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   Graeme Wall to Peter Johnson   
   Re: censuses (was: Re: House Breaker)   
   12 Feb 22 18:49:23   
   
   From: rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
      
   On 12/02/2022 17:53, Peter Johnson wrote:   
   > On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 06:37:28 +0000, Colin Bignell    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> I also hope to visit a few   
   >> graveyards and to see any surviving places my ancestors lived. Google   
   >> street view has confirmed that some of them are still there.   
   >   
   > Now you are getting serious, but there is nothing more mind-numbing   
   > than walking up and down churchyeards and cemteries looking for   
   > specific graves, unless it's quite small.   
   >   
      
   Then you discover the headstone is gone and the location grassed over   
   years back! That was after you found that the records had confused   
   Guildford and Godalming. Searched the former many times, to discover, by   
   chance, I should have been searching the latter.   
      
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   Graeme Wall   
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