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CD popped in the post to Joe today

It's slow going but I am getting there. A home flatbed scanner is not designed for doing this but the end results are readable so it's definitely worth continuing with the project. The kind gentleman at St Thomas kindly took photographs of two headstones for me as promised - one of which is now face...

We have a green light from Joe, it's going to take a while but eventually you will have a pdf CD for St Thomas the Martyr with my grateful thanks

No problem, I have found the two entries I was searching for (there might be others) and I just though that as I like messing with computers and St Thomas has never been put on CD, it would (a) be a nice project to get my teeth into and (b) you could sell them in your shop as it might be useful to o...

No reply from Joe yet but I'm forging ahead on the off-chance that a digital CD will be of interest in your shop .... each individual sheet takes 4-5 hours for stage 1 (scanning and making readable) and I'm hoping to be able to be able to convert them all to pdf format at the end (that will be stage...

OK, I'll email Joe

Hi again, I am experimenting with DIY scanning the microfiche into digital as I don't believe St Thomas has ever been done (it's horrendously expensive to have done commercially). This is going to be a very time consuming exercise but if it's successful (and as a token of my gratitude) you would be ...

The set of microfiche kindly offer by Joe arrived safe & sound but too cheap so I upped the payment (many thanks Joe). Would you believe there is not one single public library in Dorset that still has a microfiche reader and neither does the county records office (I find that one hard to believe) ? ...

MaryA that is exactly spot on with every single person and also solves the mystery of Margaret. I have since had another reply from my enquiry to St Thomas confirming what you say and a kind gentleman has offered to take a photograph for me. As my wife recalls placing flowers on "several" graves, I ...

Hi MaryA, Dorothy (and indeed Clifford) are both complete mysteries. I recall my mother saying about "Dorothy was always introduced as (see above)" inferring she was on the radio more than once, and one must assume that it was the BBC. I have enquired at the BBC but never had a reply. I also underst...

This is very much a long shot. My late mother's sister Dorothy WRIGHT (1904-1979) was born at Chapel Brow Farm, Great Sankey, the daughter of Richard William WRIGHT and Gertrude ASHTON. My mother told me that Dorothy used to sing on the radio and was always introduced as "Dorothy Wright, the girl wi...

My word you have been busy - thank you all very much (what a friendly and helpful forum). I was showing my wife a picture of St Thomas last night and she immediately recognised it as her father used to take her there to put flowers on several graves. I had an email last night from someone offering t...

Not sure if this is the correct place to post ? I'm looking at Margaret ATHERTON 1848-? (daughter of Moses & Alice, Prospect House, Pimbo Lane, Upholland). I have found her baptism (11 March 1848) but can find no definite record of her after the 1861 census. Marriage didn't turn anything up but ther...