Dusty's Frugal Fortnights

beanielou

My DS would enjoy that book.
He is still a gamer

Lucifa73

I loved ready Player One when I read it a few years ago. Surprisingly I also really enjoyed the film, it was a really good adaptation. I usually hate films made from books I've read but this one really worked.

Hope you don't mind me butting in Dusty - I have read your diary through and thoroughly enjoyed it. You deal with the trials and tribulations with such humour and squeeze the fullest pleasure out of the positives. Fabulous to read. (I also think you are a saint when it comes to Mr Dusty!)

I have subscribed and look forward to see you meet your savings goals so you can do the things you want.

dustydigger

Thank you for popping in,Lucifa,you are very welcome. I,like you,have been binge reading diaries the last few weeks,and yours was one of them. Sorry about the job falling through.You are doing great at the surveys. I am always amazed at the number of surveys people seem to get.I rarely get accepted for more than one.They mostly seem to want younger women with young kids.
I do enjoy doing Prolific,they are such diverse often rather bizarre esoteric studies.Often there is some hidden agenda,and I like to try to puzzle it out. Certainly a lot more fun than those shopping surveys wanting minute discriminations in your attitude to Tesco or banks or yoghurt orwhatever.
But I seem to miss out on a lot of invitations,I dont seem to look at my emails at the right time,and by time I get there they are full:(
I havent seen Ready Player One yet,I tend like you to stick to the book. I think I will get myself a copy of it. I normally prefer to read a book from the library and then buy it,if I really like it. Seem to be quite a while since I liked a book enough to buy it.
The only problem with the book was the horrendously tiny print.My eyes may be deteriorating,but I'd rather have a bigger book that I can see without straining my eyes:rotfl:
I too think I have the patience of a saint contending with Mr Dusty:D

dustydigger

Sorted out a couple of files last night,and sorted what was left into folders,though I didnt get into arranging them in detail.
At least I sorted out my father's family line. I am attempting to get details of each ancestor's hatches,matches and dispatches documentation,but it can be a nightmare. Apparently about 3/4 of my forebears are still walking the earth because finding any evidence of death seems impossible in many cases,especially before public records began in 1837.
Anyway I am patiently working backwards through the years.
father - birth ,marriage and death all accounted for: lived 1905 - 1981

grandfather - BMDs all found,with some major shocks and difficulties.1875-1963


great grandfather - lots of details for him,including census records back to 1841 lived 1826 - 1911


its with the g.g.grandparents that the hassle begins.I have his birth,but am tearing my hair out finding a marriage or death.:mad: And going back over the centuries finds more of the same. I am back in the early 1700s but the lack of detail is annoying. What to do when you find 3 possible ancestors but are not told who their mothers were,how old they were when they died etc? Tearing out your hair is what you do!:rotfl:I may bore you with some of the things I have discovered about my family sometime. You know me,ANYTHING can appear on here!

mark55man

I can trace back to my grandparents - family myth has them arriving in UK from any one of the 3 baltic states so I haven't really got anywhere to start. good luck with yours though its a fabulous thing to have done.

I am not surprised though that your family tree is longer than others with more twists and turns than a twisty turny thing. Whereas mine is short and uninteresting :-)

Sayschezza

Trawling through church records is the only way before 1837. I was lucky because a few years ago when I was tracing my grandfathers line the Mormons had a web site that included lots of church records and the ones I wanted were on there. It was Freebmd I think but I was told they had closed the site down.

dustydigger

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I am not surprised though that your family tree is longer than others with more twists and turns than a twisty turny thing. Whereas mine is short and uninteresting :-)

''Twisty turny thing!'' Are you a Blackadder fan? As far as my family are concerned that is the greatest comedy sit com ever.
And yep,boy,is my tree twisty turny!:rotfl:
Did all four of your grandparents come over together which is why you have no other family lines to explore? That is very unusual. And your grandparents' language should at least hint at the right country.Sounds intriguing to me,but then I love being a genealogy nut!

dustydigger

Sayschezza wrote: »

Trawling through church records is the only way before 1837. I was lucky because a few years ago when I was tracing my grandfathers line the Mormons had a web site that included lots of church records and the ones I wanted were on there. It was Freebmd I think but I was told they had closed the site down.

That was probably the IGI,International Genealogical Index. Sadly it has been swallowed up by one of the big companies,and you need to subscribe,about £100 a year!:eek:

I was very lucky with some of my family lines because the North East is very well represented on the index. For religious reasons the Latter Day Saints wanted to gather the names of all their dead ancestors. They went round all the churches and politely asked the vicars if they could copy the church records. Many did allow it,others sent them off with a flea in their ear! All that info was sent back to their Salt Lake City headquarters,and is still there to this day. The whole genealogy community owe a massive debt to them.But if the local church didnt give them info its much more difficult to do research unless you can visit big record offices in the local area and physically trawl through the localchurch records on blurred microfiche!

I regularly consult Free BMD,but it is a frustrating thing to use,as it only lists names,and the quarter of birth.It only covers from 1837,and then modern privacy protection laws often hides recent details. Its easier to research someone a 100 years ago than 40!In earlier times people were almost exclusively married in church,so church records gave info. Not any more..For the first few decades it was very hit and miss,as the poor couldnt afford the fee to register births and deaths,and local vicars were too lazy or reluctant to copy out and send their church records to Somerset House. Which has led to me being frustrated that my relatives are apparently immortal since their deaths were never registered!:D

mark55man

That was my GP on my dad's side. My mum's family were all from kent - but they treated her so badly for marrying a London jew that I simply dont care who they are - better forgotten than found out about IMHO

Sayschezza

I must have remembered it wrong Dusty and it was the Latter Day Saints site I used. Don't recognise theIGI one.