Calderdale Companion
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In this Page, I propose to give details of any recent or forthcoming changes to Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion

• 31st January 2017: Because of the lack of interest, I have discontinued the set of pages which gave composite lists of all The Photographs & Images which are accessible from Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion

  You can still access the photographs from the individual entries on the Website

• I am currently adding details of men and women who died in World War I, taking their names from local war memorials and other sources. I am filling in their details from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. Please email me if you can spare time to look up some of the details for me

• Please contact me at

  [email protected]

• You can use the standard form to send details of your forebears to the Calderdale Companion

• As part of a plan to reduce the size of the pages and improve the loading times for large pages, I have reorganised the entries beginning

  
  Brighouse ...
  Elland ...
  Halifax ...
  Hebden Bridge ...
  Heptonstall ...
  Rastrick ...
  Sowerby ...
  Sowerby Bridge ...
  Todmorden ...

  into separate Sidetracks

  I have also reorganised individuals with surnames – such as

  
  Ackroyd ...
  Ainley ...
  Aked ...
  Akroyd ...
  Alexander ...
  Allen ...
  Ambler ...
  Appleyard ...
  Armitage ...
  Armytage ...

  and so on – into separate Sidetracks

  Please email me if you encounter any problems or you have any comments on this reorganisation

• I have removed details about the modern equivalent value of historical sums of money mentioned in the entries, such as

  1/- in 1787 is roughly the equivalent of £63.10 today

  These values were based upon online sources, and were difficult to maintain on the Calderdale Companion

• I have begun to add the names of people who are buried in the many Cemeteries and Burial Grounds in the district. If you would like to add details and/or photographs of your forebears' graves, please email me

• I have consented to the The British Library at Euston Road, London including the Calderdale Companion in their web archiving programme.

  This means that the information recorded here will be available long after, you, I and ROOTSWEB have long gone

• In the entries for people with more than 1 child, I have numbered the offspring

  (1) Mary; (2) Thomas; (3) Richard; (4) Harold

  This numbering was done by computer program, so please email me if you notice any errors or oddities

• I have added a facility to allow you more quickly to access a specific part of a large page in the Main Alphabetic Section of the Calderdale Companion.

  At the head of each page which has more than 50 keywords, there is a sub-index to that page, for example

  Uf Uk Un Up Us Ut

  on Page U of the Calderdale Companion. Clicking on, say, Ut here, will take you to that part of the page with keywords beginning Ut, in this case Utlay

• I have changed the entries in the Calderdale Companion so that, when you position your mouse over the red keyword of an entry for an individual, it will display the Internal Reference Id which identifies that entry on my database. I hope that this will simplify the task of referring to a specific entry in emails and other correspondence.

  If you are using Firefox, this feature will also manifest itself as a red dotted underlining of the keyword.

  I should welcome your comments on this trial

• I have begun to add links to the UK National Inventory of War Memorials for some local war memorials and monuments

• I have reorganised the use of the

  

  icons which indicate that several photographs illustrate an entry.

  Instead of using 2 or more of these icons in an entry, I have replaced these by the single

  

  icon which jumps to an index page listing all the available photographs for that entry

• I have begun a project to provide English translations of some of the Latin epitaphs and memorial inscriptions which are reproduced in the book The Monumental Inscriptions in Halifax Parish Church

  Until such time as I get around to the task, if you would like to contribute your translation of any of the – as yet – untranslated epitaphs it would be most welcome

• Because of the lack of interest, I have discontinued the Visitors' Book

  You can still email me with any questions and comments about the website

• I have added some new icons

  

  to go directly to the SideTracks on the most popular topics

• Remember that your contributions / comments / corrections to Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion are always welcome – just email me

  If you need inspiration, there is a list of 0 specific questions which you might be able to answer

Please email me if you have any suggestions or comments on the form and/or content of the website

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© Malcolm Bull 2017 / [email protected]
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