The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

PasturesNew

I'm glued to the PC for the free ancestry weekend. At first I thought I had nothing to look up, so was disappointed. I didn't fancy downloading every page from every parish register that's available as an original image (too soul destroying) ....

So I found a new family to research.

It is thought that maybe my Gt-grandmother's real father was the man living with her mother from a few months after she was born, then sort of on/off until he died, with my Gt-gm being present at his death.

Kind of compelling, but back then people did things/lived with people based purely on convenience and financials.... so he might NOT be. Even these days men will "take up with" a pregnant woman when he isn't the father. So you can't tell at all. There is the possibility that she filed for maintenance from some random father, or maybe not - and that might/might not be in the assizes records (which costs money just to look) ... so, for now, I'll just remain uninformed.

But... I decided to do his tree anyway - bunch of out and out rogues most of them.

As with all trees, many people just "disappear" because there are so many people they "could be" and so many places they could've moved to that it's easy to lose people.... especially when "everybody" names their children the same as their brothers and ancestors and don't have middle names.

It's not very interesting really .... but I'm doing it anyway.

Maybe one day I'll do a DNA test and maybe at some future point I'll get a "match" that I can tie to this fella who might be my Gt-gt-grandfather ... or not.

vivatifosi

The DNA tests are getting better and coming down in price. I've asked a couple of genealogists with an interest in DNA and they both said that it is worth getting older generations tested, but unless you have an active family project, it is probably not worth testing younger generations as the technology is changing.

My dad is taking a test. That will give results for his Ydna, mitochondrial and autosomal, so it will be interesting to see what the results will be.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

The DNA tests are getting better and coming down in price. I've asked a couple of genealogists with an interest in DNA and they both said that it is worth getting older generations tested, but unless you have an active family project, it is probably not worth testing younger generations as the technology is changing.

My dad is taking a test. That will give results for his Ydna, mitochondrial and autosomal, so it will be interesting to see what the results will be.

I AM the older generation - although I do have a first cousin once removed who also has this same bunch of ancestors. My granny's sister's daughter. I'm the next generation down. She's probably almost the only one left of her generation on the tree, with 1-2 UK siblings she visits annually.... but they die at the rate of one every 1-2 years, so she can't have many left.

I'll ask her if she's done DNA, she spends a lot of money on doing her research (she lives in the US), so a few bob to break through that side of the family wouldn't be missed by her.

She's in the UK at the moment though, so I'll email her when she returns home. Suggest it .... Then sit back.

She got me started with the initial tree up to that lot - and she had the idea that "this chap" was the daddy ... although I think it could be "any random Tom/!!!!/Harry" and then the two of them got together for convenience' sake. Probably liked each other, but who knows.... anything's possible.

PasturesNew

Somebody has the startings of a stinky BBQ. It's at an odd stage of burning where I keep thinking my house is on fire! It's just past the stage where you can smell the startup fluid.

Scorching here, a blinder of a day - but I had nowhere to go out to and nobody to go with, so what's the point?

Pyxis

Seeing Pastures' censored Richard diminuative reminded me.......


I wanted to put the name of someone called S c h m i d t on another thread yesterday, and it came up as !!!!!!!.

Does anyone know why this perfectly ordinary German surname equivalent of Smith should be censored?

I know that with a bit of mispronunciation it could be construed as a dung sound-alike, but that seems a bit far-fetched to me.

Any ideas? It's a puzzle!

chris_m

Whoever added it to the list "words to be forbidden" will know, meanwhile those of us in the real world will have to content ourselves with just saying "Oh scheisse"

Hehe, that one got through OK :rotfl:

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Whoever added it to the list "words to be forbidden" will know, meanwhile those of us in the real world will have to content ourselves with just saying "Oh scheisse"

Hehe, that one got through OK :rotfl:

Nice one! I shall remember to say it in German in future! :rotfl:




Test: of course, there is always merde (Fr.) or merda (It.)

Yey! They got through!

Little victories!

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Nice one! I shall remember to say it in German in future! :rotfl:

"Merde" works too, should one prefer French

Or, for Italian, there's always Fiat :rotfl:

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

"Merde" works too, should one prefer French

Oops! Cross-posts while I went to advanced to check! :rotfl:

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Oops! Cross-posts while I went to advanced to check! :rotfl:

Ditto - oh merde, scheisse and Fiat :rotfl: