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Cheshire / Re: Newspaper report - info needed
« on: Yesterday at 14:05 »
Basically, following Patrick's death his widow married an Irishman Thomas Toole she met in February 1916, report states she had 4 children, 3 lived with her and another one lived with her mother.  However, it turns out that Thomas Toole was already married, so although Patrick Baggot and his widow Catherine are named, it is neither of them that is in trouble.  Thomas's wife proved he was married to her.  His excuse was he was unhappy in Ireland so came to England where he thought he'd have a happy life.  He was committed for trial at the Assizes.

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Lancashire / Re: John WHITAKER died 1828
« on: Thursday 19 February 26 11:35 GMT (UK)  »
What else do you know about John Whitaker? Did he have a brother Richard by any chance?  I'm trying to find where my husband's ancestor Richard Whitaker came from.  All we know is that he married in Stockport in 1795 but where he or his wife originated from we have no idea.  I've searched Cheshire and Lancashire records, but didn't think of Yorkshire.

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The Common Room / Re: Peter Calver of Lost Cousins
« on: Friday 23 January 26 14:49 GMT (UK)  »
Rattus - thank you for that.  I don't remember getting that newsletter, but then it was Boxing Day and I was away at our daughter's house, so maybe I just deleted it by accident.

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The Common Room / Re: Peter Calver of Lost Cousins
« on: Friday 23 January 26 12:10 GMT (UK)  »
Such a shock to receive the email.  RIP

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Technical Help / Re: Copying to new laptop
« on: Thursday 27 November 25 23:29 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Zaphod99 on Thursday 27 November 25 23:24 GMT (UK)
Lizzie. One backup is never enough.  And does anyone ever test the backups to check they aren't corrupted?

Zaph

I check my backups, at the moment I have the external hard drive and OneDrive but on my new laptop I'll have 3, two external hard drives and the C: drive.  I'm getting rid of OneDrive I don't like it at all.

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Technical Help / Re: Copying to new laptop
« on: Thursday 27 November 25 21:51 GMT (UK)  »
I do the saving like you, because I have a lot of documents to save.  Apart from the work as a treasurer, my husband doesn't save much and the program he uses is the same one all the branches of the club uses, so it's automatically saved on the national site and always available to him when he logs in. 

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Technical Help / Re: Copying to new laptop
« on: Thursday 27 November 25 16:32 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you very much for your help.  I've copied your post so I can do as you suggest with my new laptop.  Like you I have all my files in appropriate subfiles located in "My Documents", it's so much easier to find the one you want then.  I'm try to persuade my OH that he should do that.  At the moment he just presses "save" and then wonders where his files have gone to. ::)

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Technical Help / Re: Copying to new laptop
« on: Thursday 27 November 25 10:58 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Biggles50 on Thursday 27 November 25 07:44 GMT (UK)
Personally I find One Drive very annoying.

I disabled it.

I do not want any personal files stored in any Cloud.

I have all my personal files under my own control and backed up to two portable hard drives.

I agree, I was going to cancel it on this laptop, save to the hard drive and the external portable hard drive but I hadn't got round to it.  It was the previous computer bod who set it all up with OneDrive etc. even though I told him I didn't want it.  How do you back up to two portable hard drives?  Can you plug them in both at the same time, or back up to them at different times?  Is a memory stick good enough as a 2nd one?  I don't know anything about computers, only how to use it, rather like a car, I can drive it but I'm not a motor mechanic!

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Technical Help / Re: Copying to new laptop
« on: Wednesday 26 November 25 13:47 GMT (UK)  »
I'll have a go, thank you.

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