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The Common Room / Re: I am Related to Someone Famous!
« on: Friday 12 December 25 23:26 GMT (UK) »
According to Family Search I am related to Elvis Presley.. Explains my devastatingly good looks and amazing singing voice!
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Graveyards and Gravestones / Re: "Memento Mori" - Warning!
« on: Friday 28 March 25 15:05 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Alan. I don't know this site (not the one I used to use) but will enjoy exploring it.
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Graveyards and Gravestones / "Memento Mori" - Warning!
« on: Friday 28 March 25 14:33 GMT (UK) »
I used to go to the above website regularly to find Scottish Graves. As my tree filled up I have had less need to use it but today for the first time in months, maybe even a year or two, I clicked on my saved link for this website. Bad mistake! I was immediately on a website telling me that my computer was infected and a non stop pop up supposedly from Windows Defender was insisting that I click the button to remove the viruses. After a bit of effort I managed to get rid of the pop up and a Norton scan tells me that my computer is clear of viruses.
Looks like the legitimate website is no more so beware - does anyone know what has happened to it or can it still be found somewhere?
Looks like the legitimate website is no more so beware - does anyone know what has happened to it or can it still be found somewhere?
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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: Family Historian HELP!
« on: Tuesday 04 February 25 18:10 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Gadget. I wasn't aware of this group so definitely worth pursuing.
All files for this tree seem to have been wiped from my PC so every route I tried failed. Fortunately I remembered that I had copied the tree to a CD several years ago and so I have managed to install this as a new project and have now added in most of the missing and more recent bits.
A reminder for all of us to regularly back up on an external device!
All files for this tree seem to have been wiped from my PC so every route I tried failed. Fortunately I remembered that I had copied the tree to a CD several years ago and so I have managed to install this as a new project and have now added in most of the missing and more recent bits.
A reminder for all of us to regularly back up on an external device!
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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Family Historian HELP!
« on: Tuesday 04 February 25 11:53 GMT (UK) »
I have two trees on Family Historian. A new update has been released and as usual I installed this earlier today. All is well with one tree but my other tree while still listed as a project is now totally blank. All the data seems to have been wiped from my computer. Anyone else had this problem and if so how have you resolved it?
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Lanarkshire / Re: Roger & Baird Photographers
« on: Friday 25 October 24 18:57 BST (UK) »
1893 to 1910. Search for “Glasgow’s Victorian photographers” and you will find thelows.madasafish website which will give you detailed information.
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The Common Room / Re: Anyone got any Wigtown martyrs in there lineage
« on: Sunday 06 October 24 15:16 BST (UK) »
The journal of the honourable John Erskine of Carnock contains an eye witness account of the trial and execution of Thomas Harkness and his two fellow prisoners; see the entry for 15th August 1684 in:-
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mkILAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA74&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mkILAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA74&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
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The Common Room / Re: Anyone got any Wigtown martyrs in there lineage
« on: Sunday 06 October 24 09:16 BST (UK) »
I am a direct descendant of Thomas Harkness, known as Thomas the Martyr. He was hanged in the Grassmarket in Edinburgh in 1684. He was a Covenanter, as were the Winton martyrs.
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The Common Room / Re: There are people I don't know buried in one of our family graves
« on: Sunday 26 May 24 12:23 BST (UK) »
Several of my ancestors are buried in a family plot in the Ramshorn Kirk in Glasgow . However there is one burial, interred while the plot was still in active use by the family, of someone who seems to be entirely unconnected with my family. I say “unconnected” but bizarrely there is now a connection as this mysterious lady is my wife's greatx3 grandmother!