This is the weblog of Brian Curd. A lot of it is written on the spur of the moment and any benefit you gain from it is worth exactly what you paid!
All is going really well here in sunny India. Sue and I spent yesterday and most of this morning in Pondicherry, Google it for more info or wait ’til we show you the photos! On the way to Pondicherry we stopped for a couple of hours at Mamallapuram to take a look at the world [...]
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All is going really well here in sunny India. Sue and I spent yesterday and most of this morning in Pondicherry, Google it for more info or wait ’til we show you the photos! On the way to Pondicherry we stopped for a couple of hours at Mamallapuram to take a look at the world [...]
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OK, it seems I can upload things reasonably easily from here, the small problem is one of file size. Unfortunately I don’t have any means of sensibly resizing pictures so everything I have put up is BIG. If you are on a dial-up net connection, I shouldn’t bother with them. Anyhow, if you are interested [...]
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Writing this from Tim’s place in Chennai (Madras for those who refuse to use the local name!). We arrived safely after an uneventful and very pleasant BA flight to be met at 04:30am(!) by Tim and his driver. After a few hours sleep, we has a walk around the area and a quick visit to [...]
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OK so it’s shown as a Starter edition but at least it’s free! The program is a cut down edition of Family Tree Maker and you can get a copy here. It’s a 15.9 Mb download so you’d better have broadband or you’re in for a very long wait and a hefty phone bill!
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Excellent! Thanks to Boing Boing for the link.
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I’ve always been a bit of a sucker for a new hobby, what with golf, metal detecting, genealogy, photography, amateur radio, painting, woodwork etc. but I’ve always promised myself that I would keep the BIG one for my retirement. The BIG one in this case is astronomy. I’ve always been interested but decided that would [...]
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Anyone looking for their family name could do a lot worse than to investigate this. A small software download then it’s just a case of entering the name you are searching for once; the system then goes hunting around in more than 400 databases for a while, then it collates your results neatly alongside the [...]
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Yesterday I received a very welcome cheque for over £99! All because I signed up with GreasyPalm some months ago. This is not an isolated payment either; over the last 9 months I have received three cheques totalling over £180 – all for seemingly doing nothing although in reality, everything I have bought from the [...]
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I suspect I have had a bit of a breakthrough this morning. For about 18 months now I have been researching the Curd family and have managed to gather a stack of information regarding their movements across the country and their various occupations. Cabinet making/carpentry seems to have been a major trade, at least amonst [...]
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