Forwarded at the request of Kim Bewick ( kim.bewick@ukschoolshistory.org.uk ).............. Hello Everyone This is just a quick email to let everyone know that the UK Schools History Website now has a new address. Please update your bookmarks/favourites to read http://ukschoolshistory.org.uk As always I would love to hear from anyone whose school isn't listed on the site or who has school photographs of buildings or pupils that they would like to share. The number of entries on the site has now increased to almost 2300 and I would love to see this increase even more. Many more transcriptions of log books and attendance registers are now also underway and I am always looking for volunteers to help with this. Best wishes Kim Bewick http://ukschoolshistory.org.uk

A gedcom is just a plain text file even though it has a .ged extension. You can open it in any text editor. So surely there is no difference between a Mac Gedcom and an IBM Gedcom - so long as you can transfer the file from one computer to another - eg by emailing as an attachment. The problems arise when exporting and importing. Does the originating program follow the gedcom specs closely - and does the receiving program? Sometimes you have to experiment with the options. Cheers, Cathy Western Australia At 19:18 17/07/2004, you wrote: >Hello all, > >Is there a computer whiz out there who can tell me if there is any way a >Mac F/H gedcom can be converted to an IBM compatible F/H program???? > >Or vice versa. > >"Don't know" is the only answer I can get here in Canberra. > >John >In beautiful Canberra. >Capitol of OZ > > > > > >==== ENG-DORSET-LIFE Mailing List ==== >Look at the website for the Office of National Statistics for information >about the census and ordering certificates >http://www.statistics.gov.uk > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

Hello all, Is there a computer whiz out there who can tell me if there is any way a Mac F/H gedcom can be converted to an IBM compatible F/H program???? Or vice versa. "Don't know" is the only answer I can get here in Canberra. John In beautiful Canberra. Capitol of OZ

Thanks for this one, John. What a gem! I've bookmarked the site. February 9th is interesting. I've often wondered where the American tradition of "trick-or-treat" came from, and the Lent Crocking seems to be almost identical to the modern (sometimes vandalistic) tradition...... Of course, early American society was well represented with Dorset folk, as was Newfoundland. That's why they call Autumn the Fall (or, as we say in Dorset, Vall). All the best, Davy Cannon Dorchester, Dorset Subject: [DOR-LIFE] Dorset customs > Have a look at _http://www.thebookofdays.com/_ > (http://www.thebookofdays.com/) and input Dorset as the search criteria. > > Some interesting bits about the county, customs and characters will result. > > On some pages there is more than one occurence so repeat the 'Find in top > window' search for Dorset on each page presented. > > John Rogan in Wiltshire.

Have a look at _http://www.thebookofdays.com/_ (http://www.thebookofdays.com/) and input Dorset as the search criteria. Some interesting bits about the county, customs and characters will result. On some pages there is more than one occurence so repeat the 'Find in top window' search for Dorset on each page presented. John Rogan in Wiltshire.

In searching for details of 'my' Henry ANDREWS (b abt 1842 Stour Provost) who married a Mary, I've obtained 2 marriage certificates (which I thought would assist me but now find they don't!); Henry James ANDREWS marriage to Mary Jane WELLSTEAD, Pimperne, 1870. and, Henry ANDREWS marriage to Mary Emma FLOWER, West Kinghton, 1868. If anybody researching these names would like more of the details please let me know. Ian

Greetings listers My name for those not familiar with me is Michael Cheeseman I have been researching my family lines since 1979. Online since the 1990's. Also Rootsweb List admin to 20 or so Surname and Australian email lists. Over the years many have given me assistance in my research so before the Dorset OPC project got up and running I started the Dorset Parish Transcriptions Website. I continue to add entries sent in but by request the site was expanded to other counties in Southern England. The redevelopment of the site to allow for other counties has slowed down placing entries up on the site. This is now over for the time being and entries are now again being added. At present only Dorset and Suffolk counties are covered with entries. I often get requests for Dorset PR entries many currently not covered by the Dorset OPC project at present or requiring a Lookup that often goes unanswered. So I wish to appeal to list members for transcriptions of Broadwey from 1661 and Upwey from 1654. Currently I have a request for Upwey for Kellaway family so those with Kellaway Entries would be most appreciated. Also seeking PR entries for Whitchurch Canicorum which I keep getting requests for. Welcome individual entries, Surname Extracts, single or small group of pages from the registers or full transcriptions for any Dorset Parish Registers or Bishop's transcriptions. Happy Hunting Michael Cheeseman English Parish Register Transcriptions Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~engdorse/English.html --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.716 / Virus Database: 472 - Release Date: 5/07/04

'Evening all! Not really Dorset but I woke up this morning whistle-humming a tune beginning "We come aloooong on Saturday morning Greeting everybody with a smile bla bla bla bala well worth while We're members of bla bla Bla bla bla well worth while" Something to do with kid's cinema on sat' mornings when you came out either pretending to have a six-shooter or a sword depending on what the theme was. It started with a cartoon, then a sort of 'Flash Gordon' serial and then a very old film. So who has neuron enough to fill in the bla-blas?

Thankyou Debby, Bernard & Viv, My parents have requested their deeds from their Solicitors and he said he would help. The property is approx 200 yrs old and my grandfather bought it for my parents as a wedding present in 1966 for £2,000. (If only prices were still this low!) It was almost a shell, two rooms up and two rooms down, a kitchen was in a lean-to and stairs were outside! They believe there is quite a large file held on the house which was a farm/smallholding when they bought it. The previous owners no longer have any connections in the village, but I do intend to ask the local historian and some of the elderly residents who grew up in the vilage regarding the previous owners. The village Historic Soc (locally known as the histerical soc!) doesnt have any info but I will keep searching. If anyone on the list knows any history of Hazelbury Bryan I would be very interested to here form them. Many thanks again for your help and I will update if I find anything of interest. Kim from the Blackmore Vale in Dorset, England white@evemail.net I use Archive CD Books. All my incoming & outgoing mail is protected by Norton AntiVirus 2002.

Kim I tried to find the owner of some land (in Kinson), and asked the Land Registry in Weymouth about it, online, via the site Debby gave. I had been sent the registered title number of the parcel of land by the archivist of the present owners, a brewery. Registration began in 1925 or 26, but is still not yet completed. Weymouth was unable to find it. They wrote by snailmail to say "we did not keep a copy of the said transfer" (ie they threw it away!) This cost me nothing, but was in 2001. Your parents should look in every single nook and cranny first, then contact the solicitors who were involved in their original purchase, and the bank/building society that they had their mortgage with. Sadly, most legal documents like this are thrown out. Look in old directories, maps, electoral registers, even, when and if they find names, the CWGC and absent voters' lists. Our house - not in Dorset - is Victorian, and we were lucky enough to inherit lots of deeds and a couple of wills (from the building society), mainly because many of the past families who lived here were the kind of people who kept important papers! I was able to find the first family to live here, and because their surname was very unusual, to contact a descendant, in Australia, and send her the 1901 census information, and information from the deeds and wills. There is a small group of them (SOUSTER/SEWSTER) scattered round the world. It was really exciting! Hopefully your parents will be as lucky as we were. Viv vivpritchard@ntlworld.com Rugby, England DYSTONIA SOCIETY M00226 www.dystonia.org.uk SDFHS 9551 U Looking for LANE, Holnest 1729+/-, Hermitage 1765+/-, Leigh 1808+, Longfleet 1881+/-, Kinson 1884+, all in Dorset --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.709 / Virus Database: 465 - Release Date: 22/06/2004

G'Day Seeking any Parish Register and or Bishop's transcript entries for Whitchurch Canonicorum regards Michael Cheeseman --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.699 / Virus Database: 456 - Release Date: 4/06/04

According to my list here the PRs for Whitchurch Canonicorum start in 1558 Debby > I think the early BTs would have been destroyed in the fire at Blandford. > Sorry to be the bearer of bad news! > Gary > Michael Cheeseman <forever_fossicking@bigpond.com> wrote: > G'Day > > Seeking any Parish Register and or Bishop's transcript > entries for Whitchurch Canonicorum --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.708 / Virus Database: 464 - Release Date: 18/06/2004

I think the early BTs would have been destroyed in the fire at Blandford. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news! Gary Michael Cheeseman <forever_fossicking@bigpond.com> wrote: G'Day Seeking any Parish Register and or Bishop's transcript entries for Whitchurch Canonicorum regards Michael Cheeseman --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.699 / Virus Database: 456 - Release Date: 4/06/04 ==== ENG-DORSET-LIFE Mailing List ==== Visitng the Society of Genealogists? Check their online catalogue to see which Dorset registers they hold: http://www.sog.org.uk/prc/dor.html ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself

Just coming in on this thread Would anyone have access to the Whitchurch Canonicorum records for 1805 I would appreciate a scan or confirmation on the marriage of Joseph CADDEY and Ann HODDER 10 December 1805 thanks Val , Ontario, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Debby Rose" <debbyrose@onetel.net.uk> To: <ENG-DORSET-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 5:42 AM Subject: Re: [DOR-LIFE] Whitchurch Canonicorum > According to my list here the PRs for Whitchurch Canonicorum start in 1558 > > Debby > > > > I think the early BTs would have been destroyed in the fire at Blandford. > > Sorry to be the bearer of bad news! > > Gary > > Michael Cheeseman <forever_fossicking@bigpond.com> wrote: > > G'Day > > > > Seeking any Parish Register and or Bishop's transcript > > entries for Whitchurch Canonicorum > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.708 / Virus Database: 464 - Release Date: 18/06/2004 > > > ==== ENG-DORSET-LIFE Mailing List ==== > The Dorset Museum homepage can be found at: > http://home.clara.net/dorset.museum > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

At least they survive...It is a shame about the BTs though.. Gary Debby Rose <debbyrose@onetel.net.uk> wrote: According to my list here the PRs for Whitchurch Canonicorum start in 1558 Debby > I think the early BTs would have been destroyed in the fire at Blandford. > Sorry to be the bearer of bad news! > Gary > Michael Cheeseman wrote: > G'Day > > Seeking any Parish Register and or Bishop's transcript > entries for Whitchurch Canonicorum --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.708 / Virus Database: 464 - Release Date: 18/06/2004 ==== ENG-DORSET-LIFE Mailing List ==== The Dorset Museum homepage can be found at: http://home.clara.net/dorset.museum ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages!

Hi Kim, The Dorset Record Office has some records of the older propeties. Before going off there, have a look at the deeds of the house. I have the deeds of my grandfathers house which were offered for sale on the internet a year or so ago! Solicitors have the habbit of "pruning" the deeds as they take up a lot of space. There is only a certain number of years that the deeds must be held for. Then th old ones can get sold for the parchment! Your parents have been there for 40 years. Who did they buy from? Who were they? Where did they go? What can your parents remember about buying the house? How did they hear of it? Was there an estate agent involved? If so, who were they? Are they still in business today? If they are what do their records say? If the busines has changed, when did it change and were any records sent to the record office? Who were the solicitors who handled the sale to your parents? Do they have any records? Who was acting for the vendor? Do they have anything on their records of the property or the people? Armed with these answers take a look in the local papers' archives. They may shead some light on the matter. They may even have a photograph of the property during various sales, not only the one 40 years ago. They could have sales going back over many years. If this not the case the previous owners may have lived there for generations and there are local stoies of them in the area. The churches, schools, pubs etc could have information. Is there anyone who has lived in th area longer than your parents? If so, they could have a tale to tell. One thing could lead to another and in the end a story could be told. Good luck! Bernard

Hi Kim Old directories may help or other local records often held in local libraries. It depends on the area I suppose, but I know Weymouth library has a very good selection of local information. Is there anything in the title deeds? I remember years ago having a copy of the deeds of a Victorian house which was not that interesting other than that it recorded that there had been a dispute around 1900 over the passage of light with the neighbour. It only became compulsory for land to be registered from the early 1980's or thereabouts. We had to register the above mentioned house for the first time when we bought it in 1982 and prior to then there was nothing recorded for it at the land registry. So your parents may be living in an unregistered house/land if they have been there that long. The Land Registry charge £2 for details of a property in the register and £2 for title plans of it. Their website: http://www.landregisteronline.gov.uk/ I hope that's of help. Debby > Hello listers, > My parents are selling their house, and as they have lived there for almost 40 years I thought it would be a good idea to look into the history of their property. (should have done it years ago). > > Can anyone suggest ways of finding out details of who lived there, when, occupations, change of use (farm) etc. > I have looked through the S&DFHS census disks, but they have no addresses. Would I have to go to the Land Registry, and do they charge for their services? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.708 / Virus Database: 464 - Release Date: 18/06/2004

Hello listers, My parents are selling their house, and as they have lived there for almost 40 years I thought it would be a good idea to look into the history of their property. (should have done it years ago). Can anyone suggest ways of finding out details of who lived there, when, occupations, change of use (farm) etc. I have looked through the S&DFHS census disks, but they have no addresses. Would I have to go to the Land Registry, and do they charge for their services? I have tried looking on the 1901 census address search, but althought the house has changed name since then, and the name of the road has not changed, I could find no record. Perhaps the person recording details didnt bother with an address? Any other suggestions would be gratefully recieved. Kim from the Blackmore Vale in Dorset, England white@evemail.net I use Archive CD Books. All my incoming & outgoing mail is protected by Norton AntiVirus 2002.

Well done, Debby, that's a relief! Check it out, folks! On a slightly more serious note, the website to which this URL points is fascinating. If you haven't read up on the Ooser, I can recommend it. I shall be away for the next few days, so if anyone finds it just put it somewhere safe until I get back...... All the best, Davy Cannon Dorchester, Dorset > I found the Dorset Ooser! > > Davy, you were right, he was in the garage - playing on a skateboard on top of a table. > > Here he is: http://www.dorsetooser.fsnet.co.uk/pter1.htm

I found the Dorset Ooser! Davy, you were right, he was in the garage - playing on a skateboard on top of a table. Here he is: http://www.dorsetooser.fsnet.co.uk/pter1.htm :-) Debby --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.701 / Virus Database: 458 - Release Date: 07/06/2004