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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Cleanup and removal of crease for Great Aunt please
« on: Saturday 03 January 09 23:48 GMT (UK) »
Thanks to everyone. These are lovely.
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Cleanup and removal of crease for Great Aunt please
« on: Friday 02 January 09 23:56 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for these lovely cleanups. I'm sure my aunt will be very pleased.
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KateJones
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KateJones
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Cleanup and removal of crease for Great Aunt please
« on: Friday 02 January 09 17:50 GMT (UK) »
I have been told that this is a photo of my great aunt, Peggy, who was a nurse. There are a few later photos of her, but this is a particularly attractive one of her. Unfortunately, it is seriously stained and has a nasty crease across the photo.
It would be really great if someone could do a light cleanup and removal of the crease. There would be no problems if there were still some discolouration, it is more important to preserve the features. I have been loaned a number of photos by my aunt, my mother's older sister, who is now in her 80s. This is one from the collection. I would really like to be able to give my aunt a good quality copy of this picture - since this is her mother, who died very shortly after the birth of my aunt. It would be really nice for her to have a good picture of the mother she never knew. After the death of his first wife my grandfather married her younger sister - my grandmother. Fortunately, by the time this happened it was no longer illegal.
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KateJones
It would be really great if someone could do a light cleanup and removal of the crease. There would be no problems if there were still some discolouration, it is more important to preserve the features. I have been loaned a number of photos by my aunt, my mother's older sister, who is now in her 80s. This is one from the collection. I would really like to be able to give my aunt a good quality copy of this picture - since this is her mother, who died very shortly after the birth of my aunt. It would be really nice for her to have a good picture of the mother she never knew. After the death of his first wife my grandfather married her younger sister - my grandmother. Fortunately, by the time this happened it was no longer illegal.
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KateJones
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The Lighter Side / Re: What did people do of an evening?
« on: Sunday 06 April 08 22:24 BST (UK) »I'm really not sure I want to know that, thank you!
My great great uncle Felix also used to fit very large things in his mouth.
KJ
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The Lighter Side / Re: What did people do of an evening?
« on: Sunday 06 April 08 20:24 BST (UK) »
BUNTY!!! and the Four Marys - my problem was that quite often my mum would nick it before I'd finished it!
In reply to the question, however - yes, the activities must have been very different in towns and the country - and even in different parts of the countryside. The book "A Pocket Guide to the Customs and Traditions of Wales" details a number of things that happened in the evenings in previous centuries in rural Wales. These include the peeling of rushes around harvest time for rush lights (poor families) to use in the winter; knitting nights were begun around the autumn equinox and a woman might produce four pairs of stockings a week (an addition of about 1s to the weekly income). There are also descriptions of various summer and winter social gatherings with seasonal entertainments of traditional story telling, songs, etc.
Regards
KJ
In reply to the question, however - yes, the activities must have been very different in towns and the country - and even in different parts of the countryside. The book "A Pocket Guide to the Customs and Traditions of Wales" details a number of things that happened in the evenings in previous centuries in rural Wales. These include the peeling of rushes around harvest time for rush lights (poor families) to use in the winter; knitting nights were begun around the autumn equinox and a woman might produce four pairs of stockings a week (an addition of about 1s to the weekly income). There are also descriptions of various summer and winter social gatherings with seasonal entertainments of traditional story telling, songs, etc.
Regards
KJ
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: are these the same person
« on: Friday 21 March 08 13:26 GMT (UK) »
Absolutely fascinating Canuc.
This is particularly interesting - any suggestions of what type of genetic disorder this might be?
Obviously, there are genetic disorders which are easily diagnosed by the appearance of the person - the most obvious being Down's Syndrome, although I know that there are others. I was interested to hear of the recent case where a doctor diagnosed Acromegaly (brain tumour) by a handshake. My own son, who has Asperger's Syndrome, has an unusually long forefinger compared to the rest of his hand (all his fingers are also unusually long), and I know that studies have suggested a link between finger length ratio and a number of disorders.
This is an extremely sensitive issue, obviously, when one considers the possible misuse that this kind of thing could be put to. However, diagnosis of an underlying disorder or syndrome could be very helpful. For example, it's is possible that my son's autism might have been diagnosed much earlier (he was 14) if anyone had bothered to look at his hands, which would have meant that the interventions to assist him could have been put into place much earlier, and he and the rest of the family, could have been put through far less stress over the years. Could it mean that we might be able to look at photographs of our ancestors, and while not getting a diagnosis, at least gain some insight into problems that they might have had? I strongly suspect that my grandfather may have been autistic from the reports of his behaviour, which makes me a little more prepared to look on some of his more unreasonable actions with a tolerant eye.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Is the whole idea unacceptable?
Regards
KJ
There is so little shadow in the photo to the man to the man to the right so it is difficult to say with certainty but his face looks very flat and my experience in health care makes me question if there isn't a genetic disorder lurking that the other's are not exhibiting.
This is particularly interesting - any suggestions of what type of genetic disorder this might be?
Obviously, there are genetic disorders which are easily diagnosed by the appearance of the person - the most obvious being Down's Syndrome, although I know that there are others. I was interested to hear of the recent case where a doctor diagnosed Acromegaly (brain tumour) by a handshake. My own son, who has Asperger's Syndrome, has an unusually long forefinger compared to the rest of his hand (all his fingers are also unusually long), and I know that studies have suggested a link between finger length ratio and a number of disorders.
This is an extremely sensitive issue, obviously, when one considers the possible misuse that this kind of thing could be put to. However, diagnosis of an underlying disorder or syndrome could be very helpful. For example, it's is possible that my son's autism might have been diagnosed much earlier (he was 14) if anyone had bothered to look at his hands, which would have meant that the interventions to assist him could have been put into place much earlier, and he and the rest of the family, could have been put through far less stress over the years. Could it mean that we might be able to look at photographs of our ancestors, and while not getting a diagnosis, at least gain some insight into problems that they might have had? I strongly suspect that my grandfather may have been autistic from the reports of his behaviour, which makes me a little more prepared to look on some of his more unreasonable actions with a tolerant eye.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Is the whole idea unacceptable?
Regards
KJ
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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Popular names of early 19th Century
« on: Wednesday 19 March 08 19:12 GMT (UK) »Hi,
Does anyone know if any websites exist that list popular and more unusual names given to people in the early 19th Century?
Hi, I have looked for this in the past on the Internet, and so far haven't found anything appropriate. I suppose the answers would be different wherever you are looking - America would have had different fashions in names to the UK, and Australia is likely to have been different again. Even in the UK there would be differences, Scottish names having an number of differences to English names and a list for my Manx ancestors would include the relatively common name "Christian" for women. I think there is actually quite a need for something of this type.
I have a useful book, which I'm sure must be out of print as it was published in 1977, and so is quite useless for anything in the last 30 years. It may however, be possible to get a copy through a second hand book dealer. It's called - "First Names First" by Leslie Alan Dunkling. I read in the cover that Mr Dunkling was the secretary of "The Names Society" founded in 1969, but unfortunately, a Google for this has failed to turn up anything meaningful.
This book discusses names in several different countries and in different time periods. For example: First Names in the Middle Ages; Protestant Names of the 16th & 17th C; Pet Names; Boys Names most frequently used in the USA; Black American Names; Canadian First Names; Scottish First Names; Australian First Names; etc. etc. For many of these there are supporting tables at 25 year intervals. The most useful for me has been the table of boys and girls names in England and Wales - which shows incidence per 10,000 births of a name at intervals from 1850 to 1975. For example, this shows Elizabeth at 1002 per 10,000 in 1850, but falling to 52 per 10,000 by 1975. Other names do not show until the end of the period, or don't appear again after the first time.
I have someone in my family who was called Saloma Asenath and wondered if this was common and if not where it may have come from? I've found that the names are Hebrew and Asenath is also Egyptian, but none of my other ancestors have these names!
Quite a lot of uncommon names are listed, but neither of these seem to show up in exactly those forms. Is Saloma perhaps a variation of Salome? If there are no family links which would explain these links, are they from the bible, or even misspellings of biblical names?
I would certainly find an up to date names web-site useful. The data must be out there somewhere - the top ten names of the previous year generally appear in the newspapers early in January.
Cheers
KJ
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / rest of pics
« on: Tuesday 18 March 08 22:01 GMT (UK) »
More pictures. I've included the 'hat' man's ear, compared to the ear of the young man, as well as a close up of the eyebrows.
I hope that this has been of help.
Cheers
KJ
I hope that this has been of help.
Cheers
KJ
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: are these the same person
« on: Tuesday 18 March 08 21:59 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
I've spent some time looking at these photos, and I haven't actually come up with what I was expecting. The older man isn't the young man in the hat - I'm reasonably sure of that, for the following reasons: as men become older their noses and ears become larger - these are the only parts of the face that do continue to grow with old age. Comparing the key points of the young 'hat' man's face, I cannot make them line up with the key points of the old man's face. The nose on the older man is shorter than that on the young man - if it were the other way around I would accept it as general aging, but this doesn't stack up. Also the old man's ears are smaller than those on the young man - once again, quite opposite to what would be expected.
Having said this my son has just suggested that the old man's head is slightly tilted back, which would make his nose look shorter. I still don't think the ears are right.
I still don't think that the new young man is the same as the 'hat' man - for the reason that his eyes are wider, and his eyebrows have a much more 'surprised' look. However, as is shown in the attached photo (probably in the next post), his ear looks much more like that of the 'hat man'.
Sorry, it's hard to be conclusive about these, but, on balance, I think that these photos are of three different men. Others may have a different opinion - let the argument begin.....
Love and kisses
KJ
I've spent some time looking at these photos, and I haven't actually come up with what I was expecting. The older man isn't the young man in the hat - I'm reasonably sure of that, for the following reasons: as men become older their noses and ears become larger - these are the only parts of the face that do continue to grow with old age. Comparing the key points of the young 'hat' man's face, I cannot make them line up with the key points of the old man's face. The nose on the older man is shorter than that on the young man - if it were the other way around I would accept it as general aging, but this doesn't stack up. Also the old man's ears are smaller than those on the young man - once again, quite opposite to what would be expected.
Having said this my son has just suggested that the old man's head is slightly tilted back, which would make his nose look shorter. I still don't think the ears are right.
I still don't think that the new young man is the same as the 'hat' man - for the reason that his eyes are wider, and his eyebrows have a much more 'surprised' look. However, as is shown in the attached photo (probably in the next post), his ear looks much more like that of the 'hat man'.
Sorry, it's hard to be conclusive about these, but, on balance, I think that these photos are of three different men. Others may have a different opinion - let the argument begin.....
Love and kisses
KJ