Stewart and Douglas Family History

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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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Despite what you may think of the lack of posts here we’ve actually been beavering away with the family tree over the last few months.

As any of you who have been into genealogy will know, it’s sometimes a long slow process filled with very long waits for documents interspersed with brief periods of frantic activity. Just this morning Wendy received the latest batch of birth certificates and has been busily incorporating the information from them in with what she’s already got. For the first time for instance, a great grandfather is known to have been born in London and that has set her off searching out records in the UK for the first time on that side of the family.

Next up is are the Stewarts and we’ve plans for the Douglas clan too having just registered Douglas Family History a few days ago.

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