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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: James Drummond marriage
« on: Sunday 04 May 25 08:56 BST (UK)  »
The Red Book has been compiled from various sources, potentially allowing errors to creep in.  In this case it references the OPR Blackford as the source of the marriage information. That OPR states the bride's father is David Clow, so it seems that the information was not copied correctly. 


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Cause of child's death, please?
« on: Friday 25 April 25 22:01 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Zaphod99 on Friday 25 April 25 20:07 BST (UK)
A doctor making a spelling mistake like that, a very common word, seems a little bit unlikely

Thank you for taking time to look at this.
I agree, but this was in a census column for anyone who had died in the previous year, so it was probably the child's father, or the census enumerator, who spelt it like that.  I'm happy to accept it is inflammation and not some rare disease.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Cause of child's death, please?
« on: Friday 25 April 25 19:56 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Gadget, Viktoria and janan.  As I thought, just a spelling mistake.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Cause of child's death, please?
« on: Friday 25 April 25 13:29 BST (UK)  »
1861 Canada West census
Cause of death of Mary Lindsay, dau. of John & Catherine, who died aged 4 mths. Is it mis-spelt Inflamation?

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The Lighter Side / Excellent service from SP, Registration Services not so great
« on: Wednesday 09 April 25 11:41 BST (UK)  »
Yesterday at the SP centre I asked mid-afternoon for an illegible record to be rescanned. A clear copy was in my e-mail box first thing today.

In contrast, 10 days ago I ordered a digital copy of an English death record, received a file that is blank except for the header with the district name, and so far have had nothing more than an acknowledgement of my complaint. Anyone know how long they take to rectify this kind of problem? 

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Graveyards and Gravestones / Re: "Memento Mori" - Warning!
« on: Wednesday 02 April 25 09:23 BST (UK)  »
The site closed down some years ago. I don't remember exactly when or why.

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Scotland / Re: James McKie married Mary Kerr 17th July 1884
« on: Thursday 27 March 25 08:47 GMT (UK)  »
I think the place name is Creetown, near Newton Stewart.

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Europe / Re: Entry from Hotel des Invalides
« on: Wednesday 05 March 25 21:22 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Zefiro on Tuesday 04 March 25 19:52 GMT (UK)
I would translate it as follows:
His leg was broken/ smashed/ shattered following an explosion of a mine. (Allthough I don't know if devices like that existed at that time).
If this had happened in a mine, the French text would have had at least the preposition 'dans'.
That is how I  translated it too, but it seems it was too early for the explosive devices we now think of as mines. However, we were close. I found a dictionary online of 17th century French, which defines "mine" as "work carried out underground beneath a bastion, ramparts or boulders to shift them by means of gunpowder".


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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: Family Historian problem
« on: Tuesday 11 February 25 19:08 GMT (UK)  »
 Click on File - Project window - New Project - start new project (no import). 

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