When you order a certificate that you already have. I had returned to an ancestor that I was researching a few months ago and "found" his Medal Index Card at the National Archives. Too bad I already had it. And didn't bother to file it properly. Arrgh.
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I haven't done that with a cert, but, I have done that with 'other' bits of FH.. like chasing up a son and busily finding all the relevant info, census, marriage details etc... too look in my FTM tree and see that it is already there!! [complete with ref's etc!!]Julie
They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........
.......I find dead people
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I have done that too rjm, but with a wrong cert.
I spent many years trying to find my great gran's birth cert and twice sent for the same wrong one. And, of course because it was wrong, I hadn't entered it on my tree or filed it properly.
I have a nice batch of wrong certs for great gran but did find her eventually ( totally different father so different surname).herky
Researching - Trimmer (Farringdon), Noble & Taylor (Ross and Cromarty), Norris (Glasgow), McGilvray (Glasgow and Australia), Leck & Efford (Glasgow), Ferrett (Hampshire), Jenkins & Williams (Aberystwyth), Morton (Motherwell and Tipton), Barrowman (Glasgow), Lilley (Bromsgrove and Glasgow), Cresswell (England and Lanarkshire). Simpson, Morrow and Norris in Ireland. Thomas Price b c 1844 Scotland.
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Thankfully I have not reordered certs, but I have researched the same ancestor line more than twice or three times, or four ;D
I do have an excuse for 'the twice' computer stolen so lost all files ( yes I know I didn't back up) and 'new' research I had only put on the computer, not in my written record files and the second time the computer got a virus and they couldn't get lots of the data back, I backed up onto an external hard drive which was also affected and it was all a complete garbled mess...all I can say is you learn from your mistakes ( I think)
The other times I have absolutely no excuse for at all, although I am really pleased I did as not only did I check everything I had researched before I found lots of other information and records that I didn't find the first time around, which smashed some brickwalls but it is great to know others are eejits tooFoxyloxy
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I have a spreadsheet that I list all the my certificates.
I enter all the details from the BMD index of the certificates I want (when I can afford them!), I then put a date in a column when I place the order, then in another column when they arrive, and finally in a column when I have scanned them and entered them into my tree.
It is quick and easy to check before ordering a new certificate that I haven't already got it.Co-ordinator for PoW project Southern Region 08
Researching:- Wieland, Habbes, Saettele, Bowinkelmann, Freckenhauser, Dilger in Germany
Kincaid, Warner, Hitchman, Collie, Curtis, Pocock, Stanley, Nixey, McDonald in London, Berks, Bucks, Oxon and West Midlands
Drake, Beals, Pritchard in Kent
Devine in Ireland
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Originally posted by PeteW1959 View PostI have a spreadsheet that I list all the my certificates.Caroline
Caroline's Family History Pages
Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
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so glad I'm not the only one who "forgets" previous research. I tend to flit from branch to branch with my research so I might spend hours on a line and then go to my other notes and find my research results already there. Usually happens with the difficult research lines as I have to keep taking a break from them because they drive me mad !!! The certificates I've bought I keep in a couple of ring binders filed under family names so I always check there before ordering. Amazing how much research you gather but I have been doing this for over 32 years !!!my avatar is Emily Varndell Andrews,my paternal grandmother born 1891
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i have my certs in folders, and scan the english and irish ones and add them ancestry. i add all the scots ones to ancestry too. any aussie ones i have on a4 paper i do the same. i usually print off some certs more than once (by accident) thinking i havn't done it, but so far, have not bought any duplicates.
i put the year and district of the events in my ancestry tree, and check there before ordering anything. usually, if i have full dates within certificate years, i have a copy of the record.
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Originally posted by PeteW1959 View PostI have a spreadsheet that I list all the my certificates.
I enter all the details from the BMD index of the certificates I want (when I can afford them!), I then put a date in a column when I place the order, then in another column when they arrive, and finally in a column when I have scanned them and entered them into my tree.
It is quick and easy to check before ordering a new certificate that I haven't already got it.
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Originally posted by rjm View PostGood idea. If nothing else this whole duplicate certificate episode has finally convinced me to get organized.
How-to-store-it-allJulie
They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........
.......I find dead people
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Originally posted by Olde Crone Holden View PostI ordered a birth cert from a local RO. I was very fortunate that they emailed me and asked me if I really wanted it as I had already purchased it six weeks before!
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