Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

lemonjelly

Nikkster wrote: »

I only thought of the wall sticker-type things due to the first post I quoted. There are some nicer (and less nice) ones here:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/141108249019?limghlpsr=true&hlpv=2&ops=true&viphx=1&hlpht=true&lpid=108&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=108&ff19=0
I'm toying (at a very preliminary stage) with getting some kind of mural/ scene wallpaper for the bit of 'wall' that is facing you if you stand at the top of the stairs (which meets the corners I can't reach with my extending duster). Possibly something foresty, but depends on what colour the area by the front door/ landing end up being. Looong way off.

Definitely know what you mean about not just buying the first cheap thing that will do - I'm just buying things I really like as and when I see them. I'm sure it's going to take forever and a day to get my house done up nicely, but hopefully it will be 'me' and I'll enjoy wafting round in it when I've done it. Until then I can cope with my studentsville-themed decor

Love some of those Nikkster!
Ended up adding loads of things to my ebay watch list...:o

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I never understand people like that - it doesn't hurt to name/label them and put them in a box for somebody in the future that might care to have them; she could even have offered them round.
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With no descendants I don't have to worry about it.

Dh's mother left crate fuls.


It became a night mare and he , his siblings, father and mothers siblings couldn't face it. In the end they went on a skip a bout, what. Six, seven years ago . There will have been treasures I am certain, but....we'd still be sorting through them now. With every one busy and on different countries it was difficult and honestly, DH and his sister have both said they felt better the things gone.

There must be some normal middle ground?

lemonjelly

PasturesNew wrote: »

While sorting out the house I was gathering all the photos together (none in albums, just piles here and there, some odd/random/sole ones dotted around .... and in a conversation with my sibling she said she'd got an uncle's wedding photo from 5 years before I was born - I had no idea, never seen it before. She scanned it and sent it over ... and I saw people I'd never seen before.

My great-grandmother was on there! Had never seen her before. So now I have one small black/white wedding photo of "everybody" that was there, with my GGM dressed in mourning black and looking like a proverbial witch. She was of the generation when you wore black in mourning for the rest of your life I think (born about 1880, died 1961).

It'd be fabulous to have a full family tree and photos of everybody.

My dad was severely ill 10 years ago. Round about the same time that Who Do You Think You Are became big.
He's got quite into it.
Used to work with a volunteer who was well into tracing the family tree too. She was always off on made weekends to search records. Created loads of interesting conversations.

dad has collected loads of info on his pc. Must look in detail sometime.

zagubov

Doozergirl wrote: »

I know a lot of you don't like facebook, but I do enjoy it and there are no Jeremy Kyle moments on my feed. This evening however, tiny miracles appeared via messenger from a lady I have never met. Beautiful pictures of my mum mainly, because it would be her birthday tomorrow (56) but my uncle, aunt and grandparents.

My grandparents didn't keep photos. I think something happened and my granma might have destroyed most a very long time ago but when your mum dies at the age of 45 and didn't like having her picture taken, a child is left with very little. Nice people parents, please have photos, for the day that comes, hopefully no sooner than it should.

I can see my children's faces there. It's so surreal but incredibly precious. And my grandparents were very beautiful people! LIR, cousin looks JUST like my grandad as a young man without the Brylcreem and suit

Facebook's allright. A bloke in Canada formed a group about a town on the edge of the one I grew up in. He also got photos and info of a ghost village on another side of my hometown. My mum used to visit cousins there and raved about it despite the fact it had no leccy or domestic water supply. When I was a kid we used to play around there and you could barely tell there had been a village at all, the neighbouring woodland had taken it over in a few decades.

I emailed a link to my parents who were tickled pink by it. It filled in a lot of gaps of their knowledge. I encouraged them onto computers and the internet -who knew they're more tech-savvy than me anyway, using iPads and Facetime and Kindles and Tomtoms and whatever.

I'm quite content using my G4 mac which, say what you like about it, managed to crack the Enigma code and shortened WWII by several years. :beer:

lostinrates

Prompted by LJ's family tree post I just checked a website about a family member of mine ( deceased) to see its got a lottery heritage grant.

Hmm. Seems there could be more useful stuff to with the dough.

CKhalvashi

I've found a number of old photos, diploms etc last week when sorting through some files at home. Some of the photos date back to the early 1930s and I can spend hours going through them. I'll put some early Soviet photos up at some point for you guys.

WOO! As I typed this post I've had a call to say the tree at the end of my garden (which was about 15m) has gone! I know it's April, but if anyone wants some firewood, PM me. It's already been chopped for stoves, so just needs to be aged.

Yorkie1

Strangely enough, I got an email from a chap a few days ago as a result of a post I'd made on a genealogy forum in 2000 - and there's a connection with his family tree. Small world and I must follow it up at the weekend!

zagubov

Encouraged my dad to make a family tree many years ago but not sure it's readable by current software.

Some chap in the US made a wikipedia article about one of my grandads, who played a global sport in the US, but not one that really took off.

I don't know the names of all my first cousins. There's nearly 40 of them. My kids have got six cousins, haven't times changed.

PasturesNew

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Strangely enough, I got an email from a chap a few days ago as a result of a post I'd made on a genealogy forum in 2000 - and there's a connection with his family tree. Small world and I must follow it up at the weekend!

I have to stay off the forums.... any information I have is from my aunts .... so any searching I can do will always have her as the main contributor to information ... unfortunately she's very forthright and has got into some shouting matches with people over the decades about authenticity; she sliced the entire US connections off the chart when she accused a US 'researcher' of skimping and just using internet data and not being meticulous enough for her high standards. So I daren't answer/respond to anybody searching for anybody on that tree in case she sees it, or turns up

My other (2nd? removed?) cousin that's doing it is less Internet search obsessed, so I'd most likely not run into her, but I've just sketchy names/dates that she sent me and not full details. One man stopped responding to her as he was looking up his line and found her - then she pointed out to him that while we all shared a common ancestor (GGG-grandmother), our line followed the illegitimate line that started after the husband had died - his line was from the marriage, we're from the lodger after the husband's death; he didn't want to know after that. However, I did find somebody looking for that same woman a couple of months ago, so I shot an email saying "I'm from that line, cousin's got all the details if you want to be put in touch" and left it at that. He's not responded yet, but he's elderly and failing.....

PasturesNew

I just looked through my emails - and I think I've found a possible lead for somebody that "disappeared" .... my GGM and her sister both had bizarre names; my GGM stopped using her first name. I've just found something in an email that makes me think I found her "missing sister". If that's right, then she stopped using her funny first name and made up her own first name.... have to run that past my 2nd/removed/cousin as an idea as she might have more information on the ilnk between my GGM and the family she is explaining in the email.

It's funny how pieces "fall together" at later stages.... suddenly lights go on!