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From: "Gordon Evans" <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Family Search
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:19:43 -0000
References: <42cb3.3a4de1e.388e17b2@aol.com>


Hi Eleanor

You wrote :-

>I recently purchased some wills and unfortunately there is one or
>two I can't decipher

I have a younger brother who, although not particularly well-educated, has
an uncanny knack of
interpreting old wills (of which we've quite a few in the family).

If you'd care to scan any you're having a problem with, and send them to me
as
attachments off-list, I'll put them to him as a challenge?

Best regards
Gordon

From: <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Family Search

>Hi Gordon
>Thanks for adding this to the list. I am now more appreciative of the
>work IGI does and can't believe they could even attempt a translation of
>Thomas
>Browne. I recently purchased some wills and unfortunately there is one or
>two I can't decipher. Is that the same as a "worthless will" ? Those
>translators are worth their weight in gold for genealogy hunters.
>Regards
>Eleanor
>
>In a message dated 1/24/2010 3:50:37 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
>
>Hi
>Wondered if Merseyside listers are aware that the Family Search site now
>contains actual images which can be viewed on-line and/or saved to your
>pc?
>For instance, if you go to :-
>http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/
>and insert the details of one of my relatives viz William de Burton
>WILSON,
>birth year 1853, location Cheshire, you get to see his baptism on 2
>November
>1853
>in Chester St Oswald.
>Insert the details for his 5 x great-grandfather Thomas BROWNE, birth year
>1598, location Cheshire, choose the 'Burton' option and you can see just
>what a mind-boggling task those marvellous transcribers are confronted
>with.
>How they can make any sense at all out of records like that is beyond my
>comprehension!
>Regards
>Gordon

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