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Messages - Nigel Porter

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Lincolnshire / Re: Will of Thomas Giddings (1780) Tydd St Mary: advice on AI help to transcribe it.
« on: Wednesday 12 November 25 14:08 GMT (UK)  »
Apologies for not thanking previous posters, I've only just logged on for the first time since last week.

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Lincolnshire / Re: Will of Thomas Giddings (1780) Tydd St Mary: advice on AI help to transcribe it.
« on: Wednesday 12 November 25 14:06 GMT (UK)  »
I got the Ancestry function to work briefly and it transcribed the first page and apart from reading Giddings as Gulliver, it looks quite good.  Just trying to get the other 2 pages done, but it does not seem to work very often.

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Lincolnshire / Re: Will of Thomas Giddings (1780) Tydd St Mary: advice on AI help to transcribe it.
« on: Friday 07 November 25 20:09 GMT (UK)  »
Hi David,  I am trying the Ancestry Beta transcription, but it does not work consistently.  I got an initial result that was good, but lost it before I could transfer it to a document and since then it either does not work, or I get a strange result with lots of references to Kent!  I'll keep trying.

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Lincolnshire / Re: Will of Thomas Giddings (1780) Tydd St Mary: advice on AI help to transcribe it.
« on: Thursday 06 November 25 16:09 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Amondg,  Thanks for the reply and I have a printed copy of the will that I got ages ago from Lincs Archives and also have it attached to Thomas on my Ancestry site, but for a variety of reasons I've not tried to transcribe it and now I've retired I thought I'd have a go.  However at first glance it looks daunting and if the advances in AI would make it easier I thought I'd give that a go, hence the question.  He also had another daughter, Mary, but she died aged 6 in 1783.

As you know about the contents have you transcribed it yourself, or have you just managed to read it easier than me?
 

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Lincolnshire / Will of Thomas Giddings (1780) Tydd St Mary: advice on AI help to transcribe it.
« on: Thursday 06 November 25 11:34 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,  I have had the will of Thomas Giddings (1719 - 1780) who died in Tydd St Mary and have belatedly started to transcribe it.  However it is proving difficult to read, so does anyone know if there is a free AI system that is any good to help the transcription?  It's a long will at 2 1/2 pages and looks interesting, but despite being very neatly written I'm struggling with several words.

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Merionethshire / Re: Evans family of Cwm yr afon, Llanbedr
« on: Wednesday 02 July 25 15:41 BST (UK)  »
Hi Amondg,  John Evans is probably Jane's father and Evan Evans is probably her husband's uncle.

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Merionethshire / Evans family of Cwm yr afon, Llanbedr
« on: Tuesday 01 July 25 18:06 BST (UK)  »
My GGGG Grandmother Jane Evans (1754 - 1831) is mentioned in the will of her uncle Griffith Evans.  He was high sheriff of Merioneth in 1788 and died in 1790, buried in Llanbedr on 6th April and Cwm Yr Afon farmhouse has a write up on the British Listed Buildings site, but other than that and the other details in the will I can't find out anything else about Griffith and his brothers Richard and John (d.1802).  I've checked the Llanbedr records and can't see anything obvious, but given his status in the area I'm surprised I've not found anything.   Any suggestions welcome?

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Lincolnshire / Re: Heckington photo mystery
« on: Monday 31 March 25 10:28 BST (UK)  »
Photo added (I hope?)

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Lincolnshire / Re: Heckington photo mystery
« on: Saturday 29 March 25 15:58 GMT (UK)  »
I'm away until Monday, so I'll post the photo then

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