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Thanks Zaph, noted

Hi Biggles, I have 50 or so quickly made entries in my Leeds as I only went as far as 35cm - seems pretty straightforward and I only have 4 colours so it went well. To enter everyone that I share down to 20cm with would take many many hours as there are like 27 pages of matches on ancestry, it gets a bit crazy going down to those figures. That would mean I would need to add almost another 500 entries...did you have that many to do?

Another question, I found myself making my leeds spreadsheet and then adding colours to everyone on Ancestry to, in effect doubling my work and my internet is not too fast...would you contiune on ancestry or on spreadsheet, or both?

I'm not currently a member of Ancestry nor the Pro tools, but willing to join if it's worth it - Edit, of course I will join at the point when I start to check out trees etc, I was more asking if Pro tools worth it or is a must to get more than the 3 shared matches

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Hi I'd like to crack a family mystery which is answering the question of who is the father of my great grandfather. He never knew.

If this person had existing children or went on to have further children with someone other than my great grandmother, then what sort of centimorgans am I supposed to be considering in my Leeds chart?

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How could two young persons from many miles away end up working on farms in west Wales around 1900?

James Seeley was born 1878 Clapham, but by 1904 hes in west Wales working on a farm -which must have been a polar-opposite experience to life in Clapham.

In 1904, in west Wales he married Amelia Ashman who in 1901 is down as being born Sussex 1882, but by 1901 she too was working on  a farm in west Wales.

I'm just wondering how might young people find themselves heading extreme west around 1900?There obviously was work but how did they know this before travelling or if the accommodation/work was satisfactory, I didn't know that hiring fairs had such a wide catchment?

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Thanks for your efforts guys, I'm astounded at what can be achieved, some of those look like they were taken today, how the pixels can be sharpened is just incredible

Hi despite best endeavours 20 years ago, I scanned the first photo and it's a measly 50kb as I didn't know what I was doing back then. Is it possible for someone to kindly try to de-pixelate and improve the quality? I didn't even know it was possible until I saw a cracking effort on here in last few days.

Sitting, is my great grandfather Griff Thomas of the machine gun corps, who came home to west Wales after WW1 and not so long after went to London with his wife to open a shop and raise his family. I'm not sure who the other two standing are or whether they were lucky enough to come home. Griffs medal card provides his reg is 54621 and mgc101b115 page 9615 but I know nothing of where he fought, his daughter (my gran) said he never talked about what he did in the war.

I have another scan of seemily earlier photo where Griff and the chap on the left are at the same location/set and it appears to be on a post card of French origin, so guessing he was in France at least twice for these photo opportunities.

Many thanks