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Fermanagh / Re: Falls Enniskillen
« on: Monday 11 June 07 09:19 BST (UK)  »
Christopher,
Many thanks for the notification, I've given a fully reply on the Enniskillen board.

Tim

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The Lighter Side / Re: Any Don't Want To Knows In Your Family?
« on: Friday 25 May 07 22:39 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: KathMc

"She was adopted and I think it is hard for her."

I find that very sad, I'm adopted and the "official" family historian for my adopted family (possibly because no one else has the time  ;) )
The degree of interest varies but my cousin (eldest relative) is very keen to see what my latest information/scandle is.

Tim

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The Common Room / Re: Family scandal!
« on: Tuesday 22 May 07 18:29 BST (UK)  »
The Americans joined World War one in 1917 so it is quite possible that some were based in England, either on the way to France or on the way back to the States. I'd have thought there would have been more Canadians than US troops in the UK but it's not impossible.
I don't know if "Overpaid, oversexed and over here" applied to WW1 as it did in WW2  ;)

Tim

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Technical Help / Re: What on earth is wrong ...
« on: Saturday 19 May 07 20:59 BST (UK)  »
That's the one, press it and it all starts whirring etc. (or not as the case might be ;) )

Tim

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Technical Help / Re: What on earth is wrong ...
« on: Saturday 19 May 07 20:51 BST (UK)  »
Could be faulty power switch, mine occasionally sticks in when I push it to turn on with the same effect - next time you turn on watch the switch.

Tim

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The Lighter Side / Re: Give me access to your tree!!
« on: Tuesday 15 May 07 10:08 BST (UK)  »
I've had mixed results from GR. Having found my maternal grandfather after seven years of searching I input his details, got "hot matches" and, after correspondence and opening my tree (possibly a mistake!), a large chunk of my tree is now added to theirs. We're related but it's distant, we share a common great grandfather  ???
However, very much on the plus side, I posted a query, totally forgot about it, and months later got a message from a lady whose sister had some details for me - an email address was given. The result was a very high brickwall was knocked down - verification is still needed but I now know where to look and have dates to work on  ;D

Tim

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The Common Room / Re: Transport Through the Ages
« on: Wednesday 02 May 07 00:06 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: freddiebean on Monday 30 April 07 16:43 BST (UK)
How about this one, does anyone know where this photo was taken

I could well be wrong but it looks like the Red Lion in Shrewsbury (we went there on our honeymoon)

Tim

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The Common Room / Re: marriage
« on: Friday 27 April 07 16:49 BST (UK)  »
Also the groom could remove a few years, which is what one of my ancestors did, admittedly the bride was only 15!

Tim

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Technical Help / Re: Loading Street Directory data on PC database
« on: Wednesday 25 April 07 09:52 BST (UK)  »
How is the data presented? If they're individual pages scanned into an Acrobat document I would imagine the answer is probably no. In theory you could print out the pages, scan them using OCR software and, having checked for errors, import the results into a spreadsheet/database. However this would be time consuming to say the least.
If it's in some other format I'll have a rethink.

Tim

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