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Hi all

I will be holding a stand at the Woking Family History Fair on November the Saturday November the 5th  10 am to 4.30pm at Kind Field Road,  Woking Park, Woking Leisure Centre in Surrey and entrance is free and so is parking, nothing to lose!

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WSFHS OPEN DAY AND FAMILY HISTORY FAIR

Do YOU have an ancestor in Italy, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Glamorgan,

Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kent, London, Manchester, Middlesex,

Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex or Wiltshire?

If so, visit the Society’s

OPEN DAY

The following organisations have reserved tables:

Anglo-Italian FHS • *Bedfordshire FHS • Berkshire FHS • Buckinghamshire FHS • Buckinghamshire GS

*Dorset FHS • *East Surrey FHS • *Glamorgan FHS • *Guild of One Name Studies

*Hampshire GS • *Hertfordshire FHS • Hillingdon FHS •*Huntingdonshire FHS • Kent FHS • London Westminster & Middlesex FHS

Manchester & Lancashire FHS • *Nottinghamshire FHS • *Oxfordshire FHS

Romany & Traveller FHS • Somerset & Dorset FHS • *Suffolk FHS • Sussex FH Group

*West Middlesex FHS • *Wiltshire FHS

The Society of Genealogists

 

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British Association for Local History • Brookwood Cemetery Society

*Family & Community Historical Research Society • Friends of Woking Palace •London Family History Centre

*Send & Ripley History Society

*Southwark Family History • *Sunbury & Shepperton Local History Society

*Surrey Heath Local History Club, Surrey Heath Museum, Archaeological & Heritage Trust

Surrey Heritage • Surrey History Trust • Surrey Record Society • The Lightbox, Woking

Woking & District Philatelic Society • Woking History Society

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AMP Family History Services • Bookzone • Brian Brinkley – Postcards • C E Jones (Postcards and Books)

CAB Search • Family History Shopy • Footsteps

Genealogy Printers • Genes Reunited • Image- Restore.co.uk Photo Restorations • John Owen Smith • John Townsend Books • Life Histories

M M Publications • Michael Goldsmith – Postcards • My History • Parchment (Oxford) Ltd

Priceless Treasures • R A Longley Publications • S&N Genealogical Supplies

*Staunton Park Genealogy Centre • The Genealogist • This Way Books & Cassini Maps

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RESEARCH! Research material available for use on the day in the adjacent Research Room will include the Computerised Surrey Marriage Index, indexed transcriptions of many Surrey Parish Registers (baptisms, marriages and burials), the Index and Calendar of Surrey Poor Law Records, the Index of Surrey Monumental Inscriptions, the IGI and other materials from the Society’s Reference Library on a wide range of genealogical related subjects.

HELP DESKS! Help desks for beginners and more experienced researchers.

FREE TALKS! A series of short talks on a range of subjects. See website for details. Book on the day.

Computer look-ups will also be available on Ancestry and Findmypast .

FREE Parking • Refreshments available • FREE Admission

 

Posts to intrigue and inform

It takes a long time for small businesses to work hard at promoting their services and climbing through the ranks of the millions to get in the search engines and “pop up” in the right places when your services are needed. Photo restoration is market saturated by people and businesses trying to do just that!

However there are many people and companies out there in the photo restoration business who think its ok to steal content and use it as their own. Its hard work setting up your business and adversing it, so its far easier to steal it content right? You wont get found out, the world wide web is a huge place. WRONG! its very simple to find out who is stealing your content. Here is example of the text from my front page, verified and checked and logged as being unchanged for several years by the waybackmachine and various other logging tools.

Copyscape.com helps small businesses with tracking these plagiarists here is the snapshot from my front page.

In this snapshot 7 out the 10 results had huge chunks of my home page text right there on their pages! The bold text in this examples shows just how much has been stolen.

Now i don’t normally name names I think competition is healthy but what you risk for stealing others content is your site being blocked by the search engines for using spam techniques. It can be seen as duplicate content and be seen as trying to cheat the search engines. its also possible to harm the ranking of the originating site and have them come after you for loss of earnings due to sliding the rankings. So if you want to be seen as a number one small business don’t use dirty tricks, you get found out and run the risk of being out of pocket. Use original content and your own words and you will find you get much better results.