Forum: General Chatter

Those based in the UK should be aware that on the next three Fridays at 9:00 on BBC2 there will be three hour-long documentaries featuring historic film footage that was recently discovered. 28 hours of footage shot by the little known film makers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon was found in the...

Seeing the advice given in this forum ("a sticky problem") reminded me of a problem I encountered a few months back, which I've only partially solved. Amongst the collection of photos passed to me from my aunt was one dating back to the late 1890s. A nice group photo of the workforce of Hunt's...

I clicked on New Posts today and found everything had gone very wide. I had to use the arrows to read across the whole screen. It is helpful to see the thread and then the section it is in. I feel sick now :( Why has it gone soooo wide?

I've just come across this website and was wondering if anyone used it and could tell me if it is actually any better than the free sites like UKBMD and FREEBMD and especially does it contain any more information. I'm not averse to paying for what I use but I see no point in doing so if it is...

Hi Everyone, Those of you who are old enough to remember the *new* fashion of pointed toed shoes aka winkle-pickers in the late 50's ...... you know girls, where we all had to put cotton wool in the *shoes toes *to stop them curling upwards? ;) Quote from The Annals of Yorkshire from...

Oooh! I just became a senior! Can I have a bus pass please? Can I use it for cheap fares on an Air Bus? :D Can I retire from my job and spend more time on family research? Becoming a senior is very appropriate right now - I have recently become aquainted with a third cousin from my...

I wonder if anyone can beat this from the North Devon Journal of 26th November 1829? "Oct. 4th 1829, Mrs Mary Crees, of Harbertonford in the Parish of Harberton, in her 90th year. She had 9 children, 56 grandchildren, 129 great-grandchildren, 1 great-great grandson; she has now a son in the Devon...

I have subscribed to a number of lists and forums at different times and have found lots of nice people who have added one way and another to the knowledge of my family - antecedants and their decendants. However whenever I have sought to find some way of making a chink in one of those brick walls...

I knew it! Back when I thought he was my ancestor (long story), I got the will of my GG-GM's 3rd husband. He left bequests to his married daughters, and to one of her married daughters. I found her previous marriage (and G-GM's birth), and it struck me that the married name of one of #3's...

With the proliferation in affordable (often included free in a package) image manipulation software now available what tips and tricks have people found to improve the quality of those facsimiles of documents which are either difficult to read or are just a photocopy of an un-cropped and coffee...

I have this photo and I think its called a cherabang (spelling) I don't know how to spell it and what would it be used for? Any help? Jo :)

I'm interested to find out how people share their family history with members of the family. I've got a website, which is slowly being filled with various articles and eventually will have the tree on there - but not many of the family get a chance to look at it. So, I created an A5 booklet to...

I'll probably get lots of hate mail from Simpsons and Apprentice fans, not to mention being banned from this forum, and blacklisted by Google, but I just couldn't resist the opportunity:D - see thread on "boosting Archive CD Books" If this doesn't up the hit rate from Google, Idon't know what...

I have started researching my family fairly recently and am now completely hooked. I thought my father's family came from Bristol/Somerset like my mother's family, but I have been intrigued to discover that they came from Huntingdonshire - right back to the late 1500s. A great great grandmother...