"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

mizmir

Hope things were better for you today.

Interested you do genealogy - I started just over a year ago and love it - know the fear about backup - they are some of my most precious stuff as I have scans of everything - but I also printed out the images/documents and have folders too just in case. So backed up to cloud, backed up to disk (several times) and backed up to paper! You could say I was paranoid!

Karmacat

ZTD wrote: »

Why don't you keep a backup in someone elses house? http://www.truecrypt.org/

:grouphug:

All part of a nutritious breakfast...

The easy answer is to tell them to stuff their volunteering...

Thanks for the hug Z! My breakfasts are thankfully back on track today, apart from being a bit crosseyed from all that sugar yesterday Truecrypt ... I had a looksee, of course - its encryption, no? I probably don't need encryption - even if my computer was hacked somehow, I don't keep client details on here, and thats what would matter, no passwords for financial accounts stored, all anyone would see is 18th century birth records and a lot of web-based fan fiction :D:D

The volunteering - the ***iness isn't aimed at me, thank goodness, tho they're being so mad in their scheduling of committee meetings that there might well be a parting of the ways in the New Year, there's only so many Saturday afternoons I'm willing to mess up for a one hour meeting.

Karmacat

gilligansyle wrote: »

Silly really, he asked me why I was moving and I told him where I wanted to go. He asked me if I liked gardening and when I said that I'd never done it, he said that I would be better staying where I was as I had a park at the top of the road for DS to kick a football round, and the rooms in those houses were smaller than mine.

My word! It depends why you want to move! Although of course, since your DS was still young enough then to kick a football around as a priority those points might well have been relevant.

Sorry to hear about your troubles. You haven't actually mentioned the organisation so it shouldn't be an issue; chocolate is the way to go.

Thats true. My professional organisation is notorious for "guilty till proven innocent", however, so I think I'd better let it die a death on here, as its such a public forum.

mizmir wrote: »

Hope things were better for you today.

Interested you do genealogy - I started just over a year ago and love it - know the fear about backup - they are some of my most precious stuff as I have scans of everything - but I also printed out the images/documents and have folders too just in case. So backed up to cloud, backed up to disk (several times) and backed up to paper! You could say I was paranoid!

Thanks miz! OOh, you've become a genealogy nut :j:j:j I'm on and off with it, but I've done it all my life - because I started so young, I have oral history type interviews with a fair few grandparents etc born at the end of the 19th century or the very beginning of the 20th, and thats really receding now into the depths of proper history, so to speak. And the number of reference libraries I've trawled through ... no way I could repeat that.

Ooh! Another thing - Ancestry.com has a free long weekend, from today, to research military records - something like that, anyway, it was in Martin's email yesterday. Make sure you take advantage of it if you possibly can. I've got some medal cards, but I'm interested to see what else is there - when I was first researching, I zoomed straight past WWI and it never even occurred to me to research WWII because as a teenager I thought it was names and dates

Another cup of tea is calling :coffee:

gilligansyle

KC - I think the Estate Agent was right - I would have regretted the move. His tone was "if you are only moving so there is somewhere safe for your son to play, he'll grow older and be able to play outside, and you'll be left with a smaller house and a garden you don't like dealing with" -I'm not much of a gardener although I like having things growing. I resent the time spent keeping them tidy - my sister on the other hand loves pottering round her garden.

I keep a lot of my documents in google docs.

Just realised how early you posted! Go have a cuppa!

Karmacat

Aha! That makes sense, thanks

Right - coffee to go, then I'm set. I did *all* the mystery shopping detail accounts yesterday - still need to add things up and print, but thats all :j

Today, its France - should be simpler, as there just isn't as much paperwork, so I may get on to the next thing, in fact, I probably should - checking income figures, every single titchy account (even egg, with a balance of £27, which I *really* should close). I have power! Power, I tell you

**mad cackle**

MatyMoo

Karmacat wrote: »

Aha! That makes sense, thanks

Right - coffee to go, then I'm set. I did *all* the mystery shopping detail accounts yesterday - still need to add things up and print, but thats all :j

The spreadsheet should do this for you - shout if you need talking through how!

Today, its France - should be simpler, as there just isn't as much paperwork, so I may get on to the next thing, in fact, I probably should - checking income figures, every single titchy account (even egg, with a balance of £27, which I *really* should close). I have power! Power, I tell you

**mad cackle**

I thought halloween was last week :rotfl:

It sounds as though you are getting through the accounts in small bites, well done you :T

Karmacat

:hello::hello::hello: It should, shouldn't it ... I use Open Office, as toe-rag incarnate Microsoft only give you a trial version on new machines these days - but I'm sure I've seen the add up button.

Taking the books and whatnot downstairs made a *ridiculous* amount of difference - I pity anyone who has to do this stuff in their ordinary workplace - I'm spread all over the house, practically

Small steps, thats the one

Halloween can be every week, as far as the cackling is concerned

Thanks Maty - it was your support on here that got me going on it, finally - and now I have control over more of the work, I can see that it will be fairly painless to keep up to date.

At the mo, however, I've been seduced by the dark side of the web - namely ancestry.com's free WWI info but a lot of my family records, including those of my great grandfather, must be in the Burnt Records, that were destroyed in WWII by a bomb.... I know perfectly well that he was in the Military Police in Ramsgate, as there are oral history notes I have of my great grandmother visiting him there, but he's not in the Records at all. Sad; I *have* got a lot of details about her cousin tho, who was wounded in France.

**mumbles to self - accounts**

Pippilongstocking

Lobbed in a fat free gluten friendly cake - and a healthy chocy bar (one of your five a day, don't you know)

Have a great one, running out the door - but thinking about that rotten day - you don't need one, I think we'll ban rotten day from now on.

Karmacat

Yummy, thank you!

Seduction by the dark side of the web continues - I just found my great grandfather's pension records - way down the list, where they said it wasn't likely - I'd urge anyone who does this stuff to look at the *whole* list, always, even tho it takes longer.

I'm *definitely* stopping that now, I need to get back to the accounts!

Have a good one yourself, Pippi - and don't worry about the rotten day, 'tis well over.

MatyMoo

No, no, no - leave the accounts for today! This free trail thingy is throwing up some interesting info :T

Have you ever found any scurrilous information or criminals in your past?

My BIL has done a lot of our family tree (is this the same as genealogy?) and found our side easy. Mum had gone back to our Great Great Grandparents to enable her to register my sister's birth as a british national (she was born in Germany, Dad born in Canada so she couldn't take his nationality as he had taken his from his parents) which gave him a start and Dad's family have been farmers in the same three farms for ever so parish records helped there, also our Grandfather was one of 11 so lots of paths to follow. But his own family has proved very tricky as his grandparents met in an orphanage s it has been difficult to get much information beyond that.