Karmacat: I'm passionate about my DFW journey to riches

Karmacat

Olive - I'm glad you can relate, with all the sparkling garages round me, I thought I was weird for a bit there!

GTD - do you know what he worked at? There'll be an online local history forum... have you contacted that? And there'll be an online forum around the local newspapers. Was he unionised? Births marriages deaths? PM me if you want to, if I can help, I will

Not much going on today, tho I have to follow up my own genealogy research, getting ready for a couple of trips to the National Archives at Kew - WWI records (oh how nice, my great grandfather was tested for a social disease ), a divorce in the 1920s, and researching the campaign medals of my 5 x great grandfather who fought at Waterloo.

Got to focus on some DFW work!

boredofbeingathome

Karmacat wrote: »

Olive - I'm glad you can relate, with all the sparkling garages round me, I thought I was weird for a bit there!

GTD - do you know what he worked at? There'll be an online local history forum... have you contacted that? And there'll be an online forum around the local newspapers. Was he unionised? Births marriages deaths? PM me if you want to, if I can help, I will

Not much going on today, tho I have to follow up my own genealogy research, getting ready for a couple of trips to the National Archives at Kew - WWI records (oh how nice, my great grandfather was tested for a social disease ), a divorce in the 1920s, and researching the campaign medals of my 5 x great grandfather who fought at Waterloo.

Got to focus on some DFW work!

I just researched grandad's WW1 medals, i never knew any of the history behind it thanks for those links.

Karmacat

Hi Bob

There's a massive online presence for genealogy these days, its amazing - 30 years ago, you had to go to a building somewhere and look through papers, microfiches or these weird slide things.... ee, bloomin' eck, they don't know they're born today!

For my little trip to the National Archives in a few weeks time, I can actually book online what I want to see, to save time while I'm there! Its fantastic, it really is.

redsquirrel80

That all sounds really interesting Karma! And great stuff with the gardening.. good to hear you sounding happier this week

Karmacat

Hi Squirrel!

I am, I'm lots happier. No clue why, except that my physical woes have stabilised somewhat. And I can definitely feel spring in the air.

I love researching my family tree - there's no one famous, but there are so many interesting things - the illegitimate baby born in 1855 whose mother managed to keep him by working as a washerwoman.... the Irishman who fought for the English at Waterloo .... the Catholic agricultural labourers in eighteenth century Lancashire who still had to pay fines because they'd been to mass .... Patrick, whose parents brought him to Liverpool as a boy after the Irish Famine, who met an Irish girl and sired 9 children then after she died took 3 of them to America, fought for America and then died when a prohibition-era still his son was working on blew up (he's a real character, that one). Love it.

Do you know anything about yours?

Keeping_Motivated

Karma I know very little about my family history except for the stories my living relatives tell me (which I really enjoy hearing). I never thought I had an interest in tracing my family tree but the more I read about your interest in it the more I am questioning if it is something I would like to do...well actually I know I would find it interesting, it is the time it would take that I am questioning really.

Glad you feeling much better x

Karmacat

Hi KP

Thats both *how* and *why* I started. My mum would tell me stories about Liverpool and the relatives she grew up around - we'd moved out to a dormitory suburb, had no relatives around us at all, whereas she was in walking distance of dozens. They all seemed so exciting compared to the humdrum existence we had in our boring little suburb, thats why I started it all!

Thanks for the good wishes too, sweetie, I read that you're back at work for your first Monday, glad to hear its gone okay.

Keeping_Motivated

Karma I think you have me and KP mixed up...easily done of course and quite a few posters have done the same...

I think KP has a diary and I just slip in the odd post to confuse people by the looks of it In fact I must make sure I don't post on KP's diary or I really could confuse people on there

redsquirrel80

Karmacat wrote: »

Hi Squirrel!

I am, I'm lots happier. No clue why, except that my physical woes have stabilised somewhat. And I can definitely feel spring in the air.

I love researching my family tree - there's no one famous, but there are so many interesting things - the illegitimate baby born in 1855 whose mother managed to keep him by working as a washerwoman.... the Irishman who fought for the English at Waterloo .... the Catholic agricultural labourers in eighteenth century Lancashire who still had to pay fines because they'd been to mass .... Patrick, whose parents brought him to Liverpool as a boy after the Irish Famine, who met an Irish girl and sired 9 children then after she died took 3 of them to America, fought for America and then died when a prohibition-era still his son was working on blew up (he's a real character, that one). Love it.

Do you know anything about yours?

Wow - that's fascinating! Both my parents have done a bit of work on each of their sides - my dad's has some interesting characters including someone who was a clarinet player and swing band leader, and a lot of kids who were sent to live with aunties/ uncles because their own parents had too many children to look after already! I also have some stuff from a great aunt about the Dutch and Polish Jewish part of the family, who moved over to England pre-WWI to supposed safety, but unfortunately some of them were killed in a Zeppelin raid on Southend seafront, while their sons who were fighting in France at the time all survived.

Would like to know more about my mum's side, they are mostly Scottish but some came from France originally. Tried joining Genes Reunited but didn't get very far with that.

boredofbeingathome

Karmacat wrote: »

Hi Bob

There's a massive online presence for genealogy these days, its amazing - 30 years ago, you had to go to a building somewhere and look through papers, microfiches or these weird slide things.... ee, bloomin' eck, they don't know they're born today!

For my little trip to the National Archives in a few weeks time, I can actually book online what I want to see, to save time while I'm there! Its fantastic, it really is.

As the Mormon temple is nearby, we used to be able to go to the original one when they had just a small resource. The county archives are also a good source of info.
I remember doing some research for a friend whose dad, was a beneficiary of a local hospital and has a ward named after him.
Mr.B's grandad was a mayor and for his birthday next year i am putting together a folder of his cuttings in a cumbrian newspaper. Hope he likes it and i think it will be a nice thing to pass on as well.

Modern technology is good isn't it?:D