May I add that circular glass paper weights work very well, are inert and smooth surfaced and will not damage documents, photos, maps or cloth articles. They are not cheap ~£10 for a set of four (4) + P&P & VAT. An alternative, which is also not cheap, is a large piece of plate glass that ca...

Aye William,

Have a wee read of this link: Family_Archive_Preservation_advice

I suspect it all depends on what else is hidden in your relatives chest of drawers or leaky garden shed, wi' nesting swallows above!

Good health, Bill

Aye to All, My pennyworth! A 'blow by blow' entry guide can be very useful for initiates into using Family Historian (FH) and or Ancestral Sources (AS), but as with Global Information Systems (GIS) the breadth of the software capabilities means that you never 'Know it all' and even with an ability t...

Sat down with genealogical insomnia and then remembered all of my eight, without opening the database. However, my wifes were more troublesome and I only managed four. My eight are as follows: Paternal = Rayner, Mittell, Houle and Huxtable. Maternal = Baker, Bishop, Bridgland and Thirkell. I have im...

Aye Colin, May I suggest that you give Google Translate a shot? Google Translate The 'Mariages' document appears more legible to my eyes and I would type it in verbatum and see what appears. It may not be a 'perfect' translation, but I'm sure you will get the jist of the contents. My regards, Bill

Aye Richard, Like David, I too use SyncTool v2.1 for all my backing up of various internal drives to remote hard drives. Only amended/altered/additional files from the latest session of work are backed up, therebye reducing the potential volume of backing up required. It will also back-up to 'cloud'...

Aye Mike, I agree that the reference that I provided relates to SS Dalcross' log between 1939-1945. There are also further records in more detail of SS Dalcross on specific convoys during the period 1939-1945. However, I have found this link, again on the National Archives website, titled: BT 99 - R...

Aye Rick, Having read your message and then skimmed the consequent replies, I note that you haven't been following the thread and neither could I. :roll: I quote your closing comments: " At 73, I want to spend my time researching and writing, not figuring out the vagaries and shortfalls of new ...

Aye Anne, Before making any "plans" have a face to face conversation with your children or immediate family as to whether they are interested! May seem daft, but can save a lot of grief early on. If someone or multiple family members are interested, keep the conversations going and realise...

Aye Mike, If you use the link below it will take you to the UK National Archive website and the entry for the 'SS Dalcross'. You are offered the option to preview the document images, beneath the ship's catalogue description. Whether you wish to pay the £3-50 fee too enable you to download the 15 pa...

Aye IanTS, I too have encountered this 'double recording' of births in the Scottish Borders, with my wifes paternal family. Also, with my paternal mother's family in North Devon, in Parish records going back to the mid 1700's. It can be a bit disconcerting, but I attach both PR entry documents when ...

Aye Jane,

Another way to view Castle Street on OS 25inch to the mile scale mapping, without the Charles Booth information and with the latest satellite imagery beneath. The opacity of the map is controlled by the blue slider to the left of the map image.

NLS_maps_link

My regards, Bill

Aye, I thought that I should post this link in case it is of interest to any other researchers on the forum.

Ancestry_Free_Irish_record _access_until_Monday_18th_March_2019

My regards, Bill

Aye Bill, Have you had a trawl here? National_Archives_of_Norway This is the link for the Parish Records for Bergen County, Norway. Bergen_County, _Norway, _Parish _records I have made searches on the following sites using "Iversen", "Iverson", "Ivorsen" and "Ivors...

Thank you Mike, I apologise for my faux pas!

Good health, Bill

Aye Ron, Being a Luddite, I am not the best at this sort of thing, but at this late hour I may be able to help! Does this link help? FH_Index_to_plugin_titles If this doesn't help, I apologies and hope the people that write these things can help, later this morning. Good health and my regards, Bill ...

Aye Adrian, a pleasure.

My regards, Bill

Aye Adrian, May I suggest for pre 1917 you use "Grand Duchy of Finland" and for post 1917 you use "Finland". No need to guess any abbreviations and no mention of "Russia" to confuse. I haven't done any research, but are areas of the "Grand Duchy of Finland" no...

For anybody with forebears who emmigrated to Southern Patagonia from the British Isles and then became naturalised around Punta Arenas or other settlements/ estancia in the region this web site could be of interest!

British Presence in Southern Patagonia

Buena suerte para ti.

Bill

Aye jsphillips, Does this link to the LDS website assist you? 1928_Q1_Henry W (William?) Adams-Gladys Muriel Gertrude Crowe_m_Thetford Also the following link to the potential marriage of Violet Emily Adelaide Adams to Henry Mee in Downham, Norfolk, England: 1922_Q4_Violet Emily Adelaide Adams-Henry...

Please note that these increases in fees apply to the UK General Record Office (GRO) and not to the National Records of Scotland (NRS).

The charges applied by the NRS appear to remain unchanged and can be found in detail on their website: NRS_service_charges_2019-01

My regards, Bill

Aye Chris, Further to my earlier post, it would appear that by entering ""Robert Harvey" grave" into Google, it returns 45,900 results! 'FindaGrave' has 1,509 matching records found for "Robert Harvey". So it appears that if you only use Google, or are keen and use a ge...

Aye Chris, I have used and made contributions to both FindaGrave and GravestonePhotos. FindaGrave is an American site and appears to have close connections to the LSD website and Search engine. Whilst the GravestonePhotos is a one man band UK based website and if you enjoy one to one correspondence ...

Thank you Mike for clearing that little conundrum up.

Good health and my regards, Bill

Assistance please! I have tried both the 'Help' in A.S. and the 'Knowledge Base' and can find no guidance on 'How?' I might remove an incorrectly spelt 'image keyword' from the list of options displayed when associating a new image with a new entry. :? I suspect that the solution is embarrassingly s...