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Maybe they will do next years calendar at your place... :-) :-) :-) :-0 :-0 ;-) :-S

Lucky lucky Cyns ;-)


Do you want me to pop over and keep you company!

I know that I criticise people on Ancestry who download incorrect records and attach them to unconnected people in their tree but just once in a while their mistake can lead to you discovering something.

Yesterday I spotted that someone had downloaded amongst other things the 1861 census which included my 2xGreat Grandmother and some of her children including a son, Frederick, born 1857, who I knew had emigrated to the United States with his own young family in 1882 remaining there until 1930 when he died.

The Ancestry member was obviously attempting to work backwards from one of their own ancestors born in 1899 in England and had assumed incorrectly that my ancestor, Frederick, was their ancestors grandfather. A quick bit of online research easily proved that this was not so and I have now politely pointed out the error to the Ancestry member.

What their error did raise however was the fact that I had not fully followed up what became of one son of my ancestor who had emigrated. The son was born in Twickenham on 2/11/1877. In 1900 he was still living in Massachusetts with his parents but I had lost track of him after that. I decided that I should look into things a bit further. As a result I have found out a great deal more about him and his life via resources including US Naturalization records, WW1 and WW11 Draft cards (Don't you just love American spellings?), US Passport applications and later US census records. From very humble beginnings, his father was working as a cowman in 1881, the son went on to become an Ear, Nose and Throat physician. The United States truly must have been the land of opportunity in the early twentieth century.

I don't about the protocol over there but here the fire department have a programme they call "Home safe home" where the firefighters from the local fire hall go to different neighbourhoods every night checking smoke detectors and replacing batteries etc. They also inform the residents on fire safety.

Whilst on these "inspections" they are always "In service" and able to run to a fire or medical call. This is why they require a full complement of firefighters on board the truck at all times.

Even when they are attending parades and events they are "in service" and provision must be made so that they always have the ability to be able to take off without obstructions (I always place them in the last position in parades).

Basically the only time a truck is not in service, and not fully staffed, is when it is taken out for service and it is replaced with a back up.

I was a bit scathing about a public member tree yesterday (not the poster's own). The tree had connected births in 1825 and 1847 to the same couple who had not married until the 1840s.

Thinking about it later, I did wonder whether it is tricky to show stepchildren on those trees - the 1825 birth could have been the wife's child from a previous marriage.... but I checked it out again, and it was nonsense - the second wife had only been born in 1820...

As you say Jonesey, worth looking at these trees from every angle.

Form an orderly queue for the firemen please..........



Going back to the tree theme again, I think it just confirms the fact that some people just grab at any old leaves and add them on. Maybe they think that 'their' John Jones is the only John Jones in the world.... :-S :-S


Just be careful looking at those trees from every angle Jonesey......you know you have difficulty in standing up again after checking the roots ;-)

Calendar! Never thought of that Persie! Hmmmmm just thinking of where they could pose........


There are some cakes I cannot see without remembering Calendar Girls.........


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Do they still fit free smoke alarms for you where you need them Cynthia?

I have all my smoke alarms already and they are linked up so that if one goes off they all go off - it is quite ear-splittinging when they do that !

Unfortunately, the one I have in my downstairs hall, just outside from the kitchen really does not like toast or bacon.

It doesn't react to anything else in the same way but whenever I cook either of these I have to make sure the adjoining door is closed or it sets them all off screaming, even if is is nowhere near to even thinking of burning :-D :-0 :-(

Dea x

Dea, what are you doing hiding in the pantry................the fire men arent coming until Monday evening


..............................go home and get yer beauty sleep, you'll never pull looking like that!

Cheeky Ginns!!! :-P

(OOhhh - I have never used one of those 'tongue-pulling' avatars before - It feels quite exhilarating !! ;-)

I will have you know that I am not in the least bit interested in any of Cynthia's 'hunky' firemen. - I have my own 'hunk', I have had him a VERY long time and I still 'lubs' him ! :-) :-)

Dea Xxx

I am DEFINITELY interested in Cyns firemen!!!!! :-D It just so happens that I am not at work on Monday either :-D

What time are they coming over Cynthia??? [have I got time to have my face, hair, nails done before they arrive?? ;-)]

[oohh - just the thought of big strong men in rubber boots and braces! ... calm down!!!]

[knowing my luck they will be fire 'people' and all turn out to be female!! :-S]

I was engaged to a London fire man, when they had hook ladders back in the 80s

He was very cute without his uniform, but right up his own #### I never married him, but kept the diamond!

He was sacked....................having 'relations' on the staition with some nurse :-0

Maybe the relations he had with that nurse were second cousins three times removed Gins....... :-D


Lainie, anytime between 7.45 and 9pm apparently. Have already warned one set of neighbours so had better get round the others tooty-sweetie!!
You can have the pick of the bunch - I've got enough probs thank you ;-)



Went up to see granddaughter on her birthday and found one very dejected son - Everton lost - and that the Grand National was about to start. I took myself off into the conservatory until it was all over. Sounds as though 2 horses were killed......such a waste.... :-( :-(



Earlier, I googled the name of a cottage where I think my gt.grandparents lived in Kent. They were just the usual labouring family with loads of children. I found what I think is it. It was for sale last year at a staggering £800,000!!! Mind you, when I looked at the pictures, it had been gutted and poshed up big time! Just need to confirm I have the right place and I will add the pic to my tree on A.

OOOerrr !! - I think that one of my molar teeth has 'given up the ghost' :-(

I suppose I had better ring the dentist on Monday and see if he needs to take it out .............. ouchhh ! :-(

Still, I have all the rest left so it's better to do it now before it gets to be a problem I suppose?

Dea x

OOOhh Cynths - were there really 2 horses killed??

That is SO cruel - I think they should put a stop to it! - It's like bear-bating and the old dog fights etc. They were banned weren't they?

I suppose there is too much money at stake nowadays for them to take any humane action :-(

Dea Xxx

Yes Dea.......really horrible to think about it isn't it?

Those in charge were supposed to have made safety alterations to the course but..............


:-( :-( :-(

Barbarick.....stop it now

Hi all
xxx


another glorious sunny day :-D



s
xx

We had a great time away


and it looks as though persie did you proud, from her menu


unfortunately, there was nothing left by the time I looked in here :-(

C


just make sure that there is nothing, and I man NOTHING between those firemen and the front door ............


........... if an alarm comes in they will leave in a hurry!


Anything in their way will find themselves out on the front drive before they know what has happened! :-D