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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: Peter Ford
« on: Monday 14 April 14 20:15 BST (UK)  »
Hi Mat,

Just came across your enquiries about Peter Ford and spent 20 minutes getting back to you after getting lost on RootsChat.

I notice a few dates that didn't jell but can offer the following extract for something I'm writing that might help resolve them
"The bunch of blokes in the dojo were friendly and the teacher, Peter Ford, was a smiling half oriental 2nd Dan.  He’d been in the paras, I  suppose in WW2 because he talked about guarding this German 4th Dan, but Peter didn’t look old enough.  He told me they would use blackout material to make Judo suits and a mat canvas."
This would have been around 1964, Peter was already a 2nd dan so that couldn't have been him in 1972, unless he was regrading!  As far as I know Peter was never in the BJA, he was definitely in the BJC but I suspect this might have been a later move, sometime around 1966?
I'm not going to wade through all the postings to pursue this; if you want to contact please do so directly: (*)

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Shropshire / Henry Binnall b. 1814 & son Roland
« on: Thursday 24 November 11 20:32 GMT (UK)  »
Is anyone searching for Henry Binnall b. 1814 Shrewsbury, Shropshire, d. 1884 Wolstanton, Staffs and his son Roland Binnall b. 1842 (wife Rachael D).  In 1901 they were at Tunstall, Staffs but his death was reg’d 1915 in Wandsworth.

If you are linked to the above please make contact with me.


Thanks, David

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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: Word to PDF via Family Tree Maker
« on: Tuesday 28 June 11 19:36 BST (UK)  »
Thank you both.  I was hoping someone out there had already resolved (this surely common) requirement.

I'm going to try RootsMagic but early days yet.

If there's no help with FTM I'll try the help-line but I'm in France so not toll-free, and in my experience, two more questions for everyone solved, so getting in touch with FTM wasn't my first thought.

Thanks again

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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Word to PDF via Family Tree Maker
« on: Monday 27 June 11 13:56 BST (UK)  »
Hello,
 
I’m using Family Tree Maker version 16, 2005 (bought then because it was a bargain).  Having written up my family history narrative in Word 2002 (containing text, formatted extracts from censuses etc. with tabs, and some simple pedigree charts) I sought to create a Book in FTM by pasting from my Word docs., the Book could then be distributed as a PDF (presumably, I haven’t got that far yet).

This is not working.  The Book accepts the paste but underlines everything and imposes half a dozen random font sizes so I relayed the text.  I also relayed the census extracts to cater for the fact that the FTM Book won’t do tabs etc. In spite of this, FTM Book retains the tabs so the layout is all wrong.  Not only this, when previewed as a PDF, random large areas of blank space appear in the text.  So far lots of work for an unacceptable result.

Have these problems been solved with a later version of Family Tree Maker with a better Word/PDF converter?

I’m not wedded to FTM, is there another genealogy software with similar features that can successfully produce a PDF book (incorporating the data contained in the genealogy software) that has some flexibility so I can control the result and lock it?

Hope you can help.

Regards,

David

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London and Middlesex / Re: Hansell/Ansell
« on: Sunday 23 January 11 23:52 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

Have you found any cross connections for surnames: STOREY or STORY/ ROWLEDGE/ MORGAN/ GRIFFIN/ ANSLEY or AINSLEY or ANSEL or HANSELL / PRATT in your research?  Origins Ware/Stanstead Abbots/Hoddesden/Aston areas of Hertfordshire then St. Andrew’s by the Wardrobe in the Queenshythe area of the City of London from about 1825.

Edmund GRIFFIN and Ann ANSLEY were married in Stanstead Abbots parish church, Herts 19/5/1816.  Was Hansell (forename possibly Edward) the Godfather to their son Edward Griffin, born 11/9/1825 and christened at the parish church of Saint Andrew by the Wardrobe.

Thanks,

David

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: 'Boarded Entry' Census term? COMPLETED
« on: Sunday 11 April 10 19:55 BST (UK)  »
Hi again,

This is a great help; all the St. Georges/Stepney mentions seem to be the same one as in the Old Bailey transcript.

My impression was that there were more of the same name elswhere in the area but from your NA search it appears I’m wrong. Am I correct in concluding that the St. Georges/Stepney thing indicates that the location was sited on an Enumerator District border?

How did you find that Prusom’s Island was adjacent, did you look at the census pages?

Many thanks and regards,

David

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: 'Boarded Entry' Census term?
« on: Sunday 11 April 10 15:29 BST (UK)  »
Hi Valda,

I appreciate your help.  Needless to say, now I need to find examples in the censuses I can’t.  Saying that, they are frequent enough, they just don’t happen to have been directly connected to my research (until now) hence no notes. 

In trying to answer your request for a piece number, I Googled the term and found a sort of explanation in a transcript of an Old Bailey Trial, however all it described was an alley.  There were also examples that went way further back than ‘slum clearances’.

My query arose out of Ancestry’s London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 data-set.  On the following page there are two entries for the same family of Chattaway; John and Daniel baptised 19/3/1848.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=1558&iid=31280_194831-00009&fn=Daniel&ln=Chattaway&st=r&ssrc=&pid=2915903
For the 1851C these people are at a ‘proper’ address.

Regards,

David

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: 'Boarded Entry' Census term?
« on: Monday 05 April 10 15:51 BST (UK)  »
Hi Valda,

I was aware of your info.  The instanc/es that I refer to are addresses for inhabited/occupied premises.

Thanks anyway,

David

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / 'Boarded Entry' Census term? COMPLETED
« on: Sunday 04 April 10 14:32 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone explain the term 'Boarded Entry' or is it just what it says it is?

It occurs too frequently in official records as an address and on one occasion appeared to be the same location that previously had a street name.  I wondered if 'Boarded Entry' might have been slum clearance sites that were ‘squatted’.

Thanks in anticipation.

David

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