Person talk:Claude Askew (1)

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Various suggestions [11 October 2019]

Hi

I have taken the liberty to change some of your facts such as those on residence to fit in with the WeRelate place database. We try to present places employing the geographical description used in 1900. Therefore, Eton College is in Eton, Buckinghamshire, England, rather that Windsor, Berkshire, England; and Kensington was still in Middlesex in 1871. There is a background bit of software that ties all these places together at the end of the day.

Try to keep your description box as brief as possible and add the rest of the detail in a linking Note box or under Personal History. Let the reader work out the age of the person for themselves.

A "Source" is better than a "Citation only" and you could use it for Census details. The first line reads
:England. 18xx Census Returns for England and Wales. This will fit right into our source database. It also automatically adds some of the copyrighting necessities.
Frankly, I have never figured out what to put into the second line, though the name of the enumeration district would fit.
The third line is the important one. It can be found in Ancestry at the top of the formal copyright notice and is labelled "Source Citation". This is an example I just pulled out:
:The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1871 England Census; Class: RG10; Piece: 31; Folio: 84; Page: 27; GSU roll: 838758. The vital bit is the part that starts "RGxx,..." and can be copied and pasted into the box.
The text box can then include the street address and the place and any other location details, some of which you will only see when you go to View Image. Then, on separate lines, list the facts from "View Image" about each of the occupants (you might want to omit family servants and, at Eton, I would only enter the line for the tutor in charge of the house and the pupil in question). But entries in this box can give a picture of a family group, particularly in a situation where you can repeat these at ten-year intervals.
Any other details should go in a Note box that you can link to the Source box.
Another Note can state that you obtained the information from Ancestry.

My own family is not large enough for me to concentrate solely on it, but I love genealogy and have found I can spend my retirement linking it to the historical geography of England and Scotland. Right now I am working on the Middlesex part of what was the County of London between 1900 and 1965. This is how I came across your submissions.

I found your work on Claude Askew very interesting. It is very unusual to discover the human touches you brought to it. All the best. --Goldenoldie 07:27, 11 October 2019 (UTC)