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Sounds like an interesting tree Jonesey!

The word 'numb nuts' springs to mind ;)

It certainly is.

Unfortunately it is one of many that I encounter via Ancestry's Recent Member Contact facility which tells me when someone has downloaded records relating to individuals who appear in the various family trees that I have on that site.

The most glaring examples of inaccuracy/stupidity seem to come via the trees of some of our commonwealth cousins. They seem predisposed to having an ancestor who came from "Little old Engerland" in their family tree no matter what. They are not the only ones however as the tree I mentioned earlier belongs to someone who lives in the West Midlands.

Gins! That's not a nice thing to call our dear Jonesey!


tut tut Missus.!



Morning all. Have done my dusting/hoovering etc first this morning so that I can relax for a bit and enjoy Sylv's breakfast as usual.


Dea, you were going to share those pancakes......just where have you hidden them ???? I know, you yielded to temptation and scoffed the lot. Honestly, what are we going to do with you????


Hair dressers for me today - I love going there. Naturally, I will be unrecognisaby beautiful when I return....as if!

Happy St Patricks - my little Irish Navvie


Have a Guiness for your Dad -


Renes xxxx

Thank you I will have a little guiness as we have some left over from Christmas in the garage


Why do people delete their threads. I was helping on the Nellie Ada D~rmer thread, found her what she wanted in Oz and now shes deleted it.......

...charming

Is it me but has the little search box gone from the top of the page? It looks as though we can only use the Search Trees box now. Going for a shower!

In honour of St. Patrick's day who tended sheep on Slemish about 40 km from where I grew up


In a tiny village on the Irish coast lived an old lady, a virgin and very proud of it. She wanted to make sure everything was in proper order when she dies, so she went to the town's undertaker (who also happened to be the local postal clerk) to make proper 'final' arrangements. She informed him that she wanted the following inscription on her tombstone: 'BORN A VIRGIN, LIVED AS A VIRGIN, DIED A VIRGIN’
Not long after, she died peacefully. A few days after the funeral, as the undertaker-- postal clerk went to prepare the tombstone that the lady had requested, it became quite apparent that the tombstone that she had selected was much too small for the wording that she had chosen He thought long and hard about how he could fulfil the old maid's final request, considering the very limited space available on the small piece of stone.
For days, he agonized over the dilemma. But finally his experience as a postal worker allowed him to come up with what he thought was the appropriate solution to the problem.
The virgin's tombstone was finally completed and duly engraved, and it read as follows: 'RETURNED UNOPENED'

Nice one Calherne.

Back from physio feeling a little tender. Now I have to carry on doing them those exercises.

I am quite excited cos I thought Rebecca had died single but found a marriage for her and a family so am working on that now.

As I feared the person on Ancestry who nicked my Frisbys has lead others down the garden path. I wonder if they realise they are related to Uranus?

Has anyone else tried the New Zealand Electoral Rolls. Brilliant but I cannot get it to transfer onto my tree. Is it me or is it a general problem?

Well that did'nt surprise me that Dally was Irish too we are going to have to wait till November to see if she is Scottish.

No mixed race for me...southern England through and through Roll on 23rd April

what search box ??

ja...x

Can any one find an entry for this birth please --or any census entries apart from 1881 please
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Who appears just once on his ""fathers"" census in 1881 at Chadderton Oldham Lancs

GILLETT, Fredrick Son Single M 17 1864 Gravedigger Dunsfold Surrey


Joseph Gillett states widower on marriage to Sarah Doyle nee Harrison in 1874

I cannot find a Ist marriage for Joseph or a birth for Frederick (Fredrick)
one small point all first born sons are William --so could ¿ be William Frederick ---Joseph has a younger son William with Sarah ¿

Many thanks Renes

What about this birth

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
about Frederick Gillett Name: Frederick Gillett
Year of Registration: 1864
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Wandsworth
County: Greater London, London, Surrey
Volume: 1d
Page: 417 (click to see others on page)

For those who are irish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W97M5i05xUo

R

Well, actually, it's the yanks who will go to any idiotic length to get their trees back to the mother country. Their problem is often that the separation came so early that there are no good records, so they latch onto anything they can. Often this was done years and years ago when access to records was limited, to say the least.

That's the case for the 48 trees in question in my case: someone born in 1775 in Tennessee (or Maryland ...) needs ancestors, so we'll take the people with the son of a similar name born in Cornwall. Maybe that's the downside of there being such excellent record-keeping and access to records for Cornwall.

Another I have is where a presumed ancestor of mine born c1605 in Cheshire is shown as the grandson of someone of the same name born 250 years later in the US colonies.

And then my fave, two brothers with my Wiltshire surname who settled Nantucket Island in the 1600s, who their many descendants have decided came from Suffolk, because they found baptisms for two brothers with that name there. Given that the leader of the colony came from a village in Wiltshire less than 10 miles from where my ancestors were living 100 years later, and there are placenames from that area of Wiltshire on Nantucket ... and a record in the local museum states that one of the brothers was born in one of the Wiltshire villages ... duh. But they're adamant, that bunch. I'm going to get some DNA analysis done sometime just to prove I'm right. ;)

Never noticed a Canadian with such bumph in their tree (British immigrants to Canada mainly came much later than to the US). Can't speak for the antipodal colonials!

Gins

Thanks for looking --- on the census he is one of several children -- living at Clapham ----all children born Clapham


xxx

Renes

Have you had anyone called Glenda asking to view your tree? I noticed she had Gillett's umongst her 23000 people

ja...x

shall

I be

Naughty?



18600

No not that I remember


have been driven mad by someone with 11,000 odd -- asking and pm every day to view my tree ----and a woman many many times ----------had quite a lot for the Gillett s ------------------however as a good portion of the work was done by you lot and the thread is still live -- and I have added to it ----

they can do a bit of work themselves ------I am not sending them all my certs

already got caught by some old geezer -- who demanded a quid pro quo -- and when he had some of my certs --- claimed his hard drive had crashed -- and could help out with the coats ---


Renes

I just thought I would ask as I decided to look at my updates and noticed this woman had been adding 50+ people a day to her tree for the last couple of months. She had hundreds of photos including my grandparents which she stole from a relation of mine on ancestry.

Why do we have to say there are problems accessing this site on FB (not that I have had a problem) only the error messages in the evening and it being slow.
It starts Dally off again

ja...x