There is a free pdf reader with built in OCR capability called PDF-XChange viewer. Results obviously depend on the quality of the original but you may find it worth a try. Google should find it for you - I don't have the URL to hand. Pauline On 31/10/2013 10:24, david wilson wrote: > Speaking of Find My Past . > > Does anyone know how to get the news articles from that site into an editable text ? There are some long articles that would take an age to re-type . > > I know I could print off , on to an A4 sheet and then via the scanner run it through an OCR programme but is there on on-screen way ? . > > Have even tried without success of taking a picture of a page that is on my laptop screen with my tablets OCR app . Just got goobledy-gook ! . >
On 2013/10/31 12:53, david wilson wrote: > Thanks Roy , don't have MSWord , only have Wordpad and just tried it but if > you copy and paste from the downloaded pdf it just appears as an un-editable > image. Give me an example so that I can see what problems you're experiencing. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg
On 2013/10/31 12:24, david wilson wrote: > Does anyone know how to get the news articles from that site into an editable > text ? There are some long articles that would take an age to re-type . You need MS Word or LibreOffice/OpenOffice Writer. The basic process is to copy the webpage in its entirety to a new document. If you're clever, you can select just the part of the webpage containing the text of the article, and copy that. Start a new, empty document and Paste what you've copied from the webpage. With LibreOffice and OpenOffice Writer, this can be pasted in several ways, but the best choice is probably as HTML. Then, what you get looks more or less like what appears on the web. From there, it all depends on what you want to do with the document. If you want more details, contact me off-list. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg
It depends what you want to achieve Dai. Adding notes is not quite the same as adding mark-up, or 'inline meta-data'. The latter can indicate the nature/context/alternatives for something, and provide a link from there to data elsewhere (e.g. a Web page or database) Tony Proctor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dai & Angela Bevan" <daibevan@clara.co.uk> To: <nottsgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 12:32 PM Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past > > Tony, David, > The easiest way I have found to highlight the article and add notes is > to > save the pdf of the page, then use the 'Sticky Note' capability of > Acrobat > Reader to make notes. It also serves to highlight the point of interest > on > the page when you return to it at a later stage. > Dai > > On 31/10/2013 10:31, Tony Proctor wrote: > > As far as I know David, that's the only way. It's a real shame since I > like > to add mark-up into such articles to highlight people, places, dates, > etc., > and so make them searchable and link them to parts of my tree. > > I could be wrong but I don't know of any newspaper archive that will allow > you to copy a plain-text version of an article. If there's a reason for > this > then it escapes me. > > Tony Proctor > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "david wilson" [1]<djwilson22@yahoo.com> > To: [2]<nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:24 AM > Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past > > > Speaking of Find My Past . > > Does anyone know how to get the news articles from that site into an > editable text ? There are some long articles that would take an age to > re-type . > > I know I could print off , on to an A4 sheet and then via the scanner run > it > through an OCR programme but is there on on-screen way ? . > > Have even tried without success of taking a picture of a page that is on > my > laptop screen with my tablets OCR app . Just got goobledy-gook ! . > > > > > On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 2:37 PM, MAVIS JOHNSON > [3]<mayjaysomerset@btinternet.com> wrote: > > For those who do not have a sub you can see this on > > [4]http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/439830/Real-murder-mystery-in-Sherlock > -star-Benedict-Cumberbatch-s-past > > Mavis > > References > > 1. mailto:djwilson22@yahoo.com > 2. mailto:nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com > 3. mailto:mayjaysomerset@btinternet.com > 4. > http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/439830/Real-murder-mystery-in-Sherlock-star-Benedict-Cumberbatch-s-past > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Tony, David, The easiest way I have found to highlight the article and add notes is to save the pdf of the page, then use the 'Sticky Note' capability of Acrobat Reader to make notes. It also serves to highlight the point of interest on the page when you return to it at a later stage. Dai On 31/10/2013 10:31, Tony Proctor wrote: As far as I know David, that's the only way. It's a real shame since I like to add mark-up into such articles to highlight people, places, dates, etc., and so make them searchable and link them to parts of my tree. I could be wrong but I don't know of any newspaper archive that will allow you to copy a plain-text version of an article. If there's a reason for this then it escapes me. Tony Proctor ----- Original Message ----- From: "david wilson" [1]<djwilson22@yahoo.com> To: [2]<nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:24 AM Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past Speaking of Find My Past . Does anyone know how to get the news articles from that site into an editable text ? There are some long articles that would take an age to re-type . I know I could print off , on to an A4 sheet and then via the scanner run it through an OCR programme but is there on on-screen way ? . Have even tried without success of taking a picture of a page that is on my laptop screen with my tablets OCR app . Just got goobledy-gook ! . On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 2:37 PM, MAVIS JOHNSON [3]<mayjaysomerset@btinternet.com> wrote: For those who do not have a sub you can see this on [4]http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/439830/Real-murder-mystery-in-Sherlock -star-Benedict-Cumberbatch-s-past Mavis References 1. mailto:djwilson22@yahoo.com 2. mailto:nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com 3. mailto:mayjaysomerset@btinternet.com 4. http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/439830/Real-murder-mystery-in-Sherlock-star-Benedict-Cumberbatch-s-past
If you have any OCR software David then it should be able to process a jpeg/tiff image (i.e. without having to print it off again and process the hard-copy). If you have a pdf file then it may process that directly although it's usually quite easy to capture a section of a pdf as a jpeg image. I saved a copy of that newspaper image on the Express site, and put this into OneNote here. There were a lot of errors in the text recognition but it might still be easier to correct the errors than to re-type the whole lot. I can do the conversion for you and return the text if you want to send me an image of your choice. It's no problem. Tony Proctor ----- Original Message ----- From: "david wilson" <djwilson22@yahoo.com> To: <nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 12:01 PM Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past Thanks all for the replies . I don't have MS Office so Onenote doesn't seem to be an option . I know I can print off the pdf and then use the OCR but thats a bit of a faff for lots of pages . Unless you have paid access to the Newspaper archives on Find My Past its difficult to give an example . However here is a similar type of page on the Trove news archives website thats free for anyone to access . The scanned original article is in the right hand pane and they very usefully provide an online ocr'd editable text in the left pane that you can copy and paste . Unfortunately Find My Past don't do this . So imagine trying to make the right hand pane into editable text . By the way the highlighted sensational article involves one of our families ancestors . A story kept secret and I only happened on it by accident . http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/44323753?searchTerm=bickley%20dilks%20mason&searchLimits= On Thursday, October 31, 2013 11:03 AM, Acorn Cottage <orange.wasps@live.co.uk> wrote: The purpose of a PDF is to stop editing.... not always as useful as it sounds. Do you have a scanner with Optical Word Recognition? You could try scanning it into WordPad or the Open Office Writer. Ruth > -----Original Message----- > From: nottsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:nottsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of david wilson > Sent: 31 October 2013 10:54 > To: nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past > > Thanks Roy , don't have MSWord , only have Wordpad and just > tried it but if you copy and paste from the downloaded pdf it > just appears as an un-editable image. > > Notts Surname List http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
From: Mike Fry <fredbonzo@iafrica.com> > On 2013/10/31 12:24, david wilson wrote: > > > Does anyone know how to get the news articles from that site into an > editable > > text ? There are some long articles that would take an age to re-type . > > You need MS Word or LibreOffice/OpenOffice Writer. > > The basic process is to copy the webpage in its entirety to a new document. If > you're clever, you can select just the part of the webpage containing the text > of the article, and copy that. > > Start a new, empty document and Paste what you've copied from the webpage. > With > LibreOffice and OpenOffice Writer, this can be pasted in several ways, but the > best choice is probably as HTML. Then, what you get looks more or less like > what > appears on the web. > > From there, it all depends on what you want to do with the document. > > If you want more details, contact me off-list. > > -- > Regards, > Mike Fry > Johannesburg> Well, I tried copying and pasting my blog on Benedict Cumberbatch into Wordpad and it worked for me as a Rich Text document, no problem, with minimum editing necessary. I also make extensive use of the Snipping Tool, which is in Accessories, to capture photos and screen grabs, then save and paste them into other documents, including my Facebook page. -- 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
The purpose of a PDF is to stop editing.... not always as useful as it sounds. Do you have a scanner with Optical Word Recognition? You could try scanning it into WordPad or the Open Office Writer. Ruth > -----Original Message----- > From: nottsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:nottsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of david wilson > Sent: 31 October 2013 10:54 > To: nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past > > Thanks Roy , don't have MSWord , only have Wordpad and just > tried it but if you copy and paste from the downloaded pdf it > just appears as an un-editable image. > >
----- Original Message ----- From: <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> To: <nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com>; "david wilson" <djwilson22@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past > From: david wilson <djwilson22@yahoo.com> > >> Speaking of Find My Past . >> >> Does anyone know how to get the news articles from that site into an >> editable >> text ? There are some long articles that would take an age to re-type . >> >> I know I could print off , on to an A4 sheet and then via the scanner run >> it >> through an OCR programme but is there on on-screen way ? . >> >> Have even tried without success of taking a picture of a page that is on >> my >> laptop screen with my tablets OCR app . Just got goobledy-gook ! .> > > David > > Have you tried simply selecting (highlighting) all the text, then copying > and > pasting it into MSWord or some similar programme? > > I've just tried it with my blog on Benedict Cumberbatch and it worked for > me. > You may have to edit out a few extraneous references which have been > captured > by the selecting, but it's not a problem. > > -- > 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 > > I understood that David was wanting to convert the article images into editable text Roy. Copy-and-pasting text from a blog or HTML page is not a problem but converting a jpeg (or similar) image to text requires OCR. Microsoft OneNote has a built-in OCR feature which might be useful. Just paste the image into it and there's an option to generate text. I can find it if anyone's interested. Tony Proctor
From: david wilson <djwilson22@yahoo.com> > Speaking of Find My Past . > > Does anyone know how to get the news articles from that site into an editable > text ? There are some long articles that would take an age to re-type . > > I know I could print off , on to an A4 sheet and then via the scanner run it > through an OCR programme but is there on on-screen way ? . > > Have even tried without success of taking a picture of a page that is on my > laptop screen with my tablets OCR app . Just got goobledy-gook ! .> David Have you tried simply selecting (highlighting) all the text, then copying and pasting it into MSWord or some similar programme? I've just tried it with my blog on Benedict Cumberbatch and it worked for me. You may have to edit out a few extraneous references which have been captured by the selecting, but it's not a problem. -- 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
As far as I know David, that's the only way. It's a real shame since I like to add mark-up into such articles to highlight people, places, dates, etc., and so make them searchable and link them to parts of my tree. I could be wrong but I don't know of any newspaper archive that will allow you to copy a plain-text version of an article. If there's a reason for this then it escapes me. Tony Proctor ----- Original Message ----- From: "david wilson" <djwilson22@yahoo.com> To: <nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:24 AM Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past Speaking of Find My Past . Does anyone know how to get the news articles from that site into an editable text ? There are some long articles that would take an age to re-type . I know I could print off , on to an A4 sheet and then via the scanner run it through an OCR programme but is there on on-screen way ? . Have even tried without success of taking a picture of a page that is on my laptop screen with my tablets OCR app . Just got goobledy-gook ! . On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 2:37 PM, MAVIS JOHNSON <mayjaysomerset@btinternet.com> wrote: For those who do not have a sub you can see this on http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/439830/Real-murder-mystery-in-Sherlock-star-Benedict-Cumberbatch-s-past Mavis >________________________________ > From: "roy.stockdill@btinternet.com" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> >To: NOTTSGEN-L@rootsweb.com; Brian Binns <bnbinns@gmail.com> >Sent: Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 14:31 >Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past > > >From: "Brian Binns" <bnbinns@gmail.com> > >> For those who have a subscription to Find my Past, a new blog has been >> posted on their site in the sub-section "Famous Family Trees", by >> "experienced family historian" Roy Stockdill (their description, not >> mine, >> which nevertheless I agree with). >> >> This one concerns Benedict Cumberpatch and is a most interesting read. I >> wonder if it was one which didn't make the "Who do you 5think you are" >> series?> > >Thanks very much, Brian. > >My discovery that the Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch had a >great-great-uncle who was charged with murder (and acquitted) at the age of >14 >in 1893 has made the national papers today (Daily Mail, Daily Express and >Radio >Times included) but unfortunately they didn't credit me, only Findmypast. >Still, that's life I suppose! > > >-- >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 > > > > > >Notts Surname List > >http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > Notts Surname List http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Notts Surname List http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Well have been experimenting with online ocr sites and this site was one of the easiest to use and was perfect for converting a modern pdf invoice from my inbox to an editable.txt file , no trouble at all ......however it really struggled with old news- type from the news archives , kept getting a message saying image "image quality too poor ". http://free-online-ocr.com/ Eventually I managed to produce the following 16 lines of text after pasting part of a column into Paint . Then saving as a .jpg and then using Windows photo gallery to turn the contrast right up , so I ended up with with black type on a white background rather than the "muddy" background of old newspapers . It seems to struggle with longer columns of print though so is probably more trouble than its worth ! This is the unedited result from a piece about Narrow Marsh : Oonvicted on the pr~ ions evening of the manslauffhteJ of Annie Elizabeth Burton, in Narrow-marsh, on the l5th of September last, was brought up for sentence. ~ On being asked by the Clerk of Arraigns whether he had anything to say why jaugment should not be nassed upon him, be said, ~ 61 hope your lordship will be as lenient to me as you nD." The Judge said : James Temporif. you have been tried for the wilful murder of Annie Elizabeth Burton, who was jiving wftft you, and have been found guilty of ~ They have come to that conclusion. I :lo not know on what gnunds, but that is the view they nave taken, and you have the benefit of it. There was some evidence given to chow your kindness to the woman and the children. and that may have affected ,he view the jury took of your case ; but thfs is not a `^~ ~- ^ ~* r ^an tuba Ihtn rnna{darnhnn Ti T a..n),l On Thursday, October 31, 2013 4:09 PM, Balloon Expedition Co. <balexped@ihug.co.nz> wrote: What if you right click on the image and copy to folder ? Di ----- Original Message ----- From: "david wilson" <djwilson22@yahoo.com> To: <nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 11:53 PM Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past > Thanks Roy , don't have MSWord , only have Wordpad and just tried it but > if you copy and paste from the downloaded pdf it just appears as an > un-editable image. > > > > On Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:45 AM, Mike Fry <fredbonzo@iafrica.com> > wrote: > > On 2013/10/31 12:24, david wilson wrote: > >> Does anyone know how to get the news articles from that site into an >> editable >> text ? There are some long articles that would take an age to re-type . > > You need MS Word or LibreOffice/OpenOffice Writer. > > The basic process is to copy the webpage in its entirety to a new > document. If > you're clever, you can select just the part of the webpage containing the > text > of the article, and copy that. > > Start a new, empty document and Paste what you've copied from the webpage. > With > LibreOffice and OpenOffice Writer, this can be pasted in several ways, but > the > best choice is probably as HTML. Then, what you get looks more or less > like what > appears on the web. > >>From there, it all depends on what you want to do with the document. > > If you want more details, contact me off-list. > > -- > Regards, > Mike Fry > Johannesburg > > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Thanks all for the replies . I don't have MS Office so Onenote doesn't seem to be an option . I know I can print off the pdf and then use the OCR but thats a bit of a faff for lots of pages . Unless you have paid access to the Newspaper archives on Find My Past its difficult to give an example . However here is a similar type of page on the Trove news archives website thats free for anyone to access . The scanned original article is in the right hand pane and they very usefully provide an online ocr'd editable text in the left pane that you can copy and paste . Unfortunately Find My Past don't do this . So imagine trying to make the right hand pane into editable text . By the way the highlighted sensational article involves one of our families ancestors . A story kept secret and I only happened on it by accident . http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/44323753?searchTerm=bickley%20dilks%20mason&searchLimits= On Thursday, October 31, 2013 11:03 AM, Acorn Cottage <orange.wasps@live.co.uk> wrote: The purpose of a PDF is to stop editing.... not always as useful as it sounds. Do you have a scanner with Optical Word Recognition? You could try scanning it into WordPad or the Open Office Writer. Ruth > -----Original Message----- > From: nottsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:nottsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of david wilson > Sent: 31 October 2013 10:54 > To: nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past > > Thanks Roy , don't have MSWord , only have Wordpad and just > tried it but if you copy and paste from the downloaded pdf it > just appears as an un-editable image. > >
Thanks Roy , don't have MSWord , only have Wordpad and just tried it but if you copy and paste from the downloaded pdf it just appears as an un-editable image. On Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:45 AM, Mike Fry <fredbonzo@iafrica.com> wrote: On 2013/10/31 12:24, david wilson wrote: > Does anyone know how to get the news articles from that site into an editable > text ? There are some long articles that would take an age to re-type . You need MS Word or LibreOffice/OpenOffice Writer. The basic process is to copy the webpage in its entirety to a new document. If you're clever, you can select just the part of the webpage containing the text of the article, and copy that. Start a new, empty document and Paste what you've copied from the webpage. With LibreOffice and OpenOffice Writer, this can be pasted in several ways, but the best choice is probably as HTML. Then, what you get looks more or less like what appears on the web. >From there, it all depends on what you want to do with the document. If you want more details, contact me off-list. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Notts Surname List http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Speaking of Find My Past . Does anyone know how to get the news articles from that site into an editable text ? There are some long articles that would take an age to re-type . I know I could print off , on to an A4 sheet and then via the scanner run it through an OCR programme but is there on on-screen way ? . Have even tried without success of taking a picture of a page that is on my laptop screen with my tablets OCR app . Just got goobledy-gook ! . On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 2:37 PM, MAVIS JOHNSON <mayjaysomerset@btinternet.com> wrote: For those who do not have a sub you can see this on http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/439830/Real-murder-mystery-in-Sherlock-star-Benedict-Cumberbatch-s-past Mavis >________________________________ > From: "roy.stockdill@btinternet.com" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> >To: NOTTSGEN-L@rootsweb.com; Brian Binns <bnbinns@gmail.com> >Sent: Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 14:31 >Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past > > >From: "Brian Binns" <bnbinns@gmail.com> > >> For those who have a subscription to Find my Past, a new blog has been >> posted on their site in the sub-section "Famous Family Trees", by >> "experienced family historian" Roy Stockdill (their description, not mine, >> which nevertheless I agree with). >> >> This one concerns Benedict Cumberpatch and is a most interesting read. I >> wonder if it was one which didn't make the "Who do you 5think you are" >> series?> > >Thanks very much, Brian. > >My discovery that the Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch had a >great-great-uncle who was charged with murder (and acquitted) at the age of 14 >in 1893 has made the national papers today (Daily Mail, Daily Express and Radio >Times included) but unfortunately they didn't credit me, only Findmypast. >Still, that's life I suppose! > > >-- >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 > > > > > >Notts Surname List > >http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > Notts Surname List http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
For those who do not have a sub you can see this on http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/439830/Real-murder-mystery-in-Sherlock-star-Benedict-Cumberbatch-s-past Mavis >________________________________ > From: "roy.stockdill@btinternet.com" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> >To: NOTTSGEN-L@rootsweb.com; Brian Binns <bnbinns@gmail.com> >Sent: Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 14:31 >Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past > > >From: "Brian Binns" <bnbinns@gmail.com> > >> For those who have a subscription to Find my Past, a new blog has been >> posted on their site in the sub-section "Famous Family Trees", by >> "experienced family historian" Roy Stockdill (their description, not mine, >> which nevertheless I agree with). >> >> This one concerns Benedict Cumberpatch and is a most interesting read. I >> wonder if it was one which didn't make the "Who do you 5think you are" >> series?> > >Thanks very much, Brian. > >My discovery that the Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch had a >great-great-uncle who was charged with murder (and acquitted) at the age of 14 >in 1893 has made the national papers today (Daily Mail, Daily Express and Radio >Times included) but unfortunately they didn't credit me, only Findmypast. >Still, that's life I suppose! > > >-- >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 > > > > > >Notts Surname List > >http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >
From: "Brian Binns" <bnbinns@gmail.com> > For those who have a subscription to Find my Past, a new blog has been > posted on their site in the sub-section "Famous Family Trees", by > "experienced family historian" Roy Stockdill (their description, not mine, > which nevertheless I agree with). > > This one concerns Benedict Cumberpatch and is a most interesting read. I > wonder if it was one which didn't make the "Who do you 5think you are" > series?> Thanks very much, Brian. My discovery that the Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch had a great-great-uncle who was charged with murder (and acquitted) at the age of 14 in 1893 has made the national papers today (Daily Mail, Daily Express and Radio Times included) but unfortunately they didn't credit me, only Findmypast. Still, that's life I suppose! -- 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
For those who have a subscription to Find my Past, a new blog has been posted on their site in the sub-section "Famous Family Trees", by "experienced family historian" Roy Stockdill (their description, not mine, which nevertheless I agree with). This one concerns Benedict Cumberpatch and is a most interesting read. I wonder if it was one which didn't make the "Who do you 5think you are" series? Brian Binns
It seems this work was never published. I managed to get in touch with the author who said that a copy was given to Nottingham and Gedling councils with a view to publishing. No publisher was found and the copies were lost, or at least are missing. There is one buried in a time capsule (can't wait that long) and the author has a partial copy, but nothing else. This is a real shame and a good reason to never trust anyone with your original work. Tony Proctor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Meg Galley-Taylor" <meg@taylor.it> To: "'Tony Proctor'" <tony@proctor.net>; <nottsgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 12:45 PM Subject: RE: [NTT] Nottingham Book search Others seem to be looking as well when you google him. One website (http://www.robinhood.info/robinhood/Forest_Survival.htm) found via another one (http://www.bestwood-country-park.co.uk/bcp/community/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11 2 ) pointed to an email address for the author armor1@ntlworld.com but it's 2009 so may not work. I also found a reference he seems to have written for someone on which he gives a phone number which is Tel 0 1 15 9679926 but again I have no idea how old it might be. Meg Galley-Taylor meg@taylor.it -----Original Message----- From: nottsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nottsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Tony Proctor Sent: 24 October 2013 12:14 To: nottsgen@rootsweb.com Subject: [NTT] Nottingham Book search Does anyone know where I might get a copy of "Bestwood Park - A Thousand Years of History" by Richard Rutherford-Moore? I can find a much-abbreviated electronic copy at http://www.sthubertsrangers.org/bestwood_park.htm but I cannot find an actual published version. Tony Proctor Notts Surname List http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Aileen, You sent two conflicting messages. a) I have Wolverhampton St.Peters marriages 1538 - 1837 Jane Swane married 23 aug 1731 to Osbiston James Lic. of Wellington in this parish b) I am trying to find parents and family of Jane Swain/Swane Birth 1719 in North Muskham, Nottinghamshire. Firstly, if she married in 1731, she would only be 12, if born in 1719. Secondly, I suspect you should be looking in Wolverhampton, which is in Staffordshire. Peter