Weekly Flylady Thread 10th November 2008

Natty68

froddington wrote: »

Thanks, but my dad and aunty both went to her funeral (in fact, I think my aunty organised it!) and told me the month and year it was (1967), yet it still doesn't appear in the records I have searched online. I've tried her married and maiden name. The marriage certificate gives her age at that time so I know roughly when she was born, though my dad is unsure of her birthday. I just wondered if there are some other records I can search

Going for a shower now!

Could she not have had her birth registered and that is why there is no birth certificate. Not sure if it was compulsory in those days or there is some other answer.

Natty68

Hmmmm I have a confession I haven't done a binbag dance and believe me I have plenty to put in more than one binbag..lol. I think my neighbours might give me weird looks if they see me wearing a binbag and shoving bits down the front..lol.

Valli

Froddy what is her approx DoB?

The census was done 1881, 1891 etc. but there are circumstances where people are omitted from it. My mum has been doing some research. She has found infants who died and subsequent babies were given the same name as the dead child. Think that happened at least twice! I am fairly sure births have had to be registered since late Victorian Times - that's not to say though, that some weren't. Other reasons might be if illegitimate children were born to unmarried mothers and brought up by grandparents as if they were the child of the grandparents. Those births might not have been registerd IYSWIM. Sometimes you have to use parish records which means, of course, lots of travel if it is in a different part of the country.

Pigpen are you feeling better?

Anybody seen AnWsMum? She was partying last night I believe...

toochoosey

Valli wrote: »

Ugh - I hate that - it's like parent's evening - you get home too shattered to do anything.
Me everyday then! LOL!

What time will you get in? Are they giving you tea?
(I heard of one school where they shipped Chinese in - NYOM!)

haven't caught up yet CSI on but forgot its parents evening tomorrow and tue and i bet the list for times went up on Fri when i wasnt there so only stupid times left, and we have swimming tomorrow(although she is in the big pool now on her own with no aids and nt holdig on - keeping herself afloat - not such a bad holiday -any way and tae kwon do on tue, wondering if i can have a quick word with teacher at lunch time when i go to work, she only in yr 1 and all other eve's only take 5 mins???????

Pink_Fairy_2

Froddington - census would be the best step. You know the month and year of death, and presumably the location, so you find the date of the preceeding census (every 10 years - compulsory entry!!!) to find where she was at that time. That would be your starting point. From that, you can confirm who else lived at the same address, which will give you additional info to work back from. Any such research is time consuming but - wow - some of what we have found has been truly amazing and well worth it, although to be fair, DB has done most of the work so far. If anyone is interested see here:

http://www.carstairs.talktalk.net/

On the first picture my father is the second from the right (Kenneth Ward) the others being his two brothers, father and brother-in-law.

Natty68

Ok if you all start getting Facebook friend requests it's only from me. I am just going through the MSE Ole Style and MSE Flylady groups and adding people, well that's if I can figure out who is who..lol

SarahShattered

I've just gone though all the people on Ol style facebook group and sent friend requests to everyone I recognised!

Hi Natty& PinkF!

Valli

Wow Pink - your username (surname bit IYSWIM) is (almost) in there as a surname! I thought they were all convicts! Then I put my specs on!:rotfl:

Not one of those surnames is in my family AFAIK...

***Pink sighs with relief***:rotfl:

~~~Shakes head sadly as has no facebook requests and a guessable nickname~~~
realises is twp as was mixing up Yahoo and facebook. What's the facebook group called?

soappie

froddington wrote: »

Is there anybody who could help me with some family history?/quote]

Frod - I'm an expert! if you want to PM me EVERYTHING you know about her, I'll do some digging..

x_raphael_xx

I'm back in this week, I kinda trailled off at the end of last week, but I was very busy feeding OH parents (mustard coated chops went down very well )

OH is leaving for a week in Spain tomorrow, so I should be able to get on without her in the way and messing things up behind me :rolleyes:

Monday Marvels - Kitchen
level one
Clear and wipe work surfaces
clean the drawers and filters in the WM
Level Two
Sweep and mop floors
Clean the oven & hob
Deweb these rooms
Level three
Clean out your grottiest cupboard!! It doedn't need to be like that
Empty and clean out your bins!
Extras

1. HHI
2. binbag dance
3. Empty out the cutlery drawer and make it clean and twinkly
4. S&S the fridge

Extra 'To Do's':
Pay £227.05 £162.05 onto Credit Card