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9 October 2017 |
I
can’t believe it’s so long since I wrote on this blog or updated the site! A
lot has happened in the meantime. We moved back to England in December, 2010 and bought a new house, the updating of
which took longer than expected. The previous owners had removed three
lintels, for example, which weakened the structure. By then, my mother had
dementia, so needed our care. After her condition deteriorated, she went to
live in a marvellous care home, where she has been ever since. We became
grandparents in 2015, with more on the way and have enjoyed our little
grandson’s company. At
the same time, I have become increasingly interested in the history of Brighton,
where I live, and have spent the last few years researching and writing the
history of the city and the surrounding area. This project is about
two-thirds complete with about 120,000 words already written. The
host of the guestbook on this site withdrew their services a few years ago,
so many visitors' comments are now lost. With the rise in family history
research and its availability on the internet, guestbooks are no longer the
best media for interested parties to show their interest. The increased use
of laptops, iPads and iPhones means many people are almost permanently online
and, possibly, some of the Facebook community groups may be the best media
for such international communication. To this effect, I have started a Palliser
One-Name Study Facebook page. which also applies to the Pallister
surname. Facebook
also has a Pallister community page, although it is little used. I’m
no further along with the databases, but I have decided to put all the
Palliser and Pallister pedigrees into one file (not groups) and upload them
to Rootsweb
Worldconnect sometime within the next few
months. Worldconnect is now hosted by Ancestry.com. Ancestry.com
and Genforum.com both contain Palliser and Pallister message boards:
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27 July 2013 |
I think I’m getting somewhere
sorting out the census databases of my one-name study of Palliser/Pallister.
After several changes of computer and dozens of backups, I realised, one day,
that I’d been working on different versions at the same time, thus completely
muddling them up with the various annotations I was making. So I’ve been comparing and contrasting thousands of names
across 7 or 8 different versions, trying to ratify them all. So now the 1841,
1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1911 and prior to 1840 versions are all sorted, as
are the Pallisers in the US and Canadian census.
Just finishing the 1901, with just the complete and utter mess that is the
1851 to go. (Originally posted on my personal Facebook page.) |
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14 July 2008 |
Still working on the home page
and other pages. Having a spot of bother uploading everything and work still
to be done on the various links. |
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10 July 2008 |
Finally uploaded the new
version of this homepage to the new server, after lots of trials and tribulations.
Everything has got so complicated, with “index files” and doubled-up
pictures. Couldn’t get on with Publisher or a trial version of Dreamweaver. So it’s back to good old Word! During the next few days
(or weeks/months/years!) I will be updating the rest of the web site and
moving it to the new server. |
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7 July 2008 |
Finally
received the necessary details from the web-hosting company having spent the
intervening week sorting out this year’s photos, including some from the
wedding. I had forgotten my camera so I bought one of those disposable
things. Tolerable, but not the best! |
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4 July 7 2008 |
Applied
to a web-hosting company to host this web site having discovered that Ontelecoms do not support web-hosting or newsgroups. So,
while we get cheap phone calls, we can’t use it for the TV, or for this web
site! Frustrating. |
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30 June 2008 |
Returned
to Greece having spent much of the past few months travelling to England,
Bulgaria and to a wedding in Hungary! Plenty of emails to deal with, too many
to mention here! |
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11 June 2008 |
The
new ISP machinery finally turned up by courier. We were expected to install
it ourselves. It combines Broadband, free and cheap phone calls and digital
TV, so sounded like a good package. We applied for Ontelecoms.gr in October
2007, but by December, they had lost us from their system so started the
application all over again. Every few weeks, we rang them, to get the reply
that it would be here “soon”. Eventually, we all settled on a date the week
after our return from England at Whitsun. Except they turned up while we were
still in England! Finally, it arrived today, the day before we are due to go
to Bulgaria. We
tried to set it up, but the TV is 30 metres from the TV and the TV is 60
metres from the main computer and the lead was only 3 metres! So we set up the TV without the internet but it was so pixellated, we just gave up and set up the computer by
itself. |
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14 May 2008 |
Uploaded
the new version of Group 41 to Rootsweb Worldconnect. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-041 531
entries on Worldconnect. 497 entries on my FTM
database. Uploaded
the new version of Group 9 to Rootsweb Worldconnect. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-009 264
entries on Worldconnect. 319 entries on my FTM
database. (There’s
sometimes a disparity in the numbers because variant surname spellings are
included in Worldconnect and/or because people born
after 1930 are not included.) |
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10 May 2008 |
Uploaded
the new version of Group 42 to Rootsweb Worldconnect. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-042 290
entries on Worldconnect. 321 entries on my FTM
database. |
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15 April 2008 |
Received
and replied to an email from Maureen, whose Pallister ancestors were from
Wetherby. Yorkshire. |
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13 April 2008 |
Worked
some more on the web page, trying both Word and Publisher. One program is
better for one aspect and the other program is better for another. Can’t win!
Uploaded the Publisher version, but nothing shows up. Have
to start again. |
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12 April 2008 |
Replied
to an email received from Michael on 4th April whose Pallister
ancestors were in the Darlington area, County Durham. Received a reply and a detailed
family history which seems to need large amendments. Some of his work was
downloaded from my Rootsweb Worldconnect
databases, before I decided to start the County Durham Pallisters again,
because they were in such a muddle. Also
stared re-doing my index web page now that I have MS Office 2007. I thought
Publisher would make it easy, but it doesn’t! |
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10 April 2008 |
Inserted
the GRO foreign births in my Excel database. |
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9 April 2008 |
Downloaded
Palliser and Pallister foreign births and marriages from the General Register
Office (GRO) indexes online on Findmypast.com. |
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6 April 2008 |
I
finally finished scanning and editing my younger son’s photographs. Stewart
is living here with us in Greece. I completed my parents’ a few years ago.
Only about 1,000 of my own to do, mostly from an Advantix camera. Still,
16,250 are completely done now, named, dated and identified. Getting there! I
hardly even know why I got involved with this when there is so much else to
do! |
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27 February 2008 |
One
of my tasks, lately, is to sort out my computer files. In changing computers
a few times, there are multiple versions of everything. I often sort out my
computer files, but never finish it. Then when it’s time to get a new
computer and transfer everything, all the half-sorted messes get transferred,
in case I lose anything, and I end up with two lots of everything. Having
done this, three or four times, I have three or four of everything! But it’s
getting sorted. However, I’ve ended up with three different Excel deaths
files, one of which is corrupted, hence the creation of the other two, which
I’ve been working on at different times, so neither is up-to-date. Yesterday
and today I’ve been working on trying to sort them out while also creating
this blog and trying to sort out problems on the index page. |
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26 February 2008 |
Everyone seems to have a
blog these days, so I thought I’d do one as well. It’s been difficult to
upload new pages these last few years because the web site was held in one
country while I was in another and I lost my ftp facility and the software I
used to update the html pages. Most of this is has been resolved today. All
we need is for me to find a new html program to sort out some of the strange
symbols now appearing on these pages and be disciplined enough to upload this
blog! My
old NEWS page used to let you know when a new group had been uploaded to Rootsweb Worldconnect. I create
these groups in Family Tree Maker (FTM), convert them to GEDCOM and upload
them to Rootsweb.
The
long and the short is, that with all the new information available on the
internet, my personal databases, on Excel and FTM, were getting almost out of
control with the numbers of Pallisers and
Pallisters. There were too many FTM databases, so I had the not-so-bright
idea of merging all the Yorkshire databases into one, and merging all the
Durham databases into another. This
was a catastrophe! I
have all the births (with baptisms), deaths (with burials and wills), and marriages
on three separate Excel databases and allocate each name to a family group.
This helps to differentiate between people and not allocate the same person
to different families. FTM is an excellent piece of genealogical software but
it has its limitations for one-namers. By putting
everyone into only two FTM databases, I lost track of which family group
people belonged to, particularly in the case of Pallisters from County
Durham. Basically, I’ve had to start again. I’ve more or
less sorted out the Yorkshire families but there is a way to go on the
Durham families. At
the same time, I decided it would be a jolly good idea to scan all the family
photographs! This all started because a family member had gone to live abroad
and left their photos in storage only to find there had been a flood in the
storage facility and many of the photos were ruined. These photos went back
to the 1920s and beyond, so I scanned them and worked on them in Photoshop,
deleting lumps of mould and filling in torn gaps. 1970s photos were small and
square and many had faded and become reddened. They really perked up as good
as new in Photoshop, bringing new life to them. So,
I scanned all the photos in our own albums and began to work on them. That
process is almost complete and has taken almost six years, in and amongst
doing other things. Naturally, it affected how much time I spent on the
Palliser/Pallister databases. Including all the newer 21st century
digital photos, which are not in albums, there are more than 15,000 photographs
in all. Every one of them, digital included, have been tweaked and re-sized
to postcard size and the colours perked up and blobs and damage repaired.
Every one of them has been dated, and the place and people identified, with
the info in the file name, so that’s one job less for my heirs! It’s amazing
how much better a photo looks when periphery rubbish is clipped off. It’s
doubly amazing how many photos we amass in a lifetime. At
first, I made two huge mistakes. I didn’t dust the photos or the scanner, so
spent countless hours blanking out little white dusty dots. The second
mistake was to scan them in situ, with those cling film covers still in place
over them. This made the photos hazy and deadened some of the detail and also imprinted the patterns of the photo album on the
photo. Some of them have been re-scanned and they are sharper but, of course,
the cling film stuff won’t now stick. The
result was that I had to throw out all my photo albums going back to the 70s
and replace them with new ones. It took years to find decent albums, without
the cling film covers, or that weren’t comprised of pockets, which were pretty useless for photos of a variety of sizes and
shapes. That process is now complete. We’re the proud owners of 15 large Goldbuch photo albums from Germany into which are stuck
all the photos using transparent little corners. It’s a triumph! Back
to the Palliser/Pallister databases. Some of the Yorkshire ones have been
re-done and have been uploaded to Rootsweb Worldconnect. This disparity between the entries on Worldconnect and my FTM databases is because I do not
upload living people to Worldconnect, and Worldconnect counts variant surname spellings as
individual entries. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-001 6521
entries on Worldconnect. 7323 on my FTM database. This
is my own group, with its origins in Maunby,
Yorkshire in the early 15th century with links to Sandhutton and Thirsk. They were armigerous, as was one
of the early Thirsk groups, to which there is probably a close connection.
This group settled in Ireland and in London. As this is my own ancestry, it
contains my mother’s ancestors, my father’s ancestors and my husband’s
ancestors, so diversifies from the Palliser one-name study. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-002 1985
entries on Worldconnect. 2200 on my FTM database. This
group originated in Kirby Wiske in Yorkshire
and has the same origins as Group 1, but I am keeping them separate from the
moment. The common ancestor to both groups was Thomas Palleysher
whose will was proved in 1546. They spread to Bedale, Canada, Australia and the USA. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-003 201
entries on Worldconnect. 196 entries on my FTM
database. This
group originated in Cawood, Yorkshire in the early 18th
century and spread to other parts of Yorkshire and Australia. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-008 792
entries on Worldconnect. 910 entries on my FTM
database. This
group originated in Bilton in the Ainsty of York in the 16th century, settled in
Sessay, and spread from there to other parts of
Yorkshire, London, Canada and West Virginia, USA. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-009 258
entries on Worldconnect. 309 entries on my FTM
database. This
group originated in Upsall in South Kilvington. I have not yet found a link between this and
the next South Kilvington group. This group spread
to various places in Yorkshire and to Canada. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-010 3738
entries on Worldconnect. 4606 entries on my FTM
database. This
group originated in South Kilvington and a
large number settled in neighbouring Sowerby by Thirsk, Yorkshire. This group
has wanderlust and has spread in large numbers all over the world. Quite a
few members of this group have contacted me over the past 30 years and told
me the family story of how they are related to Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser. So
far, I have found no evidence of this. The Admiral is from Group 1 of Maunby and Newby Wiske. While
South Kilvington is only a few miles away, Group 10
originates from Michael Palliser who married Agnes Arnett in 1593 in South Kilvington, Michael possibly being the son of William and
Isabel Palliser, who were probably of Thirsk. The link between the Admiral
and Group 10, will be prior to this period. Within
this group is a sub-group in Sowerby, originating with John Palliser
who married Ann Nelson. FTM makes it difficult to extricate these descendants
from this group and I am reluctant to do so, for I feel they belong to Group
10, but I am still working on this. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-012 922
entries on Worldconnect. 1204 entries on my FTM
database. This
group originated in Lanchester, County
Durham. Another group with wanderlust, they spread all over Northumberland
and County Durham, and to Canada, Australia and Wisconsin and Illinois in the
USA. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-014 726
entries on Worldconnect. 1198 entries on my FTM
database. This
group originated in Ripon, Yorkshire but probably came from further
north and may be related to Group 1. They spread all over Yorkshire and to
Lancashire, the Lanchester area of County Durham, as
well as South America and Missouri in the USA. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-019 204
entries on Worldconnect. 188 entries on my FTM database. This
group originated in Ampleforth, Yorkshire
and spread to Pickering in Ontario, Canada. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-023 814
entries on Worldconnect. 845 entries on my FTM
database. This
group originated in Birtley near Ripon, Yorkshire in the early 16th
century. I suspect these Pallisers had been in the
general Ripley area for at least 300 years prior to this and that this is the
parent group to all other Palliser and Pallister groups. I had originally
thought that this group and group 14 were of the same origin, because of the
Ripon connection, but material from the Ingleby archives helped to clarify
this group. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-025 360
entries on Worldconnect. 471 entries on my FTM
database. This
group originates from Seamer near Scarborough in Yorkshire. I suspect
they are descended from Group 1, but I haven’t found the link yet. They
spread around Yorkshire, and to Quebec in Canada, and Pennsylvania in the US. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-039 279
entries on Worldconnect. 300 entries on my FTM
database. This
group originates from Thirsk, Yorkshire in the early 18th
century. I also suspect they are descended from Group 1. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-041 410
entries on Worldconnect. 490 entries on my FTM
database. This
group originates from the Aycliffe and Middridge
areas of County Durham. They spread around County Durham and to Westmorland
and to Australia and Wisconsin in the USA. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-050 612
entries on Worldconnect. 899 entries on my FTM
database. This
group originated from Skelton in Cleveland, Yorkshire and have many
descendants in Michigan, USA. They may stem from Group 25, the Scarborough
group, but I have no evidence for this. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-051 41
entries on Worldconnect. 67 entries on my FTM
database. This
group originated in Poland and changed their name from Paszkiewicz, which they probably thought was a bit of a
mouthful for their new country. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-055 107
entries on Worldconnect. 71 entries on my FTM
database. This
is a small group who were active in Kirklington,
Yorkshire, in the 17th century. They are probably connected to
Group 1. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-056 42
entries on Worldconnect. 39 entries on my FTM
database. This
is a small group who were active in Caldbergh
in Coverdale, Yorkshire in the 16th century. They are probably
connected to Group 23. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-101 204 entries on Worldconnect. 409 entries on my FTM database. This
group originates from Labrador in Newfoundland, Canada. Their
ancestress was Mikak, an Inuit noblewoman who did
much to help the Moravian Missionaries in Labrador at about the time Hugh
(later Admiral Sir Hugh) Palliser was Governor there. Hugh Palliser first
went to Newfoundland in1762 and returned again as
Governor in 1764. In 1769, Palliser took her to London, with her six-year-old
son, Tutuak (later known as Jonathan Palliser),
whose father had been killed in a fight with English traders in 1767. In
London, she was feted by royalty and enjoyed society life before returning to
Labrador and the Moravian Mission and acquiring a new husband, Tuglavina. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-201 204
entries on Worldconnect. 224 entries on my FTM
database. This
group originated in New York, and settled in Missouri, USA. Its
antecedents being in England but the origin is not yet known. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=palliser-ons-203 954
entries on Worldconnect. 1060 entries on my FTM
database. This
group originated on the island of Menorca, Spain in the 16th
century and probably has strong links with contemporary Pallisers
in the Barcelona area of Spain. The spelling used in the Menorca group was
often the same as the main English version, viz. Palliser, but their main
variants were and are Pallicer and Pellicer. In 1768, Francisco Pellicer
and 1,400 other Menorcans emigrated from Menorca
and settled in New Smyrna, in what is now St John’s, Florida, USA. He became an important leader in the
Menorcan community in Florida. Today, there are more Pallisers
of that spelling in the Spanish telephone directories than there are Pallisers and Pallisters in the English telephone
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