forwards
If you can't go forwards, go sideways
If you can'...
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Dealing with different birthplace and names of parents in England?
This is a good example of how we have all created brick walls for ourselves. We blindly accept the information on records -- we match names and call it a day -- and then when we can't find things that ...
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Where is Gellovsasvetgood, Eazasso, Russia?
I think it may be the town of Yelisavetgrad (also spelled Yelisavetgrod), now the city of Kropyvnytskyi in central Ukraine.
If you are able to read Polish, the entry for Elizabetgrod in the Glossary ...
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How to get birth place in Gramps 4.2.1?
You can look up a place, given a place handle:
place = db.get_place_from_handle(place_handle)
print(place.name.value)
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How to determine county from county number in Texas birth index?
I found a source for these using Google to search "texas county code numbers".
They seem to come from the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts and 057 matches Dallas county there.
The codes there ...
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Locating ancestor's birth town in New York State?
Since the information you have so far is not helping, it might be better to try an indirect approach. Here are some things to try.
Make a list of all the source material you have about your ...
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Birth place points to Quaker Monthly Meeting
Does that mean that the ancestor was born at the meetinghouse?
The short answer is, the person's birth date appears in the monthly meeting records. It could be as part of a family group record when ...
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Reading place of birth in France on 1881 Census for Camberwell (London)?
You already have an answer to this question that I believe is correct. I don't think I'll tell you anything you don't already know but I'll wax on a bit more about my usual sub-conscious process for ...
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What does birthplace: "Cold Rain," Ireland imply?
As someone who lives a few miles from Coleraine, to me the town of Coleraine is where he was born. Simple as that.
The 1831 census of Coleraine parish has 7 Stewart families in the town a mix of ...
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Finding information about Brick Kiln - Motcombe - Dorset
The brickworks and kiln were located just south of Motcombe Park, as shown on this 1890 OS map:
See the National Library of Scotland website to view this and other historic maps.
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Seeking exact birthplace of Catherine Kennedy 1829-1893 in the Limerick area
Be aware that not all parishes in Co. Limerick have baptism records for 1829. Some parishes have gaps eg Fedamore which has no records between 1822 and 1854, and KIlfinane which don’t start till 1831. ...
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What does birthplace: "Cold Rain," Ireland imply?
In a different context, one of our community members cautioned against premature connectivitis syndrome (PCS) when connecting up people, and I think the advice to "think INCHWORM (rather than ...
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Reading Irish birthplace on 1851 Wales Census?
I think it simply says 'British', indicating his nationality. Note that in 1851, Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom.
Added in response to the comments: It certainly was not necessary for ...
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Finding 18th century birth record when "born Foreign Parts" according to 1841 England Census?
If he was a mariner, as stated in the parish register, then I'd check to muster books for the port of Liverpool. Now, most don't have names for crew members (they're not nearly as useful as the crew ...
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Looking for birth record of Catherine Jones in Llanfynydd, circa 1882
The first thing to check is the marriage certificate for Catherine and John James Cowin (From FreeBMD: Q3 (Sept) 1903; Chester; Vol 8a; Page 843).
The marriage record should give you the name of ...
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Finding a town in Russia-Poland from 1910
Additional tidbits: "Zaniewicze" (in slightly dated Polish, but still used) could mean "a place belonging to Zaniewski" or "place where Zaniewski family lives". And indeed, it's well documented as a - ...
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Finding place named St Lagille, France in 1914?
OK, this is too long for a comment, but isn't yet an answer. More documenting a search.
The Father-in-Law, Julien Paudois, actually lived (and died) in Lacordaire, Saskatchewan. His grave is on ...
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Finding place named St Lagille, France in 1914?
The FamilySearch Research Wiki article France Gazetteers refers the reader to an online gazetteer at France Gen Web.
The FamilySearch Research Wiki article also lists several references that are at ...
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Finding place named St Lagille, France in 1914?
Based on sempaiscuba's answer, Julien PAUDOIS is most likely:
Julien Joseph Emile PAUDOIS, born in Saint-Mars-la-Jaille (probably what was later turned into "Saint Lagille", as it sounds ...
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Deciphering correct birth place for 1901 census entry
Before I address the place name issue, I'd like to repeat the wise advice given elsewhere on the site in this answer to the question Tracing US ancestor back to Germany:
At one time or another, I ...
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Pennsylvania Birth-records
When you are looking for historical place names, the best type of reference source is the gazetteer. This is a book containing information about places, usually with descriptions, often with origins ...
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Seeking exact birthplace of Catherine Kennedy 1829-1893 in the Limerick area
From Ancestry.com records (Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915) I found baptism records in 1829 in the county of Limerick for:
Catharine Kenedy on 31 Dec 1829;
Catharina Kennedy on 23 Dec ...
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What does birthplace: "Cold Rain," Ireland imply?
In your original post you asked whether Coleraine might mean the civil parish or the RC parish. Presbyterians in Ireland didn’t use the parish system for their churches, so it wouldn’t be normal for ...
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Changes in place names of birth
I would report both of them.
I have a friend who has birthdates in his tree of "16-Mar-1623, Braintree, Massachusetts, United States of America". Of course, there was no USA in 1623 :-)
However, ...
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Looking for anyone with Chevtaikin Surname
Since you know that your father came from NovoSibirsk, which appears to be "the third-most populous city in Russia (after Moscow and St. Petersburg)", it seems likely that it would have people there ...
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