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The Common Room / Re: Your New RootsChat is here
« on: Saturday 22 December 12 19:02 GMT (UK)  »
Trystan -

Please do not see the negative comments on this thread as a personal attack on your abilities - you spent many weeks doing this and everyone appreciates that dedication to RC, but any designer, when putting their designs before an audience gets praise and flack. Few are genius enough to cover all the bases first time out of the gate.

From reading the comments it seems that people are having problems with the font sizes/amount of different fonts and the colours of fonts on differing backgrounds. I'm sure that can easily be addressed.

I have another concern: the navigation panel for countries/counties etc. is located at the bottom of the page (in black) - I thought it was some unimportant afterthought at first glance when in fact it is one of the most important menus on the site for finding your way around. Something that important should be at the top of the page and prominent, not tucked away like this.

I do worry that people who come on the site are being advised to tinker with their computer resolution. They did not need to do that on the previous design so why is it a problem with this design? 

I expect RootsChat to iron out the problems in the coming weeks and look forward to visiting in the future as it is the friendliest most helpful place for finding the ancestors and I'm grateful there are people dedicated enough to run this place.   

Take heart Trystan! There is the Shock of the New and there is the snagging list - and they are two very different things.  ;)



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The Common Room / Re: Your New RootsChat is here
« on: Saturday 22 December 12 16:07 GMT (UK)  »
Just visited today after a quite a few months absence because I received a personal message and I thought I had gone to the wrong site! I couldn't make head nor tail of it and it took me a few minutes to realise I was on Rootschat and you had redesigned it.

So, sorry, I know you worked hard on this and have our best interests at heart, but just because something is new and redesigned does not necessarily make it better (just look at 60's tower blocks as an example of that), so needless to say I'm finding it difficult to like this revamp for lots of reasons.

The problems for me are:

As well as not liking the sparse/minimalist look of the new design, which to me looks unfriendly, the grey background on everything is miserable compared to the cheery cream and green of the previous design. 

I'm finding the type of font on small lettering to be flimsy - i.e. has no weight, so is not clear to read and the font is so minuscule you have to blow the page up to have a chance of reading it, which means you need to have a large screen so you can see the whole page blown up, otherwise, for those with smaller screens it is necessary to scroll left and right to read the whole width of the page which will put a lot of people off.

Sorry to go on but...the reddish brown font on dull pastel colours is not easy to read - particularly where it is used as italics, and particularly on the pink background. Then there are the buttons that have been moved to new places, taking ages to find - and I think some are finding them very hard to find indeed. 

I'm wondering if it was necessary to do such a radical redesign if all you were wanting to do was speed up the site and make it accessible to more people.

So, the redesign gets a poor score of 2 out of 10 for ease of use from me.

I know you can't please all the people all the time, but it's made me very grumpy.  >:(

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Northumberland Fusiliers
« on: Thursday 16 February 12 13:44 GMT (UK)  »
This is very late but this is a blown up image of Private Stanley Ord - sorry it has taken so long Ord.

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Northumberland / Re: Northumberland Fusiliers
« on: Monday 13 February 12 22:47 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

If you have a look at my post on the photos section, Topic: Northumberland Fusiliers, you'll see my answers to a couple of questions relating to actions in the summer of 1917 that the 19th Battalion took part in. They were congratulated by the Major General for their work in this situation at The Knoll and Guillemont Farm. This is more than likely the action your granddad won his MM in.

Hope this helps. You could try asking a question on http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/  as they have more knowledge than me.

Tessy

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Northumberland / Re: Northumberland Fusiliers
« on: Monday 13 February 12 21:31 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Peterhastie on Sunday 05 February 12 00:30 GMT (UK)
Available on CD

http://www.genealogysupplies.com/product_display.php?prodid=5778

Cpl R Hopper (MM) to UK, Wounded 25,10,1918

The Historical records has them between 20/10 and 27/10/1918 and says

Companies worked on road which approached pontoon bridges over the river Lys
in the vicinity of Marcke and Bisseghem. On the 25th "Y" moved to Sweveghem and commenced repair of the Sweveghe-Kreupel road.

Their is only mention of nine killed and sixteen wounded on the 20th. "Y" Company, when returning from work, a 4.2 shell llanded in the middle of a platoon. This may have been when he was wounded.

Two other hoppers in the 19th, pte A G Hopper and Sgt J F Hopper, MID, to UK for commision 13,10,1917

the men killed by this shell on 19/10/18 are buried in Moorseele Military Cemetary

http://www.inmemories.com/Cemeteries/moorseelemil.htm

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Roscommon / Re: Carrington born 1826
« on: Saturday 14 May 11 11:04 BST (UK)  »
Hi Wildey,

Thank you for getting in touch. I think we link up somewhere but I'll send you a PM - you'll get an email when I've sent it.

Tessy

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Roscommon / Re: Carrington born 1826
« on: Sunday 08 May 11 23:29 BST (UK)  »
I've sent you a personal message with instructions : )

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Roscommon / Re: Carrington born 1826
« on: Sunday 08 May 11 23:20 BST (UK)  »
Hi Michelle

My Michael Carrington was living in Northumberland in England by at least 1851 with Ann his wife. He had a daughters Catherine born 1848, Eliza,born 1851, Sarah born 1855, Mary Anne born 1853, Michael J born 1856

So I guess we are related. you're the first Carrington relative I've found!

PM me.

Tessy

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Northumberland Fusiliers
« on: Wednesday 01 September 10 22:02 BST (UK)  »
I'm only too pleased to help. My copy of the book is falling to pieces too. It's been printed on very cheap paper but after all it is 90 years old. Did the boatman throw that woman bodily off the boat or did he wait until they reached land?

One other thing I'd like to mention in relation to men sent home for commission - my Dad, who sadly is no longer with us, used to say that he could remember his father telling him that when he was sent home for a commission in 1917, one of the things they had to do was ride a horse down the steps of a very grand building. My Dad saw a TV program about Sandhurst about ten years ago and they did very thing that there, but we don't know for certain where the men selected were sent for training for their commission. Do you have any idea where your grandfather was sent for his commission?

I don't think my grandfather told his children much about the war either and I never knew him unfortunately, so anything I know came from my Dad. This book is certainly a link to his experiences in the war and I'm more than happy to look up anything for anyone who is interested, not least because I have had mountains of help from the members of RootsChat in tracing my ancestors and I'd like to do the same for other people in their searches.


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