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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 in my tree. There is ...

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 ...

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...

@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 confirm button], "Confi...

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.

Splendid thread. Thanks Mike for the work involved here.

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 her birthday...

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 Thoma...

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?

@Lorna - I think you're correct.

South African 8th Infantry (google) was only formed in 1973. Is South Armagh/ Antrim a possibility? Guessing.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Peter Ferguson.
https://digital.nls.uk/directories/brow ... nscription

Dave Simpson,
You sir are a scholar and a gent. Thanks muchly. A medal is being struck for you at this very moment.

RJDoggett - agree.

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...

Calico pies syrups is an anagram for perspicaciously, and Calico pie clients revolves into political science. Leaving now...

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 have to re-...

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 ...

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,

I too had similar responses. I have complained more than once. The first reply in my view was frankly dismissive. But the subsequent responses when I used the term "accessibility" repeatedly in the post it seemed to have been taken more seriously. FMP need to be made aware that this is not just a de...

It is potentially a problem with both. In my view the creation of any new addition, definition, source, citation or whatever to a database is potentially dangerous without confirmation. And here there seem to be instances of things being created that are not intuitive or intended and require actions...