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Good morning Helen,

May I ask if you have had a browse through these newspapers available at the Hampshire Archive for your Grandfather?

Hampshire_Library_Service_newspaper_archive

My regards, Bill

Thank you Jane, for the link to the RLC archive site. The RASC where my Grandfathers mob, before he joined the MGC and I am still digging after 15 years! Slow progress is possible.

Good health.

My regards, Bill

Aye Adrian, thank you for the enlightenment towards OBE and MBE, much appreciated and another reason "Why?" I enjoy genealogy. I am still trying to get my head around William Samuel Fields lack of appearance, so far, in the London Gazette of the time. However, I shall leave further 'digging' to imac...

Aye imac_boy, Having re-read your posting, I am confused! :? The letter from St.James's Palace refers to the award of the OBE and yet the envelope addresses your Uncle as having been awarded the MBE! :? I leave that mystery to you. ;) After a bit more digging, I believe I have come across the entry ...

Aye imac_boy, Rather than digging in Ancestry, I have found 'FindMyPast' to be very good for WWI records and I took the liberty to make a search using your Uncle's details from his Medal Card. I took a screen dump of the top 5 results and wondered if the 3rd, 4th and 5th entries are of the same man ...

Aye Ann, May I suggest that you have a read through his blog and make contact with Paul Nixon (http://armyservicenumbers.blogspot.co.uk/) ? Paul's insight into military records, their location and potential availability, even though your research maybe outwith his more usual area of research can be ...

Good evening Lorna,

Thank you for your straight forward instructions, at 02:30am I don't always see the obvious!

I don't cope with written 'Help' very well either, but that was really good.

My regards, Bill

Morning Peter,

Email despatched , with attachments.

Instructions of how to post clipped images directly into messages on this forum would be appreciated.

Thank you.

My regards, Bill

Aye Peter, Did quite a few surveys around Castleton and Newcastleton and didn't hear the "Shielding" place name being used. However, as already suggested I have referred to the NLS website and trawled through all of the 25 inch to the mile, 1st edition, 1855-1882 sheets, http://maps.nls.uk/os/25inch...

Aye Mike, after a long walk, I came back to the debacle and took drastic action. I deleted the 'F:\Family History\Family Historian Project' folder, created a folder 'F:\Family History\FH_Projects' and then used FH to copy across my projects from earlier backups. Using this string 'To copy/rename a P...

Good morning Bill and Mike, thank you both for your constructive observations upon my debacle. I am going to sit down quietly, reload an earlier copy from my backup and start again! Bill: Old habits from the late '80's die hard and I don't 'trust' 'My Documents', with everything getting dumped into ...

My apologies for cluttering up the forum, but my 'bet noir' has struck again! I appear not to be able to get my head around the 'Folder', 'File' structure used by FH. I have attached 3 screen dumps to illustrate my inability and used the 'Help' and the FHv6 manual to try and sort this out! I suspect...

Aye Ann,
Thank you for your reply. Where would we be without Mike?
My regards, Bill

Aye Jessie and Ann, I had/have similar problems getting my head around "Where?" and "How?" to structure my files and folders and it was sufficiently bad for me to consider "giving up" on using FH to organise them. The old "Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS)" acronym is best applied! I too have my own syst...

Good evening Mervyn, thank you for your suggestion. I have given it a try and it makes no difference to my inability to view some videos, so I have reverted to the 'default' Firefox setting. If I find the solution, I shall post it on here.
My regards, Bill

Good evening Joan, Thank you for your consoling words. I think the problem relates to specific sites and the code they are using to publish/launch their videos. WHY? I cannot answer. I can cope with binary arithmetic, just, but algebra and logic are not in my wiring. ;) If I find or somebody shows m...

Aye Colin,

I guessed as much after Googling it. Keep riding the bike, its good therapy after some genealogical 'brick walls'! Bit cold here at -6°C and still falling, tonight.
Good health, Bill

This scam has just been publicised to subscribers to Which? magazine. Just be aware. This quotation in full, has been taken from the latest bonafide Which? subscribers newsletter. "Scam watch: Spoof genealogy email My sister recently got an email that appeared to be from me, but in fact came from my...

Aye Valkrider and Mike, My thanks to you both for your positive responses. The YMMV had me baffled :? but that isn't difficult, with 'text' speak! I uninstalled the Silverlight and updated the Adobe Flash Player to v23.0.0.207, rebooted, then cleaned up the drive and defragged. Resulting in quicker ...

Good evening tatewise, Thank you for your guidance in your last post. However, when I try to use the link in Janes initial message, I am still confronted with a black screen. By using the 'Back' arrow at the right-hand end of the 'address' window I can get the address to reload and briefly view a wh...

Thank you Jane and 'tatewise, I accept my comment towards Calico Pie may have been unnecessarily harsh and apologise if offence has been taken. In the interim I shall continue to use my v6.2.2 and ignore the FindMyPast indicators; I have more than enough to be getting on with trying to bring my rela...

I was disappointed that when asked about Accepting/Rejecting hints from non-UK records with only a UK subscription, the answer was to buy a Worldwide subscription! There are other scenarios where this applies, such as when the user knows about a hint and does not want to waste PAYG credits to Rejec...

I tried to register and before the start of the webinar and it appeared that my ISP connection was intermittent. I don't think my registration was made? I tried several times during the period the webinar was in progress to make contact and couldn't make a link with the server. In spite of this I ha...

This is the text from an Ancestry email to it's customers:- "Ancestry Dear Family Tree Maker™ community, Since our Family Tree Maker announcement last December, we have continued to actively explore ways to develop and support Family Tree Maker and ensure you have choices to preserve your work in wa...

Aye "jmurphy", Thank you for posting the link to Paul Nixon's Blog, just the ticket, as I have been trying to decipher my Grandfathers Army Service number and the answer is on Paul's blog. Some of the heiroglyphics on Grandfather's medal card will require even greater knowledge! ;) All the best with...