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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Anyone shed any light on these?
« on: Friday 15 November 13 21:55 GMT (UK)  »
Ok that shed a lot of light. 2nd Boer War. The bigger of them is Kitchener.

Brilliant folks, thanks.

Roger

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Anyone shed any light on these?
« on: Friday 15 November 13 21:14 GMT (UK)  »
Found amongst some family stuff. Smaller of them are about the size of a twenty pence piece. All have pins to attach to a coat or jacket I assume.

Nothing on them to give any clues, the smaller ones all look Edwardian military, bigger one is intriguing as there is far less decoration and a very different style of hair.

Roger

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA tests on Northumbrians?
« on: Sunday 09 June 13 11:21 BST (UK)  »
Ok thanks for that, looks like I need to get my credit card out again....

Roger ;D

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA tests on Northumbrians?
« on: Sunday 09 June 13 10:56 BST (UK)  »
Family Finder....

Roger

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA tests on Northumbrians?
« on: Sunday 09 June 13 08:52 BST (UK)  »
I took the FTDNA test whilst at the Olympia Exhibition in February.

All I seem to have from that is a very broad brush Orcadian with some Middle Eastern mix and a load of names that I 'might' be connected to.

I guess part of the problem is I did the test without really knowing what I was expecting, and what I have got either isn't much - or else I really don't have a clue how to then use the information.

The 'tutorial' material on the website is far from helpful either.

Maybe I have just dipped my toe in the water of something that in a decade or two will be far more useful - due to advances in the science and a greater amount of people being involved, or maybe I just have stumbled across a modern version of the 'snake oil salesman'.

I'd like to think its just my lack of knowledge, but maybe I, like a lot of others, stumped up an amount of money expecting more than just the 'you basically come from western europe' thanks for the cash,

Roger ::) ::)

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA tests on Northumbrians?
« on: Friday 07 June 13 06:48 BST (UK)  »
I have my results now, but am trying to make sense of them..... not a simple thing at all.

Roger :o

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Scotland / Re: Have I run out of options?
« on: Thursday 28 March 13 12:48 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Seoras on Tuesday 26 March 13 14:22 GMT (UK)
Hi didactylos, have you checked the Jane Rankin marrying Glasgow 1807 or the John Neilson, Glasgow 1806.

Neither of those match up :(

Roger

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Lanarkshire / Re: Inkerman Rows
« on: Thursday 28 March 13 09:25 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Scotchegg on Sunday 24 March 13 15:51 GMT (UK)
Hi, Records for Inkerman mining village may be had at Paisley Library. There is only one photo that I have seen showing the miners rows Houses and its in a book done by Stenlake named Linwwood.
I am currently working on a book of Inkerman. Your ancestor is probably buried in Woodside Cemetery Paisley. You can phone the Cemetery and ask, giving them the date of death.

John Mac

Keep me infomred about the book, sounds like quite a place in its day.

Roger

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Scotland / Re: Have I run out of options?
« on: Thursday 28 March 13 09:15 GMT (UK)  »

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I wonder what was happening between 1810 and 1818 - no children in that period.  I wonder if John was married twice, the second time in 1806/7.  Or if the first children were born to the same couple, but before marriage, it's possible that the church elders had something to say about that and there may be a record in the church minutes.

Ignore that bit - I had a logic and numeracy breakdown!  But I still wonder why there was an 8yr gap with no children in an otherwise very fertile couple.
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Indeed my own conjecture is that maybe he was working elsewhere.... ended his days as a miner - maybe he had to locate elesehwere for a period to earn money?

Just a thought.

Or maybe they had a very long row....... :)

Roger


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