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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: (English) Help deciphering birth certificate comments
« on: Wednesday 10 April 24 17:16 BST (UK) »
To be pedantic, I think it actually says “a” Housekeeper.
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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry tree: finding individual?
« on: Tuesday 02 April 24 22:45 BST (UK) »
Open the tree and there should be a search box on the right hand side of the screen.
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Cheshire / Re: Cheshire (Wirral) Electoral Roll records - about 1960
« on: Tuesday 02 April 24 11:50 BST (UK) »
The library doesn’t have a car park but, the last time I went, I used the one on the opposite side of Borough Road a short walk away on Turner Street. Come to think of it, I’m sure I had some rellies who lived on a previous incarnation of Turner Street!
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Cheshire / Re: Cheshire (Wirral) Electoral Roll records - about 1960
« on: Wednesday 27 March 24 08:43 GMT (UK) »
Try Birkenhead Central Library on Borough Road. I looked at a load there; I think (I’m currently away) from the 1930’s.
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The Lighter Side / Re: Tracing the Family Doctor from your childhood? A different NHS in the 1940s!
« on: Sunday 24 March 24 18:02 GMT (UK) »
I managed to trace mine a couple of years ago. From being a child, I remember him being very, very old. I was surprised to find out that he retired quite recently.
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: What did my great grandmother die of?
« on: Friday 22 March 24 08:38 GMT (UK) »
I suspect that is something of an oversimplification - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantoux_test
(I haven’t studied the article in detail as I’m currently on a campsite in Northumberland!)
(I haven’t studied the article in detail as I’m currently on a campsite in Northumberland!)
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: What did my great grandmother die of?
« on: Thursday 21 March 24 20:58 GMT (UK) »
I’ve never managed to get my head round the school TB testing in the 60s. If I remember correctly, I had the first injection, in the forearm, twice. Whilst the other brats were running round comparing the size of their “lumps”, the injections never gave me the slightest reaction and I was neither sent for an x-ray nor given a further inoculation.
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The Lighter Side / Re: 2011 Census Computer database?
« on: Thursday 07 March 24 14:05 GMT (UK) »
“It’s only on the telly!” … as my late father would have said.
It always amuses me when a subject comes up, in either a TV programme or a newspaper story, which I genuinely know something about and which invariably gets hold of the wrong end of the stick.
It always amuses me when a subject comes up, in either a TV programme or a newspaper story, which I genuinely know something about and which invariably gets hold of the wrong end of the stick.
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Lancashire / Re: Cycle Race Medal
« on: Wednesday 06 March 24 08:22 GMT (UK) »
I assume you’ve found this - https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/NCA/2/1 ?