I have a copy of that book. I will scan the entry and send you a copy off-List. Best wishes, Marion Woolgar Bognor Regis, West Sussex Guild ONS No: 1739

Can anyone in the Sussex area check out a book called 'Arms of Sussex Families' by J F Huxford (Philimore 1982). Apparently it contains a reference to the Horsman family.  I would love to know what it says and what those arms look like. There is also a copy of the book at the SOG. Thanks Sue Horsman 3446 Hors(e)man

I have found this useful, especially when combined with the enumerators route on page 1 of the census, even for London when streets have disappeared as the name is often similar (i.e. road to terrace etc.) to a new one. Nikki #6552 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Ashley via" <goons@rootsweb.com> To: "John P Laws" <registrar@lawsfamilyregister.org.uk>, goons@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, 14 November, 2014 7:55:36 AM Subject: Re: [G] A Hint for those addresses you can't read on the census Hi John, this hint may not work for anyone researching family in Stoke on Trent. In the early 1950's many streets were renamed due to duplications. Towns that merged when Stoke was declared a city in 1925 each had for instance a 'Queen Street'. The changes are available on thepotteries.org website or I have a full list if anyone requires help. Regards Barry On 13/11/2014 20:31, John P Laws via wrote: > Hi One-Namers everywhere > > How often do you look at the census and can't make out a street name? > > A hint for you when this happens is find a neighbouring street you can read, > then do a lookup on Google maps, then you can search the surrounding streets > for the one you want. > > This works well especially when you are following the US Federal census > where the street names are written up the left-hand margin of the form, they > are best read by rotating the image if possible or rotating your computer 90 > degrees to the right in doing so, knocking everything on your neat little > desk flying in all directions. > > I recently had a most annoying case where images of registers of Master > Mariners held at the LMA they or whosoever copied the documents with no > regard to the rotation of the pages including one page that was inverted, of > course if you are a contortionist and can type while standing on your head > it'll be ok for you. > > John P Laws > > Registrar > Laws Family Register > Putting Flesh on the Bones of History > > http://lawsfamilyregister.tribalpages.com > http://lawsandlawes.blogspot.com > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Sue, I'm willing to try to improve them. I have had moderate success with dark photos managing to extract the picture from one of the colour channels. Grainy pictures are a bigger challenge and might not subject themselves to improvement, but I'll try. Peter At 08:55 14/11/2014, you wrote: >I have a couple of small photos, one scanned from a newspaper (very >grainy) and another which is quite dark. Is there anyone out there, >with the skills to 'improve' them and who is willing to have a go for me. >If you can help - please to me directly. > >Thanks >Sue Horsman >3446 Hors(e)man > > _____________________________________________ > >RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc >http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have delved into the Dorset parish records that are online thanks to the Dorset online parish clerks (found at www.opcdorset.org). There is a list of the various parishes, not all have been transcribed though. I wanted Wimborne Minster and only marriages 1839-1850 are. I found it really useful when looking for my great grandfather's family. I also found something similar for Staplehurst in Kent once but now can't find it. Was useful for looking for paternal grandmother's Kent family. Now to find the other elusive lot! Rose Norton Bierton 6008 -----Original Message----- From: MILLARD A.R. via Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 5:02 PM To: 'Paul Howes' ; 'goons@rootsweb.com' Subject: [G] MEdway registers (was RE: Norwich Cardinal Points again) > From: Paul Howes via > Sent: 12 November 2014 22:26 > > PS Having mentioned Dorset the other week, it occurs to me that the > Medway towns might be good meat for similar effort. The wonderful > parish records placed online at the CityArk site aren't indexed > either. Guild member Ruth Rathbone has an ongoing project to index these: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fleming/cityark.htm Best wishes Andrew -- Andrew Millard - A.R.Millard@durham.ac.uk Chair, Trustees of Genuki: www.genuki.org.uk Maintainer, Genuki Middx + London: www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/MDX/ + ../LND/ Academic Co-ordinator, Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org Bodimeade one-name study: community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/Bodimeade/ My genealogy: community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/ _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Emailed them to me Sue and I see if I can do anything with them Best Wishes and Kind Regards Rich Scantlebury www.scantlebury.talktalk.net http://www.flickr.com/photos/richscats http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Scantlebury/ -----Original Message----- From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of S Horsman via Sent: 14 November 2014 08:56 To: goons@rootsweb.com Subject: [G] Can anyone help improve a scanned photo I have a couple of small photos, one scanned from a newspaper (very grainy)  and another which is quite dark. Is there anyone out there, with the skills to 'improve' them and who is willing to have a go for me. If you can help - please to me directly. Thanks Sue Horsman 3446 Hors(e)man _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Sue, if you don't get any answers, there are folk on the rootschat forum who will improve photos if you post them there http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php (free photo restoring and dating section) Corinne Curtis #5579 On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 8:55 AM, S Horsman via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > I have a couple of small photos, one scanned from a newspaper (very > grainy) and another which is quite dark. Is there anyone out there, with > the skills to 'improve' them and who is willing to have a go for me. > If you can help - please to me directly. > > Thanks > Sue Horsman > 3446 Hors(e)man > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Since newspaper photos are halftone - they will always conflict with pixel based scans. One of the problems is that halftone dots are round and pixels are square. There are a couple of work arounds for this. 1. Select descreen in your scanner's settings and change the resolution to 600 dpi. 2. Scan in grayscale and not RGB. 3. Apply the unsharp mask in your photo software. This will be as good as it gets - but can be quite effective, but will never be perfect. Another solution is to photograph the image and then manipulate the various dust and scratches filters in your photo editing software. Again, it's not perfect, but will get rid of some of the graininess. Jim -- Jim James M. Owston, EdD Owston One-Name Study #5647 owston@one-name.org http://www.one-name.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?find=5647 Newspaper photos are in half tone and do not scan very well. One work around is to disable t On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:55 AM, S Horsman via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > I have a couple of small photos, one scanned from a newspaper (very grainy) and another which is quite dark. Is there anyone out there, with the skills to 'improve' them and who is willing to have a go for me. > If you can help - please to me directly. > > Thanks > Sue Horsman > 3446 Hors(e)man > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have a couple of small photos, one scanned from a newspaper (very grainy)  and another which is quite dark. Is there anyone out there, with the skills to 'improve' them and who is willing to have a go for me. If you can help - please to me directly. Thanks Sue Horsman 3446 Hors(e)man

I am currently undertaking repeat Marriage Challenges for the North Aylesford and Strood districts and have collected many Cardinal Points in addition to those in the GMI. Once the searching is finished they will be sent to Mary Rix for inclusion in the GMI. If you want I will provide a list to you, Ruth, for inclusion on your website. Best regards Clive Clive Killick Hon. Sec. Killick Society Guild of One-Name Studies Member #2398 Rootsweb Killick_List administrator -----Original Message----- From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of ruthrath via Sent: 13 November 2014 20:52 To: goons@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [G] MEdway registers (was RE: Norwich Cardinal Points again) Yes of course and this would be a way of salvaging something longer lasting than the index. I haven't done anything with these for ages, my enthusiasm in the beginning triggered RSI. Also the realisation that this isn't a good way to index as inevitably Medway Council will change their website structure and break the links and what will remain isn't a full transcription. Thanks guys! Ruth Rathbone Fleming ONS On 14/11/2014 4:02 AM, MILLARD A.R. via wrote: >> From: Paul Howes via >> Sent: 12 November 2014 22:26 >> >> PS Having mentioned Dorset the other week, it occurs to me that the >> Medway towns might be good meat for similar effort. The wonderful >> parish records placed online at the CityArk site aren't indexed >> either. > Guild member Ruth Rathbone has an ongoing project to index these: > http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fleming/cityark.htm > > > > Best wishes > > Andrew > -- > Andrew Millard - A.R.Millard@durham.ac.uk > Chair, Trustees of Genuki: www.genuki.org.uk > Maintainer, Genuki Middx + London: www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/MDX/ + ../LND/ > Academic Co-ordinator, Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org > Bodimeade one-name study: community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/Bodimeade/ > My genealogy: community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/ > > > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message . > _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi John, this hint may not work for anyone researching family in Stoke on Trent. In the early 1950's many streets were renamed due to duplications. Towns that merged when Stoke was declared a city in 1925 each had for instance a 'Queen Street'. The changes are available on thepotteries.org website or I have a full list if anyone requires help. Regards Barry On 13/11/2014 20:31, John P Laws via wrote: > Hi One-Namers everywhere > > How often do you look at the census and can't make out a street name? > > A hint for you when this happens is find a neighbouring street you can read, > then do a lookup on Google maps, then you can search the surrounding streets > for the one you want. > > This works well especially when you are following the US Federal census > where the street names are written up the left-hand margin of the form, they > are best read by rotating the image if possible or rotating your computer 90 > degrees to the right in doing so, knocking everything on your neat little > desk flying in all directions. > > I recently had a most annoying case where images of registers of Master > Mariners held at the LMA they or whosoever copied the documents with no > regard to the rotation of the pages including one page that was inverted, of > course if you are a contortionist and can type while standing on your head > it'll be ok for you. > > John P Laws > > Registrar > Laws Family Register > Putting Flesh on the Bones of History > > http://lawsfamilyregister.tribalpages.com > http://lawsandlawes.blogspot.com > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Yes of course and this would be a way of salvaging something longer lasting than the index. I haven't done anything with these for ages, my enthusiasm in the beginning triggered RSI. Also the realisation that this isn't a good way to index as inevitably Medway Council will change their website structure and break the links and what will remain isn't a full transcription. Thanks guys! Ruth Rathbone Fleming ONS On 14/11/2014 4:02 AM, MILLARD A.R. via wrote: >> From: Paul Howes via >> Sent: 12 November 2014 22:26 >> >> PS Having mentioned Dorset the other week, it occurs to me that the >> Medway towns might be good meat for similar effort. The wonderful >> parish records placed online at the CityArk site aren't indexed >> either. > Guild member Ruth Rathbone has an ongoing project to index these: > http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fleming/cityark.htm > > > > Best wishes > > Andrew > -- > Andrew Millard - A.R.Millard@durham.ac.uk > Chair, Trustees of Genuki: www.genuki.org.uk > Maintainer, Genuki Middx + London: www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/MDX/ + ../LND/ > Academic Co-ordinator, Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org > Bodimeade one-name study: community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/Bodimeade/ > My genealogy: community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/ > > > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > . >

-----Original Message----- From: "MILLARD A.R. via" <goons@rootsweb.com> Sent: ‎14/‎11/‎2014 4:03 AM To: "'Paul Howes'" <paul@howesfamilies.com>; "'goons@rootsweb.com'" <goons@rootsweb.com> Subject: [G] MEdway registers (was RE: Norwich Cardinal Points again) > From: Paul Howes via > Sent: 12 November 2014 22:26 > > PS Having mentioned Dorset the other week, it occurs to me that the > Medway towns might be good meat for similar effort. The wonderful > parish records placed online at the CityArk site aren't indexed > either. Guild member Ruth Rathbone has an ongoing project to index these: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fleming/cityark.htm Best wishes Andrew -- Andrew Millard - A.R.Millard@durham.ac.uk Chair, Trustees of Genuki: www.genuki.org.uk Maintainer, Genuki Middx + London: www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/MDX/ + ../LND/ Academic Co-ordinator, Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org Bodimeade one-name study: community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/Bodimeade/ My genealogy: community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/ _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

John Laws said: > find a neighbouring street you can read, then do a lookup on Google maps, then you can search the surrounding streets for the one you want. Unless it is central Leeds (Yorkshire (ENG)) or Bolton (Lancashire (ENG)) which seem to have changed somewhat <grin>. My Great Grandfather was born under what became the International Swimming Pool in Leeds - since demolished itself to be replaced by a car-park. Chris

Hi One-Namers everywhere How often do you look at the census and can't make out a street name? A hint for you when this happens is find a neighbouring street you can read, then do a lookup on Google maps, then you can search the surrounding streets for the one you want. This works well especially when you are following the US Federal census where the street names are written up the left-hand margin of the form, they are best read by rotating the image if possible or rotating your computer 90 degrees to the right in doing so, knocking everything on your neat little desk flying in all directions. I recently had a most annoying case where images of registers of Master Mariners held at the LMA they or whosoever copied the documents with no regard to the rotation of the pages including one page that was inverted, of course if you are a contortionist and can type while standing on your head it'll be ok for you. John P Laws Registrar Laws Family Register Putting Flesh on the Bones of History http://lawsfamilyregister.tribalpages.com http://lawsandlawes.blogspot.com

Hi One-Namers Everywhere Sadly I will not be with you guys on the monthly Australia-UK & USA UK hangouts this weekend, they conflict with the Scottish Association of Family History Societies Family History Fair in Edinburgh, and sadly I won't be there either, I shall be at the East Lothian Archaeological Conference at Queen Margaret's University. Hopefully I'll see you guys next month before, I jet off into the blue, to see my daughter in San Francisco over Christmas. John P Laws Registrar Laws Family Register Putting Flesh on the Bones of History http://lawsfamilyregister.tribalpages.com http://lawsandlawes.blogspot.com

  This is the last call for the Chesterfield Marriage Challenge stage2, cut off date 30 November. Anyone that may have any requests please submit them ASAP  to John Moses at Moses@one-name.org   All the previous requests have been searched for and the results sent out as PDF faux certificates, if anyone has not received them please contact John at Moses@one-name.org and he will resend them. Sue Horsman

> From: Paul Howes via > Sent: 12 November 2014 22:26 > > PS Having mentioned Dorset the other week, it occurs to me that the > Medway towns might be good meat for similar effort. The wonderful > parish records placed online at the CityArk site aren't indexed > either. Guild member Ruth Rathbone has an ongoing project to index these: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fleming/cityark.htm Best wishes Andrew -- Andrew Millard - A.R.Millard@durham.ac.uk Chair, Trustees of Genuki: www.genuki.org.uk Maintainer, Genuki Middx + London: www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/MDX/ + ../LND/ Academic Co-ordinator, Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org Bodimeade one-name study: community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/Bodimeade/ My genealogy: community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/

Excellent. Thanks Andrew,and for your ongoing work, Ruth Paul On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:02 PM, MILLARD A.R. <a.r.millard@durham.ac.uk> wrote: >> From: Paul Howes via >> Sent: 12 November 2014 22:26 >> >> PS Having mentioned Dorset the other week, it occurs to me that the >> Medway towns might be good meat for similar effort. The wonderful >> parish records placed online at the CityArk site aren't indexed >> either. > > Guild member Ruth Rathbone has an ongoing project to index these: > http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fleming/cityark.htm > > > > Best wishes > > Andrew > -- > Andrew Millard - A.R.Millard@durham.ac.uk > Chair, Trustees of Genuki: www.genuki.org.uk > Maintainer, Genuki Middx + London: www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/MDX/ + ../LND/ > Academic Co-ordinator, Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org > Bodimeade one-name study: community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/Bodimeade/ > My genealogy: community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/ > > > -- Paul Howes www.howesfamilies.com Researching House, Howes, Hows, Howse & Howze worldwide

Hi Neil, Census are not available in all countries so the next best is Directory's of one sort or another, for example phone directory's another source is Voting rolls. There are some Hartwells here in New Zealand based on a quick search of the Whitepages Telephone directories; http://whitepages.co.nz/white-all/hartwell/new-zealand/ Ancestry.com will have a number of Voting rolls for New Zealand as well so you ought to be able to piece some of the families together however this is dependent on if the children of the couple are still home at the age they can vote. Other than that you could look at the Births, Marriages and Deaths index's with in the time restrictions imposed online at https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Home/ Plus also check for any probated wills at http://archway.archives.govt.nz/ there are 121 individual records (items) indexed. As for Australia that would require a similar approach however that would need to be State by State as far as I am aware. A person who has done far more research in Australia would be better placed to give detailed research approaches. Regards, David J Grimshaw (or is it Grimason?) Genealogical Researcher of the "Grimason" surname and variations of the "Grimason" surname a One Name study. GOONS: 6138 formally 2962 The "Sherlock Holmes" of this family according to some. >> Hello out there >> >> I've recently signed up to the Guild, and I've collected a lot of data >> (via Ancestry.co.uk) over the past 10 years on UK folk with the surname >> Hartwell >> >> (My colleagues in the USA are even better organised) >> >> I'd like some ideas on how best to turn this into something of use to >> other researchers. >> >> I'm not particularly keen on retyping details for hundreds of Hartwells >> from GED into html >> >> Ideas and suggestions are welcomed / and any details of notable >> Hartwells you may have encountered. >> >> Regards >> >> Neil >> -- >> Neil Hartwell The Garden House 74 Lostwithiel St Fowey PL23 1BQ 01726 832785 >> _____________________________________________ --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com