Genealogy Chat

Hello Ramon and welcome.

It may be better for you to post your query on the Genealogy Chat board to be honest. There are quite a few members who are good with that sort of query. Hope this helps..... :-D


So Ken, you're a campanologist are you? Interesting. We have bells at our church and quite a good team of youngsters who practice weekly. I absolutely love to hear church bells ringing.


Yes, Evelyn's thread is busy again and I am trying to consolidate it so that people are going over things unnecessarily. Not sure I'm succeeding though.. :-
I spent hours on it yesterday and was quite x-eyed by the time I'd finished........ :-S


Have been out with daughter today to look at a wedding fayre at a local church - was hoping to get ideas because I'm organising one at our church later in the year. Glad I went......I can now up my game - so to speak! :-D


Finished off by going to our favourite coffee shop and eating far too much........ :-(


When I went out, OH was watching Aliens for the umpteenth time. What a totally yukky film that is......can't see the fascination myself......... :-S



Anyway, off to do some searching for any of Evelyn's Goddard-Fenwick descendents.


Take care and love to all........Cx <3

I'm Colour blind - we would make a good pair of Bookends don't you think?
Ramon

ramon

very sorry I have no idear

tes I know what you mean though I do not ompress mine :-0

ken what a great way to see the country I am most impressed as I am tone deaf

sally w <3

Could anyone help me with the following:-
I have copied some relations from anothers tree (with permission) and have the items on my clipboard.
I have created the relation squares on my tree in readiness to receive the copied content complete with first names
HOW do I then trans the copied detail across to these squares - Please help this Old Fuddy Duddy impress his kids!!
Regards
Ramon :-)

Hello Sally,
I've been to Gosberton church, back in 2004. One of my hobbies is church bell ringing. We visited half a dozen towers in the Spalding area that day.
Ken

hello all

I have been looking at evelyns thread I whish I could help but I am not very good at searching

we have some lovely sunshine today :-D

ken tell us something happy then ;-)

I am going to achurch to see the flowers it comes round su quickly it will be the flower festival at spalding Saturday week I am going with ihe blind club with lunch at the church wich is at at a village called gosberton near spalding many churches round here do this also things for sale tombola etc :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

sally w <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

HI everyone

OOOOOH! got in on the first try this time,things are looking up.

Ken we are a great bunch ..we do not take life so serious and we are there for one another if need be .

Our winter is upon us ..rain tonight thank the lord ,everything is so dry here.

The town is busy at the moment with the school holidays here in Oz at this time ,one more week to go and they all go home and we get our little country town back ,that is the trouble with living in a holiday town but I hate the city so i have to put up with it ;-)

Been searching Military records today for Evelyn's Father,there are so many sites for the Military I don't know the best one,can anyone steer me to the best and i will subscribe to it .

Got my dinner dishes to get rid of then I am into it :-D

Be back later :-D

Suex <3 <3 <3

Hi Susan, I just thought I'd look at this thread to see if it was less depressing than the others that I've been following lately. It seems that it is.

Cynthia, if you have a scanner/printer it probably has an OCR option. I have tried it on mine with limited success. It is usually easier to retype than correct the OCR errors.

Ken

Hi everyone


Still having trouble getting on here but i will try Sylvia's suggestion.

Cynthia

I have been looking at Evelyn's thread today and have search a site with BDM's for India but nothing came up with the names we have to work with.

Searching the Internet for sites that have persons that received medals that have been to India.

My Mother was born in Burma in a British Garrison that had its own Hospital in 1932,her birth cert was easy to find ,she is on Free BMD, I know this is not India but the same scenario.

If Robert was in the Army as he says Diane'S Birth should be easy to find ,I also have Birth certs for My OH side of the family also born in India during British settlement that was in 1840 Camp Kurrachie India.

with the info we have I can't see us finding her birth,i will look in every now and then,I have the OH looking at all his war books to see if he can come up with anything .

Robert so very pleased to hear that your wife is on the mend .

Ken nice of you to join us .

I have come to the conclusion that this site is slowly dying ,there does not seem to be the requests for help that there was back in 2006 when I joined ,I do enjoy helping but i am nowhere as good as some of the other researchers so by the time I find the info someone else has already posted the info.

I must admit that I am doing more of my own research so I guess that is what I joined for in the first place.

Anyway back to it ,dishes waiting to be washed.

Suex :-D <3

Robert


great news!!!

I am so glad to hear that.

Thanks Sylvia,

My wife is well, having been told by the Hospital that they don't want to see her again in the next 12 months.

Old, the photo was taken in 1984 when they were about a year old. Sadly the tabby only lived another year but the black one lived to 16. We haven't had any since she died.

Cynthia, the electoral rolls on A were done by OCR. Mostly they are good but often the system gets out of phase and road names and elector's names get confused.

Ken
How old are the cats?

Nice to see you KenSE. :-)

Had never heard of that software - but it's interesting. Some old typeface could be quite blurry at times so I guess that's when the system falters. Thank you for that.


Off to get weighed soon :-(

Arthur, typed records tend to be transcribed by Optical Character Recognition software. It's cheap and fast but of course is prone to errors if the typeface is not clear or there are marks on the original.

Sylvia

Whilst I agree that old handwriting - and modern -can be difficult to read, official typed records merely have to be copied.

Have not seen any error messages, but have suffered having duplicate entries.

Always go to 'Post Date' on entry to arrive at the last posting. Never fails.

Another sunny day so off to the garden.

Hi Sue, and everyone


Sue ............... don't try to go back by pages. I now always click on Post Date .............. it takes right to the most recent postings. No problems with error or slowness.

You have to then scroll down the page to find the last posting that you had read.

I'm having problems with Error when trying to submit posts ................ I reckon I get that about 85-90% of the time. It makes everything so slow!

I find I am spending less and less time on GR.


Arthur ......................... one of my lines is Schofield. I could not find them in one census ........... and finally asked on GR for help.

Someone found them, very quickly ........................... SILUFIELD :-S :-S :-S


When I looked at the image ........ it was Schofield!


BUT as Cynthia said, the transcribers have to write what they see, not what they think they see, or even what they know it should be.

and some have great problems with old handwriting, or copper plate as it used to be known.



anne .............. that must have a great night out!


sally ....... hope things are OK???


Robert ............. how lovely to see you. How is your wife doing???


John .......... nice to see you. I gave up Internet Explorer last year. I now use Firefox Mozilla, which I downloaded for free from the internet.


Has any one heard from / about Reece recently???



take care everyone



s
xx

Ooooooh.....Anne, I'm quite jealous, that is one play I would really love to see. Not very keen on musicals but love dramas. I'm sure the money was well spent - especially as you had such a good time.


Arthur, some of the mistranscriptions on Ancestry are incredible but I think that those who transcribe have to put what they actually see, not what they think it should be!!

Don't forget to look on Google images to see if there are any photographs of the area in Suffolk that you are researching - I've found some really good ones of my interests.



Mixed weather for us really - lovely sunshine but chilly and now it's gone all grey and miserable looking :-(


No grandchildren today but son is coming for a meal after he finishes work. They are now growing teenagers with social lives of their own - but I do miss them.


I think I had better do some tidying up round me, it looks as though someone has emptied the paper bin over my chair...... :-D


Take care, keep well and love to you all........Cx <3

Enjoying the Spring weather and gardening.

Have made some progress on my extended family tree. When you get the answers from someone else you wonder how you missed the info in the first place.

Transcription errors do not help. The official record was correct, but Ancestry had name as HAACE not Haack. No wonder I could not find the death. Difficult to see how it occurred as 'E' and 'K' are not even close on the keyboard.

Once the garden has been tidied, I must pay a visit to Suffolk to see if I can take my family back beyond 1750. Would also be nice to photograph churches associated with the family and the cottage where some of them lived in Sudbury.

I have just added to my thread on the Haack/Hack family.

Would really appreciate your help.