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Technical Help / Re: Google photos back up.
« on: Wednesday 29 June 22 10:47 BST (UK)  »
"Gallery" is not a Google App - could this be a Samsung phone ? 

In Google Photos app on the phone - go to Backup settings, and ensure that the "Gallery" folder (and any other Photo folder)  is set to be backed up.  It is not backed up by default.   

The photos taken by the phone are being backed up because "Google Photos" is set in the Camera app as the default storage location.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Scottish element to Irish ancestry?
« on: Wednesday 29 June 22 10:41 BST (UK)  »
The Scots were great travellers - and got everywhere in the Old Empire. Also, Scotland to Ireland is only about 15 miles at the closest sea crossing (and you can see one from the other on a clear day) - so people have been moving in both directions for thousands of years.  The Plantation is one of the many possible vehicles for such intermixing. Other reasons include economic, military, religious, cultural and family ties.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Burial records
« on: Thursday 16 June 22 15:26 BST (UK)  »
You should determine their religious denomination, if any. That may narrow the search. 
Look for where other family members are buried. You may be able to use Findagrave, or Billiongraves websites to help with that. Or look for family funeral notices in Evening Times, Citizen or Herald. 
Sighthill or Lambhill Cemeteries are closest to that Hospital, but that may be no indication of burial location. 
Of course, it may have been a cremation...

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Lanarkshire / Re: Finding the Grave of Thomas McGee
« on: Wednesday 01 June 22 10:29 BST (UK)  »
I agree with ROCKFORD about the FamilySearch records.  You have to scroll through pages of difficult handwriting, starting from the date of death - for, say, 10 days.  Even then, you may miss the entry . Or you may be looking in the wrong cemetery.   However, I've found it a useful resource and have found several family burials and lair records in this way.

As stated, there is a managed search by Council.  But personally, I prefer to look myself as I have more confidence in my searching, than theirs.  It also feels more like "real" research :-)  Maybe we need to do both.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Finding the Grave of Thomas McGee
« on: Monday 30 May 22 13:47 BST (UK)  »
Try this short URL   https://tinyurl.com/ytd8nxmk
(The full one is corrupt somehow).

Alternatively, you can go to FamilySearch website and search for GLASGOW in PLACES in their CATALOG.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Finding the Grave of Thomas McGee
« on: Monday 30 May 22 11:16 BST (UK)  »
In fact, many of the historic records of Glasgow Cemeteries are online.
Look here https://www.familysearch.org/service/search/cat/search?query=%2Bsubject_id%3A532507%20

That's the good news.  The bad news is that they are not indexed, not complete, and often in faint or difficult handwriting.   But if you have a date of death, you can browse these by day.   I have found several records this way.  If you are lucky, there will also be a "Lair Record" that will show who else was buried in the plot, which may give you other family members..

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Technical Help / Re: Facebook query
« on: Wednesday 25 May 22 18:29 BST (UK)  »
Dont think there IS a send button in this case.
On a Windows PC, you add a photo, add your comments, then press "Enter" to send.
Other platforms may differ.....

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Technical Help / Re: Gmail-BTmail - COMPLETED WITH THANKS
« on: Saturday 16 April 22 08:26 BST (UK)  »
I had similar issue.  I realised that I was receiving NO emails from any Gmail accounts to my BTinternet address.   They were NOT in the BT Email Spam folder eiither.   
I found that Gmail.com was in my BTinternet Spam rules as a blocked address.   Not only were the mails being blocked, they were not going to Spam either - they simply did not appear.  I removed the Gmail.com entry from the Spam blacklist and problem fixed.

I don't know of this is a BTinternet bug or fature, and I don't know how Gmail.com was added to my blacklist.

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World War Two / Re: POW Help / Advice please
« on: Monday 04 April 22 12:08 BST (UK)  »
He's in the National Archives, Record set WO416 ....  You can view the record card at Kew, or request a scan...

Name: James Kennedy . Date of Birth: 07/10/1909 . Place of Birth: Liverpool . ...

Reference:    WO 416/207/118
Description:    
Name: James Kennedy.

Date of Birth: 07/10/1909.
Place of Birth: Liverpool.
Service: British Army.
Rank: [Bombardier].
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: [Royal Artillery].
Service Number: 887698.
Date of Capture: [unspecified].
Theatre of Capture: [unspecified].
Camp Name/Number: Stalag XVIIIA Wolfsberg.

PoW number: 677.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 0.
Number of Fingerprints: 0.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 1.
Date:    [1939-1945]
Held by:    The National Archives, Kew

Record opening date:    03 December 2014

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