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Messages - Ian Nelson

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Photograph Resources, Tips, Tutorials / Re: Photo editing question
« on: Tuesday 31 October 23 08:37 GMT (UK)  »
Microsoft originally included a simple Paint program with Windows.   Some volunteers enhanced it and provided it Free.  It is now quite advanced but still simple to use and is great for Editing Photos.
getpaint and paintdot.net will get you to their website.  Never download it from a third party and avoid bundled extras.  It's available from the app store, but don't know if it's free.
cheers, Ian
 

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Lancashire / Re: Colton (Lancashire north of the sands)
« on: Wednesday 18 October 23 09:37 BST (UK)  »
I can only find a Snaith Hall just west of Goole.  East Riding, next to the M62
cheers, Ian

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Lancashire / Re: BURIAL INFORMATION
« on: Tuesday 17 October 23 10:32 BST (UK)  »
FYI ... there was a Thomas Gleave born in the 1920s who was resident in Sidney Street, Saltcoats, Ayrshire in the 1950s before de-camping to Edinburgh.  I believe he was in the motor trade, perhaps a garage?
cheers, Ian

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The Common Room / Re: Any idea what this surname might be? Garleforde
« on: Monday 09 October 23 12:36 BST (UK)  »
 a very long shot but is it possible it is of Huguenot origin as they escaped from France & Wallonia from the 16th Century onwards ....
cheers, Ian

https://www.huguenots-france.org/english/pastors/surn0.htm


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Does this mean anything to anyone?
« on: Sunday 24 September 23 19:09 BST (UK)  »
Dairymaid  ... without the i being dotted

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Lanarkshire / Re: Graveyard Glasgow
« on: Saturday 16 September 23 11:13 BST (UK)  »
A few miles north-east of Oatlands next to Celtic Park there is / was the Eastern Necropolis and further east on the south-side of London Road lies the Cemetery of St. Peter's.

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.8&lat=55.84301&lon=-4.19379&layers=193&b=1

worth a try ?
cheers, Ian
just checking the map again and a few miles south-east is Rutherglen Cemetery, not part of Glasgow.

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The Common Room / Re: public tree on ancestry
« on: Friday 15 September 23 10:14 BST (UK)  »
... Irvine Library's Family History Centre has never heard of AncestryLibraryEdition and they charge £7 per hour to assist members of the public.   The assistant phoned her colleague at Kilmarnock Library Family History Centre and she had never heard of AncestryLibraryEdition either. 
To my mind, you might think that a Revelation of Special Access to Ancestry for Libraries would have been of great interest, but the member of the public who was being 'helped' ( @ £7. per hour) showed great interest, the assistant ... ZILCH.
I've emailed my distant cousin and requested she email me with her *.ged file as an attachment.
Beyond that I have no interest in collecting others' family trees.   Distant cousins the Chapman family have been pioneers in Family Research since long before the Internet and have amassed thousands of ancestors, some of them in countries I have never heard of, and MyHeritage sends me 'Why don't you send a personal birthday message to this cousin' even though they are dead.
I have set a deadline to my Quest and it is when my subscription to FindMyPast expires ... then I'm going Magnet-Fishing or Beach-combing and when it is raining it'll be Snooker.
cheers, Ian

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The Common Room / Re: public tree on ancestry
« on: Wednesday 13 September 23 19:27 BST (UK)  »
Thanks everyone for your advice and guidance ... however, I'm curious as to what services are available at Irvine library's Heritage Centre and I'll allow the staff to show me how to access whatever they can including the Ancestry Library Edition.
I received a 6 month Ancestry subscription a few years ago and I found next to nothing I hadn't already found from free sources.  This year, with the co-operation of my siblings, I purchased a Full year's subscription with FindMyPast with the intention of bombarding it with queries on behalf of all my sibling's spouses families as well.  I have found precious little that I didn't already have and will definitely be cancelling their AUTOMATIC renewal.
I only have 7 people in my list of either 'brick walls' or 'not quite sure that's true' and this FindMyPast subscription is our attempt to resolve what can be resolved before the sub's up.
After that, I'm passing the baton to younger generations and going to spend more time 'pastiming' before it's too late.
cheers medears, Ian
 

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The Common Room / Re: public tree on ancestry
« on: Wednesday 13 September 23 10:54 BST (UK)  »
...and all the other Providers own their data storage servers and YET THEY DON'T CHARGE to access it.Did you note my Post on the business model that says ' Why sell it when you can rent, lease, lend or licence it and get repeat fees way beyond the cost of provision.  It is called ' Profiteering' and you say they have 'EVERY RIGHT' .. well I don't think so, they have manipulated themselves into the position of having the 'Power' to charge money for something that was in the public domain in the first instance.  They are not the only people to do it ... most videos on Youtube and the like are provided freely by content contributors yet you will be inundated by advertisements to view something which was provided FREE.
I submitted my Novella to SMASHWORDS to be distibuted FREE to anyone who wishes to read or download it.   Check out SCRIBD website ... they will allow you to read 30 pages yet if you wish to read further you have to pay them.  How many different kinds of theft and basic dishonesty is that. Not unlike Ancestry FindMyPast and others, eh!?
cheers, Ian

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