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Hi everyone,

I'm hoping you can give me a bit of a steer about how to best get high quality copies made of some old photos.

My mother recently passed and now there's a few family members interested in her mother's photo album. I don't want to divide it up if I can help it, and whichever way that sorts itself out, some people are going to want copies.

Does anyone have any advice about getting copies made? Most of the photos are quite small (think... polaroid size, black and white), with a couple of what look like hand-coloured pictures that are really quite lovely.

The obvious things seem to me to be to either take pictures of the pictures or scan them, but I also feel that there's a good way and many bad ways to do this. Another consideration is that while the photos are in decent shape (i.e. good condition, but not always well-composed or clear), the album itself is fragile, and it'd be good to avoid too much additional damage.

Any help or advice greatly appreciated.

Wonderful - thanks Hanes and Gadget   

Ancestry have it as part of their collection from the LMA

Cheers tn17

Hi all,

I'm wondering if anyone can help me find a family on the 1851 Census. The family I'm interested in is

John FISHER b1810 Bath Somerset, Butcher
and his daughter Emily FISHER b1836 Bath, Somerset

I have found them in Bath in 1861 (RG9/1690/27 page 2) - its just the two of them and John is a widower.

In the 1841 they (along with John's wife Diana and other children John 6, Mary 3 and Sarah 1) were in Cold Ashton, Gloucestershire (HO107/363 ED 7 Folio 4 pg3).

The most likely 1851 family I have been able to find is in Finsbury, Middlesex (HO107/1522/346 p17). That family has widower John, and children John 16, Sarah 11 and Kate 10 and is mistrancribed as Falker. However given the distance and no Emily, i'm not certain that it is them.

Any help very much appreciated

Bit of a random question, but I've been looking at the 1841 for Ilminster (HO107/929/20), and the writing in the images is so feint it is practically illegible.

However, a very well-known family history site has a pretty clear index. Sure, it has plenty of typos, but it was enough for me to find two families in Ilminster. My question is, if the images are so poor, how could they do it?

Does it indicate that better quality images might be available somewhere? I only ask because both families seem to have a couple of extra hangers-on that could be extra relatives, and I'd love to have a look at a better image and see if I could make out the names correctly.