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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help to read RC marriage record
« on: Monday 28 August 23 23:16 BST (UK)  »
I need help, please, to read this 1848 marriage record from St Peter's, Drogheda:- 23 Aug.  Joseph Po___? and Ann Whearty.
In particular I am interested in the groom's surname which has been transcribed as Pover. I think it is something else, but want to know what others think in case I am just seeing what I want to see.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Date of photo and age of unidentifed lady with baby?
« on: Wednesday 02 August 23 19:59 BST (UK)  »
Only date and age wanted, please, to help me work out who this might be.

I have tentatively dated this as ca 1910-11. Does that seem about right?

Also, what age do you think the lady is?

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Technical Help / What can we do about this phone problem?
« on: Tuesday 20 June 23 11:36 BST (UK)  »
In recent weeks when one of our older friends makes calls from her Samsung Galaxy 23 Ultra phone she can hear the person answer but they can’t hear anything at all. A second attempt sometimes succeeds.  This also happens the other way round when she receives calls.

Sound is ok on other apps on her phone, which she relies heavily on, because it connects by Bluetooth to her hearing aids. The hearing aid supplier and Currys have said the aids/app/phone are all working correctly, and nothing we’ve tried has made any difference.

Then yesterday, another friend happened to call our landline from an i-phone, and the same thing happened. She didn’t hear a ring tone on her first attempt, and at our end the call was silent except for a click as she hung up. So it appears not to be an individual phone problem after all, as it is happening with various combinations of landlines/mobiles/networks.

We don’t know where to go from here.  Any ideas, please?

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The Common Room / Burgess Rolls of Glasgow - why are these men listed as weavers?
« on: Saturday 07 January 23 22:54 GMT (UK)  »
This is part of an entry in an online transcript of Burgess Rolls of Glasgow 1885:

Joseph Pozzie, Weaver, Elder Son (father dead)
William Pozzie, Weaver, Younger Son
Thomas Daily Stobo, Weaver, Son-in-Law

The last column heading is "Title entered upon," and I take it to mean that they have been admitted on the strength of Joseph & William's father having been a burgess, although I haven't found a record of it. But why are they listed as weavers? Joseph was a wood carver, William was a tinsmith and Thomas was a printer compositor.  The Pozzies' father, Robert, was a jeweller. 


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Child's cause of death
« on: Tuesday 09 August 22 20:15 BST (UK)  »
What is the first word, please?

_____? Stomatitis. Debility.

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The Common Room / Is this marriage missing from SP?
« on: Sunday 19 June 22 14:24 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone find this marriage on SP? I've tried using every combination of names, date, place, without success. I don't need a look-up, just to find it if it is there.

West Lothian Courier 19 June 1908
GRAHAM—MARTIN.—In the St John's U.F. Church, Bathgate, on Thurs. 18th June, by the Rev. John Lindsay, M.A., St John's Church, Thomas E.L. Graham, Glasgow, to Margaret Hamilton, daughter of Archibald Martin, commercial traveller, Bathgate.

Thomas' full name is Thomas Emilius Lambert Graham, and the marriage definitely took place. Margaret's death was registered by Thomas.


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / May be Aberdeenshire Hacket family -need date please to confirm
« on: Saturday 14 May 22 09:43 BST (UK)  »
These people may be members of the family of William & Elizabeth Hacket at their home in Tillyfourie, Aberdeenshire. If they are who I think, it can have been taken no later than April 1914, and probably in 1912 or 1913.

However the dresses worn by the young ladies strike me as perhaps too modern for that date. Opinions, please?

(No restore needed - just a date)

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Technical Help / Blue Screen of Death - help please
« on: Wednesday 09 February 22 10:25 GMT (UK)  »
My 2 yr old Thinkpad L380 has problems.  Recently it lost all audio, then developed a series of odd problems that led our computer repairer to conclude the SSD was failing. He replaced it and re-installed Windows, and I have gradually replaced the other programs that I use. Some problems persist, e.g. Device Manager keeps refreshing, so there’s barely time to read it before it scrolls off and on again.

Since it was repaired there have been fairly frequent blue screen errors on start-up, usually, but not always, a watchdog violation error. I took it back to the repairer, but the blue screen never appeared while he had it. He did find a Win update that had apparently failed to install and thought that installing that had fixed things.

Yesterday the laptop shut down twice while I was batch scanning colour slides. The first time, I had looked away for a moment so didn’t see exactly what happened. The second time, the blue screen appeared and the computer immediately shut down.

I've looked at the Event viewer, but I don’t understand what any of it means and indeed, am not sure exactly what I should be looking at there.  Screenshot attached. 



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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help to read name
« on: Monday 10 January 22 12:14 GMT (UK)  »
Can anyone read the name on the first line, please? From her age she ought to be Mary Ruth, but it doesn't look like that.
[1901 census Mason, Dinnington, Northumberland, family of Edward Jackson.]

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