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Kent / Re: Early Wellard History
« on: Tuesday 11 January 11 17:38 GMT (UK)  »
Have you found anything else in the past year?

My Kentish roots (Wood from Dover and Darby /Goldfinch from Deal) was stuck in 1846 with a marriage. I noticed that another user of 'myheritagefamilytreebuilder ' (it's free by the way unless you get complicated) had entered a date of 1816 for Martha Darby Goldfinch (before BMD records). I contacted him and he couldn't remember only that he had  searched the internet.

I stuck in Martha's full name and you will find a Goldsack family tree that goes back to 1700 or so. returning to the 'myheritage' tree builder, I then traced Goldsack back via several more generations to William Wellard 1585. Everyone that uses this freesoftware creates a record (most of which everyone can see). so say you have a fred Bloggs born in 1856 in your tree, it will then show other tress with the same name and date and a % match. That way you can trawl from tree to tree.

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Technical Help / Re: Laptop
« on: Tuesday 11 January 11 17:23 GMT (UK)  »
Surprise! Surprise! I got an e mail yesterday from them saying they were upgrading me for free. I then checked and found that the limit was 40gb. To be fair it's a heck of a lot and not really relevant unless you download lots of BBC i player or films.

This is the 2nd major change. The last one (2010) was an undisclosed price hike. My package went from £19.99 (based on 17.5% VAT) to £22.50. No doubt they will add 2.5% to this figure. I complained and got a £10 credit. At least with the new package, we can phone them free. Ah! By the way I got a refund on my calls 2 years ago when I complained about losing the service for 2 days.

It's a bad, bad company to complain to....but it really is dirt cheap compared to the rest. My daughter lives in Spain and we phone 5 times at least a week. I've now found a new cousin in Oz (family history) and that will be inclusive as well. So that's broadband, calls to Spain and OZ and 24/7 at home and rental for £22.50!!! No one else can do it can they?

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