This week on Saturday Sepia I am going to go along with the sports theme.
By coincidence I had an email yesterday that talked about the Ellis family of Elstead in Surrey and several other associated names.
This morning whilst in the bathroom I recalled the first photograph I am going share here, as I thought I would share the photograph with the person who emailed me yesterday, then I spotted the theme for this week. Some things happen, by coincidence, but does it exist or is it destiny? What a deep question and all before lunch!
Elstead Football Club 1911
So here are the team, left to right
Standing Row – Herbert ELLIS, u/k, u/k, William BIAS, George WARNER, Alfred NOVELL, Guy BOVINGTON, Sandy TILSON, u/k, Henry ELLIS, Lewis NOVELL, u/k.
Sitting – first 3 u/k, Hubert HARDY, Jack BOND
Guildford Football Club 1905
Back Row – Left to Right – R.G.Harris, R. Jupp. A.Tyrell, W.G. Bridger, A.J.May, S.W. Turner, L.Green
Front Row – Left to Right – A. Groves, M.Avery. L.C. Ede, F.Luck (captain), C Ellis, W. Rossiter, Alb Giles
Wanborough Cricket Team – circa 1920
Sadly no one from this photograph of a Wanborough cricket team can be identified – I date this about 1930.
The following was shared with me for the purpose of posting to Guildford & District. A medal awarded to George R Stentiford, a member of Order of the Buffaloes in the Jubilee Lodge (number 3508) at Guildford. Dated 24th November 1932
I was a little curious about George R Stentiford, so decided to have a little look at what paper trail he had left behind.
Firstly, I located a marriage of George to Clara Punter in Kingston Upon Thames
Marriage at Kingston Upon Thames – Image courtesy of Ancestry
George’s occupation showed that he was a professional footballer. A quick search on Google revealed a small amount of detail via Wikipedia. This confirmed that he started his football career in Kingston before moving to various clubs in the north of England before returning to Surrey and playing for Guildford United.
A further search on Google revealed that George is buried in Merrow, Guildford with Clara – See HERE for details, and I on a trip to Guildford I located the grave at Merrow, which you can see on Grave Encounters.
Today is week 13 of what is going to be a 15 month project. Each Saturday, at around 12.30am UK time I will release the prompt for that week’s Book of Me, Written by You. If you are new here, welcome! The details, background flyer and Face Book link to the Book of Me can be found HERE.
This week’s prompt is – Special People / Iconic People
If you had to hold a dinner party and could invite a maximum of 12 special people who would you invite?
You can NOT include family in this – the special people could be famous or historical people. What made you select the people that you chose? What questions would you like to ask them?
What meals would you serve and why?
Perhaps include the recipe or a photo if you decided to actually cook the items!
Earlier this year I was asked by Dr Bill, a fellow contributor to the In-Depth Genealogist magazine if I would review a book in the Homeplace Series. I was delighted to, and you can read that review HERE.
A few weeks ago I was delighted to be asked if I would review the latest in the series, a festive tale. What follows is some details about the book, the author and a trailer video before my review.
About the Book Vision to Action Publishing announces the release of “Christmas at the Homeplace,” by William Leverne Smith, aka, Dr. Bill, a resident of Hollister, MO, on October 25, 2013, at Amazon.com with the print edition, Kindle edition to following shortly.
Hollister, MO, October 25, 2013 — “Christmas at the Homeplace is the fourth book in “The Homplace Saga” series of historical fiction family saga stores set in a rural river valley in the southern Missouri Ozarks near a fictional western branch of the Current River (NW corner of Shannon County). Set in 1996, the story has a “homecoming for Christmas” theme affecting members of the extended families of the central characters. “The Homeplace Saga” series
Will they all be home for Christmas? For the first time since their father died, Karen (Bevins) Winslow is expecting all her children in Oak Springs for Christmas 1996. This Christmas of homecomings offers some surprises as “The Homeplace Saga” continues. Will Staff Sergeant Travis Inman arrive home from Bosnia in time to see his baby daughter for the first time at Christmas? Will a life-long friend of the Winslow family move to Oak Springs permanently? Does Peter have a son? The boy’s mother insists he does. How would this change the inter-generational dynamics in the family businesses in the Oak Creek valley of the southern Missouri Ozarks? Learn more by reading this latest addition to this continuing family saga.
Also, follow local veterinarian Dr. Jennifer Bevins and her young lawyer friend, Brian Kirk, as they temporarily lay aside their personal family history and genealogy research to work with City Librarian Judy Watson and others to form and create an Oak Springs Historical and Genealogical Society. Their hope is that by reaching out to the community they can locate additional local historical records on their families back to the first settlements in 1833 when Jennifer’s McDonald ancestors were among those first arrivals in the valley. Learn what else occurs, before Christmas, as Jennifer and Brian devote their full attention to this new set of activities.
Book Trailer
About the Author .
William Leverne Smith was born and raised on a Midwestern farm. A passion for family history and genealogy studies provides background for his writing. He and his wife live in a cabin in the Missouri Ozarks.
Whilst I have read an earlier published book in this series, it is quite possible to read and get into the series from this book.
The characters are easy to get to know and I found that I was looking forward to catching up with the characters. This is a story, not just of family at Christmas, the interactions with kin, but also the responsibilities of running a family trust and the formation of local historical society.
I found that I need to start reading again from the beginning of the series, so that I can get a sense of timeline. That is not the fault of the book and author, but simply how I typically read and process books that are part of a series; I love to read them in order!
I enjoy this series and this book was a welcomed addition. There are relatively few genealogical type mysteries, so when one comes along it is always nice to read. What is really nice is when the book is part of a well created series, such as this one.
Book Details Publisher: Vision to Action Publishing and CreateSpace Format: Trade Paperback – 6×9 – 154 pages ISBN-13: 978-1493510405 ISBN-10: 1493510401 Available from Amazon.com & Amazon.co.uk
Yesterday I shared a post about using Evernote for email storage. Today I am going to share something that I learnt over the weekend, and I was simply delighted!
I typically use Evernote for the purposes I described yesterday from my laptop. You can read that post HERE.
Over the weekend I opened the Evernote application on my iPhone and which immediately alerted me that as an O2 (UK mobile phoned company) customer I could upgrade my Evernote account to Premium for a year, completely free of charge.
I did ponder if it was a hoax, but I was logged in to Evernote and my phoned must somehow of spotted that the carrier was 02, although I was connected via WiFi. I can not explain how my phone and Evernote knew, but they did!
I hit the upgrade button and within a few moments received a verification text message and I was indeed upgraded to a premium account with the expiry of 14 Nov 2014. I was so delighted that I tweeted o2 & Evernote because I think we live in a culture where we declare bad service and rarely comment on the good and genuine.
A quick look at the O2 website has this banner – if you click the link (above) you can read all about the offer. There is details about Evernote and this is a genuine and useful offer from a UK mobile provider. It does not say on the page how long this offer is available for.(Edited 21st Nov – according to the O2 Priority Moments application the Evernote offer has 3 months left)
As I said yesterday, I was more than happy with the free account and now with this free upgrade I can explore the extra opportunities of Premium Evernote. The cost of Premium is not prohibitive to me, £35 a year (or £4 a month which can be used for a few months if you are working on a specific project that might involve you over running the free data limits).
If you are an O2 customer and you have been undecided on the benefits of the Evernote premium account for the cost of zero you can upgrade. Absolutely free of charge. There is no additional lock in to O2 beyond any original contracts – I think this even is available for O2 pay as you go customers. It is so rare for any business to provide not just a valuable and useful offer, but one that lasts a full year.
I have not been compensated for this post by either O2 or Evernote. I am simply a happy and delighted customer.
There are some great Evernote resources out there….
A few weeks ago I shared that I am a One-Note girl – you can read that post HERE. In that post, I mentioned that until I had upgraded my laptop I had used a mixture of OneNote and Evernote.
Now, having upgraded my laptop and migrated to Office 365 I went full time to OneNote…bliss!, I transferred the notes from Evernote and then created a folder in Evernote called Archive and slid those notes into that folder. I did that because I often recall things via event.
I then had pretty much a free Evernote account vacant for use. The one thing that I do like about Evernote is that I can forward emails to my account.
I should mention that I have been using a Yahoo facility. About 10 years ago I created a private Yahoo group that allowed access only to me. It was a hidden group and should anyone on the off chance stumble across it they had to be approved by the moderator for entry, which of course was not going to happen!
That has, up until now worked well, but I have become increasingly concerned as to the security of such a site. I therefore made the decision that I would transfer all those archived emails across to my Evernote account. Thus giving me a bit more control.
How to find your email address for your Evernote account
Open Evernote
Select Tools
Select Account Information
Here you will see your email address – this is based on your username with random details +Evernote
Sending emails to Evernote
Firstly I created a folder called Emails
I then made this folder my default folder
I did that because I only use Evernote for emails, but if you were going to a mass session of forwarding emails you could make your folder default before you start forwarding and then switch it back again afterwards.
Select the email that you want to forward – it works fine with Gmail.
In the to line add your Evernote email address
In the Subject line add @ notebook and the name you have called your email folder, so mine is @notebook emails
If you are going to use tags then add the appropriate tag – mine is #email
Then click send.
The email should arrive in the folder you selected with the tagline you selected.
At the end of the year I will rename my folder called Emails to Emails 2013 and then the current year, which will be 2014 will have emails into the emails folder. I will do something similar for the previous years. I do not see a reason to break the years down into months because the search function works fine.
I have one of the free accounts. I do not believe that I will use more than my allowance of 60MB in a calendar month, and whilst I am archiving material from the Yahoo site, I will work in blocks to ensure I do not use over the allowance, if I think I might I could pay to upgrade, as the cost is not prohibitive.
Now I am sure someone is thinking, why not simply archive emails in Gmail? Well, I don’t because in the past I have been to enthusiastic at deleting emails and thus deleted many that I thought were safe!
A week or so ago, I came across this article, in which the author, Eric Muller explained that he was trying to discover the exact fate of his late Uncle, Leo Muller, in Europe during the Holocaust.
Apart from feeling dreadfully sad at the article, not in terms of Eric writing it, but sadness of the fate that his Uncle suffered and then the further, morally wrong issue that arose when someone contacted Eric when he made a video explaining what he was seeking and why.
I will share the video here, because with the power of social media I do hope that Eric receives what I desires and thus his family can have a degree of closure.
The video is in German, but if you visit this link and click on transcript you can read in English what Eric is asking.
I am not connected in any way to Eric, although I did drop him an email. I simply wanted to share the video and article with my readership.
Julie Goucher ~ Anglers Rest 