Stewart and Douglas Family History

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We’ve been soooo bad about doing the family history in 2008!

However, as we’re moving back to the UK this January we are hoping that we’ll be able to get going again on checking up on primary sources in a couple of months time. We’ve the list of church graveyards to go round from five years ago though we’ll be needing to see the parish registers this time to progress things as we already have the exhausted the information from the various headstones that we came across last time. Also on the cards is some more research in the Public Records Office.

And, of course, it’s time to say Happy New Year!

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At long last we seem to have the blogs operational on the new host.

In the end, it turned out to be a Wordpress issue after all and needed an htaccess file to be installed. Quite why it wasn’t installed automatically, I’ve no idea.

Oh well.

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We’re in the process of moving to a new hosting service which is causing a lot more grief than it should be, hence long gaps in the posts here..

What’s happened is that the new hosting service uses MySQL 4.1 whilst the old one uses 4.0. That shouldn’t really be a problem but it is because 4.1 partly implements the Unicode character set whilst 4.0 was merrily using the normal Latin character set. In that I’ve only ever typed Latin characters here the Latin set was obviously fine for me and the new one has just created a whole bunch of problems when I type anything that’s not part of the normal alphabet (which, of course, includes all the punctuation marks).

We think we’re nearing a solution to it all, but only time will tell.

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