Genealogy Chat

Well, of course I would love to help Heather and Jess, but I've just had my nails done, so.......................... Merry (consummate liar!)

When I was young (tongue firmly clamped between teeth!) I'd spend a week in the Norfolk Record Office and reckon to discover a dozen new ancestors each trip. These days, my brickwalls are covered with lichen, festooned with ivy, and a home to valerian and wallflowers. There are an awful lot of them, so I'm hoping that a few will crumble when I apply my mind to them. Luckily, I have a friend with a far more interesting tree than mine, so there are lots of new people to find.

Merry Because you have been very helpful in the past, I am willing to take an odd Clark or two off your hands........ if I can give you my Southampton based JONES to work on. I only have one -clinging- on- by- a- married- in- thread Clark of my own, so a change would be as good as a rest ( or so the saying goes) Deal... or no deal? Gwyn

I don't actually have many spare Clark's because I don't know who they are (if that makes sense!!) I could give you a William Clark, wife unknown.....may have drifted through Bath at some point about late 1820's......dead by 1849.....No idea if he is on the 1841 or not........Occ - Labourer! Jones in Southampton.....Hmmmmmm.......Well, I do live near there, but even so........................... Maybe we should stick with what we know? (Or don't know??!) Merry

Well I blame all of you LOL I hardly ever get down to any real work since I met you all. You came into my life and took it over! I sit down at the computer all virtuous thinking I'll check notes and do my 'to do lists' and check lots of names AND then I'll just make a cup ot tea and look at the boards and bingo 2 hours later I'm still reading all your antics or thinking who do I need info on (because Merry is so good at finding it). Today I finally decided I had to finish a letter to a fellow Gene that I have been sorting out for two years!!! So I feel fantastic now, a nice big thick envelope is going off in the post tommorow. Merry if any of your Clarks are kept in Canterbury Cathedral Archives Parish Records or Wills , I have the school summer hols looming would be pleased to check any for you, as you have truly helped me a lot since I joined

I took 6 months off doing my tree.........never looked at it once in all that time, came back to it Tuesday and had a connection straight away.........Mel

That's kind of you Marie! Unfortunately I don't have any rellies from anywhere near Canterbury:o(( Merry

Know the feeling Ann, I found someone on the 1841 census, only info was that he was born out of county, and then the inconsiderate sod dies before the 1851 census, no idea when or even where he was born Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr