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Heraldry Crests and Coats of Arms / Coats of Arms on building
« on: Wednesday 27 September 23 14:20 BST (UK)  »
I've posted a query on the photo recognition board about identifying a building, probably via some coats of arms on an entrance porch, but it hasn't had any responses yet.

If any heraldry experts haven't seen it yet, do please take a look, and post any thoughts there:

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=876730.0

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Coats of Arms (WW1 Auxiliary Hospital?)
« on: Friday 22 September 23 19:31 BST (UK)  »
On another forum, someone has been trying to identify the location of what seems to be a WW1 Auxiliary Hospital, but so far without any luck. The main identifying feature is an entrance porch with four coats of arms on it, and as there are some heraldry experts here, they've agreed that I can post the pictures here to see if anyone can help.

Below are pictures of the relevant bit of the porch, and the whole of the original photo. This shows servicemen in their hospital blues, and part of a 'Hospital' sign; this looks like a temporary addition to the building, so the coats of arms probably relate to whatever it was before the war.

In the next post I'll post close-ups of the four coats of arms.

For reference, here are a couple of links relating to Auxiliary Hospitals, but as there were over 3000 of them it's not really a case of working through a list until you spot it. (No doubt there are other sites too.)

https://vad.redcross.org.uk/medical-care-during-ww1/auxiliary-hospitals-during-the-first-world-war

https://wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/hospitals/

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Technical Help / Rootsweb Freepages FTP inaccessible?
« on: Saturday 26 August 23 15:54 BST (UK)  »
I'm currently in correspondence with Rootsweb/Ancestry because I can't log in to their server to manage my Freepages website. I've tried with both WinSCP (error message: "Network error: Software caused connection abort") and FileZilla ("Error:   Could not connect to server").

Ancestry have suggested I reset my password, but I think that's unlikely to be the problem, since (a) I don't seem to be getting as far as a password check, otherwise surely it would be mentioned in the error message, and (b) my wife can't log in to manage her site either.

Please could anyone with a Freepages site check whether they can access it? And does anyone have any suggestions of what I could try, other than keep pressing the point with Ancestry?

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Technical Help / FTP Data Type: ASCII vs Binary
« on: Wednesday 23 August 23 17:23 BST (UK)  »
Please can anyone advise on which data type is best to use for FTP transfers? I've found various answers online, with little agreement, so I thought I'd see what opinions I might find here.

I've recently been trying out FileZilla for uploading files to my websites. After uploading an .htm file I noticed that the file on the server was smaller than the one on my computer; as well as being a bit disconcerting, it means that FileZilla's option to highlight differences between local and uploaded files by size is pretty pointless.

After looking into this, I gather that FileZilla's default setting is to transfer text files (including .htm) as ASCII type, which changes certain line ending characters, making the file smaller. My previous program (WinSCP) defaults to Binary type for all files; no changes are made, so the file sizes are identical.

Both programs allow me to select which type to use, and I am inclined to set FileZilla to use Binary for everything, so that I can use file size comparisons. Is there any good reason not to do this? And does any of this affect the way a browser renders a web page?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Latin abbreviations at foot of 1576 will
« on: Monday 14 August 23 17:03 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone help with the following, please? It's from the will of William Morse of Littledean, Gloucestershire, proved in 1576 in the Gloucester Consistory Court. The full page is at the following link, but as the handwriting is different it may not help much:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/4294/images/41513_319937__0002-00058?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&pId=146149

The difficult bit is the abbreviated Latin at the start of the first line. It's followed by the names, residence and occupation of two people, I think as follows:

Tho[mas] Tanner ^al[ia]s Morse^ et Joh[an]nes Morse of Deane Parva yeoman

(Some of you might have seen this query posted elsewhere. The original poster there has given me permission to seek opinions here too on their behalf.)

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Latin translation (from MI transcript)
« on: Thursday 22 June 23 14:31 BST (UK)  »
I'm interested in a memorial in Frampton on Severn, Gloucs, which is in Latin. I've been looking at Bigland's transcript, but I have a couple of queries about it. This is Bigland's transcript:

Hic situs NICHOLAUS PAUL, A.M.
hujus ecclesiae vicarius, vir integer
vitae, regis subditus fidelis, ecclesiae
Sancta Catholicae filius verus,
qui cum septem de octaginta annos
Domino exegit die Passionis
Domini decessit MDCLXXX.
Juxta hic etiam deponitur SAMUEL PAUL,
filius ejus natu minimus,
viginti annos natus, naturâ
exit Januar. 17, 1670

Lines 5-6: I can't work out the phrase 'cum septem de octaginta annos Domino exegit'. Nicholas's entry in Alumni Oxonienses suggests he would have been about 70-72 when he died, so is this a fancy way of saying that (ie 7 less than 80)? 'exegit' also eludes me.

Line 10: 'viginti annos natus' is presumably another way of saying '20 years old' - except that this Samuel seems to have been aged about 24-25.

Can anyone help, please?

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The Common Room / Building an Arch
« on: Saturday 13 May 23 16:34 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone explain some building terms, please?

An ancestor of mine was killed during the construction of Spa Mill in Ossett, WRY (there's a lot about the mill at https://www.ossett.net/ossett_mills.html). He was a joiner, so had presumably been involved with the centres (framework) over which the arch was built. Unfortunately when these were removed the arch collapsed; his death certificate, quoting the Coroner, indicates that the arch was made of brick.

The fullest report I have found is in the Huddersfield and Holmfirth Examiner of 3 June 1854, part of which is as follows:
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An arch, six yards span and about forty-eight feet in length, was being built, of which the part built up had been backed up nearly level with the centre. There were three windows in the arch on one side. A great portion of the upper end had been without centres for several days. On Tuesday afternoon the centres were lowered. In two or three minutes afterwards the whole of the arch suddenly fell in, and covered up the two men.... The stone walls from which the arch sprung had not given way at all.

The building isn't there now, but I imagine this would have been a large entrance passing through one of the mill buildings. 'Upper end' probably refers to the ground sloping down from the road. I'm not a builder or architect, so some of the terminology means little to me; 'centres' are explained on a number of websites, but what is meant by 'the part built up had been backed up nearly level with the centre'?

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Is this a wedding photo?
« on: Wednesday 05 April 23 14:08 BST (UK)  »
In another thread Viktoria mentioned a wedding photo, and it reminded me of one that I have:
In my grandparents’photo my grandmother is standing whilst grandad sits!
Emancipation had not yet arrived!
Viktoria.

These are my great grandparents, and I'd always assumed that they were posed like that because she was quite petite and it might have looked odd the other way round, but maybe for a time that was the way it tended to be done.

However, it had never occurred to me that it might be a wedding photo, but on checking my dating books, I now think it could well be. They married in 1883 when he was 28 and she was 26 - what do others think? (No restores, please - I'll ask if/when I need one.)

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The Common Room / RootsWeb - hosted websites to become read-only
« on: Thursday 02 March 23 14:08 GMT (UK)  »
There's a notice at RootsWeb to the effect that the websites which they host will become read-only early next year, so anyone who wishes to keep their site active and updated will need to find another host. RootsWeb (and their owner, Ancestry) haven't as yet seen fit to notify me directly of this, as a site manager, but I've picked up a few messages about it elsewhere. The announcement is at

https://support.rootsweb.com/s/article/Retiring-and-Migrating-Portions-of-RootsWeb

The article also mentions forthcoming changes to their mailing list archives and WorldConnect trees, which take effect much sooner.

One implication of the change to hosted sites is that anyone who relies on data provided by one of them will need to get what they need in good time, in case the site manager decides to completely remove it instead.

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