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Offline TomMcPherson

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Re: How to find a grave of ancestor
« Reply #27 on: Monday 22 February 10 10:40 GMT (UK) »

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Re: How to find a grave of ancestor
« Reply #28 on: Saturday 26 May 12 01:23 BST (UK) »
To Ann Baker,
Could you please search your Monumental Inscriptions book for my ancestors William Irwin/Irvine b.Ireland,school teacher and his wife Jane Irwin/Irvine(nee Erskine) b.Scotland and their son Oliver?.They were living in Paisley in 1841 but disappeared by the 1851 Census leaving the other children,Jane,Susanna and Cecilia(my g.g.grandmother).

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Linda

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Re: How to find a grave of ancestor
« Reply #29 on: Saturday 26 May 12 02:33 BST (UK) »
try www.findagraveinscotland.com

Thank you! I know this a very belated entry.
I did find the cemetery! A distant relative gave me a clue and following that we found he was buried at Tottenham Cemetery, Northern Section off of HArt Lane. In the mean time I was going through some boxes of old photos; low-and-behold I found a photo of the grave site!
K

[I came here now because I just received a new entry notification.]
I can't post the photo! :( Keep getting message that it is too large.
Robin  =O:> Glasgow, Scotland and England
Cameron, Mason, 
  Beaumont Neilson,
       Buchanan Gilkerson [of Kentucky],
               Meikljohn, Eltze.
Walter Robin 1719-1784 & Isabel Gardner 1724-1769
  
...if I don't make haste, I shall have to go back through the looking-glass...back into the old room-and there'd be an end of all my adventures! .

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Re: How to find a grave of ancestor
« Reply #30 on: Monday 28 May 12 21:26 BST (UK) »
Hello Karola.

I'm no computer gene, but I've successfully posted a few images. If you get a prompt that the file you are trying to up load is too large you can take the original photo, and rescan at a lower resolution [If your equipment gives you that option.] You can come down from 300 dpi or higher, to say 100 dpi; or you can use a re size function in most photo editing programmes. Also just save as a simple jpg file and not a full data file like a tif etc. Not a good resolution for photo quality print outs, but quite OK for the limitations of a computer screen.

There are also more technical ways of doing it that you will find on the photo restore / advice forum, like emailing to yourself in a programme that automatically downsizes the image. A saved jpg file in the range of say 150 to, I think, the limit might be 500 Kb, should come up quite OK, and not be too small to view on screen.

- Alan.
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Re: How to find a grave of ancestor
« Reply #31 on: Wednesday 29 August 12 20:48 BST (UK) »
If anyone still has access to pre-1855 monumental inscriptions... I am looking for any Frazer/Fraser buried in Port Glasgow.

Many thanks,
Kathie