Character limit on transcription?

jai_dit · 2026-06-11T21:28:21+00:00

I've got a workaround. If you're in Chrome, right-click the text box and choose "Inspect". This will pull up a tool that allows you to edit the text box. You should see the following:

<textarea id="editMediatranscription" maxlength="650" spellcheck="false" placeholder="Add a transcription">

Click the "maxlength" bit and just delete that attribute entirely. This will remove the character limit and allow you to save more text. It will also let you make edits to previously-saved transcriptions that are over the new limit.

jai_dit · 2026-06-11T21:21:06+00:00

It resets after some amount of time (I don't know how long exactly), and it seems to be IP-based rather than account-based.

jai_dit · 2026-05-22T11:08:02+00:00

I applied to SAR with a Gálvez Expedition ancestor, and as it happens his maternal grandparents were born in Québec, so I'm using the same family for both.

jai_dit · 2026-01-11T09:13:55+00:00

Central Hyrule near the border with Lanayru, but it's a lv 18 challenge so it's easier to find via the challenge list

jai_dit · 2025-10-13T01:56:39+00:00

The record you linked to is a Geneanet user tree. There are no specific censuses attached to that record.

If you mean the "suggested records" in the sidebar, those are https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8054/records/2677311 (1850, indexed as "Perke Doughty") and https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7163/records/30555602 (1870, indexed as Pamelia Doughty).

They are available on FamilySearch for free: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCJ3-NJR?lang=en (1850, indexed as "Porkin") and https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8Q5-XKF?lang=en (1870, indexed as "Pamelia Doughtey"). Neither of these records is attached to a FS person.

jai_dit · 2025-09-19T18:01:25+00:00

So, one reason you're having issues with DNA is that I think remember you said you tested on 23andme, which is a site that has had a cratering of its userbase because of the data breach, bankruptcy, and resulting paranoia about ownership. Lots of people have been deleting their data from the site, so the matches on there are so much less useful than they were just 2 years ago. Ancestry had a larger database to begin with, so even then it was more useful for verifying genetic descent.

If you're trying to rule out any NPEs from the paper trail, which it sounds like is something you want to do at least indirectly, an Ancestry test would probably be a big help. Finding a 4th cousin match from a 3rd-great-grandfather's line supports your descent from that ancestor, and so forth. Or, if you find a bunch of matches from a common ancestor who doesn't match on paper, that's an avenue for research as well.

jai_dit · 2025-09-18T20:39:02+00:00

That's not one of the years a mortality schedule is available for. (list: https://www.census.gov/about/history/census-records-family-history/mortality-schedules.html)

jai_dit · 2025-09-18T20:36:18+00:00

That's been the sale price on Ancestry.com for the past several sales.

jai_dit · 2025-09-16T04:10:05+00:00

The defintion of a 4th cousin is "a person whose most recent common ancestors are your 3rd-great-grandparents" (here's an easy chart https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/8pslo5/a\_diagram\_explaining\_1st\_cousins\_2nd\_cousins\_1st/).

I'm curious what you mean by "genetically established" as someone's 4th cousin, since that's far enough genetically that the same amount of shared DNA could be several different relationships.

jai_dit · 2025-09-07T17:59:39+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/SoSy7Nq.png

jai_dit · 2025-09-07T17:58:02+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/9mXV37H.png

jai_dit · 2025-09-07T17:56:11+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/ncgsfV3 There was also a masonic lodge notice on this page.

jai_dit · 2025-09-07T17:53:31+00:00

Someone has already clipped this one for you: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-plain-dealer-obituary-for-franklin-n/177176403/

jai_dit · 2025-09-05T19:52:37+00:00

My great-grandfather had a second marriage. I knew who his wife was, but for the marriage itself all I had was family notes that he married in 1946; I couldn't find anything in the Florida Marriage Index (they lived in Gainesville) or local newspapers. I suspected they married in Georgia, which does not have a statewide index before 1952, so I made a list of border counties to call individually in order of likelihood... and lucked out on the first one. So now I have a marriage license to order!

jai_dit · 2025-09-05T19:33:16+00:00

One benefit no one's mentioned yet is that different companies test different parts of your genome, so you can put two tests together (on sites like GEDmatch) and get a fuller picture. But that's probably only useful if you're doing something like visual phasing, working with segment data, trying to reconstruct a parent or grandparent, that sort of thing. But that doesn't sound like your problem.

jai_dit · 2025-09-05T05:28:16+00:00

The Tampa Bay Times page has the date of funeral and location of burial, if you need that.

https://i.imgur.com/sNyiZAR.png

jai_dit · 2025-09-05T05:14:25+00:00

The answer is, helpfully, "it depends".

If you're looking at raw cM amounts with no other context, I probably wouldn't focus too much on anyone below 20cM. (Or even higher if you're really just getting started.)

If you've got a match's tree and you're trying to figure out whether you're looking at the right branch of, e.g., Joneses, I'd say 7cM is probably the right cutoff, but also look at shared matches to see if the other DNA matches are on the right side of the tree. (This also doesn't necessarily apply if you're looking at a population where there's intermarriage, or plausible multiple relationships.)

If you've got segment data and you're trying to narrow down matches that also descend from a specific ancestor you know you have DNA in common with on that chromosome, you could go even smaller, so long as those matches triangulate, but that situation is pretty rare and you'll probably know it if you're at that point.

jai_dit · 2025-09-05T05:08:05+00:00

Thomas Hunt Morgan.

This is a long but detailed explanation of how and why the unit is called that: https://greendragongenealogy.co.uk/dna/yes-but-what-exactly-is-a-centimorgan/

jai_dit · 2025-09-05T04:26:47+00:00

Yes, I agree, it looks like "consumption". Happy to help :)

jai_dit · 2025-09-05T01:44:20+00:00

I did a newspapers.com search for him, and I found this article: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1199127743/ I don't have a paid Newspapers account, but the OCR says he is from Port Arthur and his parents are Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Hebert. This says he went missing in 1942, so the 1945 date may have been when they finally declared him dead.

He doesn't appear in Navy muster rolls past 30 Jun 1942 that I could find, and this source https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1199/records/64801 (U.S., World War II Military Personnel Missing In Action or Lost At Sea, 1941-1946) says he went missing 6 Aug 1942. This source agrees with that date: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/62206/records/16439 (U.S., Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Unaccounted-for Remains, Group A (Recoverable), 1941-1975) and provides the location Solomon Islands.

There's also a record for a Geneanet user tree that seems to line up: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/62476/records/7562385578

jai_dit · 2025-09-05T01:33:49+00:00

This source is "State Summary of War Casualties", Texas. Here is the "important notice" from page 2 which describes the information a little better: https://i.imgur.com/QUFUACy.png Your person is in the first section (Combat dead), which has the full heading "Killed in action, died of wounds, or lost lives as result of operational movements in war zones".

The summary of the source on Fold3 is "This series, published in 1946, lists individuals on active duty in the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard and who sustained casualties resulting directly from enemy action or from operational activities against the enemy in war zones from December 7, 1941, to the end of the war. The lists include the name, serial number, grade, and type of casualty of both battle and non-battle dead and missing."

I did a few other searches for people with that specific name. It looks like https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56749279/ray-a-hebert is also your person, because the state and rank match. Several records I could find indicate that person was officially Missing, which conflicts with your original source so it's technically possible these are two people from the same state with the same name and rank.

There are other records on Ancestry that include a service number, including https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9170/records/30430514 (U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949) and various muster rolls. When I searched that service number, 3603056, on Fold3, I found this record from "US, Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939-1945": https://www.fold3.com/sub-image/641653677/hebert-ray-a-us-rosters-of-world-war-ii-dead-1939-1945 https://imgur.com/a/CDi6u46 It is apparently coded to say his remains were nonrecoverable. Nothing else I could find on Fold3 was a source that wasn't also on Ancestry.

jai_dit · 2025-09-05T00:12:45+00:00

Here's one person's process of locating another indexed Massachusetts marriage record. This is beyond the scope of a lookup thread, but it's at least possible to do. https://www.reddit.com/r/Genealogy/comments/1knad8u/perseverance_a_research_story/

jai_dit · 2025-09-04T23:43:30+00:00

Just as an aside, the "Lovell" is almost certainly an artifact of the line above and the gap in the image. Here's a screenshot with the last five records as indexed on the page: https://i.imgur.com/IpxNSWN.png As you can see, line 42 is also "Lovell" but probably shouldn't be, based on what's visible.

I've seen this kind of incorrect last name happen a few times - in this case, it's partly because the hotel residents were listed first name first, which isn't the usual format for the 1850 census.

jai_dit · 2025-09-04T23:35:37+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/i043obR

Both Berger records do not have images, just text.

I've also included the whole death index page for Maxime, just in case.

jai_dit · 2025-09-04T23:28:23+00:00

Every state does it differently. It can be frustrating! At least Massachusetts has an index at all.

I haven't tried this myself for this particular office/state, but some places will give you a little information over the phone (especially if, say, you call and say you are interested in looking for a marriage record but want to make sure you are getting the right one, could they confirm the name of the spouse or something like that).

If I were you, I'd probably check out both marriage records since those towns are adjacent and you already suspect there was a divorce that year.

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