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fayjmck wrote: »

wAVES HELLLO TO KC

JUST DECLUTTERING A PC - NOT THE SAME AS MY LIFE - BUT ITS A START

You're doing good! I've found a load of fanzines for Babylon 5 - the early ones are "photostats" stapled together - somehow I don't think those will sell :rotfl:

gilligansyle wrote: »

My Mum is useless when it comes to family stuff as she spent most of her childhood in hospital, and so didn't get to do all the family stuff that most do. Unfortunately like most scousers, my mother's grandparents both came over from Ireland so the chances of finding anything are slim to none. I would really love to give it a proper go, but started on family tree for the current generation, with the help of 2 aunties, and gave up after 50 first cousins!

Aww, sorry she was in hospital - my mum was very ill as a child, she went to stay with an auntie who lived in a better area (i.e. not Bootle!) for the air, but she was never in hospital till she was an adult.

Um, 50 first cousins is quite a lot - I'm unusual down here, in that I have ten but bear in mind that if you want to go *backwards* - you don't actually need all your own first cousins. The families are huge, of course, and if your lot are anything like mine, they're really poor - but you can get an idea of what their lives were like from the general research, and the photos. I found that family stories were the most important for bringing people to life.

gilligansyle wrote: »

Sorry to hijack a bit, but read a post about the newspapers under your nan's floor. When Dad died and the house was sold, we found papers in the loft belonging to the builder who built the original houses, which started round about 1935. Some were costing for the build etc. and had comments about not being able to get skilled workers and that Germany didn't have that problem.

We gave them to the Central Library Archive as they weren't personal to us.

Oh yes, and Dad had kept ALL our school books, revision notes etc. I know who I get my hoarding instincts from.

Ooh, thats not a hijack! The council house my nan had to move out of was built at exactly the same time - 1932 - Bootle was famous for the quality of its housing, its education system and its public baths.... I played around the air raid shelter as a child (it was a shed by then ) Any memories your family's got about Liverpool that was, post em up, absolutely.

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

You're doing good! I've found a load of fanzines for Babylon 5 - the early ones are "photostats" stapled together - somehow I don't think those will sell :rotfl:

You might be surprised - depends more who wrote things for them.

Karmacat

Hmmm.... thats a point - I met some of the authors of the published books... if they did, then maybe.... in any case, even if I do sell them, they'll have to go on ebay - I can't list them on amazon, cos I'm not a pro seller.

Hey ho. Off to Bedfordshire, as the saying now goes.... night all - night Z.

xxx

taxi73

The geneaology stuff sounds good.I can't do ours as can't talk to family to find stuff out.

turfy6

Hi KC didnt get back to you yesterday. My genealogy stuff has been hanging around for about 20+ year now:rotfl: Ive finally got an office and shelves etc to put it in and Im still not sorted. My lot mostly come from Ireland Ive been searching for My gt grandfathers birth for forever, they couldnt spell so Im in the position of applying for around 6 birth certs to find him, I WILL get round to it soon. He was John Donovan born in Manchester around 1848 you'd think that would be simple but oh no not with my lot. I have only one branch in England and Ive traced them back to the 1700's in Whitby, North Yorks so I'd like to go there too.
We have a weekend booked in Wexford next week which is where my gt grandmother was born so Im looking forward to that.
I really must declutter though its beginning to take over IYKWIM:rotfl:

Karmacat

Taxi - you'll be fascinated! Even if its ordinary - which mine most definitely is - its fascinating. And you meet people. When I was a teenager, I met a 2nd cousin who liked genealogy but was also into guns.... he showed me his Colt 45, let me hold it. Once I got out of there, I was completely freaked, I never contacted him again. OTOH, my beloved American cousin, whom I mention on here now and again, I only met through the genealogy search - my great grandmother and her great great grandfather were sister and brother. We email one another at least 3 times a week, I don't know what I'd do without her....

Turfy - researching in Ireland sounds much more difficult and much more expensive than in England... I'm glad to hear you're doing it yourself. And how great you've got to the 1700s in Whitby! The best branch I've got is back to the 1740s, in Lancashire - they're Catholic farm workers, on the recusant lists, and still managing to stay Catholic over 100 years later. The thing that fascinates me, is that the last Catholic/Scottish invasion of England, in the 1740s, actually made it down to Lancashire, I've got a monograph with the geographical layout and everything. What on earth was it like to be an English Catholic in that area at that time? When you already had to pay fines and be registered just because of the religion you held? The persecution must have got very severe for a time.

taxi73

It all sounds interesting stuff.There are severe storms in France at the moment..15 killed..just heard it on the news

Karmacat

Oh my god, really? I was just writing to my cousin this morning, telling her that what we had here was nothing - worse wind last week, worse rain earlier *this* week. That sounds like my area's been very, very lucky.

Just had two ambulances outside my door tho - next door neighbour has taken a bad turn, he's only my age, but he's diabetic. It looked bad.

taxi73

Yes really it was on Sky news..didn't catch what area of France..but thought of you straight away because of your house over there.Hope it isn't damaged.
Oh dear..I hope your next door neighbour is ok and that it isn't as bad as it looks!!!

Karmacat

Oh, my apartment! Forgot about that - no, that should be fine, its in the Alps, and its taken care of by the management company and the insurance. The worry for me in France is my sister's house, which has no one looking after it and was in the path of that storm..... I better turn the tv on and check, thanks Taxi.

As for my neighbour - he was conscious, but not by much.... he gets very stressed.... we'll see.