Breaking Through, Travelling On

Goldiegirl

Sounds like you made good use of the Ancestry weekend.

My dad's family were very prolific in the 18th and 19th centuries. The name is not that common, and I think everyone with our name in the south of England is related to me. There are also clusters of people with our name in the North East and in Lancashire, but I don't think there's any connection.

One of my friends is just starting the family history journey. She's just ordered her grandfather's birth certificate, so she can start going back in time. It is so exciting at first when you are finding relatives all the time!

Karmacat

Thank you Al, thank you SF GG too

Goldiegirl wrote: »

Sounds like you made good use of the Ancestry weekend.

I did! A lot of the census info had been painfully collecting manually in the 1980s, so its great to have the original documents available people have no idea what genealogical research used to be like!

My dad's family were very prolific in the 18th and 19th centuries. The name is not that common, and I think everyone with our name in the south of England is related to me. There are also clusters of people with our name in the North East and in Lancashire, but I don't think there's any connection.

The clusters are astonishing, aren't they ... I was looking at a marriage for 'Thompson', thinking it was going to be really common, but it was a name I thought was much less common that got me confuzzled. Jones and Roberts in Wales, however ... no chance

One of my friends is just starting the family history journey. She's just ordered her grandfather's birth certificate, so she can start going back in time. It is so exciting at first when you are finding relatives all the time!

:j:j:j that must be great! I remember meeting one very distant rellie about 20 years ago, who asked me how I knew I was related to a particular set of great grandparents, what research had I done? Well, I hadn't done any - my grandmother remembered them very well, she'd been an adult when they died, and my grandmother had only died a few years previously to him asking the question. If your parents stay connected to their family (which isn't always the case) you often have a way into the distant past thats pretty easy for a good long while.

Karmacat

Right, been thinking about today ... I have a meeting today about the CBT, not looking forward to it because I have to think about that dratted book again

Money situation just reared its head again, so I have to check banking today. Don't feel able to go for writing jobs - this infection is still weighing on me, unfortunately, but I have a phone number for the woman on the south coast who originally gave me the idea, so I'll set something up with her for the end of the month.

I was reading Alice Fowler, the foraging woman, this morning - she likes the combo of rhubarb and elderflower - I feel some jam making may be in my near future, I even bought pectin in my last grocery shop :j so we'll see :j


ETA - found a nice recipe at River Cottage, which means overnighting it, and I'd be doing the cooking tomorrow - thats a heavy work day, so I'll wait to do it until I've got proper time, Thursday-Friday. Its great to be able to plan this stuff

Karmacat

edinburgher wrote: »

KC, was laughing out loud and thinking of you while watching the Simpsons.

Homer became a prepper, the phrase sheeple was used and a good time was had by all :rotfl:

Karmacat wrote: »

I didn't know about that - Homer being a prepper would probably *cause* the end of the world

Karmacat wrote: »

Right, been thinking about today ... I have a meeting today about the CBT, not looking forward to it because I have to think about that dratted book again

Homer reared his head again today :eek: I laughed at the sess - turns out it was really, really really the wrong thing to do :eek:

slowlyfading

Rhubarb and elderflower sounds a great combination

Alchemilla

Are you delivering the CBT or receiving it?

Is it useful?

Karmacat

slowlyfading wrote: »

Rhubarb and elderflower sounds a great combination

I thought so too - I'll prep the rhubarb tomorrow night, and do the actual cooking on Thursday.

Alchemilla wrote: »

Are you delivering the CBT or receiving it?

Is it useful?

Receiving, such as it was - never got beyond the note-taking stage. No idea if it could have been useful - I worked hard at making it a success, including spending money on that awful book (and reading it too!) but it dissolved into something that sounded just like Homer Simpson had read that book - I blame Ed, personally :D:D The sort of work I do is very different from CBT.

Karmacat

Morning! Another day, another dollar ... So far I have:
- checked banking, in England *and* France - both current accounts are healthy, thank heavens.
- checked date and ticket availability for the Egyptian exhibition at the British Museum - I want to go, my sister wants to go, we want to go.
- and checked the holibob dates, which overlap with the Egyptian thing. Not too much, but teachers are so overwhelmed this half term, I wonder if we'll be able to go. We'll see.

Still to do:
- bit of cleaning, not much this time.
- bit of blog caretaking - new post, check followers, think about linked in, stuff like that ... SF, do you do all that stuff?
- bit of home foraging: rhubarb from the garden, prepare it for tomorrow's jam making :j

Two hours paid work too, that's always the priority

slowlyfading

Karmacat wrote: »

- bit of blog caretaking - new post, check followers, think about linked in, stuff like that ... SF, do you do all that stuff?

I keep an eye on subscriptions and stuffs; I don't have linked in but I have a twitter/facebook/instagram accounts for my blog is that what you meant?

edinburgher

I blame Ed, personally

You are not the first person to say that today :rotfl:

checked date and ticket availability for the Egyptian exhibition at the British Museum

I saw a fantastic exhibition (believe it was all the Tutankhamun stuff?) when I was a lad, a real standout of my childhood and just about the only time my archaeologist Dad was cool...