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Hi All, I am very sad to post this BUT after quite a number of years doing my family Tree - I started by making enquiries on this website I think (and enjoying it) I have found a hacker - I have virtually nothing left on my Tree and the continued existence of my computer is
doubtful.   She has erased my memberships in my name.   I was thrown off FTF for mentioning her name - she had actually put her name on herself but I put it above where she had entered it, in larger letters and tried to point out that this person was a serial hacker - I was shown the door.   However, most of the folk on that website are lovely people and have e-mailed me offering help etc - this is brilliant BUT as soon as anything goes on my computer it is taken.   It was a complete blank when I went into it this morning.
A few weeks ago I reported the hounding, stealing of documents (paid for documents) etc to the Police - they would not let me make a statement.  They said "we don't investigate that sort of thing".  (Red rag to bull I am afraid)  - I contacted Action Fraud - they told me to go back and make sure I had their letter heading viewable in my hand  - absolute magic.  The officer I saw was very pleasant (not like the usual Wisbech Police) he took a complete statement and said he would do this, that and the other - I believed him:  Lesson 1 - don't put any faith in the police - they speak with
forked tongue.   I may be old but I don't like being patted on the head.  I have now been told I have to go and report it in Huntingdonshire - great stuff - I shall report it in the local press instead.  It is of course all too little, too late for me.   I even knew who she was and where she was currently living in N. Ireland - I also knew that her brother had just gone to prison (not for hacking).  Husband is incandescent as he already paid £75 to get computer fixed when she took all E-addresses etc.  This time it is the family Trees - devastated ............what a waste of my retirement. I don't think the computer will be repaired again - shall use library computers.   What is worrying of course is that all families E-addresses are on computer and that includes our children.   I have shed many tears over all of this and, deep down wish I could retaliate - don't know enough about computers, however.   I have yet to ask ancestry if they have copies of my Trees (x2 as many as most due to adoption) but don't want to know the answer as yet.
Well, we are moving from here soon, thank goodness - the only thing I wish we could take from here is the house which says it all.   Sue - how do I make a computer private - better late than never but probably crackable!

I have never been able to find this chap's war record.   Indeed the MOD told me (for £25) that they almost certainly no longer exist.   I have previously visited TNA and they said they must be in the "burnt series".   His MIC is also incorrect with Walter Gordon as his first names - it has long been known that this IS incorrect because his Army no. is correct on there.
 
Browsing tonight on TNA website I found a record for:

FOSTER, Capt & QM W - I would like to think that they have put the W in the wrong place and this is William Foster when he was a QM.

What I really need advice on is the part where it says:

Reference:  WO374/25230 - and then further down:  Former reference:  in its original department: 1748.

I am assuming that what I have found is the long number and there is a short number by which it can be found in TNA.   Please can anyone advise me on this.

Sue

Hi, This chap is a fairly distant relative to my Tree in that his daughter Sarah Jane Bouch married Charles Pearman 1838 - 1887 of Kings Lynn, Norfolk.   Vincent was married to Mary Ann Griggs and they had a few children the oldest of whom was Sarah Jane.   Vincent, as far as I know continued to live in Wisbech but in 1855 he was apparently charged with murdering a Hannah Noyes in 1885 - probably in Wisbech as it appears the hearing was in a Cambridgeshire Court.   The Trial was held at Cambridgeshire Assizes on 28.7.1855.   I suspect he was not convicted of murder but was in prison for a time.   It is not vital that I know about this but I am nosey!

How can I find out more about this?

Is this likely to be in Newspapers in, for instance, Wisbech Public Library.

Sue

I have been researching my Ellis line of the family and have come across the surname of one of the wives as Bymvinsley.   Elizabeth Bymvinsley b 1553 London is my x12 G. Grandmother and she married Nicholas Ellis b 1551 at St. Michaels, London.   I suspect the area is Whitechapel/Stepney because others of the Ellis family were born, lived and died there.

I have never heard this surname before - does anyone know what nationality it could be?   I suspect Italian or Jewish.

Sue

I have been fortunate enough to have had quite a number of old photographs of grandparents and great grandparents sent to me by a distant member of the family in Ireland.   These have been photocopied onto paper and are very good and clear - most are foolscap (?A4) size.    I would like to re-print them as photographs but am not sure of the process.   My printer is a Kodak ESP C315 and I understand I can print as a photograph.   I will obviously need to buy photographic paper - some of these photos have colour.

Can anyone advise me of the type of paper I should be using and does anyone know how the printer will do it?  As far as I am aware there is no shop near me that specialises in this sort of thing but I can probably get the paper locally but without advice.    I have lost the wretched handbook (if there was one).

Sue