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Oxfordshire / Re: Walklin/Walkling Family - Henley-on-Thames
« on: Sunday 26 October 08 20:14 GMT (UK)  »
Hi "River Girl". You said that Frances Walkling/Wheeler was your great great grandmother. Snap! Maybe we can compare notes.
I suggest you look at the posting "RootsChat.Com\Beginners\How to Use RootsChat\Personal Messages (PM)",  dated 14 September 08, before proceeding.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / How best to store old legal documents?
« on: Sunday 26 October 08 19:32 GMT (UK)  »
Many old legal documents (and some quite recent ones) are on a sheet of paper a little larger than A3, which is used as two pages side by side and folded. It was then folded into three (usually) and often put in an evelope for storage. What is the recommended way of storing these? Folding and unfolding them obviously risks tearing them, more so as they get old and brittle. Opening them fully flat needs a huge A2 portfolio (or something custom-made).  With a single fold they go in an A3 portfolio, which is more practical. I'm assuming they will be scanned in pages (foolscap or thereabouts) - even if this is a bit hazardous it reduces the need to look at the originals. So is it then OK to store them in their original folding? Any suggestions or references would be welcome.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Software to make simple facsilimes?
« on: Sunday 26 October 08 19:16 GMT (UK)  »
I've got several old documents that I'd like to scan and copy so as to protect the originals. They are nothing like current paper sizes, of course. None of the software I've got will:
  • Take in a multi-page scan of two-sided pages in a common format.
  • Let you crop each page by hand.
  • Print the pages two-sided and aligned (e.g. centred).
Can anyone suggest some standard (ideally free) image handling software that will do that? I'm only talking about working copies that give a bit of the feel of the original, not lifelike replicas. I find the pre-sale descriptions of software don't tell you this level of detail. Of course I think this is something lots of other people want to do, but maybe it's not.

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Family Bibles / Seeking handwriting collection for comparisons
« on: Sunday 26 October 08 18:37 GMT (UK)  »
I have been examining a family bible with inscriptions from about 1758 to 1820. Some of it identifies who was writing and when; some does not. I'd like to try to match handwriting betwen pages, or if that's not possible to date the writing. I might eventually turn to professional help, but it should be possible to get somewhere with enough examples for comparison. Has anyone assembled a collection of handwriting examples, indexed by date (of learning to write), place, social class, education, profession etc.?

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