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Technical Help / Amazon Fire Tablet won't access the SD card
« on: Friday 16 October 20 14:11 BST (UK)  »
I've added a 15GB SD card to my Amazon Fire tablet but it will not use it. Checking Settings/Storage shows that it is there and that it should be used to store everything (Downloads, Installs, Photos etc). No matter what I do I can't get it to store anything on that card. When the main memory is nearly full it comes up with "Insufficient storage", even though there is 15GB waiting to be used on the empty SD card! Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Should we colour black and white photos?
« on: Thursday 15 October 20 15:21 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for the many replies to my post, all of which I found interesting. The consensus of opinion seems to be to colour the B+W photos if you really want to but never get rid of the originals. Very sensible advice. Thanks again.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Should we colour black and white photos?
« on: Wednesday 14 October 20 09:24 BST (UK)  »
I've taken advantage of the COVID restrictions to get round to something I've been meaning to do for years ........ sorting and scanning the many 100s of B+W photos that my family has accumulated over many years. I tried a few on colourising software and I've been really impressed at what it can do with the inbuilt artificial intelligence. However, I really am undecided as to whether this is a good thing to do as those B+W photos reflect a certain era and colourising them does, to my mind, lose their authenticity. I know it's a matter of personal choice but I'd like to hear what other people think.

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Lancashire / Re: Ellen Naylor (nee Walmsley)
« on: Thursday 24 September 20 14:12 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: jonw65 on Thursday 24 September 20 12:34 BST (UK)
It wants a date like 01/01/1955
You can put in a range.

Thanks jonw65. It seems strange that they insist on such an exact date format when the whole point of the search is to find the exact burial date! Much better to do it the Ancestry or Find My Past way eg. 1955 =/- 5 years.

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Lancashire / Re: Ellen Naylor (nee Walmsley)
« on: Thursday 24 September 20 12:12 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Biggles50 on Thursday 24 September 20 11:29 BST (UK)
The search works OK

I just keyed in Ellen Naylor and it returned one record which is obviously not who you seek

Thanks Biggles50 but that doesn't explain the "Invalid Date!". I did a search of your Ellen Naylor with a date of 1955 and it too said "Invalid Date!". Why?

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Lancashire / Re: Ellen Naylor (nee Walmsley)
« on: Thursday 24 September 20 10:55 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: garstonite on Thursday 24 September 20 07:59 BST (UK)
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We hold burial records for the cemeteries and crematoriums we manage. Our records date back to when each opened:

    Warrington Cemetery, Manchester Road - from 26 March 1857
    Hollinfare Cemetery, Dam Lane, Rixton - from 13 December 1894
    Burtonwood Cemetery, Chapel Lane, Burtonwood - from 11 October 1900

https://www.warrington.gov.uk/burialrecords

WORTH A BROWSE - you never know - Good Luck  :)

Thanks for the link garstonite. I thought I'd test it out by searching for my grandmother's record as I know she died in 1954 and is buried in Warrington cemetery. I enter 1954 in the Burial/Cremation date field but it comes back with "Invalid date!". What am I doing wrong?

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Technical Help / Re: Windows Explorer default settings
« on: Wednesday 12 August 20 14:47 BST (UK)  »
Try the following :-

Open any folder
Click View
Click List
Click Options
Click View
Click Apply to Folders
Click Yes
Click OK

Every folder you open in future should then be in List View.

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The Common Room / Re: Puzzling 1737 marriage document
« on: Friday 24 July 20 17:44 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Stan for your clear explanation and the interesting link which gave more information. I'm surprised that my research hasn't thrown up one of these bonds before. I wonder if anyone ever did default and how on earth they would pay such a large amount!

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The Common Room / Puzzling 1737 marriage document
« on: Friday 24 July 20 16:57 BST (UK)  »
During the course of my family history research I have often come across marriage licences. The latest one I have found for my 5G Grandparents is rather puzzling because before the marriage details it states what appears to be an obligation to pay £100 (to the vicar?) which I reckon is about £15,000 in today's money. That seems to be an extraordinary amount for a lowly weaver to have to pay, so perhaps I'm not reading it correctly. Can anyone please throw any light on what this document is about?

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