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The Common Room / Re: family name not real name
« on: Wednesday 17 June 09 12:30 BST (UK)  »
Hi Rog and madpants

Thank you for your replies, it's great to hear your ideas.

This name thing is pretty complex  :-\

I wish they held a census every year or two, would make things heaps easier  ;)

I'm looking into the ideas I have been given, on the ancestry sites and bmd sites.  Mixing names up and seeing what comes up.  And I think I will go ahead and get the copy of George Mundell's birth cert.  I suppose there is a time when I have to take a chance... who knows?

Thank you for your help.
Stella  :)


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The Common Room / Re: family name not real name
« on: Tuesday 16 June 09 13:43 BST (UK)  »
Hi Jan

Thank you for your thoughts on this, I will think about it over night, or when I wake up in the morning... well later this morning  ;)

I will let you know if I decide to go ahead and order it.  We can only hope there is a chance.

If it's not the right one, I can make a posting in the "unwanted documents..." board in case someone else might want it one day, for their family tree.  So even if it doesn't help me, it might help someone else.  :)

I'm off to bed now, will catch up again soon.
Thank you so much for your help.
Stella
 :)

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The Common Room / Re: family name not real name
« on: Tuesday 16 June 09 13:19 BST (UK)  »
Hi Jan

Just saw you last post.  Do you think it would be worth while getting the birth cert. for George?

I've been debating it since I saw the middle name of Hughes.

Very confusing  :-\

Stella
 :)

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The Common Room / Re: family name not real name
« on: Tuesday 16 June 09 13:16 BST (UK)  »
Hi Nanny Jan, Sarah, Little Nell and Jan  :)

Thank you for your replies to my query, it is much appreciated.

The only name of any relation on his side is on his marriage & death cert. giving Ben's father's name as Henry - an engine driver.  There is nothing about his mother at all.

The 1881 census  is the correct one. In 1871 it was written Mundill instead of Mundell.

I meant to paste the address link to my other threads to help give a back ground into my family, that Liz has helped me with and also two genealogist here in NZ.

Ben's family
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,362197.0.html

Ben's wife's family
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,376351.0.html

I can't find any baptism records.  I have found his name in the Hull City Archives (on line) as to the lease of a farm they lived in, in Keyingham.  The name Benjamin Mundell was on the lease, the name he seems to have used in everything, relating to himself and family...

He is not a helpful chap at all!!  Apparently he never spoke of his family, only the love he had for his aunt who raised him like a mother.

Birthday's seem to cause a lot of confusion some times!  I can see why they always say 'about' in a census transcription.

I wont give up, I just have to keep digging.. if necessary I will go under the brick walls instead of trying to knock them down.  So many things can complicate history, our  ancesters weren't going to make it easy for us... 'make them work'  ;)

Thank you again for your help.
Stella
 :)



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The Common Room / family name not real name
« on: Tuesday 16 June 09 08:27 BST (UK)  »
Hi  :)

I have been researching the family on my great grandfather, Benjamin Mundell on the West Yorkshire board.  Not that I had much to go on with him in the beginning. With the help and hard work of Lizdb, she gave my ggrandfather possibilities of parents, which was great, thank you Liz.

Since then, I have been going slowly through some boxes of papers and letters belonging to my grandmother and found an old birthday book which had my ggrandfather's DOB in it 25/10/1862... fantastic  :)  I thought...

However, I emailed the Leeds register to see if I could get a copy of his birth certificate, and bang I walked straight into another brick wall...  :(  there is no one by his name on that date.  The person helping me said he checked a 10 year period around 1862, and there was no one by that name, on that date in the whole of England.  ???

The only person found was a George Mundell, on the exact date I told him, but not Benjamin and he suggested that Benjamin may be a 'family name'.  Has anyone have any suggestions of where I go next, with the possibility that it is a 'family name'?

FreeBMD & YorkshireBMD have a George Hughes Mundell. And Liz found a Sarah Hughes in her research, would there be a connection there? and his name was changed?

I'm very confused.  I would like to add this info to my West Yorkshire thread, but wanted to know where I should look for more info first.

Many thanks for you time and help.
Stella

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World War One / Newly discovered WW1 Photographs. Your help needed.
« on: Tuesday 09 June 09 08:25 BST (UK)  »
Hi  :)

I came across this website “The Independent World”, with an article (dated 22 May 2009) that may be of interest to someone.

It has nearly 300 restored photos from old photographic plates, of unknown people taken during WW1 “somewhere in France”, about 1915 / 1916.

They think the photos were taken by an amateur, of the soldiers, to send home to their families.

They also include interesting information of that time. 

I haven’t looked at all of them, as I only have dial-up and this takes a very long time to go from one to the next.  I hope that maybe at least one of the photos may show someone that may be recognised by someone here on RootsChat.

I hope I have this on the right board and I also hope my address link works, as I sometimes have trouble with them…

All the best.
Stella

The Website address: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/exclusive-the-unseen-photographs-that-throw-new-light-on-the-first-world-war-1688443.html

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: scanning photos question
« on: Sunday 17 May 09 06:26 BST (UK)  »
Hi  :)

Thank you all so much for your help with my problems.

It is a work in progress at the moment, I don't think I'm relating what I'm doing with what I'm reading in the instructions  ???  but I will have to wait till either later in the week or next weekend, when I can get back to use the scanner, to try again to get it posted.

Hopefully I will get this done this 'century'   :)  or at least before the photo fades away.........

In the meantime, I will keep practicing with a picture I have on my computer, as the scanner is with another computer...

It's like reseaching family history, I will never giveup even if I hit a brickwall... and I have found a few of them.

Catch up soon, hopefully with a picture  :)
Stella




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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: scanning photos question + 1 more
« on: Saturday 16 May 09 05:08 BST (UK)  »
Hi  :)

Thank you everyone for your replies, they are much appreciated.

I have started scanning but I haven't got it right yet as it is too big and I don't know what to do now to resize it any smaller  ???

I am using an HP 3in1 1210. I have HP Director scanning software. After I scanned the pic it gave me the following details:
Output type - Millions of colours          Enhanced Colour - false
Crop area W. - 732.00                       Crop area H. - 1232.00
Units - pixels                                     Scale - 100%
Resolution - 300dpi                            Sharpen level - medium
Image size - 2.64mb  (I know is much too high)

Can anyone help me please with what I should do now to resize it, before I accept the preview and save it to my computer?  Or should I just take a chance a post it?

Please help! Thank you Stella

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: scanning photos question
« on: Friday 15 May 09 11:52 BST (UK)  »
Hi  :)

Thank you for your reply, and your suggestion, it is much appreciated.
I will go ahead with what you have recommended and scan them individually into different topics.

This will also help me if I have any problems with it and then I will know how (or how not) to scan the next one if I get it wrong, and I hope I will get better at it.

Thank you once again.
Stella

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