Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

zagubov

vivatifosi wrote: »

Generally very factual. I can translate the odd words like filia, but I've not found a list for abbreviations. The other problem I'm having is with the script. A capital T looks like a J looks like other letters too, so working out names is a bit of a nightmare, particularly when old and damaged paper. My guess is that this is why so little has been digitised. Having said that, this whole project would not have been possible 10, possibly even 5 years ago. The amount of archive digitising that is going on all over Britain is amazing.

Through the books of visitations, I've put together a full family tree of the main line and through local listory books I've managed to find a lot of sub-lines. Most of this has been done without leaving my house using out of copyright books that have been digitised, though I have put in an inter-library loan request for something outside of the county. It's so exciting riding the crest of a wave of new information possibilities yet involving data that is ancient. I love the implied paradox in that.

ETA: the genealogical puzzle I'm trying to help solved has been known about and being worked on for at least 30 years, though not by masses of people. Most of those doing the looking are in the USA (we're talking about a family that came over one one of the ships following the Mayflower). It's amazing what I've been able to find through library resources and makes me almost evangelical about promoting that aspect of my job. Hopefully this won't scare people off, I will come down off that cloud at some point! They will almost certainly have to appoint a genealogist at some point, but if I can do the grunt work that will really help.

Isn't there a church somewhere in the US which was digitising all our birth and death records for some sort of retrospective posthumous "conversion" of parishioners' dead ancestors?

Whether they'd have wanted it or not! :eek:

michaels

!!!!!! - apparently First Capital Connect is broken bryond repair on the day I am supposed to be getting home promptly to be a scout helper (and the day I have forgotten my phone). Getting home is going to be an experience.

vivatifosi

zagubov wrote: »

Isn't there a church somewhere in the US which was digitising all our birth and death records for some sort of retrospective posthumous "conversion" of parishioners' dead ancestors?

Whether they'd have wanted it or not! :eek:

Yes, the Mormons, who are also behind the Ancestry website. I find it horrific that they want to baptise me after my death and have long wondered if I can add a codicil to my will specifically prohibiting it.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Yes, the Mormons, who are also behind the Ancestry website. I find it horrific that they want to baptise me after my death and have long wondered if I can add a codicil to my will specifically prohibiting it.

Oh, I didn't know any of this.

I am trying to decide if I care and I don't think I do....should I?

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh, I didn't know any of this.

I am trying to decide if I care and I don't think I do....should I?

It probably winds me up more than most as I come into contact with Ancestry most days so feel I should have more choice. Have a read of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism_for_the_dead

It does at least explain why so few older church records are on Ancestry (or on any other site for that matter)

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

ETA: Looks like NP may be over-represented in the learned at least a couple of words of Latin stakes. I shudder to think what PN thinks of that...

I never learnt a word of latin, forced learning of welsh in school until the age of 13/14. Taught by teachers who spoke welsh as their first language and seemed to consistently devote 80% of their teaching to the 10% of the class who spoke welsh at home. Put me off languages.

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

!!!!!! - apparently First Capital Connect is broken bryond repair on the day I am supposed to be getting home promptly to be a scout helper (and the day I have forgotten my phone). Getting home is going to be an experience.

Thank goodness I turned down a market research opportunity that would have involved travelling in to central London about now on FCC.

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

Do any NP speak Latin?

I have a very rusty recollection of Latin Mass (which is beautiful when sung), a selection of Hymns and Carols and the odd bit from an O level class book involving the tale of a girl called Flavia .

Since that time the odd bit of law in latin has taken residence in my brain but otherwise that is the sum total.

If you do speak it what do you use it for?

I was going to mention Latin - big thing about it on the telly this morning.

Latin's definitely a POSH ALERT. One bloke annoyed me as he said "employers like to see Latin" - which really means "employers like people from posh schools".

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

How many pages have you lot gone through since I was last on????:eek:

I never buy eggs I have an aversion to raw ones. I therefore tend to buy ready made pancakes and lemon juice or maple syrup. It's just not worth getting over something that makes me gag for once a year. I don't bake for the same reason, though fortunately I'm not really a cake person.

In the war they had dried eggs, which everybody seemed to rave about. There are eggless cakes. Here's one from my randomly gathered (but never cooked) selection: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/157119 - from a little-known forum

And here's a bunch of substitutes: http://tipnut.com/egg-substitutes/

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was going to mention Latin - big thing about it on the telly this morning.

Latin's definitely a POSH ALERT. One bloke annoyed me as he said "employers like to see Latin" - which really means "employers like people from posh schools".

Apparently there's an old saying that all a person needs to get on in life is money, a good horse and Latin. Which are all things we've now discussed in this thread. :beer:
On another thread somebody said that even vegetarian food has been found to contain traces of uniquorn.:eek: