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Offline sue 1950

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lincs to the past
« on: Saturday 28 July 12 05:40 BST (UK) »
Can some one help me find a birth on the above website, I know it's on there but for some reason I can't seem to get the page, I find this site very hard to navigate, I am looking for Joseph Dixon bn Alford Lincolnshire 7th Nov 1812 parents are Richard and Bridget Dixon. Thankyou
Researching Dixon Dawson Wood Wilkinson Wackett from Lincolnshire (Caistor area) Ringrose Higgs Riddington Lord Burley from Leicester (Countesthorpe) Holmes Abbott Ringrose Motson from Beverley and Hull Leics. Fawcett Fenwick Hare Mareham Le Fen Revesby Horncastle Lincolnshire.

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« Reply #1 on: Saturday 28 July 12 08:42 BST (UK) »
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« Reply #2 on: Saturday 28 July 12 09:49 BST (UK) »
Thankyou Geoff, I was trying to find an older post of mine as you answered this last time for me, can you tell me how you found it because I put alford in the search for baptists and I didn't get anything just pages from a book...
Researching Dixon Dawson Wood Wilkinson Wackett from Lincolnshire (Caistor area) Ringrose Higgs Riddington Lord Burley from Leicester (Countesthorpe) Holmes Abbott Ringrose Motson from Beverley and Hull Leics. Fawcett Fenwick Hare Mareham Le Fen Revesby Horncastle Lincolnshire.

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« Reply #3 on: Saturday 28 July 12 10:49 BST (UK) »
Quote from: sue 1950 on Saturday 28 July 12 09:49 BST (UK)
baptists

 ;D

I searched
Alford baptisms 1812
then clicked "Images"

If that hadn't worked, I would have tried 1811. 

If a page is indexed 1809-1812 then searching 1810 or 1811 won't find it.  :-\

I know pamthomas has other ways of finding things. :)
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« Reply #4 on: Sunday 29 July 12 20:17 BST (UK) »
Sue; this may help you find things on links to the past. I use Firefox for most brtowsing on the web, however, I find it unusuable with the Lincs site, on there I use IE 8 which is generally inferior to firefox, but not on the Lincs site.
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« Reply #5 on: Sunday 29 July 12 20:36 BST (UK) »
I'm blowed if I can see any difference. ???
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« Reply #6 on: Sunday 29 July 12 21:01 BST (UK) »
Computers and ISPs are strange animals Geoff, all I can say is it works better for me in IE8 than Firefox.
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« Reply #7 on: Sunday 29 July 12 22:09 BST (UK) »
Thanks for that, I just seem to find it hard for anything useful to come up if I am looking for a marriage otr birth and I type in the town and date nothing comes up even if I click images sometimes I just get pages of Lincolnshire Life, I am so baffled with the site.But thankyou all for your help. I am obviously doing something wrong
Researching Dixon Dawson Wood Wilkinson Wackett from Lincolnshire (Caistor area) Ringrose Higgs Riddington Lord Burley from Leicester (Countesthorpe) Holmes Abbott Ringrose Motson from Beverley and Hull Leics. Fawcett Fenwick Hare Mareham Le Fen Revesby Horncastle Lincolnshire.

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« Reply #8 on: Monday 30 July 12 15:21 BST (UK) »
The site is should we say opaque, however, there is so much information on it that it has to be worthwhile persevering. When it was first introduced I placed a very adverse comment about it being more productive for me to spend 5 hours on a train in each direction, plus three hours in the archive than to try to use the site. However, after downloading the PDF help document and re-installing Internet Explorer I found it was possible to do meaningful research on it.
Ayres Brignell Cornwell Harvey Shipp  Stimpson Stubbings (all Cambs) Baumber Baxter Burton Ethards Proctor Stanton (all Lincs) Luffman (all counties)
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