Notes

This page is dedicated to miscellaneous notes in regard to my Website.

1) I use GPS occasionally to help locate landmarks, such as Grave sites. I use the Decimal Degrees format.

Decimal Degrees

DDD.DDDDD°
32.30642° N 122.61458° W
or +32.30642, -122.61458

This is the format you'll find most computer based mapping systems displaying. The coordinates are stored internally in a floating point data type, and no additional work is required to print them as a floating point number.
Often the N-S and E-W designators are omitted. Positive values of latitude are north of the equator, negative values to the south. Watch the sign on the longitude, most programs use negative values for west longitude, but a few are opposite. This saves a lazy western hemisphere programmer from having to type in a minus sign before most of their longitude values. http://www.maptools.com/UsingLatLon/Formats.html

A utility to convert my method to the other two methods can be found at:- http://www.gpscoordinates.eu/convert-gps-coordinates.php

2) Why can't I view an original image? The United Kingdom (UK) Birth, Marriage, & Death records from 1984 onwards were recorded in a Computer Database only, so there is no original Image for records Post-1984 (Info from http://www.findmypast.co.uk)