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Technical Help / Re: Help with “C drive full” issue, please
« on: Wednesday 17 April 24 16:46 BST (UK)  »
USB 2.0 can transfer at 480 megabits per second - that's a gigabyte in less than 17 seconds.

HOWEVER few devices can cope with this sort of speed. A typical USB stick will peak at a third of this speed. Lower priced sticks are often very slow indeed.

USB 3, where connectors have a blue section, improves things by a LARGE margin. Again, devices are  rarely as fast as the standard allows. However a USB 3 stick often works a lot faster than a USB 2 one, even in a USB 2 socket.

Hint: If you are copying files to a USB device, don't leave Explorer pointing at that device. It will spend a lot of time updating the display to reflect the files being created there rather than allowing more data to be written.

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Technical Help / Re: Help with “C drive full” issue, please
« on: Sunday 14 April 24 10:03 BST (UK)  »
Windows does provide a useful tool called "Disk Clean-up", under "Windows Administrative Tools".

Once it has loaded, click on "Clean up system files".

It will then spend a while trying to estimate how much can be reclaimed under various categories. 

The most productive will be "Windows Update Cleanup" and "Delivery Optimization Files".

The first of these merges all those monthly updates into a singe item rather than keeping them separately. The second keeps copies of updates to Windows Store Apps so they can be provided more quickly to other machines on your own network (which you probably don't have).

You can actually tick ALL the boxes; Windows will rebuild anything from this list that it needs in future.

While I was checking the text that appears, I just reclaimed over 10GB of disk space.

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Cheshire / Re: Walton Workhouse?
« on: Tuesday 02 April 24 15:26 BST (UK)  »
Doh!

My excuse - I've been hammering the Daresbury area a lot recently. The other certs I got at the same time really WERE Higher Walton!

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Cheshire / Walton Workhouse?
« on: Tuesday 02 April 24 15:09 BST (UK)  »
I've just got a death cert for Thomas Dunbobbin, who died aged 4 months at "Workhouse Walton" on 6 Oct 1874. It's in Runcorn RD.

I did not know of a workhouse in Lower Walton or Higher Walton. I know about the one at Dutton. but that is some distance away. workhouses.org only shows the Dutton one.

The informant, "M A Holdcroft" doesn't seem to be around in 1871 or 1881. That's unfortunate because they gave their address as "Workhouse Walton" too.

Anyone know where this workhouse was?

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The Lighter Side / Re: Stillbirths.
« on: Monday 01 April 24 20:09 BST (UK)  »
I usually include stillbirths where I find them in burial records.

It helps when working out whether I have found all children of a marriage.

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The Lighter Side / Re: 'Put away?'
« on: Monday 01 April 24 17:17 BST (UK)  »
It wasn't just children who were "put away".

I've come across a woman who was sent to a County Asylum in 1875. Her first child was four; her second died at four months old in 1874.

The poor woman died in the asylum in 1883.

However her husband abandoned her. He married again (bigamously) in London in 1876. He moved to Kent and had three children, with a fourth on the way, with this "other woman" by the time his actual wife died.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Immigrating and Returning Home
« on: Monday 11 March 24 12:41 GMT (UK)  »
There are plenty of to-ings and fro-ings in my lot.

My aunt followed her prospective husband to New Zealand in 1953. The couple returned to the UK in 1957 and my cousin was born here. In 1967 they took the £10 trip to Australia, then went on from there to NZ. In the mid 70s the family returned to the UK.

I also have relatives in Nova Scotia. Several siblings emigrated with their families in the very early 20th century, and most headed back to the UK for visits before the Great War. Some visits were quite lengthy. One couple's fourth child was born on this side of the pond in 1910. Other siblings visited Canada after the Great War, and some even stayed there.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Saturday 02 March 24 13:56 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Nanna52 on Saturday 02 March 24 11:53 GMT (UK)
When you look at Ancestry’s interpretation of my DNA they include Keynsham, Somerset as part of Wales, hence I have a larger DNA sample attributed to Wales than is true. 
Her other grandparents did come from Wales

I have recently researched a couple of families in South Wales who actually originate in Somerset, so there might be a link. It would be enough to confuse Ancestry, who have little knowledge of UK geography, and no incentive to improve.

Those of us in the UK "of a certain age" are unable to come across the place name Keynsham without thinking of Horace Batchelor, who advertised on Radio Luxembourg.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Wednesday 28 February 24 18:43 GMT (UK)  »
There were two family stories that my mum was told.

First was that her grandfather was a "seventh son of a seventh son". He was actually one of 5, with only a sister older than him. His father was son number 4. He still managed to charm the warts away. ;D

Second was that the Marsh family were descended from George Marsh, who was burned at the stake under Bloody Mary and became St. George the Martyr. Supposedly there was a George in every generation in his honour. Tudor records are very thin on the ground so there is no paper trail, and so far I've found only three people called George - and one has the middle names of "Frederick Handel".

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