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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Y DNA
« on: Saturday 26 July 25 19:51 BST (UK) »
I wonder if age might have a bearing too, but the technology hasn't been around for long enough for a definitive answer.
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The Common Room / Re: Elizabeth Harris, Southall
« on: Saturday 26 July 25 19:34 BST (UK) »
FWIW George and Caroline were in the Birmingham area in 1861 with dau Elizabeth b Southall and also a son. George was on the railways.
Jane :-)
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The Common Room / Re: Familysearch old maps England
« on: Wednesday 23 July 25 15:33 BST (UK) »
I second your thoughts pandk2 and don't find the new version at all user-friendly. It's also a pain that you have to login to use it.
It's here: https://www.familysearch.org/en/mapp/ for anybody unfamiliar.
In the old days you could list adjacent parishes, or specify a radius in either miles or km and it would list nearby parishes. You could order the list alphabetically or (for radius) by distance I think. Where has this useful feature gone?
Jane :-)
It's here: https://www.familysearch.org/en/mapp/ for anybody unfamiliar.
In the old days you could list adjacent parishes, or specify a radius in either miles or km and it would list nearby parishes. You could order the list alphabetically or (for radius) by distance I think. Where has this useful feature gone?
Jane :-)
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Lancashire Resources / Re: How do I find the maiden Name of my 4GGM - Elizabeth Walmsley?
« on: Wednesday 23 July 25 09:05 BST (UK) »
I have a similar conundrum with an Elizabeth in Berkshire around the same sort of time, too many generations back for DNA to be of much use. I presume you've not managed to "kill off" any of the candidates in infancy or childhood? Or found any Wills left by their fathers?
Jane :-)
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Technical Help / Re: Video digitisation services
« on: Saturday 05 July 25 18:59 BST (UK) »
If you don't know what's on the camcorder tapes it may be worth obtaining a caddy so you can play them in a vcr. I presume you no longer have a machine to play them on but you might find one in a charity shop, on freecycle/freegle/gumtree or fb marketplace. Whereabouts in the country are you?
Jane
Jane
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Technical Help / Re: Video digitisation services
« on: Thursday 03 July 25 11:26 BST (UK) »
Something else I should have said in my previous post regarding "film of different formats". I've made the assumption it's cine film. I ran into problems with the first company I went to, they said they could do the job but it was actually beyond their capabilities because my cine file was 9.5mm and they were geared up to the more common 8mm (super 8 ). Apart from the film being a different size, the sprocket holes are positioned differently, they're also a different pitch and the number of frames per second is different too. I didn't know this before I entrusted my films to them and they ended up snapping some, which I only discovered after I got the reels back. The firm refused to refund me let alone compensate me for the damage (which they denied) so I went the Section 75 route (moral PAY BY CREDIT CARD) and was successful.
Jane :-)
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Technical Help / Re: Video digitisation services
« on: Thursday 03 July 25 08:09 BST (UK) »
I used a local* specialist a good few years back to digitise cine film, but I did my parents' old camcorder tapes myself using the tapes in a vhs caddy to play them in a vhs player which I connected to a dvd recorder and a tv. Time consuming but it wasn't difficult once I'd worked out what I was doing and meant I had full control. And helped by the fact that I'm a bit if a hoarder - "I won't chuck out this old piece of tech, it might come in useful one day".
* local - it was important to me that I knew exactly where the reels were, I didn't want to risk them getting lost in the post, local meant I could deliver and collect and meet the specialist in person.
Jane :-)
* local - it was important to me that I knew exactly where the reels were, I didn't want to risk them getting lost in the post, local meant I could deliver and collect and meet the specialist in person.
Jane :-)
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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: FTM2024 slow, anyone else find this?
« on: Saturday 28 June 25 17:13 BST (UK) »
Thanks Harry. If you're finding 2024 slower than 2019, are there any useful features gained? I appreciate that it's too late for you to do much about it, but for me I could stick with 2019.
I imagine that ancestry will turn off syncing for 2019 once 2024 has been around a bit longer, but I've lived without it thus far. I'm only downloading my tree as my anc sub is about to expire and the current cancellation wording is a bit alarming ("you will lose your tree" or words to that effect). I will be renewing but not immediately.
Jane :-)
I imagine that ancestry will turn off syncing for 2019 once 2024 has been around a bit longer, but I've lived without it thus far. I'm only downloading my tree as my anc sub is about to expire and the current cancellation wording is a bit alarming ("you will lose your tree" or words to that effect). I will be renewing but not immediately.
Jane :-)
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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / FTM2024 slow, anyone else find this?
« on: Saturday 28 June 25 13:41 BST (UK) »
I recently installed FTM2024 and downloaded my tree from Ancestry. It found 15990 people, 277359 citations (I only noted 77359, it was RM that told me there were an extra 200000) and 77310 media items. It took a long time but the software tells me all of the media items have been downloaded (despite there being only 40963 in the media folder it created). I don't have a Fold3 or Newspapers sub at the moment so presumably those images wouldn't download, but I find it hard to believe that I've attached 36347 of those (77310 minus 40963) to my tree during the odd free weekend I've taken advantage of, so that's a weird one.
I now find that the tree takes an inordinately long time to open (best part of a minute) and this morning the software told me it hadn't previously been shut down properly - I'm sure it was - and the database may need compacting. I've just tried to start compacting but a not responding message lasted for perhaps half a minute before it started the backup I asked it to do first (estimate for backup 40 mins).
Although my computer is old by modern standards (Win10) it copes with everything else I throw at it. I have 8GB of RAM and an i5 processor running at 3 GHz. The HDD isn't full. Do other FTM users feel this time lag is normal for a tree of this size? And has anyone else found an unexplained discrepancy between the number of media items present as opposed to the number downloaded?
Jane :-)
I now find that the tree takes an inordinately long time to open (best part of a minute) and this morning the software told me it hadn't previously been shut down properly - I'm sure it was - and the database may need compacting. I've just tried to start compacting but a not responding message lasted for perhaps half a minute before it started the backup I asked it to do first (estimate for backup 40 mins).
Although my computer is old by modern standards (Win10) it copes with everything else I throw at it. I have 8GB of RAM and an i5 processor running at 3 GHz. The HDD isn't full. Do other FTM users feel this time lag is normal for a tree of this size? And has anyone else found an unexplained discrepancy between the number of media items present as opposed to the number downloaded?
Jane :-)