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Thanks Gill.  I think I now have those photos of the paintings. via another cousin descended from George's brother, not an Adamson.  Possible you've been in touch with her as she said someone sent her the photos but she's lost the emails.  Roberta Snape. I'd seen the photos on her tree but hadn't realised they were real people, thought they were just examples of the time as it were.

I sent you an email which I've pasted in below, it bounced as you must have changed address too, it was a while ago.
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Subject: Adamson Family

Gill

I have moved to my other windows 10 computer from the windows 7 laptop I was on last night and it has kindly allowed me to access my old email family tree folder. Can only find things by searching as it has lost the original titles but better than nothing.  I have forwarded all yours from 2005 to myself and will refresh my memory later.

 
Apologies for having forgotten you but a lot of thing have happened since 2005 and I am not always working on my family tree.  Just when I have some spare time as most of my leisure time is now filled with making stained glass, a ‘hobby’ I took up in 2008.  That and travelling. India for 2 weeks is looking good as it’s so cold at the moment.

 I found the George Adamson threat on Rootschat last night but can’t access the previous as all attempts to get onto Rootsweb fail.
Rootsweb is currently unavailable. We have been in the process of improving the site throughout 2017, and as a result of an issue we recently became aware of, we have taken the site offline while we work to resolve it.

 This is quite unfortunate as I do have a lot of stuff on there. Not only my family tree but also my travel blogs.  No idea how long it will be down.
 I haven’t maintained the Rootsweb tree for ages and ages as it became too big to handle and took too long to load. 

  I had my DNA done as a present last Christmas so decided to load to Ancestry instead and I updated my FTM software, once I’d moved to Windows 10 (mistake !) so I can sync to it from the tree I maintain on my computer. 

Ancestry is better in that I can add all sorts of documents and links And it doesn’t show living people which Rootsweb did. Ancestry is worse in that it is only available to those who subscribe. 

I was reading your comment about ages and think I know why they were initially wrong.  When I don’t know a date as a general rule, to give the tree some sort of time meaning, I assume 25 years per generation and usually first child born 2 years after marriage. A very rough guide but it has served me surprisingly well over the years.

Hope this finds you well and I will go off for a read of the old emails I have forwarded to my new email address, later today.

Joy

Gillg

Just read the post above mine and yes we undoubtedly did make contact before.  I have technical problems as my old email was Freeserve and was killed off by EE last year leaving me bereft... Even worse when I changed PCs my old one refused to export my emails created under XP Windows Mail so they are now extremely difficult to access. I have them but reading them is a different matter.

We must of course be third cousins.   I really would love photos as I have nothing at all from this side. My G Grandfather, Alexander, Jannet Bell's son, was the family black sheep. Died very young supposedly of drink and did not follow his quite well off father George Miller into the family business but was last seen working on the railway. George remarried after Jannet Bell died (after giving birth to at least 3 sets of twins only one of which survived) and had another 4 children, all girls, none of whom I've managed to trace.

I can't unfortunately open the link above to the original thread because of the Rootsweb access problem.  I will go back to see if I can find the one I found a little while ago while googling.
Joy xx