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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Maritime death - BT344 record box 0070
« on: Sunday 11 November 12 19:50 GMT (UK)  »
No problem - it was our (me and mum) first visit to the archives, so we'd expected to just have a bit of an orientation day, and not really find anything concrete, so to be able to just browse through that huge book looking for our man was a fabulous experience.

I'm glad it helped you, and do let us know how you get on with getting help navigating their online records.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Maritime death - BT344 record box 0070
« on: Sunday 11 November 12 19:39 GMT (UK)  »
PS:  I think you have to order it as an overseas certificate from the GRO.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Maritime death - BT344 record box 0070
« on: Sunday 11 November 12 19:35 GMT (UK)  »
Hope that is useful to you.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Maritime death - BT344 record box 0070
« on: Sunday 11 November 12 19:34 GMT (UK)  »
Looks like I can only put one pic in each message due to size, but they are one of each side of the book.  My ancestor was at the bottom of the page, but you can see the columns headings here to see what you would get.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Maritime death - BT344 record box 0070
« on: Sunday 11 November 12 19:27 GMT (UK)  »
I've just had a look at the National Archive site, and BT334 is: Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers and Indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths of Passengers and Seamen at Sea.  It does say that you can look at images of it online, but I can't work out how - I'm just getting sent round in circles.

I had an ancestor die at sea in about 1920, and had this book out when I was at the Archives - fascinating reading!

The info you need to get a death cert is in the book, but when we got that through it didn't tell us any more than we had found out already from the book.

I'll go and have a look through my computer and see if I have photos of what we saw.

Edit for my awful typing!

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Technical Help / Re: 1/2" grid
« on: Monday 06 February 12 15:28 GMT (UK)  »
Oh dear.  Sorry, but you've got me stumped then!  I can't think of anything else that it could be.

Good Luck with finding the answer!

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Technical Help / Re: 1/2" grid
« on: Monday 06 February 12 15:06 GMT (UK)  »
Maybe it's to do with the paper size.  Make sure you have the page layout set to the right paper, and I don't know whether Word (or your printer) has any options to scale the document to fit the page - if it does then turn it off!

How inaccurate are your boxes?  Are they OK one way but not the other, or are both dimensions wrong?

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Technical Help / Re: 1/2" grid
« on: Monday 06 February 12 14:37 GMT (UK)  »
OK, you probably won't be able to go right to the edges of the page, because of the printer margins - the printer has to leave a blank bit round the edge to hold on to while it is printing.

But, if I insert a table, say 12 rows by 8 columns, and then take the mouse up to just outside the top left corner an icon appears of 4 arrows in a cross-hair.  Click that to select the whole table, and then go to the centre of the table and right click to bring up the menu and then choose 'table properties'.  You've got 2 tabs there called Row and Column, and in those you can set fixed sizes for the rows and columns.  Mine will only let me swap between cm and percent, but 1/2" will be 1.27cm.

Is that any help?

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Technical Help / Re: 1/2" grid
« on: Monday 06 February 12 14:28 GMT (UK)  »
Do you have Publisher?  I use that if I want to do an accurately measured box, because you can add layout lines and move them about using the rulers at the top and side to guide you.

Not sure how to get exactly what you want in Word, but I'll go and have a quick play and see if I can manage anything.

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