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Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 162 Send Message	PDH not so new now!	Report	16 Apr 2008 16:52
	Thanks to everyone who has listened to me over the months as I worried away at my "Smith" problem. A few people were kind enough to think through a lot of stuff. Today I had a flash of inspiration and looked sideways and discovered the reason the info didn't fit....it was the wrong Walter Smith!!!! I have found the right one by trawling through the enumeration district to look at the address I had for 1903- thank goodness he didn't move from 1901 and I found him! My error was in believing his "occupation" on the marriage cert in 1903, because on the 1901 he has put something else (back in 1881 he is still practising the original job). Now the family names all fit with what my aunty remembers. Course I have piles of stuff on the wrong family, so if anyone needs a Walter Smith, born in Norfolk, 1857, you know who to ask... Today is a good day! Petrina
Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 24 447 Send Message	Dea	Report	16 Apr 2008 19:03
	Well done !! - It is obvious that you feel VERY pleased and quite rightly so !! Enjoy your success! - this is what it is all about! Dea x