Help - how do I upload an image .....

Muriel · Post by **Muriel** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:36 am

I'd like to upload an image of a census carried out in Stonehouse in 1696 to get some help with deciphering some of the name - but I can't understand how to do it! I'm a complete dodo about these things so instructions in words one syllable, please! Muriel

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:42 am

You have to be logged into Talking Scot, and then.....

1. Scroll up the page & click on the Gallery link at the top of this page

In the Gallery page:
2. Click on the Upload File link at the top of the page.

Under the File Uploads section:
3. Click the Browse button.
This will open a dialog box which will let you look for the file that you wanted to upload to TS. It makes life easier for you if you have saved this file to somewhere obvious like “Desktop” or “My Documents” or wherever you usually store your family history files.

4. When you have located the file, double click on it.
In the File Uploads box you should now see the “path” to the file e.g.
C:\Documents and Settings\Lesley\Desktop\8ElginVillas_aka_1401.jpg
(This just means the TS website now knows where to collect your file from!)

5. Click on the Continue button at the bottom of this page.
Your file will now be uploaded and you should see a message:
1 uploads were successful.
Please click 'Continue' to add the files to albums.

6. Click the Continue button

7. You should now see a page where you can add more details about the image if needed - if not needed, just click Continue

8. You should now see a page with the message:
The previous file was placed successfully.
You have successfully placed all the files.

9. Click the Continue button.
You will be taken back to the main Gallery page (where you started, but you will probably have forgotten what it looked like by now! )

You then have to wait for approval from TSAG who will post your image in the gallery, and some kind soul will (I hope) then paste the link to your image in the body of your post. If no link appears in your post within 24hrs, but you know the image upload was successful just post a message and someone will help!

Muriel · Post by **Muriel** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:56 am

Thanks Lesley, I think I've successfully uploaded it. It is a census carried out in Stonehouse in 1696 for a new minister. The name I'm interested in is No. 660. We know that the surname is Sorbie but aren't sure about the first name. It appears to begin with J (see his son James at 662, 661 is Euphemia Farrie J's wife) and we think it might be John (possibly written in latin as Johannes) but aren't sure. There are some other people on the census with the same name but they don't seem much clearer. If anyone can help the Sorbie family would be eternally grateful

Muriel

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... p?pos=-796
added by LesleyB

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:06 am

Hi Muriel
Your upload was successful! Link posted in your post above.

Fascinating census record!!
However, it is not to easy to see the names as the image is quite small. Is there any way you could scan the image at a greater resolution?

Best wishes
Lesley

Post by **emanday** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:33 am

Hi Muriel,

Compare number 667 which is a James, clear as day, and doesn't look like what is written for 660.

Shoot me down if I'm wrong here, but, also further down is what reads as Iffaac, and with the double "s" often being shown as "ff", could your Mr Sorbie also be an Issac? It looks VERY similar.

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:52 am

emanday wrote:Hi Muriel,

Compare number 667 which is a James, clear as day, and doesn't look like what is written for 660.

Shoot me down if I'm wrong here, but, also further down is what reads as Iffaac, and with the double "s" often being shown as "ff", could your Mr Sorbie also be an Issac? It looks VERY similar.

I doubt it as I'm near certain that 660 ends with "...anes".

As well as seeing if a better quality scan helps, this really needs an expert in secretary hand to have a look, and they, I'm near certain, will answer any queries in seconds !

David

Muriel · Post by **Muriel** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:27 pm

Thanks for your guesses, folks. I'm pretty sure it's not Isaac - the Sorbies followed the naming conventions fairly closely & in the next generation or so we have William, John, James & Gavin.

I've asked the person I got the image from if he can tell me where it came from to see if we can improve it - I have seen on microfilm in the Scottish Genealogy Society library & my memory is that it's fairly poor. I presume the orginal is in Register House but don't know. The Stonehouse Heritage Group has done a typed transcription but it merely shows no. 660 as ? Sorbie

Muriel

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:48 pm

Muriel wrote:Thanks for your guesses, folks. I'm pretty sure it's not Isaac - the Sorbies followed the naming conventions fairly closely & in the next generation or so we have William, John, James & Gavin.

I've asked the person I got the image from if he can tell me where it came from to see if we can improve it - I have seen on microfilm in the Scottish Genealogy Society library & my memory is that it's fairly poor. I presume the orginal is in Register House but don't know. The Stonehouse Heritage Group has done a typed transcription but it merely shows no. 660 as ? Sorbie

Muriel

For anyone not aware of the situation, Register House is the home of National Archives of Scotland, whereas New Register House, next door, is the home of GROS. LDS might just have a microfilm copy, - worth a check in their catalogue.

David

StewL · Post by **StewL** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:40 am

After playing around with the image. I enlarged it and sharpened the image and it looks like Allan M Sorbie to me. Although this is based on a gap after the "Allan" and what looks like an M.

Hopefully my transcirbing of secretary hand for FreeBMD has taught me something

Post by **emanday** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:09 am

Had another look after your post Stewie, and it does look a bit like that.

It might not follow the naming convention either, but I have first names in my ancestry that simply disappeared, Thomas, for one. It started way back in the 1600's and seems to have stopped completely by the mid 1800's.