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geniebug
10-05-12, 07:27
Could someone please clean and sharpen this document?

http://i935.photobucket.com/albums/ad193/joody_anne/ErdmannJ.jpg
Janet
10-05-12, 13:37
I don't know. Better or worse, Jood?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pC6zFxz2jvw/T6vEKB0GOKI/AAAAAAAAAxo/0bg_dXULk8w/s1600/ErdmannJ.jpg
geniebug
10-05-12, 21:12
Yes a lot better thanks Janet, but could the writing be made sharper do you think? I had no idea you lurked around these parts ! lol

Thank you!
Janet
10-05-12, 22:03
I don't know. Maybe with better tools than I have, because I'm just using run-of-the-mill photo programs. I think you need to throw yourself on the mercy of a Photoshop wizard.
geniebug
10-05-12, 22:05
You did well Janet - now I know why you are so tired when you get to the Anzac thread lol
Janet
10-05-12, 22:24
I didn't do much, Jood. Somebody more skilled really might get you something better.
geniebug
10-05-12, 22:25
Thank you anyway :D
kiterunner
10-05-12, 22:33
Are you having trouble reading part of it, Jood?
geniebug
10-05-12, 22:37
Some of it I cant read Kate.
kiterunner
10-05-12, 22:49
Which bit(s)? I can have a go at transcribing it tomorrow if you like? Off to bed now though.
geniebug
10-05-12, 22:59
Absolutely no hurry Kate -

I'd like to confirm the date of arrival and his age - also what does it say up the top next to "whence received" ? Actually it says he was 5, but the year of arrival could be 17 or 19 I think?

Where it says down the bottom "how disposed of" - D.O.A - that surely cant be "dead on arrival"?

Please take your time.
kiterunner
11-05-12, 09:42
Absolutely no hurry Kate -

I'd like to confirm the date of arrival and his age - also what does it say up the top next to "whence received" ? Actually it says he was 5, but the year of arrival could be 17 or 19 I think?

Where it says down the bottom "how disposed of" - D.O.A - that surely cant be "dead on arrival"?

Please take your time.

I can't see a date of arrival, do you mean Date of Admission - 8 April 1897.

Age - Five years.

Whence received - B Asylum.

It does look like DOA but I don't know what it stands for in this context. The date disposed of is 14.4.09 so he would have been 17 years old then. Maybe in those days, that was the age when they left care and had to look after themselves?
geniebug
11-05-12, 11:02
I wonder what B Asylum meant - if he had a health problem?

Thanks Kate.
kiterunner
11-05-12, 17:01
Somewhere like this, maybe?
http://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/Search/AgencyDetails.aspx?AgencyId=861
geniebug
11-05-12, 21:06
Probably Kate. We will never know why she gave the child up - she married soon after.

Thanks for your help.