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    Picture Restoration

    Hi, I've been handed 4 pictures by a friend, some are in a bad way. I was asked if I could do anything with them. I only have 'PhotoFiltre' and well, that is almost useless. Yesterday my father was taken into hospital with a suspected stroke, I really don't have the time now to try and do...
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    Can someone do something with this please?

    I received this last night, it's of my grt grandfather, John Humphries b.1865 Chaple Hill, Brierley Hill, Kingswinford, d.1922 his wife out-lived him by 51 years, dying in 1973 aged 102 yrs and 7 days
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    Help with fooling my printer

    Years ago I used to have an OKI dot matrix printer that I used to use to print out my family tree from Family Tree Maker but it was only in black & white.:036: I now have a Dell 725 inkjet printer. Does anyone know how I can fool the printer into using fanfold continuous paper so that I can...
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    Help Please

    Can anyone make this poor chap a little more legible, don’t think there’s much can be done with the missing part. It’s a photo of my Maternal Grt grandfather from the 1920’s just been passed to me from one of my aunty’s.
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    Drayton Cecil

    Trying to find information on my grt uncle, Cesil Drayton. I have very little to go on which will make this almost impossible but here goes. Cecil Drayton b. 1896 High Street, Halesowen, Worcestershire. Father Campbell S Drayton Cesil moved to Birmingham (where?) Worked at the Longbridge...
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    is this to far gone to clean up

    I have the only serviving photo of my grandfather, it was taken when he was in the K.S.L.I. 1918. it is in a very sorry state.
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    Messrs, Mason’s shop, Oldbury

    Hi I'm a Newbie to this site. Could someone help? My Grandfathers brother, Ernest Drayton, was killed in a road accident in Oldbury in 1915. It says the deceased had been employed as a grocers assistant for sometime at Messrs, Mason’s shop, Oldbury I have seen a picture on here of a shop...
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