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John, the BBC are moving to the rebuilt site of the old Typhoo Tea building, so Bordesley Street/ Typhoo Basin on the Digbeth Branch Canal. I'm glad that they are building and intending to stay in Birmingham. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-62407714

Currently Ancestry won't accept raw DNA data uploads from other company's tests, so anyone with 23 and Me could download their data and keep it for possible future use before deletion. Back up DNA data may belong to the individuals rather than being a company asset. Such data would be covered by...

Yes Eric, see MWS's post #73 above. I think they are trying to sell the company.

Thanks, Lady Penelope. My wife who is a radiographer had an operation for this on one of her hands. I didn't know the Viking connection. She isn't inclined to test her DNA. At present Ancestry don't have health traits, but they have started to offer a survey which might develop in this...

The British Library suffered a cyber attack in Oct 2023 which was massively disruptive. The databases are being rebuilt on a new computer system.https://www.bl.uk/cyber-incident/

Welcome to BHF, Woodcarver! Splendid photos and your personal connection. My Mom lived close, but was a non-swimmer and regaled me with stories of drownings there! Your grandfather and his friends look a fine body of men. Open water swimming is popular, but I don't think any is allowed at...

The ethnic origins are said to be the most open to interpretation in these tests and vary historically. The last upgrade said I'm 2% Icelandic, perhaps this means that a very distant ancestor was a Viking?? The Vikings came to Britain 800 to 1150 AD. I did have a red beard...

Fred Sirieix is of course French and DNA testing remains illegal there. So they won't find many French matches. I'll be interested to see how they establish his ancestry. https://www.myfrenchroots.com/dna-testing-in-france/

There is a risk in submitting DNA to a company, but nothing is risk free and the benefits of doing so are that you can be more sure your family tree is more accurate. It is a wager and it enabled me to build a clearer picture of my grandparents generation. Let's hope Ancestry is secure!

'In September, the firm settled a lawsuit alleging that it failed to protect the privacy of nearly seven million customers whose personal information was exposed in a 2023 data breach. In some cases, hackers gained access to family trees, birth years and geographic locations, by using...

Google Maps can go back as far as 2007. But fortunately historical maps can be overlaid. I'd recommend following @pjmburns advice in #3 The National Library of Scotland is well worth investigation and practicing finding the maps at an age and scale you want...

https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/birmingham-jewellery-quarter/birmingham-jewellery-quarter/

Thanks, as you can see some phrases are much more readable than others. At the moment I can't see any other place or field names I'm afraid. But then I don't know what to look for. Stokkie

Thanks for replying PJay. Can this be seen on-line on the National Archive site? Turning to the page you posted can you give us any place names we might look for? Brimsfield I guess, but are there any others?

Could you take a picture with your phone of the beginning of the first page of the longer document? I'm wondering if this is in legal English too. Are there seals or ribbons at the end. You might have one long document, or the second longer part might be concerned with a different matter entirely.

I should say I was laughing only at Eric's wonderful turn of phrase 'if you can't put a spanner on it...' I suspect that the historical legal language and abbreviations might defeat us. If people can decipher any of this then do post in this thread.

...... is a undecoded word Heading is: To the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Audley …… Lord Chancellor of England [Agreeing with Lady Penelope's post above] Complaining … ... Your good lordship your poor …… Thomas Croft …… that / [Note: "common pleas" are actions between subject and subject...

Actually Eric, Middle English is the language of Chaucer so before this document with more French vocabulary! There are lots of words we can read as modern English once we decipher the handwriting. Spelling wasn't fixed until after Shakespeare's time, so this makes it tricky for modern eyes...

This legal document, I agree it appears to be a plea, is actually written in Early Modern English, so we shouldn't talk about Old English (which is the language of the Anglo Saxons). Shakespeare's Sonnets were published in 1609. Legal texts contain both Latin and French, the handwriting is...

Happy Birthday Viv, I hope you have a lovely day.