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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Can anyone brighten this photo of my dad?

« on: Tuesday 06 February 24 15:35 GMT (UK) »

Can anyone brighten this photo of my dad, possibly taken in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) around 1943, plus get rid of the awful curtain and fake flowers?

Many thanks
Lizzie

Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Jorgia died 18.10.23

« on: Sunday 07 January 24 12:59 GMT (UK) »

After the lovely work Rootschatters did for me last year with a photograph of Jorgia, I wonder if I can ask another favour. Is it possible for anyone to remove the blue ball behind her shoulder on this photograph. The photo was taken in a mall in USA and the blue ball is to stop cars driving onto the footpath.

Many thanks

Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Please alter background

« on: Wednesday 08 November 23 23:10 GMT (UK) »

Hi

This is our beautiful granddaughter Jorgia who tragically died suddenly on 18 October 2023 in USA where she lived. Autopsy didn't find any cause, so her death certificate reads "Cause Unknown". Is it possible for anyone to provide a better background to Jorgia's photograph than the cloakroom where the photo was originally taken.

Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Ancestry DNA match gone missing

« on: Friday 01 September 23 10:42 BST (UK) »

I don't know if this is usual or not.

In May (fortunately I made a note of it, which I don't usually as I expect the matches to stay on Ancestry) a DNA match for a half 3rd cousin came up. I clicked on the match and found, much to my surprise, a half sister for my mysterious g.grandfather. Yesterday, I spent at least an hour searching all through my DNA matches, going further back than 3 months but there was no sign of the match, or indeed the person I was matched with. I did a search for public family trees and the match has a tree on line still, although it doesn't show the half sibling relationship, it just shows the have the same parents.

Is it possible to remove your DNA from Ancestry. I have matches with many people who have no tree on line, so I don't know how this particular match has disappeared. Any ideas?

Technical Help / Printer not responding

« on: Friday 25 March 22 12:32 GMT (UK) »

My laptop is connected by WiFi to our printer. I can print Word and pdf documents, and I also VueScan for scanning but I cannot print any attachments from emails, or even the emails, or scan without using VueScan. I've got used to it now and if necessary just email what I can't print to my husband and he prints it from his tablet!

However, when it doesn't want to print I get the following message. The problem is that although, when I check, there is nothing in the queue, this message is now coming up every time I log on. How can I get rid of it. I'm using Word 10 on a Lenovo laptop.

The Common Room / Absent Fathers

« on: Wednesday 19 January 22 08:48 GMT (UK) »

I've just started doing some transcriptions (I don't think I can say for who at the moment), anyway they are about single women who got pregnant and in every case so far, the putative fathers have scarpered to Scotland.

Was it the case in the 1800s, (1840s in particular), that men in Scotland were not liable for any offspring they left in England, or more that many Scotsmen were working in England at the time and just decided to go home rather than face the music?

Technical Help / Windows 11

« on: Sunday 17 October 21 11:20 BST (UK) »

When I turned on my laptop this morning, Windows 11 had been installed. It is dreadful, all my icons had disappeared and when I put them back on my task bar and then clicked on, for instance, my Thunderbird email icon, I was asked to register, same with my Roboform password and my Legacy family tree. I tried opening Mozilla Firefox, same thing, please register and download. I was nearly in tears, everything had disappeared. I tried to find out how I could revert back to Windows 10 but it didn't seem possible. So I just shut down and restarted the laptop and by some miracle, everything is back to normal.

I looked up Windows 11 which is being rolled out on all compatible PCs (from last June apparently) and it seems they want it to be more like a Mac, easier for gamers, etc. but it's not easier for people who aren't gamers and have never used a Mac PC. As far as I was concerned, it was totally unintuitive, not surprisingly, everything was Windows based, so Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Store, etc. were on the taskbar, but everything I use like Word, Skype, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, even Windows media player had totally gone.

It seems after 2025, Microsoft will not support Windows 10 but, hopefully, by then they will have made Windows 11 more intuitive to use.

Anyone else had any problems, or was it only me?

Technical Help / Cloud back up - Which do you recommend?

« on: Saturday 10 July 21 10:37 BST (UK) »

I was using OneDrive but I don't like it as it's just another Microsoft product! I also thought of Google Drive but, unless it's just me being stupid, it seems as though it doesn't just back up automatically and, then again like Microsoft, it does seem to be everywhere and, apparently, it "reads" your documents and files and then sends adverts related to what it finds.

I just need some help to find a Cloud service that will just back up automatically every day, including all downloaded programs such as Legacy my family history program.

Technical Help / Microsoft 365

« on: Thursday 08 July 21 11:31 BST (UK) »

I have Microsoft 365 family and have shared it with my daughter, my granddaughter and my husband. I know when I shared with my daughter and granddaughter it was easy, but when I shared with my husband, for some reason, he didn't seem to be able to get Word but we managed it. He's recently had a new PC and to get Word had to log into my Microsoft 365 account. The problem now is that he can see all my Word documents when he opens Word, but I can't see his Word documents. It's not much of a problem really, but it means I feel he is watching over my shoulder every time I type a Word document, copy a recipe, do my French homework etc. How can I change this?