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

ukmaggie45

Have to admit to being on GransNet. Not keen on the whole, mostly I find it boring.

However, today it paid off! This gem might be of interest to dear PN and anyone else interested in genealogy. Free 6 week course, starts tomorrow, accessible for 8 weeks.

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/genealogy

I've signed up, though may have to drop out if Life Happens.

Pyxis

Once again, thwarted at every turn from seeing an astronomical event by thick cloud at the relevant moment, which, just to be extra spiteful, followed an evening of very little or dappled cloud, (when nothing was happening).

Am really fed up now.
This always happens to me.

GDB2222

Too cloudy to see the lunar eclipse here, as well, sadly.

Today is known to be the most depressing day of the year, apparently.

chris_m

GDB2222 wrote: »

Too cloudy to see the lunar eclipse here, as well, sadly.

Had a look out an hour or so ago - clear sky and I did see the blood moon, just before it dropped below a house roofline.

PasturesNew

I didn't know there was an eclipse of any sort on.... who knows, if I'd known I might've seen it

I had a Wide Awake Club night again - they rarely come alone, but tend to just lessen over 3-4 days until they stop.

PasturesNew

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Have to admit to being on GransNet. Not keen on the whole, mostly I find it boring.

ROFLMFAO

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

However, today it paid off! This gem might be of interest to dear PN and anyone else interested in genealogy. Free 6 week course, starts tomorrow, accessible for 8 weeks.

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/genealogy

I've signed up, though may have to drop out if Life Happens.

Viva's always touting this when it crops up.

Looking through the list of what it covers, the trouble is "I already know/do that". I hadn't heard the term FAN/cluster before, so googled it - and it appears I've been doing this for years anyway.
I've always researched all sorts when I'm short of actual records - and, years ago, there were fewer records, so I had to "drift off". It started for me when my gt-gt-gran dumped her kids off at the workhouse and I wondered why.... I discovered, for example, that it was the end of the coldest summer for over 200 years (probably "ever"), so there she was, widowed (1878), her father had just died (1879), she'd probably been living in his tied cottage with her parents and her five kids... the tied cottage probably had to be given back, mother moved in with another daughter in the village next door, leaving my gt-gt-grandmother with five kids and winter coming (1879). So off she went and that's how she ended up in prison. I don't know why she did it immediately again, although I think she had just got pregnant too ... and off to prison she went again

When she came out, she got a "lodger" (1881), I doubt he was the father (only DNA would know) ... but he was still a lodger in 1891. In 1901 she was elsewhere, but looking after her elderly aunt's widow as housekeeper until he died (1903), then she headed back into town where she ended up in the same road as the lodger and his mother; she was then evicted for being unruly/disorderly... and, finally, in 1907, my gt-granny was present at the lodger's death. My cousin thinks this is "proof" the lodger was her father; I just think there was something going on with the lodger and that my gt-granny probably saw him as "mum's long-term boyfriend" rather than her own father, but he'd been omni-present in her upbringing. There was no reason to have not married the lodger (both widows) ... so why didn't she? Especially if he was the father of one/both children. But ... there's nowt so queer as folk.

I always look at everything surrounding all my ancestors, their neighbours, employers, the local goings on.

I think my granny married her husband because she probably knew him already and they "re-connected/got together" at his sister's funeral. I think that would've been the event at which they were both present and able to chat and set up a date. I'd have not decided that if I'd not researched everybody/everything.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

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Spring rush

GDB2222

I've got some fresh bread on the go. Do you want to borrow it for a couple of hours, Pastures?

Or buy some coffee beans and stick a dozen on a baking tray in the oven.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

I've got some fresh bread on the go. Do you want to borrow it for a couple of hours, Pastures?

Or buy some coffee beans and stick a dozen on a baking tray in the oven.

Those old tricks don't work do they .....

By the way .... the oven's never been used by me

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I didn't know there was an eclipse of any sort on.... who knows, if I'd known I might've seen it

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Doubtful.
There was a band of cloud from the Midlands to the south coast.
Cornwall and Devon were clear, Kent was clear, Eastern England was clear, the NorthEast was clear, but not that central/southern section.

This is what it looked like, according to someone who sent a photo of it into the BBC this morning............