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Technical Help / Re: Printing 4 copies of a document on 1 sheet
« on: Monday 05 August 13 11:20 BST (UK)  »
Depends on which version of Word (2007, 2010...) and which operating system (XP, Vista, 8...) you are using. If using Word 2010 on Windows 7, click File > Print, '4 Pages Per Sheet'. All 4 pages print on one sheet, in portrait mode. If this doesn't work, you may need to adjust printer settings. But let us know the Word and Windows versions for a more complete answer.

An alternative way is to convert Word files to a 4-page Adobe PDF document. Then click File > Print > Scaling > Multiple pages per sheet > Pages per sheet > Custom > 1 x 4 (If you don't have Word : PDF conversion software, just Google 'Word PDF conversion online free', you'll have many choices.

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Other Countries / Re: India Electoral roll
« on: Sunday 04 August 13 19:08 BST (UK)  »
Well, good luck. A quick internet search turned up not many Syed + Yazdanis - just this gentlemen who may or may not be able to provide some pointers: http://www.icgeb.org/pi-shams.html

Kind regards,

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Other Countries / Re: India Electoral roll
« on: Sunday 04 August 13 17:01 BST (UK)  »
Hi Sandra

Just saw your post. Since older census records in India did not include individuals' names, default ways to trace Muslim ancestral history would be marriage records maintained by local mosques and WAKF boards. Another source would be traditional genealogist communities such as the Mirasi (Mostly Sunni), Raibhat and Kingharia.

The towns you mention (with the exception of Rewa, which is in Madhya Pradesh, and Delhi) are in present day Uttar Pradesh; all have sizable Muslim populations, and oral history tradition remains strong. If you can find any local community contacts or genealogist volunteers/researchers (look on the internet), you will have a good starting point.

Also see http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/next_steps/researchplaces_01.shtml

Hope some of the above is useful.

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The Common Room / 7 Tips For More Accurate Google Search
« on: Sunday 04 August 13 04:38 BST (UK)  »
Adapted from Popular Mechanics magazine. Should be useful for genealogical research:

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2) SEARCH 1900..2000 presidents

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3) SEARCH William * Clinton

searches for William and Clinton with any word between

4) SEARCH ancestor

finds results relating to ancestor and to synonyms of ancestor

5) SEARCH related:illinois.gov

finds websites related to illinois.gov

6) SEARCH airplanes filetype:ppt

finds PowerPoint files that include airplanes

7) SEARCH recipes -bananas

finds recipes that don't include the word bananas

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For Sale / Wanted / Events / Watch 1m:45s Demo of Photo Scanning App on Youtube
« on: Saturday 03 August 13 12:55 BST (UK)  »
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Date and ID of Photo of British soldier from Ranikhet, India
« on: Saturday 03 August 13 12:49 BST (UK)  »
Jumping in late into this discussion, but hoping some of this furthers your research a bit.

Ranikhet and Bareilly were (and still are) garrison towns in colonial India. They are located 110 miles apart, so the Magnet Studios were probably two branches under common ownership.

I don't find any records of Joseph Byron Clayton or kin moving to India, so were the Indian Magnet Studios bonafide franchises or not? Doesn't really matter, but it does look like someone leveraging upon the brand back home. As philipsearching noted, Joseph Byron Clayton opened Magnet Studio in Leicester in 1873 (see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brett/photos/eng/ntt/wclayton.html) so the Magnet studios in India must have come after it. If true, this rules out Andrew Minto who died in 1858. This leaves John Alexander Sutherland (b. 1878, left for Africa in 1890s) in the frame. The subject in your photo could be 18-22 years old, which would tie in with this.

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For Sale / Wanted / Events / Free App Pic Scanner Makes Photo Scanning Super-Easy
« on: Friday 02 August 13 12:22 BST (UK)  »
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The Common Room / Re: 1871 India Census.
« on: Friday 02 August 13 11:47 BST (UK)  »
For high level information please see:

http://arrow.latrobe.edu.au/store/3/4/5/5/2/public/census1871.htm

For more granular information, you may approach the British Library (apac-enquiries@bl.uk). See:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorv_5&cid=1-4-2#1-4-2

Hope this helps a little. Kind regards

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Armed Forces / Re: India house, looking for Great great granddads Joseph Conway records from 1870
« on: Friday 02 August 13 10:47 BST (UK)  »
Please see whether these are related / relevant posts:

http://genforum.genealogy.com/conway/messages/2758.html
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=409663.10

Dum Dum, sometimes referred to as Dum Duma, is located near (now subsumed within) Calcutta.

Hope this helps. Kind regards,

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