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Cheshire Lookup Requests / Re: Landican burial 1950
« on: Sunday 28 September 14 09:00 BST (UK) »
Gosh Neptune
Please don't apologize. I appreciate your effort to check for me. So perhaps the cremation route was the way my grandfather chose at the time. He remarried, but his second wife outlived him by a few months, so goodness knows where he ended up. My aunt is the only one left alive who could have told us, but sadly she is in the grip of dementia now at 94. I know she had my mother cremated in Essex in 1992, sending a picture of a plaque on the wall, but she didn't give them my address for billing. By the time I returned to the UK for a visit to pay my respects, my mother had been strewn over the rose bushes....So if either my gran or my auntie Barb were cremated, I expect their ashes met the same fate long ago. Careless bunch this branch of my family
Please don't apologize. I appreciate your effort to check for me. So perhaps the cremation route was the way my grandfather chose at the time. He remarried, but his second wife outlived him by a few months, so goodness knows where he ended up. My aunt is the only one left alive who could have told us, but sadly she is in the grip of dementia now at 94. I know she had my mother cremated in Essex in 1992, sending a picture of a plaque on the wall, but she didn't give them my address for billing. By the time I returned to the UK for a visit to pay my respects, my mother had been strewn over the rose bushes....So if either my gran or my auntie Barb were cremated, I expect their ashes met the same fate long ago. Careless bunch this branch of my family
. I have finally found an email for Landican so will try contacting them directly to see what or how to try and find them. In the meantime I will mark the thread completed.
My son came over this weekend to help with my IT stuff! Long story short he found out online that Microsoft had a virtual machine Win Xp install file, free for Win 7 Pro licences, which fortunately we already had installed on an another laptop. We were able to open the CD in Win XP. The graphics are garish but the menu pages worked. However clicking on the navigation buttons results in nothing happening (something to do with .dll files perhaps?). Unfortunately the data files were encrypted with a file format (.smt) that will not permit conversion to .txt format so we are just about back to square one. 
Never mind I've learned a lot this week. Thanks again to all who offered help.