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marilyn if you want GR to read your post you have to
jion and post on facebook
as GR done want to post on there own site that we pay to use

Evening All.

Hope all is well with everyone. Keep out of the rain. :-)

Trust all went well Pauline, anniversaries are always a tough time.

Not coming back tonight, end of the week, I am cream crackered.

Gonna slob out in front of the tv. All this exercise is killing me. ;-)

Good night All.
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Evening everyone..... I've been busy sewing since I got back home.

I'm going to have my dinner now but might get back later.

Evening All !

Have been to daughters for tea.... then to a Violin Recital from my lovely Grandaughter Eilidh and two of her friends.
Held in her Violin Teachers house, nice and comfortable, they performed well.....this was their first time.

Time for a bit of supper now. Relax a bit, shower then bed.

Night all ! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

evening all very wintery here and rain and not at all nice. my granddaughters have flown off to Spain they are having an early Hen party in Spain for the weekend. Georgia;s she is getting married in September but she is having a Hen Party in London as well. her friends are coming up from Dorset for that that is where she lives.

Marilyn how many have you got on your family tree and Pauline and stephen and everyone else. I am interested. I have 676 on mine, I have many to go on but have not got around to doing them yet.

Rita

Good Morning All.


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Decaf tea, decaf coffee, detox drink, juice

Scrambled eggs, toast, lean bacon, mushrooms, grilled tomatoes.

I see I shall have to take some of you in hand. We have a year to sort our selves for the Olympics, and some of you have been very tardy.

I shall have to invest in a big bullwhip and crack it now and again.

I have been up for a while, eating a protein packed breakfast, and am off out for a 50 mile bike ride.

I am in my lycra shorts and top, with riding shoes ready to go.

I have greased my arms and legs to keep out the cold.

WHEN any of you lot decide to rise, I shall expect you to join me.

Have a good day all. Hope everyone is fit and well.

See you later.




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Morning All !

Maddie,

I've been waiting for over half an hour on you. I cycled down overnight.
Ready for a good days exercise.

We really should get round the rest and spur them into action ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

I'm Up !!

....I've walked from the bedroom to the bathroom then bathroom to bedroom ,then to the kitchen for breackies then back to my lappy in the dining room..worn out now :-S

Exercise completed .....more later !!

Morning Maddie & Stevey Boy ....

Son tells me last night he's bought a rubble tumble down cottage for a song ...so looks like Pete will be busy & Me.. LOL
Oh well be ages before they move in ,so plenty of time to make curtains .

Its really sunny here ,but I can see a lot of Grey skies to my left
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Rita ...I have only 445 in my tree on GR ,but have loads more that are not on here,as I want to correct or check them that I did years ago, I started doing my family in 1978 when I used to go to London on my days off, to all the record offices
I also collected a lot of wills that are not all mine but of the same family name ,
No computers then
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I have a tree on Ancestry as well....

Morning all

Stephen you are a naughty Boy where is you Cycle Helmet ?

I tell my Grandsons off if they dont wear one even the little ones
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A long time ago one of my husbands cousins nearly lost his life on the Milk race as we called it then. when he had a really bad accident and was very ill for months his parents were called as they didnt think he would live.

I hope you enjoy the hilly bits on your 50 mile cycle we should see you sometime next week. we dont want to hear you puffing up them either.?

you Maddie must be dead tired cycling all that way in such a short time, are you sure you didnt hang onto a broomstick and cycle. I would like to see that The cycling witch. lol


Rita

Rita ,

You typed while I was telling you about my tree !!! LOL

Go take a look above....

Thanks Marilyn. I wondered how my friends on here had got on their tree's
you have done well.
I didnt start till 2002 the year my Dad died. and there was only my sister and I alive then , I mentioned to my sister Sheila. that it would have been nice to know who Dads roots came from, and I only knew His Grandfather was named Absalom and his Grandmother was Elizabeth, and started from there He had told me their names. many times and that the family came from Honiton in Devon.

so we had a couple of holiday in Hontion and got free access to the microfis and records, then we started on Mums roots which started in Scotland and Cornwall. I have so many files you would not beleive it. but I have the main family ones on the tree and all the others(which have all been checked and double checked ) I have some wills but not many,

Rita

Morning All
Off to get fresh foods in a minute.

Be back later

Rita I'm not sure how many on GR tree, but think it's around 2000. My FTM tree has many more not all confirmed by me, Lots of info from extended family I have found since joining GR about 6 years ago. It has both my parents families, hubbies too and some of my DIL as she had a tree from her father which is supposed to link back to the Royals, but one link is missing !!!!

Linda :-) <3

My goodness Linda that is a great number. you must have worked hard to get that far.
I was checking the trees I gave permission to view my tree a long time ago)and I had signed 100 years hidden but I notice they have my name and my sister and my Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren how can they have got that ?
I have a part tree on Ancestry but none of these are listed.

My tree has my father, and mother.s, and mothers brothers wives as well and Grandmothers and my Aunties (my Dads only sister ))
but I was surprised to scroll down one of the hot matches and found through a marriage someone has all my family on it right back to 6 times great grandparents and myself and my family and as I said Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren. so I am wondering how they mmanaged that?

Rita

Rita, I've just had a look at my tree on here (well, the home page) and it says 868 people. I have more than that on my Ancestry tree because I put side-shoots on there. The side shoots help me to see what happened to all the families and where they all lived.

I often find the siblings of my ancestors living in the same street as each other, sometimes just a couple of doors away.

It's cold here today, dull and grey.

I'd better go and do a 5 mile run........... can't have Maddie winning all the medals.

Why Is It ?

Everytime I plan to do loads of work outdoors the weather takes a turn for the worse......it's raining.....not a lot....but enough to take the pleasure away.

He Ho ! Will just need to find something to do indoors......I could annoy Mrs Stephen.....but that would be risking serious injury ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

Family Trees
I have been in touch with folks who have more than 20,000 YES I did write 20,000 Crazy. They don't even know many who are on their Tree.
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Having Coffee and a relax.......Magic
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Hi Everyone,

Just had a bacon sarnie.....hmm delicious .

Stevey...a lot of peeps copy off of other people's tree's instead of doing their own research that's why they have so many in their tree.
Lets face it it does cost a bomb to get some certs in order to prove your ancestors.
As much as I have seen & been given permission to view other tree's I have never copied from them, but maybe others have copied from mine...no doubt !!
The excitement goes the minuet you copy .....unless you are really stuck and then maybe ...

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Going out to get some food as son & family are coming to dinner tomorrow.

Pauline what curtains are you making now ? :-S

Thanks Pauline for telling me. I am not being nosy just interested how others trees have come along.
I belong to Ancestry but get confused with the way there tree is set-up.
I found GR one easy. I am going to get some of the others on soon. it is just a case of sorting.

Marilyn i am like you I have not copied off anyones tree I have asked questions and been giving permission to view their trees.if I have wanted to add someone they have given me permission and I have done the same to them.but that is very rarely and only someone who is close to me in the ancestry tree,.

My daughter phoned to say they will pick me up tomorrow morning so I will have to do the packing this afternoon.

Rita

I am doing a chicken breast for my dinner with roast and greens and carrots I have strawberies for desert. so I am having a bean feast as my Mum would say

Helloooo all.
I am going to crown Maddie, making me think I must excercise in readiness for the Olympics.
I have been down the swimmimg pool, getting some practise in, no running for me i'm afarid, thats faaar to energetic.
I am getting good at the Crawl ( expert in crawling thats me ), the back stroke, ( I found that soo relaxing) especially the masseuse,he was soo good looking. Now what was the other stroke I tried to do,..... oh yes the breas......., now that was far to exciting for me and had to give in after a few strokes.
I am going back tomorrow for seconds, I never thought being in training like this could be so enjoyable. lol ;-)
Pauline you could join me down at the pool if you like, you don't need to go for that 5mile run.

Oooh Rita have a lovely holiday. I am sure being back in Norfolk will bring back some lovely memories for you.

Mo,

What's this......loads of Sexercise. ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

That's a good dinner for a Saturday Rita. We've only had sandwiches........... made with chicken left over from yesterday.

I've had a look at my contacts and I've got one who has over 31,000 people on her tree. She's got my family on there but it took me ages to find a connection to us. Her greatx4 grandfather's brother married my greatx4 grandmother - after my greatx4 grandfather died.

In other words........ there isn't a blood connection because her greatx4 grandfather's brother didn't have children with my greatx4 grandmother.

Saying 'our cat ran up their passage' would have been a stronger connection!!

Marilyn, the curtains are for the hallway (not the passage the cat ran up). I've got material to make 3 pairs for the bedroom but God knows when I'll get round to making them.

Mo, I'm not a very good swimmer, don't like water very much. I'll just sit and talk to that good looking man that was stroking your body............ what did you say he was doing?

Do you think we should put a stop to it, Stephen? It might sap all of her strength.