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The Lighter Side / Love letter mystery
« on: Tuesday 08 December 09 14:38 GMT (UK)  »
Anyone seen this story?  I wonder whether Rootschatters might be able to help out on this one (obviously without posting anything about people who might still be living...)


http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/homepage/help-trace-owner-old-love-letters/article-1580323-detail/article.html


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1234139/The-1940s-love-letters-photos-bus-high-society-romance.html


Anna :)


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Technical Help / Ancestry's Enhanced Image Viewer in Internet Explorer 8
« on: Sunday 28 June 09 08:26 BST (UK)  »
Hello all

I have been using Enhanced Image Viewer without any problems in IE7.  However, now that I have installed IE8.0 my computer is claiming that Enhanced Image Viewer is not installed.  Several times I have gone through the download procedure, at the end of which the message "Setup completed successfully" appears.  However, when I then try to continue to view a document I get the message "The Enhanced Image viewer is not installed on this machine."

Any ideas gratefully received!

Anna

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Surrey Completed Look up Requests / Richmond local newspapers 1844-5
« on: Sunday 11 January 09 14:46 GMT (UK)  »
Does anybody know what local newspaper(s) would have been published to cover the Richmond (Surrey) area in 1844-5?  I'm looking for an obituary of my ancestor John H. Gosling who died at the turn of the year aged 91 and was buried at St Margaret's on 4 January 1845.  He was a prominent draper in Richmond, and I'm hoping an obituary might have been published which might give me some clues as to his origins. (Currently all I know about where he came from is from the 1841 census, according to which he was not born in Surrey).

Many thanks in advance

Anna

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Census and Resource Discussion / Ancestry search problem - can you help me find Ronald?
« on: Wednesday 10 December 08 17:57 GMT (UK)  »
Looking at my new home page from Ancestry I see that among their new records are the British Commonwealth War Graves Registers 1914-1918. This is material they have obtained from CWGC, according to their credits.

Just out of curiosity, I'm trying to find the record for my g-g-uncle Ronald Hugh McGregor PIERCE who died on the Somme in 1916 and is commemorated at Thiepval.  Here's his CWGC entry:

http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1548282

He's also on Soldiers Died in the Great War - I have that.  But I want to find him in the new Registers just to see what it says.

Can anyone easily find him by searching the new Ancestry database? I can't - so any tips would be most welcome.

Anna :)

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The Lighter Side / The Times turns to family history...
« on: Wednesday 10 September 08 14:12 BST (UK)  »
...and discovers this - er - earth-shattering news about Britney's ancestors:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4717452.ece


Shock horror :o

or not... ::)

Anna

Sorry mods - I meant to put this on the Lighter Side

Moderator comment; Not to worry - easily rectified!   :)

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Worcestershire / A Thousand Years in Tardebigge
« on: Thursday 04 September 08 16:54 BST (UK)  »
Hi Rootschatters

I'm wondering whether anybody on here has (or has access to) a copy of A Thousand Years in Tardebigge, by Margaret Dickins (1931). I occasionally see copies of this rare book coming up for sale for £100 or so and wonder whether to take the plunge, but before I spend that sort of money I'd be most grateful for any indication people might be able to give me as to whether it'll enlighten me on my Tardebigge lines, principally the Milwards (needle/fish hook factory owners) and connected families like the Bartleets and others. I just don't know to what extent the book descends to detail on local families, or whether it's more generally about the local history - though that would interest me too!

Many thanks in advance

Anna :)

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The Lighter Side / Extraordinary births
« on: Thursday 24 July 08 10:48 BST (UK)  »
Announced in the Hull Packet, Tues 18 Jan 1803:

On Saturday week, the wife of Moses Solomon, a Jew, in Stoney-Lane, Petticoat-lane, London, was delivered of four children, three girls and a boy, all likely to do well.

On Tuesday last, the wife of James Woodward, labourer, of St Helen's, of three girls, who, with the mother, are likely to do well. The mother is in her 50th year, and the father upwards of 65

Anna :)

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Technical Help / "Find on page" in Vista - how?
« on: Sunday 13 July 08 09:50 BST (UK)  »
I'm looking something up for a fellow Rootschatter on a web page with lots of material on it - it would help a great deal if I could do a "find on this page" search as I used to be able to do with Internet Explorer.

Can anybody enlighten me as to how I might be able to do this? ???

Thanks in advance

Anna

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Suffolk / The Manor House, Westerfield
« on: Monday 16 June 08 14:26 BST (UK)  »
Can anybody think of a good way to find out who was living at The Manor House, Westerfield, Suffolk in 1925-1937?  This is given as the last UK address in two outbound passenger lists I have found for relatives on FindMyPast in 1925 and 1937 respectively, but at present I am unable to make the connection.

I have found online a current planning application for the property which gives the modern address as The Manor, Westerfield Road, Westerfield, Ipswich IP6 9AQ, so it appears still to exist.

Thanks in advance

Anna

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