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Karmacat

MatyMoo wrote: »

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?

I've done it! Took a *lot* less time than the bleeping mystery shopping, I can tell you :rotfl:

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.

Family tree research *is* the same as genealogy, you're right. Scurrilousness .... lots of illegitimate births, including one in 1855, which was a big deal back then - no father declared on the birth certificate, either!

One of my great great grandfathers was **amazing** - born in Ireland the year of the worst of the famine, brought to England at the age of 12 by his parents, married young, 9 kids over here, wife died of TB in her early 40s he'd been an engineer on the transatlantic steamers, and took 4 of the kids over to New York (which is why I have a beloved American cousin!) my great grandmother, then aged 13, and her 15 year old brother, were left in charge of the toddlers in this country. Ten years later, their maternal uncle died on the Titanic, he was a third class steward ... the Connors are quite a dramatic family! The American fought in the Hispanic American War, and set up a whiskey still during Prohibition, but was killed when it blew up ... I have newspaper reports, honest! They don't have to be rich or scurrilous to be interesting

MatyMoo

Karmacat wrote: »

I've done it! Took a *lot* less time than the bleeping mystery shopping, I can tell you :rotfl:



Family tree research *is* the same as genealogy, you're right. Scurrilousness .... lots of illegitimate births, including one in 1855, which was a big deal back then - no father declared on the birth certificate, either!

One of my great great grandfathers was **amazing** - born in Ireland the year of the worst of the famine, brought to England at the age of 12 by his parents, married young, 9 kids over here, wife died of TB in her early 40s he'd been an engineer on the transatlantic steamers, and took 4 of the kids over to New York (which is why I have a beloved American cousin!) my great grandmother, then aged 13, and her 15 year old brother, were left in charge of the toddlers in this country. Ten years later, their maternal uncle died on the Titanic, he was a third class steward ... the Connors are quite a dramatic family! The American fought in the Hispanic American War, and set up a whiskey still during Prohibition, but was killed when it blew up ... I have newspaper reports, honest! They don't have to be rich or scurrilous to be interesting

Wow! This is interesting stuff!

My Grandmother was married, crossed the atlantic seven times, had three children and was widowed in five years. Her husband died of Blackwater fever in Canada where he was working throughout most of their marriage.

Karmacat

Thats fascinating .... honestly, the more you know about the history of ordinary families, *so called* ordinary families, the more you can understand why we still have such close links with these countries ... its all just underneath the surface, only just gone from living memory. Thanks for sharing!

I've been out to Sainsbo - bit horrified at the prices of frozen veg there - last time I went, it was mostly £1.10, my sprouts were still £1 a kilo

Now! Its all £1.30 a kilo!!! I'm in the centre of town tomorrow, and I swear, if Iceland's prices are okay, I'll *really* be stocking up.

Lula-Hula

Just peeping in to say hello & will try to catch up properly soon

xx

Double_Trouble

Karmacat wrote: »

You know what, DT, when you're right, you're right!

Please stop posting on this diary I love opening it and seeing this at the top of the page :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Pity I couldn't be right more of the time about more things

DTxx

taxi73

the geneology stuff sounds very interesting

Karmacat

:hello::hello::hello:

I managed to do quite a lot of the "travel" section of the accounts yesterday - sadly, it was the easy months, when most of it was just a petrol payment to my business partner, but I did get started on the difficult stuff - moving here, I used all sorts of weird and wonderful train fares and different journeys, and its quite difficult sorting it out at this distance in time. Yet another reason for doing this stuff every month!

Ah well. I still have my daily coffee to look forward to (its brewing downstairs ) and thats what really matters :j

More accounts, more emails, you know the drill. And I *will* stop for the 11am Armistice Remembrance.



ETA - I see the forum is shutting for 2m as well. Good stuff, Martin.

mizmir

Wow KC you have some fascinating forebears! I am so envious of the oral histories - sadly I got into this too late to interview my grandparents - and I so regret the missed opportunities to talk to them about their families. My grandmother in particular was born at the turn of the 20th C, was an artist who designed camouflage for ships in the war and then taught in Canada until she returned to England when her father died. She has a fascinating family including an aunt who was put in an asylum after she (reportedly) attacked someone with a knife and a grandfather who abandoned his family to run off to the US. Further back her ancestors fought at Culloden for the Jacobites! Rest of the family is Scottish (love their records!), Irish (hit a brick wall there) and Cumbrian - generations of illegitimate births in that one - plus a couple of Gretna Green marriages! Love the detective work involved.

Karmacat

ooh, Miz, so do you! If you found the right sets of records, I bet you'd find some stuff on your grandmother - did she design the camo in this country? What about the Imperial War Museum, or the Design Centre, for starters? Canadian records are pretty good too, I started the records for my niece and nephew as one of their great grandfathers had some Canadian time (this is what I mean, even ordinary people seem to have been back and forth across the Atlantic at some periods in history like it really was a pond!).

Irish - I'm with you on the brick wall, but I've never been over there on a specifically genealogy-based trip, so I'm not sure. As well as the Connors, who were in Dublin, we have more Connors, who we think were Northern Irish because they were in Scotland at first, and a family with the surname of Lappin, from Meath - he was a soldier at Waterloo, with the medal and the pension to prove it. Thats my maternal line, mother of-mother of-mother-of, etc, so I'm very partial to that family :j

Wonderful stuff :j

Anyway, today, hmm, family stuff, but dfw stuff, I have realised, is finally to make a temporary repair to the shed at the bottom of my garden - the waterproof covering blew off last month and if I don't cover it with *something* soon - well, the whole thing is going to crumble, its none too sturdy. So that'll be my job today, before popping out to raid Asda for pesto and peanut butter, and anything else dfw that I can get my mitts on

Cheery_Daff

Thought for a second there you were hoping to repair the shed with pesto and peanut butter! I guess Peanut butter would be a pretty good glue And pesto might make it look like you had a grass roof?!