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cathyml
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quotePosted at 21:17 on 4th March 2010

If you belong to a Rootsweb mailing list would you consider letting the members know about POE

Tonight I posted the following on 5 Rootsweb mailing lists  and already received a thank you from one of the members from Australia.

Subject: Pictures of Ancestor's Places

Hi Listers
Are you hunting for pictures of the places your ancestors came from?  May I suggest a super site where you can hunt for the places under county, town, village, this will give you information and photos to add to your history files. Happy hunting
 
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quotePosted at 21:42 on 4th March 2010

As you may have guessed Cathy, though i don't belong to any mailing list group, i have had a number of people looking into family history, drop me a line via Poe after finding some of the places I've taken pics of, connected to their families in the south here. 

Perhaps the most unusual coming from a lady in Australia  whose grand dad was German and held in a POW camp not far from me; today, its back to a farm with little to show what was once there in WW2. She sent me a translated copy of one of his letters back home that was very touching; he also worked on the farms near the camp, and on Sat. nights, was allowed to go to the local village to their dances.

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Peggy Cannell
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quotePosted at 21:56 on 4th March 2010

Paul that really gave me goose pimples. very touching.

Cathyml, I do not belong to any now, but I have helped people in the past via this site, I used to be a geneologist and did family trees for people therefore I am very interested in the subject.

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cathyml
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quotePosted at 22:05 on 4th March 2010
That is so nice that you share their history too.  I'll share a bit of mine. I see you have taken some photos in Hampshire and a couple in Surrey.  My maternal grandfather was a forester and worked for Earl Beauchamp in Madresfield, Sir Richard Cotterell in Mansell Gamage and in his later years for Lord Normanton of Somerley in Ringwood Hampshire.  They lived in an estate house on the road from Ringwood (to I am not sure where think it was Verwood maybe Fordingbridge) called Belt Cottage.  This used to be noted on most of the maps as it was the only house on a very long stretch of road.  There is apparently a plaque on the Somerley Estate dedicated to my Grandfather which was really nice to hear. The house is, as far as I know, now privately owned (I have uplifted a photo of it from 1991). I remember I got into big trouble when I was recuperating at my grandmother's and a man came to the back door asking for her, I told her there was a man in funny trousers at the door, when he left I was informed in no uncertain terms that this was Lord Normanton and he was wearing plus 4's.  Well I had never seen anyone wearing them before and Lords should come to the front door not the back one!!! LOL
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