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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / looking for a date,please probably Haworths!
« on: Tuesday 14 December 21 16:17 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all.

Just wondering for a rough date for these. I feel like the hats are the key but I wouldnt have a clue how/where to start with them.

Thank ye.

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World War One / Not sure where to ask this- are these mementoes of post-WW1 battlefield tourism?
« on: Wednesday 04 December 19 19:23 GMT (UK)  »
I've taken these embroidered post cards out of an old photo album I'm dismantling, scanning and intend to reorganise into a new album. My g-grandfather was a chemist in the royal engineers and I know he was gassed at the somme (perhaps at albert). Are these things mementoes of post-war visits perhaps? I know this gents sister-in-law visited the cemeteries some time c1920 after the war as there's photos of her there.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / injury from service records
« on: Thursday 03 August 17 22:34 BST (UK)  »
I've been struggling to read all apart from the obvious.

Severe cut throat
 though lives. ?? ??
?? into (esophagus/asphyxia??)
?? ?? except by ??
suture layer by layer of all
??. has done very well
to eat ordinary ??

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WW1 In Memoriam / 31 July 1917, James THOMAS, aged 24, 1st Welsh Guards
« on: Monday 31 July 17 17:56 BST (UK)  »
James ‘Jimmy’ THOMAS, born 1894 in Hensingham, Cumbria. He was the son of Christian THOMAS and Agnes Osbourne DORRIAN. As a family they moved to Lancashire around the turn of the century. By trade he was a conditioner at Holden Wood Bleach Works. He played the trombone for the Haslingden Temperance Band and was linked with Helmshore Wesleyan chapel. He married Elizabeth Anne BENTLEY 1913 in the Rossendale area with whom he had one daughter and they lived at Top o' th' Brow, Helmshore. He enlisted at Haslingden in October 1916. He was a Guardsman (private) in the 1st Battalion of the Welsh Guards; number 3313. He was killed in action 31 July 1917 during the Battle of Pilckem Ridge near Langemark, Belgium. He was buried 1917 in Artillery Wood Cemetery, Boezinge, Belgium with grave reference #IIB11.

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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Printing large charts
« on: Saturday 18 March 17 21:56 GMT (UK)  »
So I recently found software that let me produce a massive chart quite easily (very, very, easily).

In theory I should be able to have the original file printed onto A0.

However, I do not know anything about grapical design.

Does anyone know if there are limits in sizes of font that can be printed onto a poster without blurring or becoming unreadable.

I have the original in an editable format at the moment so I can still change it but I also don't want to end up  getting laughed out of the printshop at my amateurishness.

Has anyone had any success with this before?




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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Anyone read chinese?
« on: Friday 21 November 14 19:07 GMT (UK)  »
My great-granddad brought these pictures back from china with these written on. I've always wondered what they said.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / 1660 will
« on: Sunday 12 January 14 00:05 GMT (UK)  »
The rest of the will was florid but readable until I came to this section four. I just need another set of eyes to take a look since I've worn out the patience of the people in the house!


Fourthly As fourthing all my House goods I shall our fatherly rights and debts <my> will and <wish> is that they shall be divided into <three> equal and alike parts. One part <entire> <whereof> according to the <customs> of this Province of York belongeth, to my wife an other <entire> part thereof I give and bequeath to my sons Alexander Towers and Robert Towers and to my daughter Ellen Towers to be equally divided amongst them and the last third part thereof commonly called the body part I give and bequeath as followeth that is to say to <Molly> child I am grandfather of ten shillings, to my said sons Alexander and Robert and to my daughter Ellen <sums> as will make up their <portion> of goods hereby before <divisors> or bequests the sum of One Hundred and Ten pennies a year <and the  remainder thereof> I give and bequeath to my sons Thomas, John, Alexander and Robert and to my daughter Ellen to be equally divided amongst them and lastly I do ordain and make executors of this my said will (Thereby renouncing and annulling all former and other wills by me made) my sons Thomas Towers and Alexander Towers hoping that they will truly perform the said according to my trust reposed.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Looking for a date.
« on: Tuesday 22 January 13 22:47 GMT (UK)  »
Looking for a date on these characters. :)


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Lancashire / Bleasdale in Preston. If you fancy a challenge.
« on: Friday 04 January 13 18:00 GMT (UK)  »
My ancestor - David Colwell married Elizabeth Bleasdale

28 May 1865  at St John, Preston, Lancashire, England
David Callwell - (X), 21 Labourer Bachelor of Mount Pleasant
Elizabeth Bleasdale - (X), 19 Spinner Spinster of Atkinson St
 
Groom's Father: Maurice Callwell, Boot Maker
Bride's Father: William Bleasdale, Labourer
   
Witness: Henry Davis, (X); Elizabeth Knowles, (X)

So Elizabeth born abt 1846. The 1871 census agrees and puts her place of birth as Preston. David died 1873 and Elizabeth died 1875 aged 28 so born abt 1847. I have a newspaper article from 1874 which possibly/probably relates to her but doesn't tell us anything useful.

And that's all I have for her. I've have eliminated everyone trying to find any other record about her. She's my last dead end where I would have expected to be able to follow further back.

A fresh set of eyes would be appreciated.

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