> > How can I enlarge saved images on Ancestry please. > > Thanks, Carol > Try Gimp -- it is free and does most of what Photoshop does. ==John ff

From: "Carol Brown" <carolstree@btinternet.com> > How can I enlarge saved images on Ancestry please. > > Thanks, Carol < You need two things 1) a graphics program and there are lots of them around; 2) to acquire some knowledge and skill in manipulating images. You don't say what sort of images you are talking about. Are they census images, BMD certificates, newspaper reports, photos, or what? I use Adobe Photoshop Elements, which is the cut-down version of Photoshop but quite adequate for my needs and much cheaper. The full version is for professional graphics artists and expensive. I do a bit of desktop publishing in a modest way and find Photoshop Elements perfectly adequate If you check out the internet you should find there are a number of graphics programs around that are free to download. I am sure other listers will have a few suggestions. If there is a manual that comes with it, then I suggest you acquaint yourself with the basics and experiment - it's the only way! You need to learn something about file sizes in relation to resolution and how to achieve a balance between the two. If you enlarge an image too much, then it may become fuzzy and unreadable or the file will be too large and take up more space on your computer than you want. It's a question of experimenting, as I say, with hands-on experience. With a half-decent program you can enhance images until you get them as you want them, i.e. lightening, darkening, sharpening, colour correction, red eye fix, etc. Photoshop Elements comes with a facility for auto-fixing, so you don't have to be too expert because the program does it for you automatically and if you don't like the result you can simply undo it. You can play about with all kinds of effects too. Photoshop Elements costs £56.49 for version 11 from Amazon, which I think is the latest, but you can put it on more than one computer, so maybe you can find someone to share it with. It's available for PCs and Macs. However, shop around. As I said earlier, if you don't want to splash out on a program like Photoshop Elements there are downloadable free programs around that may be quite adequate for what you need. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

On 2013/05/18 01:09, Carol Brown wrote: > How can I enlarge saved images on Ancestry please. I think you'll need to elaborate on what you're trying to accomplish before we can help. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg

How can I enlarge saved images on Ancestry please. Thanks, Carol

A family bible for the Nokes family (seemingly of Essex) sits unloved in the corner of an antiques store in Ely, Cambridgeshire. http://historyrepeating.org.uk/2013/05/15/the-lost-and-unloved-nokes-family-bible/?goback=%2Egde_930137_member_241063738

On 2013/05/08 10:24, June Figg wrote: > The previous link seems to have been broken so here it is again: Bracket the link between < and >. Then it won't get split. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg

The previous link seems to have been broken so here it is again: http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/green-spaces/cemetery-and-cremat orium/conservation-and-heritage/Pages/New-grave-re-use-area.aspx This isn't the first time graves have been re-used at the City of London cemetery. My 2xggf is buried there and I found the details online, found the map and visited the site. The area had been re-used and there are late 20th century graves. I understand the original graves are still underneath so I was able to 'visit' my 2xggf - I suspect he had no gravestone in any event. That burial was in 1859 in Square 10, Number.2469. Regards June

Here in West Australia cemeteries are doing what they call redevelopment of areas where the leases have expired (used to be 100 yrs then changed to 50 and now 25 years, some elderly people thought the grave site bought years ago was still a family grave but the laws changed and if they had moved, they had no idea. If the area is for redevelopment you cannot renew the lease. The deceased bodies are being left in situ, but headstones are removed (you are allowed to claim them but where does one put them in your front garden!!), it's the areas between the old graves that are being used, but these are only 25 year leases then what.   Some areas have been planted with gardens and made into ashes sites, but these too have a limited life   Helen ________________________________ From: June Figg <junefigg@btinternet.com> To: essex-uk@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, 8 May 2013 4:24 PM Subject: [Ess] Proposed re-use of graves at City of London cemetery The previous link seems to have been broken so here it is again: http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/green-spaces/cemetery-and-cremat orium/conservation-and-heritage/Pages/New-grave-re-use-area.aspx This isn't the first time graves have been re-used at the City of London cemetery. My 2xggf is buried there and I found the details online, found the map and visited the site. The area had been re-used and there are late 20th century graves. I understand the original graves are still underneath so I was able to 'visit' my 2xggf - I suspect he had no gravestone in any event. That burial was in 1859 in Square 10, Number.2469. Regards June ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Looking at their website http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/green-spaces/cemetery-and-cremat orium/conservation-and-heritage/Pages/New-grave-re-use-area.aspx give some information. Ingrid -----Original Message----- From: essex-uk-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:essex-uk-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of G Morris Sent: 07 May 2013 11:17 To: essex-uk@rootsweb.com Subject: [Ess] Proposed re-use of graves at City of London cemetery I wish to thank the East of London Family History Society for this news, I found it in their latest magazine, a good reason to join a family history society. The cemetery have selected an area, 'Heritage Area', and intend to extinguish the rights of burial, remove the memorials and increase space for burial by re-using these graves. The last burial will have taken place over 75 years ago. The graves are located in square's 21, 22, 36, 37 and 52. If you have any interest in these graves please contact the cemetery at Aldersbrook, Manor Park cemetery@cityoflondon.gov.uk As this is not first hand knowledge I suggest people look for themselves on the cemetery website, just in case I read it incorrectly. Glyn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I wish to thank the East of London Family History Society for this news, I found it in their latest magazine, a good reason to join a family history society. The cemetery have selected an area, 'Heritage Area', and intend to extinguish the rights of burial, remove the memorials and increase space for burial by re-using these graves. The last burial will have taken place over 75 years ago. The graves are located in square's 21, 22, 36, 37 and 52. If you have any interest in these graves please contact the cemetery at Aldersbrook, Manor Park cemetery@cityoflondon.gov.uk As this is not first hand knowledge I suggest people look for themselves on the cemetery website, just in case I read it incorrectly. Glyn

In these lean times when many museums are shedding staff or even closing (I heard very recently that one in North London sold off artefacts that had been donated by the public), it makes a very reassuring change when some museums are doing well. Our local one, which serves the whole of the Epping Forest District (from Waltham Abbey to Ongar) has just announced its plans to triple in size: http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/efnews/10399551.__1_6_million_cash_injection_to_treble_the_size_of_district_museum/ And to think that less than 2 years ago the management and staff of this museum also took on and turned around the ailing Lowewood Museum in Hoddesdon, therefore covering East Herts as well as West Essex. Not all doom and gloom after all. Lawrence

I have traced back to my GGGrandfather, John NICE, in Gt Wigborough in the early 19th century. While following what turned out to be a false trail I ended up in Stanstead, Suffolk. I bought a set of fiches for the parish and quickly found the name, as NYS, back in 1601. In the Essex parishes I've searched courtesy of SEAX I've found almost no NICEs before about 1770. I'm drawn to the conclusion that the families came to Essex from Suffolk, maybe as a result of the Inclosure Acts displacing the poorest level of subsistence farmer. There's a standard work on the enclosures, listing dates and showing maps, but it's waiting for me to get to Winchester reference library. In the meantime I should be very grateful for any comments from NICE researchers. John Nice

People tend the forget the great tide of non-conformity which swept across the county. There are non-con GALLEY baptisms at Little Waltham although I did not see a Robert. Glyn -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggleton In 1841 he was living in Great Leighs (transcribed as Gallay). His death in 1893 suggests he was born in 1815. > I am having a difficult time finding a Christening record for Robert > GALLEY, > b. abt. 1815 in the Great Leighs area. He was married in 1837 to Sarah > BOREHAM, and the marriage record gives his father's name as William > GALLEY. > > I have checked the Christenings for Great Leighs, Little Leighs, Felsted > and > Great Waltham from 1800 - 1820 with no luck. Can anyone offer any > suggestions? Have you found any candidates for his father's marriage? Often early census records reflect where the person lived as a child. This is not necessarily where the child was baptised or even born. The parents marriage record may provide a further hint. I notice that you haven't found the 1841 record. Not that this will tell you much more than that he was born in Essex or not. But the location might be informative.

On 2013/05/03 13:14, Dennis Galley wrote: > I am having a difficult time finding a Christening record for Robert GALLEY, > b. abt. 1815 in the Great Leighs area. He was married in 1837 to Sarah > BOREHAM, and the marriage record gives his father's name as William GALLEY. > > I have checked the Christenings for Great Leighs, Little Leighs, Felsted and > Great Waltham from 1800 - 1820 with no luck. Can anyone offer any > suggestions? Have you found any candidates for his father's marriage? Often early census records reflect where the person lived as a child. This is not necessarily where the child was baptised or even born. The parents marriage record may provide a further hint. I notice that you haven't found the 1841 record. Not that this will tell you much more than that he was born in Essex or not. But the location might be informative. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg

In 1841 he was living in Great Leighs (transcribed as Gallay). His death in 1893 suggests he was born in 1815.   Paul Eggleton ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Fry <fredbonzo@iafrica.com> To: essex-uk@rootsweb.com Cc: Sent: Friday, May 3, 2013 4:37 AM Subject: Re: [Ess] Elusive Christening On 2013/05/03 13:14, Dennis Galley wrote: > I am having a difficult time finding a Christening record for Robert GALLEY, > b. abt. 1815 in the Great Leighs area. He was married in 1837 to Sarah > BOREHAM, and the marriage record gives his father's name as William GALLEY. > > I have checked the Christenings for Great Leighs, Little Leighs, Felsted and > Great Waltham from 1800 - 1820 with no luck. Can anyone offer any > suggestions? Have you found any candidates for his father's marriage? Often early census records reflect where the person lived as a child. This is not necessarily where the child was baptised or even born. The parents marriage record may provide a further hint. I notice that you haven't found the 1841 record. Not that this will tell you much more than that he was born in Essex or not. But the location might be informative. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I am having a difficult time finding a Christening record for Robert GALLEY, b. abt. 1815 in the Great Leighs area. He was married in 1837 to Sarah BOREHAM, and the marriage record gives his father's name as William GALLEY. On the 1851 census for Great Leighs, his age is given as 37, and his place of birth as Chatley Hamlet On the 1861 census for Chatley Hamlet, his age is given as 46, and his place of birth as Felsted On the 1871 census for Great Leighs, his age is given as 58, and his place of birth as Great Leighs On the 1881 census for Braintree, his age is given as 65, and his place of birth as Great Leighs On the 1891 census for Stebbing, his age is given as 76, and his place of birth as Felsted. I have checked the Christenings for Great Leighs, Little Leighs, Felsted and Great Waltham from 1800 - 1820 with no luck. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Dennis Galley, Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada

Hello everyone; i would like to ask if anyone living in Barkingside or very close to it would be able to go to Barkingside Cemetery and see if there is a headstone for Charles Arthur RAND b; 1872 d: 1934 and his wife Evangeline A RAND b; 1870 d: 1942. They are buried in grave # 3623 Longwood Gardens, I would like to ask if they would also be able to take a photo of the headstone, if there is one. I would be able to do it but i live in Ontario, Canada. Thank you Bob

Yeah. Gold star for Suffolk Sue on responding to my West Ham Enquiry. Shirley O'Donnell On Apr 29, 2013, at 8:37 AM, suffolksue <sp51glem@btinternet.com> wrote: > Sending image > regards > Sue > > --- On Mon, 29/4/13, Shirley O'Donnell <srmenglish1@gmail.com> wrote: > > > From: Shirley O'Donnell <srmenglish1@gmail.com> > Subject: [Ess] Baxter/Melhuish in West Ham > To: "Essex Rootsweb" <essex-uk@rootsweb.com> > Date: Monday, 29 April, 2013, 13:25 > > > I am working on trying to link MaryAnn Baxter b.c. 1817 Greenhithe to John > Melhuishb. 1816 Somerset. Tthere is a subscriber to one of the genealogical > sites that mentions they married in West Ham in Feb 1837 but as is typical > no one is answering my enquiry for the source. As West Ham comes under > Essex I am wondering if anyone has access to the pr's for W.H (I have no > parish). Several of my Barking families popped up to West Ham to be married > and I am wondering if this is the case. > > I have 2 children baptized at St Margaret's Barking but the rest are > elusive. Given that there were several non-conformist religions arriving in > Barking I am wondering if they changed religions and the children were > baptized in one of those. > > The Baxter/Melhuish family went up to Grimsby where they remained and > branches are there today. > > I attempted to subscribe to SEAX yesterday but got nowhere, there seemed to > be a problem over the weekend on SEAX as reported by several members. > > All help and suggestions appreciated. . > > Kind regards, > Shirley in Florida > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > <melbax.png>

I am working on trying to link MaryAnn Baxter b.c. 1817 Greenhithe to John Melhuishb. 1816 Somerset. Tthere is a subscriber to one of the genealogical sites that mentions they married in West Ham in Feb 1837 but as is typical no one is answering my enquiry for the source. As West Ham comes under Essex I am wondering if anyone has access to the pr's for W.H (I have no parish). Several of my Barking families popped up to West Ham to be married and I am wondering if this is the case. I have 2 children baptized at St Margaret's Barking but the rest are elusive. Given that there were several non-conformist religions arriving in Barking I am wondering if they changed religions and the children were baptized in one of those. The Baxter/Melhuish family went up to Grimsby where they remained and branches are there today. I attempted to subscribe to SEAX yesterday but got nowhere, there seemed to be a problem over the weekend on SEAX as reported by several members. All help and suggestions appreciated. . Kind regards, Shirley in Florida

Looking for information on any members of the Vert family from the Essex area. In particular: Noreen F Pamplin who married Peter Vert and they had a daughter Ann F born 1961 Colchester Essex. At one stage Noreen lived at Mulberry Cottage Witham. Can find no further record of Peter and Noreen or their daughter Ann. Also Frederick John Vert born 1882 who married Alice F Goffe born 1883. They were married 1913 in Marylebone London. Three children: Petty born 1917 married Cyril Smith Peter born 1920 Berry born 1914 Any information on any of the above would be much appreciated. Regards Liz Martin Hastings New Zealand