** Tuesday 25th August Daily Chat ALL WELCOME **

(Land_of)_Maz

spud30 wrote: »

Morning :hello:

Sammy, sorry to hear you're feeling fed up babes. Hopefully you'll manage to have a nice weekend. Where are you going?

Me and a friend of DH's have been researching our family tree - just got really depressed looking at all the black marks on the names, indicating they've died

isn't it funny how even tho y'know realistically that previous generations die, you just feel a loss anyway once you've personified them.... i think maybe i have been watching too many "who do you think you ares"... I love that programme.....

sallyx

I love it too...I would love to go through and find all my family (don't have many that I am in contact with)

sammy115

spud30 wrote: »

Morning :hello:

Sammy, sorry to hear you're feeling fed up babes. Hopefully you'll manage to have a nice weekend. Where are you going?

Me and a friend of DH's have been researching our family tree - just got really depressed looking at all the black marks on the names, indicating they've died

I am okay spudly.....I only had a moment when he was snotty with me on the phone...its hard when you have no one to sound off at....means you lot get all the carp:rotfl:

Spud...that is sad about your family tree....My dad appears to have 'disowned' me completely now rather than just ignoring me. Milly sent a friend request to my dad and he has blocked her or ignored her or whatever it is you do....

She's braver than me - I didn't even dare send a request...:o

Milly can't quite understand why he treats me that way....and I am finding it hard to explain it myself

spud30

(Land_of)_Maz wrote: »

isn't it funny how even tho y'know realistically that previous generations die, you just feel a loss anyway once you've personified them.... i think maybe i have been watching too many "who do you think you ares"... I love that programme.....

I love that program too. Mine would be like Michael Parkinson's - too boring to show on television

DH's mate has somehow found a pic of my great great grandmother who was born in 1854. Not a clue where he found it, but it's really strange to look at her, if you know what I mean.

One day I'll pluck of the courage to find my dad's younger brother, wife and kids

(Land_of)_Maz

i worry about stories that my mum knows getting lost when she goes.... i'm hopeless, i can barely remember what i did last tuesday, thankfully my sister is the keeper of photo albums now and is good for stories n stuff.

sammy115

bookseller1980 wrote: »

Sammy, any news on OH's Dad?

Nope.....may get more inside information at the weekend..I am having a weekend away with another one of my SIL's.....(one of the more sensible ones....i think)

LouiseJ

I have just cleared out the unit in the dining room and have been sat crying at old photographs with us as a young courting couple, the boys when they were little and past loved ones who are no longer with us.

Makes you think that you have to live your life while you have it and make every day count as time passes so quickly.

I wasnt crying cause I was upset, not sure why the tears really, mourning for the past years that we cant get back I suppose.

sammy115

My sister has done all our family tree....we too are tres boring..despite my mother INSISTING that I am descended from an Irish Romany Gypsy...I'm not.....

edit: there isn't even a little bit of foreign in me anywhere....which is quite surprising really.......

spud30

sammy115 wrote: »

I am okay spudly.....I only had a moment when he was snotty with me on the phone...its hard when you have no one to sound off at....means you lot get all the carp:rotfl:

Spud...that is sad about your family tree....My dad appears to have 'disowned' me completely now rather than just ignoring me. Milly sent a friend request to my dad and he has blocked her or ignored her or whatever it is you do....

She's braver than me - I didn't even dare send a request...:o

Milly can't quite understand why he treats me that way....and I am finding it hard to explain it myself

I think its much worse for you to know they're around and ignoring you than it is for me with my black marks on em all.

I clicked the statistics button and my parents came up as the youngest to die in recent years. Quite an achievement

redsquirrel80

LouiseJ wrote: »

I have just cleared out the unit in the dining room and have been sat crying at old photographs with us as a young courting couple, the boys when they were little and past loved ones who are no longer with us.

Makes you think that you have to live your life while you have it and make every day count as time passes so quickly.

I wasnt crying cause I was upset, not sure why the tears really, mourning for the past years that we cant get back I suppose.

Oh Lou.. almost made me cry reading that