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From: "Terry & Teri Cleaveland" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT light or unreadsble writing
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 14:35:27 -0700
In-Reply-To: <004f01c2e012$84a16cc0$6d613a41@oemcomputer>


When the DotMatrix printer was prevalent, we used to use a yellow
sheet of overhead film between the printed paper and the copier
glass to bring out the information more clearly. You might try that.

Teri


On 1 Mar 2003 at 10:48, Rae Jean wrote:

> Hi Nancy
> Have you tried a black light... one of those black light bulbs found
> around Halloween. Friends say they are most helpful when trying to
> read faded writing. Rae Jean in cloudy, cold Tennessee
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nancy Fraser" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 4:42 AM
> Subject: [TMG] OT UK genealogy question, as long as we are chatting a
> bit...
>
>
> Not totally OT--I want to enter my ggf's birthplace into TMG! He was
> born in "England" in 1840 +/- 2 years and emigrated to Canada around
> 1865 apparently on his own. Exhaustive interviewing of relatives and
> searching for obits and the like have been fruitless, aside from an
> elderly aunt recalling she was told he had a "Cockney" accent, but I
> question whether anyone would have been able to judge that accurately.
> We have a 400 year old book he brought over with him which is signed
> by a relative and followed by an address which is unreadable (but
> almost almost legible) due to water damage. It has other signatures
> but the only readable place is dated 1699. He does not have a very
> distinctive name. Any hope of finding him "over there"? I have tried
> chasing leads from the IGI without any success. Nancy Fraser On-call
> tonight in Yellowknife
>
>
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