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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: coloring questions
« on: Friday 07 February 14 17:35 GMT (UK)  »
I think it might be worth adding that no 2 computers are the same when it comes to reproducing colour. Over the years I have colourised many photographs and compared them on different computers. Sometimes the variable is subtle - an increase in tone or contrast values but elsewhere I have seen both earth colours and flesh tones appear blue.




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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Old Family Portrait - Update
« on: Sunday 02 February 14 16:40 GMT (UK)  »
I don't think it is the same person, as treetotal says the shape of eyebrows do not change they just get bushier.

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The Common Room / Re: My complete tree pirated!
« on: Saturday 01 February 14 20:05 GMT (UK)  »
My tree was set to private the moment I begun it because I knew that many of my cousins would not like their ancestry in the public domain. Unfortunately, there are several sites on the web about my family which reveal personal details that I find uncomfortable - I hasten to add that there is no one in my ancestry to be ashamed of,  and much of the information is readily available in the newspapers or documented on TV but  I fail to see the need for others to parade them quite so publicly, especially when said sites reveal the living. Fortunately, my own branch has remained off the radar, and fingers-crossed, they remain so.

The password for a private tree could be included in a will or tree could be downloaded as a gedcom file and transferred to a flash drive and given to a relative.

I do, however, understand those who choose to have public trees.

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The Common Room / Re: My complete tree pirated!
« on: Friday 31 January 14 15:41 GMT (UK)  »
ellarose,
you can write to ancestry and ask for any pictures that you have uploaded yourself to be removed from another public tree. Pictures of my great-grandparents, which my cousin had posted before she went private, were showing on 2 public trees. I wrote to both tree owners explaining the situation and they ignored my request, so I took the matter up with Ancestry who removed them with little fuss.   

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help
« on: Wednesday 29 January 14 01:51 GMT (UK)  »
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NB Dinah was the sole executrix of Nathaniel's will. Jacob Nathan and David and Henry Moses were the witnesses

Thank you for pointing that out. I need a new pair of specs! I am, however, fairly confident, for several reasons, this couple belong to my tree.

Many thanks for everyone's help.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help
« on: Tuesday 28 January 14 19:13 GMT (UK)  »
I just found the will in full on Ancestry when I saw your reply...yes, I believe it is, thank you. I don't quite know how Nat & Di relate to my Nathan branch but one of the executors named  in  Nathaniel's will is  my great x3 grand uncle and the others are his brother in-laws. I'm very excited by this because my family has been so well researched down the years that I never thought to find any other ancestry of this vintage.   

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help
« on: Tuesday 28 January 14 17:53 GMT (UK)  »
thanks guys, it's what I thought but it does not look like a 'D'. 

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help
« on: Tuesday 28 January 14 17:43 GMT (UK)  »
Hi everyone,

I wonder if anyone could make an informed guess at this relative's first name. I can tell you that her second name is Nathan; she is Jewish, of unknown origin but likely Dutch,  and was alive in 1844 when this will was proved. Her name appears 3 times.  I've included a portion of the will to compare. It looks like *inah to me but I have no idea what the first character could be.

thanks
Dom1

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Australia / Re: Rescued - Ernest Norman Marks (Melbourne)
« on: Monday 27 January 14 16:31 GMT (UK)  »
I just found this topic. Amazing story. I am not related directly to this Marks branch, although many of their cousins are my cousins, and Anthony's wife and children are my blood cousins.
Dom1

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