Through my work on the POW project, particularly in Yorkshire, I have come to realise just how many places ther are with the same name. I have just put some pics by Elizabeth Herts in the wiki but when I first saw them, I checked to see if we already had them, as the place names were familiar. I looked at Sowerby & discovered that Tom had already put up pics for there, but when I saw the pics were of different churches, I checked genuki & sure enough, there are 2 Sowerbys, one in the old Thirsk parish & the other in Halifax, as well as a Sowerby Bridge.
I had a similar problem with a pic from Carlton taken by Ann L in Darlo, when I checked Genuki, I discovered that there were 7 different Carltons & that was just in Yorkshire.
If other counties have similar problems, it amazes me that we ever manage to locate people on the census.
I had a similar problem with a pic from Carlton taken by Ann L in Darlo, when I checked Genuki, I discovered that there were 7 different Carltons & that was just in Yorkshire.
If other counties have similar problems, it amazes me that we ever manage to locate people on the census.
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