Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

The big news was Mr G. He was upset about the EU vote and was also having health worries (most importantly these proved groundless) and a troll used his less than diplomatic posting on the lack of an eu exit plan to get him banned.

The rest of us were pretty unimpressed at mse as a lot of the sites value is the user generated content but clearly they couldn't be bothered to have enough resource to look into the details and instead allowed the troll to score their petty victory at the expense of a valued contributor.

(Previous post X-posted)
Glad he's OK health-wise, but how infuriating. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
Thanks for explaining.

ETA Thanks also for saying you'd missed me. :hello:

SingleSue

Guess what time it started raining.....I was right, bang on 2pm.

silvercar

Welcome back Lydia, good to hear from you.

The one advantage of facebook is that it is very easy to load photos.

Other option is to create an email account and ask people to send photos to that email, where you can collect them all and put them on a photobucket account for all to see.

Doozergirl

Hello Lydia :wave:

We have missed you. I have missed you

Can you invite people to contribute to a dropbox?

I was going to suggest facebook too. Friends did it for their wedding and as silvercar said, it has an easy interface.

Pyxis

Or there's Photobucket.

I think that has a password facility thing, though I've never looked into it.


http://photobucket.com



Yes, it does have a password-protected thing. You open an account, (free), set everything to private, then follow the instructions for a password-operated sharing system.

http://support.photobucket.com/hc/en-us/articles/200724374-Share-a-Password-Protected-Album





Edit. Sorry, just seen that Silvercar has already mentioned Photobucket!

vivatifosi

Hey Lydia, welcome back! Good to see you!

Another way of doing the photos thing could be Google drive. I have one that I use for family history research. You then put all the pics in the drive, they accept by email, so nothing too difficult, and they can access and look. Though they can also download, so if that's not appropriate and you want to keep control of images, may not be the best option.

zagubov

I think Maggie uses flickr which is another possibility. It's part of the yahoo system.

PasturesNew

HAI Lydia

* * *

Random thought, before I forget re conversation late last week:

"been contacted by heirhunters .... I can think of nobody"

In past programmes I've seen where heirs are being sought for very old wills. There was a chap 150+ years ago that left a piece of land to the (Welsh) village for a school to be built; in the agreement it said "if the school is ever no longer required, this is to stay part of my estate". So, 150+ years later when the school was closed, they traced through his Will, then the Wills/estates of those who would've received it at the time... all the way down to "complete strangers/unexpected recipients".

Similarly, your own gran might be lurking in the will of somebody who might've died intestate. Even though your gran's will (or intestate) was distributed 30-50 years ago, a similar clause might come and get you as they follow the trail of "who WOULD have inherited back from this past event".

So, it's not always people who have just died in your close family, but can also include the past Wills of people who just died or are long dead, but who included a route of inheritance in their Will.

ivyleaf

Hello Lydiaj :wave::j How lovely to see you, we've really missed you! Glad all's well.

PasturesNew

I have been searching through the admission books of a prison 1852, 1853, 1854 and 1860... it appears my GGG-grandfather was in court a few times. All for abandoning his family at the workhouse; and once for stealing a shovel, but he was acquitted.

So, I am the direct descendent of two people who habitually abandoned their families in workhouses. From my maternal line and my paternal line.

I'm full of crafty genes.... it must be a moneysaving tip, to dump them at the workhouse and do a runner.

He wasn't in court 1854-1860 as he left the country to escape the continual arrests. But they sent a policeman after him in 1860 who brought him back to England.