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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Colourisation of B&W Photos
« on: Monday 26 February 24 11:59 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry not to have responded to replies sooner, but have been laid low with the "mega cough" that has been doing the rounds.
Thanks to everyone who has replied here (or via PM). I will look closer at PS and Gymp, look at the demos, and see how/if my skills are up to the task.

Many thanks again.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Colourisation of B&W Photos
« on: Friday 16 February 24 17:44 GMT (UK)  »
Hi All,

I would like to try my hand at colourising my old family photos, which are in black and white.

I have had an initial dabble using a couple of programs I discovered, with mixed results - mainly acceptable, but some less so. These include (as examples) a wedding shot where the bouquet is of red carnations, but which come out black, or a group shot where shadowing on a young lads legs comes out a strange bluish hue.
I was wondering which software the RC experts use, and whether outcomes like the above examples are regular and insurmountable?

Thanks in advance. Any pointers gratefully received.

Regards
ReadyDale

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The Common Room / Re: Genealogical term
« on: Friday 26 January 24 20:11 GMT (UK)  »
Twin brothers marrying twin sisters. Neither sets identical.

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The Common Room / Re: "officially closed " on 1939 register
« on: Tuesday 23 January 24 11:32 GMT (UK)  »
You can apply to have the entry opened.

as far as I know it's free on FindMyPast; applying to TNA or Ancestry you will need to pay a fee.
Do you still have to provide certs to FindMyPast as proof?

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The Common Room / Re: GRO showing zero results for EVERYTHING [SOLVED]
« on: Thursday 18 January 24 15:04 GMT (UK)  »
Why would anyone want to search the GRO records with a leading space?
I'm case there are any records with a leading space k ;) ;D

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The Common Room / Re: GRO showing zero results for EVERYTHING
« on: Tuesday 16 January 24 20:53 GMT (UK)  »
I would imagine a lot of people would expect a space before a surname to be treated as non-significant.

I worked in IT for more than 45 years.
I never worked on a system that treated leading spaces as non-significant! ;)

Agreed

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Democratic Republic of Congo - Resources
« on: Tuesday 16 January 24 12:37 GMT (UK)  »
www.geneanet.org
surname
search
refine search
Congo
gives TWO research countries
Congo - Brazzaville
Congo - Kinshasa
I am a registered member - if you post the surname or full name and can have a look for you
 :)
DR Congo is Congo Kinshasa
RotCongo is Congo Brazzaville

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The Lighter Side / Re: How has your family history been doing in 2023?
« on: Tuesday 02 January 24 16:40 GMT (UK)  »
2023 provided me with a breakthrough on my GGrandfather.
Having previously spent time trying to solve his riddle without success - "no trace" of him before his sign-up papers for the army in 1898. Despite having his DoB in the 1939 Register, no BC or baptism could be found. The army papers gave a tantallising clue - a mother as NoK, but the name and address proved to be a dead end. Then during 2023 some more army records came online. Fortunately, during his time spent in South Africa during the Boer War, he was loaned to another unit, he completed another sign-up record. This also gave a NoK mother, but this time, although the first names matched previous, it had a totally different surname, one I had not come across before. So on a punt, I looked at the indexes to see if there happened to be a birth of his first name but with this new surname for the DoB I had (which tied up with inferred ages on other records). Sure enough there was one, and in the right area too. So biting the bullet, I ordered the cert. When it came back, it had an exact match for the DoB. The ACTUAL father's (first) name matched what had been provided by my GGF, but obvs with this new surname. It appears that my GGF was born shortly before the parents were married and, after five more children, they lived apart for the rest of their lives (my GGGM remarrying shortly after my GGGF died). Quite where the surname my GGF lived by all his life came from, who knows. Maybe he was actually fathered by a different man to that listed on his BC/Bapt, probably only a DNA test will prove. But it certainly threw open an entirely new branch for researching.
Hopefully, 2024 will do the same for my last remaining GGF wall.

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My Dad was out there around that time. As was my (later to become) uncle, sadly no longer with us.
I'll ask my Dad exact years there.

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