General Chat

goodevening/morning all

Alison,
I'm so glad to hear your new's about your result's, It must have been a comfort for you to feel your dad was there with you and that everyone's good wishes helped. Did you find yourself something special to eat, I hope so and that you enjoyed it hun.

Hi SueMaid, Berona, Linda, Carolee, Tec, Allan, Colin and any-one I have forgotten. Hope all's well with you all

Diane x

Hello Diane! We've been wondering where you were? Everything OK with you?

Linda - good evening to you. With your knowledge of researching, perhaps you can advise me here. Early this year, I emailed Durham Records Office re my ancestors. I received a reply in April asking for authority to do a search. I replied immediately but heard nothing. In August, I wrote again repeating everything and asking how the search was going. No reply to that either....Do you know if it is usual for these things to take so long?

Good evening/morning to anyone else joining us.

Good evening/morning everyone:-)) A little late this morning. I've had a contact through Hot Matches and the information she has given me has pointed out an error I've made - that of assuming that an ancestor married a certain person. Luckily it was a twig rather than a branch - but still an error.

Diane nice to see you. Hope all is well.

Linda thank you again for your offer. I think OH's family probably filled Durham cemetary going by the burial records. We have visited the cemetary on a couple of occasions. The first time OH had a fair idea where his grandparents were. The groundsmen were excellent in helping out. We found them but were told that the council put a charge on searches. I will email the registry office and see if they'll supply me with a map.

Hi, Berona - you've beaten me this morning.

Sue xx

Hi Sue,
I hope you are well. A couple of months ago I went after the wrong Grandfather! Luckily it got sorted out!
It's nearly bedtime here.
Pat x

Hello and goodnight Pat. Good morning Sue.
It's not hard to go after the wrong one. In one branch of my family, every John had a father,son,grandson, nephew and cousin named John and a mother, sister, wife, daughter, niece and cousins named Mary! The trick is in knowing WHICH ONE is the right one!

Hi Berona,
I have a good knack of going after the wrong relation. people shouldn't have the same names!

Hi Berona and Sue
fine thank's, thought I should show myself as I didn't want you to worry to much.
I did a few post on a thread I put up on Saturday and it seem's to be more popular than I exspected it to be. It started out as a thread about Danni Minogue's comment on X Factor now it is an X Factor discussion thread.

Diane

Edited = Hi Pat you came on as I was posting.

If only it was law that each child be given their mother's maiden name as their second forename. How much easier it would be for researching!

However, it would be a bit scary now that we have credit card security, wouldn't it?

Hi, Pat - so nice to see you. Hope you are well.

I'm quite annoyed with myself as I usually check and recheck and back it up with firm evidence. I researched OH's grandmother's line a long while back and thought I'd found her born in Oxford. OH said he remembered his gran's accent as being "very London" and that she used Cockney rhyming slang. I ignored that little tip and carried on going back two generations before I sent for her marriage certificate and found her father's name. I found that she was born in Bethnal Green - "very London" indeed. Which is lucky as I've now been able to go back a long way with the London records now on Ancestry.

Sue xx

Good morning /evening to each of you

Diane, it's nice to see you posting again on this thread. I hope that everything is ok

Hello to Pat...and goodnight to Pat

Good morning to Berona, Colin and Sue

Good evening Tec

I wonder if Van Gogh had his ear boxed?......Just a random thought.

I can relate to the last of the summer wine


Allan

Berona, I have a branch who had no imagination re names. Williams, Elizabeths, Sarahs and Isaacs. Siblings, cousins all called the same names. If a child died a couple of years later another one would come along with the same name. So confusing. I'd learnt my lesson by then and backed everything up with certificates and census records.

Sue xx

Hi Diane. I saw your thread. It's not long since Dannie was a judge on a similar show out here and as with a lot of those people, she acted like SHE was the star of the show and the acts are only of secondary interest.
I don't think she meant any harm, but it shows that it's best to rehearse what they are going to say first, so that offensive remarks can be avoided.

Hi, Allan. I think Van Gogh had his ear boxed, tied with a ribbon and sent to someone.

Sue xx

Sue,

I think that he sent it to his girlfriend who, on opening the box, exclaimed


" What's this 'ere!!"

Allan

Yes, Sue. I had two separate dates of birth for one of my gr/grandmothers until I realised that the first date belonged to an earlier child; and in one branch, there are a few instances where the parents have had THREE tries before rearing a child with the name they wanted.

I don't think I could name two the same, but if so, I'm sure I would have given up after losing two - thinking the name was jinxed!

Edir! You're early Allan! Have you had breakfast yet?

Goodmorning, Berona

No, I've not had breakfast yet. My OH is a deep sleeper and despite my calls hasn't come downstairs to cook it

Allan

Good evening, Barbra.

I haven't seen Howard and His Young Lady....I'm assuming that it is, or was, a UK TV programme.

Sue...stop swishing your life away. Whatever will they think of next?

Allan

Hi Allan
I think your big enough to get your own breakfast

Diane

Maybe Barbra has seen 'our' Howard going for his morning walk. Those walks featured on much TV in the past.

lol Diane

I do a fair bit of cooking here...it's a necessity if I want to survive!

My OH doesn't think about meals all that often so it is left to me to devise the various menus.