Answers to frequently asked questions:

Can you answer ancestry/genealogy or local history questions?
If I send you my personal story, will it become 'public domain'?
How do I read PDF files?

1. Can you answer ancestry/genealogy or local history questions?
We are happy to receive emails on lost relatives for both personal reasons and family history research. We are not however able to answer any queries about the history of Walthamstow or about lost relatives etc. We provide a bulletin board service where your query is recorded with your email address, in the hope that someone browsing the website may have an answer for you. In the past this has worked well and numerous queries and connections have been made between people.
We are not able to respond to any queries about facilities in Waltham Forest or to give details of local services (we have in the past been asked to give quotes for using the Assembly Hall for a wedding and to provide details of waste disposal - try the Waltham Forest website).

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2. If I send you my personal story, will it become 'public domain'?
We are always willing to receive family photographs and stories about those who live in Walthamstow and the surrounding suburbs of London. By sending us your personal stories/photographs and attachements, you implicitly give authorisation to post them on the "Walthamstow Memories" for public reading, but you retain ownership of their copyright. However, our visitors may download both text & images from the site, as long as it is for their personal use only. By no means any of the contents of the "Walthamstow Memories" site may be reproduced for commercial purposes.

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3. How do I read PDF files?
In order to provide easy access to all the stories that have been sent in to us over the years, we have created a PDF library. Here is a short explanation for those of you not familiar with the term PDF and what it means when you want to read a PDF file: PDF (Portable Document Format) is a universal file format developed by Adobe® that preserves all the fonts, formatting, graphics, and colour of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it. Nearly all of the stories that contain text and pictures (previously stored on individual pages on the Walthamstow Memories website) are now stored as PDF files. To read them you might need to download Adobe Reader here...

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