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What are the rules for putting media on different sites?
You can only repost something if it's out of copyright or it is in copyright but the copyright owner has licensed it to be reposted in the way that you want to do it.
Do not assume that the stuff is ...
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What is the accuracy of FindMyPast's MarriageFinder tool?
Assuming that the indexes are 100% accurate, then the Marriage Finder will be 100% accurate, given that the spouse will always have the same Volume, Page and Quarter as the input person.
However, ...
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I don't understand the Piece scope of a UK Prison Register record on Find my past
Anything like this that has originated from the National Archives is best understood by consulting their catalogue - in this case you can search for HO 27/143 to find the record and then view it in ...
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Was the 1939 Register really updated after the end of National Registration?
If you look at the page 1939 Register Service on the Health & Social Care Information Centre website, the site says:
The 1939 Register Service (cost recovery) enables you to request data
held ...
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Finding records of professional athlete and trainer who married 1911 at Cardiff, Wales?
Brute force searching is sometimes the way to go.
I found your wife's great grandmother's birth record on Familysearch.
Esme Katherine Earley
England and Wales Birth Registration Index
Name Esme ...
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What is the accuracy of FindMyPast's MarriageFinder tool?
As stated in the previous answer, any system which shows you the names of the spouses on the same page can only be as accurate or as complete as the indexes themselves are. If the transcribers cannot ...
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Was the 1939 Register really updated after the end of National Registration?
I asked this question directly on Facebook.
The response I recieved is that, yes: "The Register was updated until 1991 when it ceased to be a working document".
This means that for married women, "...
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Finding FindMyPast Devon Marriage image indexed by FamilySearch?
I used the Old Search to search for any marriage in 1729 with "Plymouth, Devon, England" in the Where box, then narrowed the search by selecting these filters:
Country: England
Subcategory: Marriages ...
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Finding FindMyPast Devon Marriage image indexed by FamilySearch?
The marriage occurred at Plymouth Charles the Martyr, as it can be found in the index made by the late Don Curkeet: Charles the Martyr Marriages 1644-1758.
OSMENT, Robert, 1720-1729, SIMONS, ...
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I don't understand the Piece scope of a UK Prison Register record on Find my past
I agree with the recommendation in the previous answer to view the cited collection in the online catalogue of the archive which holds the record, in this case, TNA. This answer is intended as a ...
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Finding FindMyPast Devon Marriage image indexed by FamilySearch?
I eventually found the image of this marriage on page 206 of 285 in the Devon, Plymouth & West Devon Parish Registers at FindMyPast ( https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbprs%2fply%...
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