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For this research I had the males name and found the year he was married, 
the quarter, the place, the volume and the page number. However I only knew the woman’s Christian name. How to find her surname?

I next went to the BMD (birth, marriage and death records) and put in a query for the year, the place including the volume and page number plus the woman’s Christian name.
  Two women of the same Christian name showed up for this year and this
  district BUT only one had the correct page number! Then I could do the cross referencing and double check that I had the correct woman. I did!!

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More Beta records research.  This time I was searching for a couple whose names I knew. I found the marriage of the male and got the volume and page, the quarter and the year plus the place where the marriage was registered. Then I looked for the record of the woman he married.

I could not find her.

A friend who is also researching her family tree searched on her computer 300 miles away! She messaged me to tell me she had found the record in the Beta section, but the name was spelled differently to how we were expecting and consequently wasn’t on the page I had been looking at, even though I was looking for name variations.
 

Similarly I helped her find the male of a marriage whose volume, page, date, place and both partners were known. This time the page that came up was not the one that held the name of the person we were looking for. We were on the “Mc” part of the alphabet instead of the “Ma” section. So this time it was just a  matter of finding the correct page since the name was input correctly onto the
marriage register.

Names are often recorded incorrectly in the birth, marriage and deaths records. I have first hand knowledge of this as my name is spelt correctly on my birth  certificate but is spelt incorrectly on the
page of birth registration. So be prepared for variations!.

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I have been researching the beta birth, marriage and death records. I find these really useful, though they can be a bit laborious to use and find the relevant information. They can also be frustrating when one section of the records is there but other quarters are not. I did a research on the marriage records for a specific year :  Yarmouth vol 4b page 466 and only came up with two records. Unfortunately both were males! the two females were missing. So I could not do the cross referencing that I wished to do!

On the plus side: these records were not available when I started researching the family tree over ten years ago, s with all their shortcomings they are still valuable!

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I added new pages to the web today. Pages on teaching children, (I have had over thirty years experience of teaching young children )children’s behaviour and preparing your young child for school.

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I added new pages today. Two more categories for books… D.I.Y and Cookery.  One page named March because we unexpectedly had snow (unexpected from MY point of view! I thought Spring was on it’s way!)  and I had two photos to add; and one page called Runty about the cat who lived to be 21 years old, even though she was the RUNT of the litter.

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Thumbnails were added to my site today, thanks to my daughter in the UK for uploading them and teaching me how to add them to my page. She also taught me how to make it so that when  the thumbnails are clicked on they open in a new window of their own.

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I found today that it is very important when writing html to leave spaces in the correct place. I was highlighting a word in bold BUT forgot to leave a space before I closed the command. Hence all the rest of the writing was in BOLD! I went back in to see what I had missed out in the command but it looked alright. On closer inspection I saw a space was lacking! I had written (b) BOLD(/b)  (with the correct brackets). Not much but one space made all the difference when it was put in!

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I started working on more web pages today and added one about children’s books and one about the new tree I am working on. Looking good I thought! My daughter, the one who uploads my pictures and teaches me what to do, looked at the pages and went in to correct one or two things I had done in the html writing. She told me I had done a good job and the pages looked good!

Then began my lessons! How to write html AND make it look presentable. So that not only does the web page look good but also the source code is readable by those who understand these things (not me YET!) When I had initially written my html I had put  what I thought made it work. What I had in fact done was put double codes in places, so that half of what I was putting in was redundant!

The other thing I had done was to start a command but not finish it (such as putting 

 a < p >  but not the  < / p>  to finish it off!!!

PLUS I learnt that the pages can be made to look the same by putting  a code in the index page.  This defines how your site will  look in the body, headers etc. Makes life easier!

 I learnt how to put boxes round text and to change the look of the text. Not bad considering my teacher was over 5,000 kilometers away in UK while I am sitting at my computer in Canada! (I have a practice page to see if I can cope with all this without my daughter’s guidance! Time will tell!)

 I also now realise that the robots and spiders that go into my site read mainly the Meta-tags which my site was lacking but now has. All thanks to my daughter putting the code in ready for me to go fill! Now my pages look much neater from the code point of view and I am hoping they pass the test of my teacher’s critical eye when she looks at my homework!

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Yesterday 2 pear trees and 3 apple trees were pruned. It did not take as long as I expected. With two people working at it , it was a good mornings work. The sticks got thrown on the ground while we were working. Later they were collected ready to be burnt. I looked at the 2 plum trees and the one bing tree thinking they needed pruning. The growth was different to the apple and pear trees. So I was in doubt. To  prune or not. Had they ever been pruned? I researched on the internet and found the answer. A resounding  YES! If they are not pruned then the production of fruit is not likely to be as good as if pruned and the tree could deterioate in production over the years.

I went back outside and looked again at the plum tree. It had loads of bushy bits growing at it’s base so I set about clearing as much as I could. I cut them back and ended up with a big pile of twiggy bits. The tree now has less garbage growing round the base of it and more light in the higher sections. I have no idea what it is that I was cutting back! It had long thorny bits on the twigs. I hope I have done the right thing!

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I found out that the name I was given for the grandmother was definately the one she had been given at birth. So that means the family I had found the other night was NOT the one that belonged to the family tree I was researching. Back to the drawing board! However, on the plus side I now know which families to eliminate from the tree which could be a help with future research finds that I come across. Sometimes you have to eliminate a lot to get where you wish to go!

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