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Give the library a ring - the staff are very helpful, and would know where the records are kept.

They may be kept at the Cheshire Archives (?) but as I say the staff at the library will help.

01925 442889.

Hope this helps.

Sorry, thought you could have used a Google search.

https://www.waterstones.com/waterstones ... l/8588542/

Got Gaffney's in my family on my mums side - St Helens / Rainford area I think

That's the one - sounds like a great bloke - until you got on his wrong side!

Adolf Hitler resided for a while in Liverpool, and was despised by his sister in law who described him as a lazy layabout! A bit of a funny book, written by Adolf's sister in law many years after the events, but fascinating non the less. Murder (of Adolph's niece - whom he is reported to have had in...

Born in Leeds, schooled in Wigan, raised in Liverpool, Duke of the West Side. An old book, but a very fascinating biography of one of America's least known (the way he liked it) gentleman gangsters. It gives a fascinating insight into his life, from his early days as leader of the Gophers, to his ve...

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I'm looking for any information on the above soldier (my grandfather). I know he served in North Africa, Italy, and Monte Casino. I am led to believe he started in bomb disposal but changed 'profession' when one of his closest friends was blown up in front of him. He was from St. Helens if that help...

This is a PAID FOR service. Received from the website owner. Having browsed your website recently, I thought your organisation may be interested in considering adding as a resource/adding a link to my website: http://www.memento-mori.co.uk. The website consists of searchable online indices containi...

If we continue a discussion about software I'll separate it from the important bit at the top afterwards. At a meeting recently the LDS software was mentioned - as in the 1881 census on disk and the British Isles Vital Records Index (BIVRI) which has proved so useful in the past. The programme to r...

Just a thought - do we know which OS these programmes are compatible with? I know OpenOffice has been around for a long time, good as it is, has it been updated to run with Windows 7? As far as I know, most will work on ALL windows, Linux, and MAC - though obviously you will know more when you go t...

Hope you don't mind my adding this one to the Office programs.. http://www.openoffice.org It is fully compatible with Word and is an entire suite of word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. And it is FREE. :) Open Office, Oxygen Office, and Libre Office all share ...

These are the websites from last nights meeting - and what you may want to use the software for:- http://www.libreoffice.org/ Free office software http://gramps-project.org/ Free genealogy software http://waterfoxproject.org/ 64 bit Firefox (faster on 64 bit machines) http://www.getpaint.net/ Easier...

This list of firemen, who served in Liverpool Fire Brigade from 1834 to 1974, contains over two thousand names and if any member of the forum would like a full copy of the list, which is in Excel format, please send me a private message containing their email address and I will forward a copy to th...

https://www.liverpool-genealogy.org.uk/searches.php

You will see a link for Liverpool Firemen at the top of the page.

Follow that link.

Many thanks to member number (8267) - Alex Myles Icky on the forum.

Indexes are not for copying by anyone, they are for the use of members of the forum ONLY

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Google bot is Google's way of indexing the world wide web. The world wide web as we know is just a collection of separate pages with no order whatsoever, Google (and Yahoo et al) use bot's to index the internet to provide us all with the pages we want when we search. This was originally done by hand...

Tina wrote:I miss not squizzing into Southport, Widnes, Warrington etc.
Tina

Sorry you'll have to explain that one?

Very happy with the time as now displayed, but not so pleased with the way the date of posting is now shown. I think it used to show day of week, which was quicker to read when glancing at the display. Moaning Minnie Aka Daggers EDITED This seems to be another thing which varies according to logged...