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- 22 Oct 2023 15:24
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: 1939 Register
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1302
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.
- 22 Oct 2023 13:35
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: 1939 Register
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1302
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.
- 15 Jan 2023 11:08
- Forum: Research
- Topic: Robert Brent M.D. (1819-1872)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2176
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...
- 20 Dec 2022 23:34
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Quality of media images in diagrams
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2038
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 ...
- 04 Oct 2022 10:06
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Opening image files
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2199
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...
- 26 Jun 2022 15:29
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: Feeling stupid...again...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1612
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...
- 09 Jun 2022 11:52
- Forum: Research
- Topic: Given Name Used
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3029
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.
- 30 May 2022 10:46
- Forum: Importing
- Topic: Import from TMG - Missing Some Citations
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13237
Re: Import from TMG - Missing Some Citations
Splendid thread. Thanks Mike for the work involved here.
- 15 Apr 2022 13:25
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Dealing with AGE anomalies
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1718
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...
- 05 Apr 2022 08:21
- Forum: Research
- Topic: are the same couple married twice 7 Years apart?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3346
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 ...
- 09 Mar 2022 16:13
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: New PC MS Word & Libre Office Problems
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2030
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?
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?
- 18 Feb 2022 10:15
- Forum: Research
- Topic: "Rank or Profession" of the Groom?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3373
Re: "Rank or Profession" of the Groom?
@Lorna - I think you're correct.
- 17 Feb 2022 22:42
- Forum: Research
- Topic: "Rank or Profession" of the Groom?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3373
Re: "Rank or Profession" of the Groom?
South African 8th Infantry (google) was only formed in 1973. Is South Armagh/ Antrim a possibility? Guessing.
- 03 Feb 2022 15:49
- Forum: Research
- Topic: TIP Ancestry search criteria
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2314
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...
- 03 Feb 2022 12:04
- Forum: Research
- Topic: TIP Ancestry search criteria
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2314
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...
- 24 Jan 2022 10:59
- Forum: Research
- Topic: What occupation is this?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1870
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.
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.
- 19 Jan 2022 10:48
- Forum: Research
- Topic: TIP Useful info on 1921 Census
- Replies: 1
- Views: 966
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...
- 11 Jan 2022 18:43
- Forum: Research
- Topic: Registrar's signature decipher, please!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1083
- 11 Jan 2022 11:29
- Forum: Research
- Topic: 1921 Search Tip
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2398
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.
You sir are a scholar and a gent. Thanks muchly. A medal is being struck for you at this very moment.
- 22 Jul 2021 14:05
- Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
- Topic: On Hold until 24 Oct 2024: Ability to Change Type of Fact
- Replies: 98
- Views: 22631
Re: Ability to Change Type of Fact
RJDoggett - agree.
- 22 Jul 2021 14:02
- Forum: Genealogy News
- Topic: Poor or no response opening FindMyPast images
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4035
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...
- 14 Apr 2021 16:09
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Calico Pie - The name
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1985
Re: Calico Pie - The name
Calico pies syrups is an anagram for perspicaciously, and Calico pie clients revolves into political science. Leaving now...
- 12 Mar 2021 11:57
- Forum: Research
- Topic: FMP census and the 1939 register
- Replies: 46
- Views: 17120
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...
- 11 Mar 2021 10:17
- Forum: Research
- Topic: FMP census and the 1939 register
- Replies: 46
- Views: 17120
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 ...
- 10 Mar 2021 16:25
- Forum: Research
- Topic: FMP census and the 1939 register
- Replies: 46
- Views: 17120
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,