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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Creased: Uncle John Crum 1929
« on: Today at 02:10 »
Quote from: McGroger on Monday 04 August 25 23:31 BST (UK)

Rena, so glad I could help--and hope your computer is okay!

Peter

Hello again Peter,

I've emailed the two images to John's grand daughter and she is very pleased.  Like me she prefers the sepia image.

As for the grey screen, I surfed and discovered that others had had the same problems but in different years.  Apparently the culprit was Microsoft and their drivers.  I took no acition and the white screen eventually returned.

Thank you once again for taking time and energy to upgrade the image I uploaded.  Your expertise is much appreciated.

Rena

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Creased: Uncle John Crum 1929
« on: Monday 04 August 25 21:06 BST (UK)  »
Hi Peter,

Thank you so much for giving your time to this old photo I appreciate your effort getting rid of the creasing plus restoring physical appearances, etc.

I like both of the images.   My uncle is standing at the back, third from the left and I had a shock when I saw him as in a previous photo taken when he and his teenage brothers had a family portrait taken after their young sister died of food poisoning, he had a mop of fair hair.

Once again, ta ever so .... and now to trot over to the technical board to discover why my computer is showing grey pages instead of white pages.

Rena



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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Creased: Uncle John Crum 1929
« on: Sunday 03 August 25 00:56 BST (UK)  »
Rami

I am overwhelmed !!!    Thank you so much !!

I did wonder about the size when I realised that I didn't need to minimize the  original but it did look so large on my computer. 

The person who emailed me the image was my Uncle John's grand daughter and I bet she will be overwhelmed too as there aren't many photos of him about, because he was the one in the family with the camera. lol.

I look forward to downloading and putting a colpy in my old fashioned photo album.

Once again - thank you

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Europe / Re: German ? certificate need to find
« on: Saturday 02 August 25 21:48 BST (UK)  »
if your family were Lutherans  (Protestant/St. Marie) then this is the main Berlin Archive and the English web page of their website :

https://ezab.de/english/records.html

Good hunting

Rena researching Gerber, Ehler, flamme, etc.

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Cambridgeshire / Re: On the scrounge and on the cheap!
« on: Friday 01 August 25 20:12 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: AlanBoyd on Friday 01 August 25 20:02 BST (UK)
This is a useful reminder to always try different search terms for newspaper items.

The item text is: (my transcription):
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At Wisbech, Oct, 24, David Culy to Mary Walker, both of Wisbech.


At BNA the OCR text for the item is:
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At Wlabook Oct. 24, amid Cody to Mary Walker, both et Wistaria.

My maternal grandfather was born in Wisbech. 

"Ref the transcription! Not funny but  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

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Technical Help / Re: Uninstall Win 11
« on: Friday 01 August 25 20:09 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: LizzieW on Friday 01 August 25 18:31 BST (UK)
I don't think you can uninstall Bing, I just close it down when it pops up, but it is annoying.

How to Remove Bing is on Youtube so I'll ask one of my sons to remove the programme for me.

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Technical Help / Re: Uninstall Win 11
« on: Friday 01 August 25 17:39 BST (UK)  »
Hard luck Gadget about your computer programme and hard luck about the ailment that's just descended upon you.

Get well soon.

Lately I keep getting "Bing" intruding on my computer - I ought to find out where it's hiding and erase it.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Creased: Uncle John Crum 1929
« on: Friday 01 August 25 00:01 BST (UK)  »
I was emailed this image at the start of this century and hope that new programmes can get rid of the creases and additionally show a few faces as currently I cannot recognize my late dzd's oldest brother John.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Leith - Kirkgate Associate church - Help for place name on 1805 baptism record
« on: Thursday 31 July 25 22:49 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: David Nicoll on Wednesday 30 July 25 05:39 BST (UK)
Rena,

    Hi, bonds aka bonded warehouses were when historically where whisky and other spirits were stored for maturation. Historically duty was paid after this process.
There were several distilleries in Edinburgh and Leith.

Crabbies and Drambuie had premises in Leith.

Some interesting information here.

https://www.tartanspoon.co.uk/home/drink-crabbies-distillery-leith.
https://crabbiewhisky.com/the-john-crabbie-co-story/

Hi David,
All very interesting, especially to those who are researching this part of  the UK.

I was born and brought up in the port of Kington Upon Hull, England and once (in the 1950s) was taken into the town's warehouses by the River Humber.  One particular warehouse held 7,000 cattle!!   I hasten to add that I didn't count them - I was given the information lol

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