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Stories of Exeter’s War Hospitals 1914-1919

Posted on 19th September 2017

100 years ago, in 1917, you might have been Gunner John Parr, wounded in the third battle of Ypres during a heavy exchange of fire You've been given your initial medical care in the field and sent by train to the French coast Now you are in an ambulance train You've been sent home to 'Blighty' for further treatment It's early morning and as the train draws to a halt you look out of the window and see the sign 'EXETER' Two orderlies lift you down from the train on a stretcher and a doctor... more

The Greenwood Tree, September 2017

Posted on 23rd August 2017

The September issue of The Greenwood Tree will be appearing shortly, and SDFHS members can already download the PDF from the Members' Area of our website We have again preserved the colour content in the digital version, so it’s well worth having a look on-line, while you wait for your print copy to arrive I am pleased to introduce our prospective new Editor, Paul Radford (page 63), who will be editing the The Greenwood Tree from 2018 Paul is a retired journalist who spent more than 30 years... more

The Pageant’s Progress

Posted on 16th August 2017

It has been very pleasing to receive contact from others who have discovered that someone they may have further knowledge about, or who might have been a family member, took part in the Sherborne Pageant of 1905 Any discoveries, however small, are often met with wonder or surprise as a little chink of light is thrown onto someone from long ago and a photo is often the key Many of the old photos can be seen in the Sherborne School Archive Flickr collection There is absolutely nothing like a... more

Copyright and family history

Posted on 9th August 2017

Many family historians regularly post online, or circulate on social media, images of themselves and their families and, on the whole, these will probably not fall foul of copyright or intellectual property laws, since they are likely to have been taken by family members who are the legal copyright holders, and who would, even if they should be unaware of the posting, not object to them being used Copyright is, however, a very tricky subject and there are grey areas, where some guidance might... more

Recent Update to Family Tree Maker

Posted on 27th July 2017

Well I have finally done it - I have downloaded Family Tree Maker 2017 and I am very happy about it Why did this become such a big deal for FTM long term users like me As I described in my previous post, it was because all our hard work over many years of painstaking research together with some of the easy to use features of FTM were being affected by changing technology No longer could we buy ourselves a disk, for a fairly modest price, download it onto our computers and go about the... more

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