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

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

You might come from a family of killer librarians!

Yes...... the deed was done in the library, bashed over the bonce with a hardback copy of an Agatha Christie compendium.

vivatifosi

A librarian crime would be to strangle someone with the sleeves of your cardigan.

Pyxis

vivatifosi wrote: »

A librarian crime would be to strangle someone with the sleeves of your cardigan.

Then you could unravel the evidence! :rotfl:

antrobus

vivatifosi wrote: »

Afaik I'm not from a family of criminals. If I am and they get caught as a result, that will serve them right:A:rotfl:

As far as you know. People are not always forthcoming about their criminal convictions.:)

And perhaps having uploaded your profile to Living DNA you'll discover all sorts of new relatives you knew nothing about. I thought that was the point of doing it.

LydiaJ

LydiaJ wrote: »

Thanks ivyleaf. If all goes well I should have photos to post soon. In the meantime, DD and I have hunted out some of Avatar Dog's belongings - his food and water bowls, and some of his toys. They're a bit big (Little Dog is quite a lot smaller than Avatar Dog) but they'll do until we've got smaller ones for Little Dog).

Little Dog turned out not to be right for us - we want one who enjoys playing "fetch" and although we were told that Little Dog did, when we met him we tried throwing a ball for him and he completely ignored it. The girl who was working at the kennels was very helpful, though, and introduced us to 3 other dogs who did like playing fetch, and we have chosen one of those. We should get her in a week or so. She is rather like Avatar Dog, but a bit smaller. He was probably a black lab cross greyhound (we called him a labrahound) and she is probably a black lab cross whippet (we think we might call him a whippador). Photos to come soon. Meanwhile, the centre had another family lined up who are keen to have Little Dog, so he should have a new home to go to soon.

Jackmydad

GDB2222 wrote: »

You might come from a family of killer librarians!

Date stamped to death. At least the cops would know when it was done.

I don't know that I actually want to meet any long lost relatives. . .

PasturesNew

Jackmydad wrote: »

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I don't know that I actually want to meet any long lost relatives. . .

You might if those known to you were "a right shower".

When my parents moved 350 miles from their home town mum didn't even tell her siblings she'd moved... that was it. They'd not really spoken much for 20-25 years, just crossed paths at nan's on Boxing Day briefly .... and after her funeral that was it.

A right shabby shower they were - and still are.

An embarrassment .... from the perspective of anybody discovering you're related and has encountered them ... and anybody perusing a "list of felons you really don't wish to bump into".

A shower I tell you ....

And they have continued to perpetuate their low IQ and chaotic lifestyles down through their emerging generations

Jackmydad

PasturesNew wrote: »

You might if those known to you were "a right shower".

When my parents moved 350 miles from their home town mum didn't even tell her siblings she'd moved... that was it. They'd not really spoken much for 20-25 years, just crossed paths at nan's on Boxing Day briefly .... and after her funeral that was it.

A right shabby shower they were - and still are.

An embarrassment .... from the perspective of anybody discovering you're related and has encountered them ... and anybody perusing a "list of felons you really don't wish to bump into".

A shower I tell you ....

And they have continued to perpetuate their low IQ and chaotic lifestyles down through their emerging generations

There is a large family on dad's side. There were a lot of them. I suspect that his siblings are mostly gone now. I've met two of my cousins, but that's over 40 years ago. Nothing against them at all, but I don't know if I, or for that matter they, want to be bothered.
Again I used to know some of my paternal grandmother's family. But we were never close.
On my mother's side of the family, there's no-one apart from my grandparent's sibling's offspring, who are a long way removed, and I've never met.
So I prefer to let sleeping dogs lie.
I'd like to know the "whos, hows, and what happened tos" but I don't want the possible baggage that goes with it.

PasturesNew

You don't have to meet anybody .... I've never met a single person on my tree that I didn't know already ..... not one. And nor do I expect to.

I just like to know where people disappeared to .... because people disappeared a lot back then.

No tree knows where everybody died... they just "disappear" - often because they moved and there are 30 people it "could be" but it'd cost you £10 per name on the list to buy a certificate to read it to see IF that was the same person.... so, of course, you don't do that. It's unimportant....

Pyxis

Jackmydad wrote: »

Date stamped to death. At least the cops would know when it was done.

I don't know that I actually want to meet any long lost relatives. . .

:rotfl: I wish I'd thought of that! :rotfl:
Mind you, it's all scanned by computer these days. And DIY.
I went all nostalgic for those those little buff pockets that the book's card went into.

Hang on, if he were date-stamped to death, what if he were overdue? :rotfl:


I certainly wouldn't want to meet anyone, thank you. Like you Pastures, the ones I know about on both sides I gave up on long ago, and have no reason to believe that any others coming out of the woodwork would be any better.

However, there are a few things about my DNA background I'd quite like to know.
Shame you can't get a father's line if you're female (apart from autosomal). I understand why!.... it's still a shame. I don't have a brother who could do it, and all other direct male relatives are dead.

Anyway, I decided to go for it!