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Hi Mike
Thank you for your reply and I have thought of using the "book" programmes that are available for use on the various genealogy programmes but find them inadequate for my purpose. 

I am looking into a trial period for Personal Historian but as yet have been unable to download the programme as there is nothing to indicate it's compatability with Windows 7. I am awaiting a reply from their support line before going any further and am interested really to know if anyone else had tried to use the programme or anything similar.
regards Muddy Waters

dorset opc Site is still off line, 20.00 hrs.
Muddy

Hi Peter
Thanks for looking for her for me  It was good of you -  the fact that  this Catherine  was living with her grandparents at time of the 1841 census proves that she isn't mine. the one who I think is most likely mine was with her parents in Brecon at the time of that census.

When I posted my first message I thought that perhaps the Catherine I had found was going to turn out to be mine as up until that time I had not been able to find her  the 1851 census I needed to prove that she was not with her grandparents in 1841.

The problem is that she married my 2 x g grandfather in 1854 in Brecon and her name is given as Catherine James; but on their son's (my g grandfather)  birth certificate she says her  former name was Jones! She says she is a spinster at the time they married but could she have been married before to someone with the surname Jones. That  you see is my problem.  A bit difficult to explain really.
regards
Muddy

Oh well, back to the drawing board again!!      Thank you for looking for me it is appreciated

just looked at the Dorset OPC site and someone by the name of Julie Chaplin is listed against it