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Lanarkshire / University of Glasgow graduates
« on: Friday 18 April 14 22:51 BST (UK)  »
Please can anybody tell me where I can find a list of University of Glasgow graduates around the turn of the 20th century. Haven't a clue which faculty. Quite possibly something to do with religion or theology. Thanks.

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Shepherd, Gosling, Spencer, Nunn, Newman, Tomlinson, Shergold, Malby FAMILIES
« on: Tuesday 24 January 12 19:01 GMT (UK)  »
Hello fastfusion,

I hope to catch up with you sometime.  I must confess that I have long abandoned my own family research (that would include the Shergold's), I'm sorry to say.  What I was finding out was much too close to home and upset me too much.  I moved on to my husband's.  Much less painful, and quite interesting.  Then, after I gave a course on Beginner's Genealogy, an acquaintance said, "Will you find my father, please?"  I gulped and said, "Okay".  Then he added, that, oh, by the way, he'd like a family tree and to know what they all died of.  Turns out he was the illegitimate son of a renegade 'society' type.  The father was a big, physical, outdoorsy kind of guy and was running away from an  authoritarian father who was pressuring him to conform.  Of course, he was the black sheep.  He, sadly, was also dead.  But the family went back and back in time, with incredible stories.  I'm wading around the early 1700's now and am absolutely fascinated.  My friend is in shock.

On Feb. 1 I am off to RootsTech in Salt Lake City.  It is a huge conference where genealogists and technologists meet up.  Check out their site at www.rootstech.org.  I may twitter (under the handle Canukgenie) or Google+ from there, if I have time, which I very well might not.  Yes, I use Google+.  I've pretty much given up on Facebook.  Google+ is much easier and integrates all Google's products, but sadly not enough people have turned to it.  Wish they would.

Thanks for thinking of me.

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The Common Room / Re: Can a person be half-baptised?
« on: Monday 17 October 11 20:26 BST (UK)  »
Excellent explanations.  Thanks so much.  'Half baptised' seems to be a misnomer, and stanmapstone's reply seems pretty definitive.  As for baptising a child oneself, I asked my (Anglican) rector about this.  He said that it is acceptable for Anglicans, but he did not know of anybody, personally, who had done it.  I do remember my Roman Catholic grandmother telling me that when she was a nurse in the post-natal care unit that she did have occasion to baptise a couple of premature newborns.  In one case, she gained some peace that she did because the poor little girl passed away within the hour.

Thank you for your help

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The Common Room / Can a person be half-baptised?
« on: Monday 17 October 11 02:38 BST (UK)  »
I have a page from a 1818 baptismal register that has a couple of children of the family that I am researching registered as 'half baptised'. A couple of years later they are registered in the same church in the normal was as being baptised.  Now, I'm an Anglican, (as were they) and I always thought that either you were baptised or you weren't.  Maybe somebody with more religious education can tell me what is going on here.  Has anybody else seen or heard of this?

These children were from an affluent family that all lived reasonably close by in the suburbs London, so it wasn't like they had to wait to get together.   

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The Common Room / Re: How to Pay for an English Will with Canadian Dollars
« on: Sunday 22 May 11 02:02 BST (UK)  »
Aha!  The good old telephone.  I knew there must be a way.  Phone calls are so cheap now.  I'll try that!  I get the feeling that that ministry is rather resistant to change and modernization.  But, Brits, please don't take offence.  I researched for the Attorney General's ministry here, and they were very up tight, too.  Legal disclaimers in the coffee room.  I mean, really!

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The Common Room / Re: How to Pay for an English Will with Canadian Dollars
« on: Friday 20 May 11 19:33 BST (UK)  »
I deal with a credit union and I don't think that they can do a banker's cheque.  Also the bank charges are ridiculous.  As far as friends go, nobody that is going to London any time soon.

International Money Orders are hard to get and pretty expensive.  I do know that both a banker's cheque and IMOs will probably double each order.

The email contact just refers me back to the webpage that I came from.

I do know somebody over here who has done it by credit card, but unfortunately she is several thousand miles away at the moment on vacation and won't be back for some time.  Also, I'm not that close to her.  In fact, we don't like each other at all.

There has to be some way that overseas researchers order these things fairly easily, because it is done so frequently.

Frustrating!   ???

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The Common Room / How to Pay for an English Will with Canadian Dollars
« on: Friday 20 May 11 19:09 BST (UK)  »
I want to order (at the moment)  two wills and probate documents.  One is from 1998 and the other from 1995.  Depending on what they tell me, I will probably want to order several more after that.

I have been on the Court Services website and read about their Postal Searches.  I have even downloaded the form, and I have all the details that they need.  The problem is that they want a cheque in Pounds Sterling.  I am a Canadian with a Canadian bank account. I can't write a cheque in Pounds Sterling.  I have heard that, although it is clearly stated on the form that they do not deal with credit cards, that there is a way to order wills by credit card.  Anybody know how I can do this?

Thanks so very much

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Technical Help / Genealogy Library Software
« on: Thursday 17 March 11 23:20 GMT (UK)  »
I have decided that I have so many books in print, on CDs and on my hard drive that I need some library software.  I'm looking for advice from other RootsChatters.  Most of my books are antiquarian, well before ISBNs were thought of, but can be found in the British Library, Internet Archive, or Open Library.  I'm looking for a kind of software (below $50 CDN) that I can use on Windows XP that will download bibliographic details from the internet.  It must also be easy to use for a non-technical person.  I have tested the following:

All My Books
Will download details by typing in partial titles, but will not search the Internet Archive, only Google Books.
Simplistic.  Does not download or show many details.

BiblioteQ
Way too technical.  Couldn't even get it to install properly

BookCAT
It would search Internet Archive and the British Library as well as many others all at once
The date function was UK and not US (Hooray!)
I loved the flexibility, BUT
I could only figure out how to make it download from the internet with an ISBN.  If it could only search for books on the internet by title, it would be perfect.  Does anybody know how to make it do that?  (Not too technical, please.)

I'm considering downloading and testing Book Collector.  Any advice on that one?  Will it do what I need it to do?

Downloading bibliographic details from the internet, and/or the British Library automatically is the deal-breaker, because these hundreds of 18th and 19th century books have huge titles, etc. that I don't want to have to input manually.

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Technical Help / Re: How much broadband do I use?
« on: Thursday 27 January 11 22:24 GMT (UK)  »
Well, my husband and I just had a very "full and frank" discussion, with Shaw, our ISP about all this.  With usage much like Roger the Hat, we were in the 2 to 3 GB range.  January went up to almost 6 GB, but I am suspecting that that is because I was given a very spiffy headphone/microphone set and webcam for Christmas/Birthday, discovered Skype and video-chatted all and sundry in my excitement.  I've calmed down now.  Still very well below our limit.

I asked how can I easily monitor usage.  Answer -- call them.  Not good enough, we said.  It seems that Shaw understands this, because this issue has drawn a huge amount of fire, and they are working on a monitor right now.  It is a small piece of software that will come with your internet package.  "Soon", the beleaguered Shaw Rep said.

So, now here is what we are getting:  60 GB/month data transfer, 512 kps upload speed, 7.5 Mpbs download speed, up to 10 emails, 2 IP addresses, and a modem, plus the usual extras like Secure, webmail, spam filter, photo share, video mail, webspace, and Real Person Here technical assistance (boy, do I like that!) for $37 CDN (£24 ) a month if bundled with another service (TV or phone) or $47 (£30) by itself.  How does this compare with where you are?

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