William Douglas's Blog – February 2010 Archive (4)

Sally Douglas has several ancestors who were clock and watch makers, silversmiths and artists. Discovering this has led to a search of Douglases with this profession, using Pigots directory, and other listings.



Her findings have now been included in the Douglas Archives, although it is still very much work in progress. The above watch was made by James Douglas of Chertsey in 1774 Continue

Following the introduction of online access to digital images in the reading rooms at Kew, The National Archives is disposing of the batches of redundant microfilms listed in the following schedule.



The films are offered on an 'as seen' basis with no warranty or guarantee offered as to their quality or completeness. They may not be used for digitisation, publication or any commercial re-use. Any copyright restrictions on the films or their content will remain after disposal.… Continue

I have just added a little widget to My Page. Getting things to work on the Ning platform, which this website is built on, can be problematic, so I was pleased to discover that Sprout's presentation building site works here. Continue

Writing in his blog, Genealogy's Star, James Tanner argues the point that hitting the 'Backup' button on Personal Ancestral File (PAF) does not really solve the problem of providing a secure second copy of the PAF file, as, if the hard drive goes, both the main and the backup files are lost.



I suppose he is not wrong, but is he… Continue