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by Martin Tolley
22 Oct 2023 15:24
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: 1939 Register
Replies: 23
Views: 1286

Re: 1939 Register

I have recently adopted the following: "Sorry I don't remember my date of birth, but YOU have it on that piece of paper infront of you. So perhaps you could remind me?" It doesn't go down well.
by Martin Tolley
22 Oct 2023 13:35
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: 1939 Register
Replies: 23
Views: 1286

Re: 1939 Register

And the 1939 Register thinking is still prevalent in the NHS today. Address and date of birth are the key (only?) features used to identify you as an individual. Every time I have a GP or Nurse or hospital appointment I get asked, (sometimes several times) to give my date of birth.
by Martin Tolley
15 Jan 2023 11:08
Forum: Research
Topic: Robert Brent M.D. (1819-1872)
Replies: 14
Views: 2172

Re: Robert Brent M.D. (1819-1872)

Tim is correct re army marriages. Army persons who married without formal permission were "married" but their wives did not qualify for the benefits of being "taken on the strength" for rations and accomodation and the like. So second/duplicate marriages were common. I have one i...
by Martin Tolley
20 Dec 2022 23:34
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Quality of media images in diagrams
Replies: 22
Views: 2031

Re: Quality of media images in diagrams

Mark is correct. For image files on screen, resolution values are irrelevant if you (re-)size the images in pixels. This YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSx1PlrUhr4 shows what's really happening. It's a bit convoluted in parts but the illustrations of images at various resolutions are ...
by Martin Tolley
04 Oct 2022 10:06
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Opening image files
Replies: 25
Views: 2190

Re: Opening image files

I find that Win11 rather more than previous systems, seems intent on pushing the user towards MS apps rather than third party ones at almost every opportunity. (It seems to be worse than even Samsung on android.) For instance I don't want Edge as my primary browser, but it's an ongoing battle to kee...
by Martin Tolley
26 Jun 2022 15:29
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: Feeling stupid...again...
Replies: 10
Views: 1597

Re: Feeling stupid...again...

@Mervyn. In my job we had to use an American-written student management system called Blackboard. In order to delete any record for a student, incorrect mark etc we got the following dialogues "Delete?": [click delete button] "Are you sure you want to delete? Confirm": [click con...
by Martin Tolley
09 Jun 2022 11:52
Forum: Research
Topic: Given Name Used
Replies: 12
Views: 3003

Re: Given Name Used

My dad was Lionel Arthur. He was universally known as Jim. Where that came from we don't know, and neither did he, but his grandfather was James. My dad didn't know that his "real name" was Lionel until he went to school and heard the register called.
by Martin Tolley
30 May 2022 10:46
Forum: Importing
Topic: Import from TMG - Missing Some Citations
Replies: 20
Views: 13206

Re: Import from TMG - Missing Some Citations

Splendid thread. Thanks Mike for the work involved here.
by Martin Tolley
15 Apr 2022 13:25
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Dealing with AGE anomalies
Replies: 13
Views: 1714

Re: Dealing with AGE anomalies

My great grandmother had six different dates of birth, all recorded on "official" documents of one sort or another. There are different days, different years and different months. I don't think she ever knew what the real one was. My great grandfather told me that she chose to celebrate he...
by Martin Tolley
05 Apr 2022 08:21
Forum: Research
Topic: are the same couple married twice 7 Years apart?
Replies: 20
Views: 3331

Re: are the same couple married twice 7 Years apart?

The new edition of Who Do You Think You Are magazine has a similar question. Although the circumstances are a little different, the concluding sentence of the paragraph concerns the 7 year gap,and might indicate that one or other of your two folk were technically unable to marry initially. "If ...
by Martin Tolley
09 Mar 2022 16:13
Forum: General Usage
Topic: New PC MS Word & Libre Office Problems
Replies: 11
Views: 2016

Re: New PC MS Word & Libre Office Problems

Free convert:
https://www.freeconvert.com/odt-to-docx
claims to do this online en mass, upto a gigabyte worth for free, any more as a paid option. Not tried it, but saw it a few months back. Mybe it has a hideous watermark, who knows?
by Martin Tolley
18 Feb 2022 10:15
Forum: Research
Topic: "Rank or Profession" of the Groom?
Replies: 13
Views: 3308

Re: "Rank or Profession" of the Groom?

@Lorna - I think you're correct.
by Martin Tolley
17 Feb 2022 22:42
Forum: Research
Topic: "Rank or Profession" of the Groom?
Replies: 13
Views: 3308

Re: "Rank or Profession" of the Groom?

South African 8th Infantry (google) was only formed in 1973. Is South Armagh/ Antrim a possibility? Guessing.
by Martin Tolley
03 Feb 2022 15:49
Forum: Research
Topic: TIP Ancestry search criteria
Replies: 6
Views: 2306

Re: TIP Ancestry search criteria

William I've gotten used to trying all sorts of manual and auto variations over the years. In my experience Ancestry needs a lot of guess and punt. A more significant issue is that I seem to be blessed with forebears who not only couldn't (or chose not to) spell their names correctly but who discard...
by Martin Tolley
03 Feb 2022 12:04
Forum: Research
Topic: TIP Ancestry search criteria
Replies: 6
Views: 2306

Re: TIP Ancestry search criteria

Have in the past experienced similar oddities with my families in Somerset, Dorset and Devon - which mostly don't have -shire in the name, but sometimes in some records the -shire is present. It also happens with local useage with my wife's families where churches say they are in Northampton, but re...
by Martin Tolley
24 Jan 2022 10:59
Forum: Research
Topic: What occupation is this?
Replies: 6
Views: 1858

Re: What occupation is this?

1881 FMP transcription says Foreman Cornmerchant.
In 1871 he's a Corn porter and in 1891 a Foreman corn porter.
An interesting website https://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/Dockers.html about Liverpool docks gives an account of the work (and character) of corn porter lumpers whose life seems a bit hard.
by Martin Tolley
19 Jan 2022 10:48
Forum: Research
Topic: TIP Useful info on 1921 Census
Replies: 1
Views: 960

Re: TIP Useful info on 1921 Census

I too have found some more defined places, especially for folk born some way away from their registration place even within England. BUT the exotic FMP transcriptions can be less than helpful. I don't think Taunton is in Somalia...
by Martin Tolley
11 Jan 2022 11:29
Forum: Research
Topic: 1921 Search Tip
Replies: 12
Views: 2378

Re: 1921 Search Tip

Dave Simpson,
You sir are a scholar and a gent. Thanks muchly. A medal is being struck for you at this very moment.
by Martin Tolley
22 Jul 2021 14:02
Forum: Genealogy News
Topic: Poor or no response opening FindMyPast images
Replies: 6
Views: 4012

Re: Poor or no response opening FindMyPast images

Endorse Jane's comment. I've found that images, and particularly manipulating them, enlarging etc is poor in Firefox, with images sometime just bloating to gigantic sizes or crashing off the screen completely. Don't like using it, but Chrome always works better for me. The latest versions of Ff seem...
by Martin Tolley
14 Apr 2021 16:09
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Calico Pie - The name
Replies: 5
Views: 1984

Re: Calico Pie - The name

Calico pies syrups is an anagram for perspicaciously, and Calico pie clients revolves into political science. Leaving now...
by Martin Tolley
12 Mar 2021 11:57
Forum: Research
Topic: FMP census and the 1939 register
Replies: 46
Views: 17057

Re: FMP census and the 1939 register

As of this morning there seems to be a new button "Close all pages" which removes the filmstrip. BUT if you move forward or back to the next image, it defaults to the filmstrip on mode, and it also loses any changes you may have made wrt re-sizing changing colour or contrast etc. and you h...
by Martin Tolley
11 Mar 2021 10:17
Forum: Research
Topic: FMP census and the 1939 register
Replies: 46
Views: 17057

Re: FMP census and the 1939 register

Well. I've just been using this on my Samsung Tablet - 5 1/2 in x 9 in - and in portrait mode (!) it works pretty well - the film strip is well out of the way, and the size can go a long ways up for clearer reading without stuff getting too much in the way. If i'd been a tester with this format I'd ...
by Martin Tolley
10 Mar 2021 16:25
Forum: Research
Topic: FMP census and the 1939 register
Replies: 46
Views: 17057

Re: FMP census and the 1939 register

Just as (or even more?) irritating when using this new UI, I found that when you examine an image and resize it to be readable, if you move forward or backwards, the next image shoots back to the "default" size and you have to adjust all over again. Grrrrr,