General Chat

Hello dear Cyber Friends, I had a lovely surprise this week end with a family person in my thread who sent a delightful message with an attachment..the Attachment has his whole family tree...isn't that wonderful. We have been in touch for a number of years and he writes wonderful stories about the places he and his friends or family visit.
This has inspired me on two themes. The first is that today I have found all my hundreds of photos some of them very old and I am putting them onto the computer and then I shall save them on a special disk.
The second thing is that I shall start a short story for all those I know.

Of to prepare lunch now but may be back later this evening.
Trusting that you all have a great day

Bridget still in Spain :-D

Have a nice trip, Ann. Hope the weather is kind to you.

Good afternoon all. Glad to hear that Joe is progressing well Bridget and that you and your OH have lost weight well done.

Hazel, sorry to hear about your fall, lucky you didn't break any bones, maybe you should have been checked out though if you hit your head. I hope the headache goes soon, if not do see the doctor.

Berona, so much for summer then wasn't it? You have had a very wet one, our winter has been relatively mild, parts of UK are threatened with drought procedures but this past week we have had plenty of rain. The seasons are upside down. I hope your caravan stays safe.

we are off to the Lake district tomorrow, the weather forecast looked fairly good so fingers crossed. However you don't get Lakes without rain!!!!!

Hi Bridget and all

Just popping in to see how you all are.

I have been busy looking after Caitlin, had a fall Sunday nught hurt all my right side and hit me head on door. But getting over that now.Just got headache still.At least didnt have any broken bones.

I have also been helping few friends with they trees. Have found alot for them so they pleased with that.

Going to my friends tomorrow for a pampering day.Then i am hoping i will have Sunday to myself. But got a feeling that Teri and Caitlin will be over Saturday night. But i lve in hope that they wont be.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~to everyone

Hazelx

Good morning Bridget. Good to know that Joe is 'mending'.
We are still having major floods here in New South Wales. Closer to home than usual, too. Our family caravan has been in a caravan park for the past eighteen years, has been threatened for the first time. However, the river overflowed and the water lapped around the base of trees just metres from the van and began to abate. Then, last night, there was more torrential rain and the flood gates were opened - so it started flowing again! My son-in-law took his truck up there a week ago and brought home all the ski gear, ropes, jackets, tubes, etc. also, one of the refrigerators, linen, blankets and clothes, so there is really nothing anyone can do now except wait to see just how close to the vans the water gets.

In the inner part of Sydney, they too have had torrential rain worse than they have had for a number of years. That is east of where I am and the rain causing concern with the rivers is to the west - and yet, where I am, we have had two beautiful, sunny days. Hard to believe that all this rain is going on only a matter of less than twenty miles either side of us!

Further south, it is more serious with 9000 evacuated from their homes for a few days and now returning to them as the water level goes down - but everything ruined with mud. Just as one township gets through the flood, another one is threatened. More rain is forecast, but I hope it isn't as torrential as it has been last week.....and all this time, where I am, we are only getting the odd heavy shower! and sunshine. That's mother nature for you!

Good morning dear Cyber Friends or Bridget's Buddies as someone has written a few entries back..I like both names.

It is a beautiful morning with the sun shining, the trees swaying and the birds singing, I can hear about six different songs but cannot see all the birds.
Jet and Joe are well, Joe is snuggled up to me on the sofa and his wounds are healing thank goodness, he will be at the Vets next Monday to have all his stitches removed and hopefully all will be well.
Jet has been very caring but not gone so far to not to growl if Joe goes near his food dish...Jet is a slowere eater than Joe.

Last night we were out for the quiz and OH was delighted with the number of people who turned up there were 26 people, and my team came last but one!
We have been invited to a coupls home for dinner tonight as a thank you for the film nights,,, I guess that really is a good sign of how good the films are that OH finds and appreciation is always welcome.

Ann, do not give up hope re finding family members because of different spellings etc.i had not had anything new for some time so went back to my maternal grandfather and started adding things I knew which would not be known on census etc. then two weeks ago I started to get quite a few messages from new possible connections,,,now I am finding it hard to get them all up to date......
My next intention is to do a lineage of the males with great detail but only add the names of spouses and children. When finished is I intend to make a book of them and then do the same with the females, eventually all our children will be given copies and then should they have any interest they will only have to add more recent people, Has anyone on here done this sort of thing??

Well I am now off to make my first coffee of the day but hopefully will peek in again some time today
best wishes to you all

Bridget.
:-) :-)

Good morning to all my "Cyber " friends. Whilst it is still cold here it is warmer than last week and the sun is shining.
Joe has to go back to the vet today..we are hoping that the out come will be good. I have managed to get the awful damage to on of his ear lobes to start healing...I used the transparent spray which can be used on children as well....no plaster required , so good for children. Joe is still having his
Antibiotics so no sign of infection and he is eating well.

I have been spring cleaning the bed rooms and we both decided to try on the clothes which had been
It away for the winter,,,,OH has lost so much weight that we disposed of 4 yes 4 bags of clothing, shoes which were worn out, and much loved football and a rugby shirts which were either so old or to big . Of course some remain even though ther are to big as they bring back memories,
We bought two new pairs of shoes as. Well.

Yesterday I went through all my clothes and did much the same as described for OH. It is such a joy to be able to wear "nice" clothes again.
Still eating the same as we have for the last few months

Time for breakfast now so will wish you all a very happy day

Bridget

After a horrid very wet and windy day yesterday....it is lovely here today

Made Choc Matchmaker Brownies for a friend who' Birthday is tomorrow

Absolutely delish........the recipe is on Culinary delights if anyone is interested
:-D

You never know Berona, one day . . . . . .

I too have illerate great great grandparents (and some illiterate great grandparents) Which as you say, can lead to a variety of spellings of surname, put that together with mistranscriptions etc. makes it really difficult to find them. But so worthwhile when you do!

I am quite happy today. My football team won at the weekend, as did Bridget's O.H's and Gerard's. Reckon that there were lots of smiling faces from "Bridget's Buddies"

It is sunny here at the moment. I am off out soon for my third Indian Head Massage. Just hope I last through the whole treatment this time!

Hope that everyone is well.

:-) :-)

Tess - I haven't given up on my OH's family. The problem is that his great grandparents were illiterate, as was his grandmother. I have their marriage certificates with 'X' for their signatures. Therefore, the spelling of the name has changed and I have fourteen different versions of it. My OH's father was educated and had the name 'corrected' for himself and his children. However, he chose the wrong spelling and we, to-day, spell it differently from what seems to be the original.

This makes me want to get it all on paper to pass on with an explanation - but we have no intention of changing it back again!

I did find a distant cousin or three on here and one, who is in Australia took that branch of the family back to the 16th century. I was thrilled with that, however, it is a long time now since I have found anything new either on here or elsewhere.

I am still excited about contact with my cousin. I didn't find her via Genes. have written to another family member using genes but message has not been opened.
Found this lady by going through a search engine> I had been using all the family names I had found in my research, one-by-one. Actually found her when looking for anything about her brother, who had just died (2009) .

So my email to her would have come out of the blue, as she hadn't registered an interest in researching her family tree, or getting in touch with other family members.
I had to seach through a lot of dross before I hit gold. But well worth the effort.

:-D

It is a wet day here at the moment, temps have dropped, (to around normal for the time of year), but sun is trying to come out. Keeping fingerd crossed that I will be able to put washing on the line later for a quick blow.

Berona, don't give up on your OH's family. There are more details added to the internet all the time.
I have often found info. by researching the place my ancestors have come from (eg. found parish records including baptisms, marriages and burials by searching town mentioned on Census records). Managed to go back several generations, esp as parents names were often mentioned on baptism and marriage records.


Bridget, I hope that you enjoy yourselves picking new passwords. They need to be easy for you to remember, but difficult (if not impossible) for others to guess. Will pm you with "my sort" of ideas.


Tess

:-) :-) :-) :-)

It gives you a good feeling when you contact someone through GR, doesn't it? I have had good luck in the past. Hot Matches found a distant cousin who sent me a CD of my paternal gr/grandmother's family right back to the 1600's and another sent a copy of the complete tree for my maternal gr/grandmother's family back to the early 1700's. Both of these branches of my tree have emigrated to Australia between 1788 and 1837.

My biggest problem is with my OH's family. He was born in Lancashire and emigrated in 1950 - and yet his ancestors had such big families and all named their children after themselves and their siblings, that it is extremely difficult to find them all - in spite of the fact that they didn't seem to move out of Lancashire! This was the branch of our tree which I thought would be the easy one!

Well done with that news Tess, great to make new contacts isn't it?

I think you are not alone in spending time getting on the site/boards etc. Lots of threads on the suggestions board re this problem.

I am excited.. Have spent some more time researching my Welsh family in Norfolk.

Found contact details for a second cousin (not removed) and sent her an email a couple of days ago.
Had a reply this morning!!!


You must all have been wishing good luck for me, and it worked, so thank you.

I am so excited that I can't sit still, want to tell the world and his wife.

Only downer is that I am still having some difficulty with genes. especially when trying to get on the message pages :-|


Have phoned sister and brother , they are both out!

So you are the first people to know. <3 :-D

Must try to settle down and clean my kitchen (but will have a cuppa first)


Tess

P.S. Hope that you are all well.

Nigeria, to be exact. They are known as the 'Nigerian emails'. However, the one I had supposedly from my neighbour, wanted the money sent to a place in Liverpool - so they can be anywhere.

Don't fall for the one from the man whose little girl is dying and needs an operation, which he can't afford. That one as been sent out ever since scammers began. The little girl would have to be at least 50 by now

Another one I had (again from Nigeria) was an offer to deposit $8,000 in my bank account and all I had to do was transfer $5,000 of it to another account in the US. The remaining $3,000 was mine to keep, with their thanks! All this, AFTER I sent them my bank details, of course!

I had a similar experience, with an e mail, rang my bank and they asked me to forward it to them, which I did.. these scammers are bu........................grs.
Mostly from Africa, awful isnt't it

Lovely day today, going out to lunch with my W.I

Jan

To you all!
Thank you Foruour kind thought and suggestions about Passwords. I will be having a chat with OH today as we do, I now see we are using the wrong approach.
Cannot be here for long as Computer chap here to go through our comps, he visits once every four months.
I will be back later today.

Bridget

I'm pleased to see that you are wise to these scammers. No bank will ever email you and ask for any kind of details. If in doubt, ring your local branch.

My neighbour lives alone and has a business with a website. Hackers got into her personal files via the website and found her contact list. This lady is Bulgarian, so in spite of having a good command of English, her writing is in 'broken' English (poor grammar).
I received an email supposedly from her saying that she had made a quick trip to UK and had so many samples to bring home that she had a bill for 'excess baggage' for $5060. Asking that I advance her the loan immediately as she was sitting at Heathrow airport - and promising to refund my loan immediately upon her return. The email was even written in 'broken' English! These hackers study everything!!
One small problem they didn't think about......she and I share a common wall and I can hear water running through the pipes when she uses a tap.....so if she was in the UK, sitting at Heathrow Airport - who was having a shower as I was reading the email?????

If you have a password, change it to something which the hackers could never guess. Never use family or pets' names, birthdays, or words used frequently in your emails. Use something entirely different and put numbers in it too - again no ages or birth years - and certainly, never use the word 'password'. Example: "Saturday" = Sat46urday87" with the numbers not referring to any house, age or phone number, etc. You don't need to use words either - "qtjcplmw" would also take a lot of working out. Just as long as you can remember it or have it written down in a safe place.

I'm sorry if I am boring you with this. You probably all know what to do - but I feel so strongly about these scammers, and I don't like to see people conned by them.
I'll get off my soapbox now.

Finally getting our tree cut down tomorrow, yippee...had to get permission as we are in a conservation area, then its only the decking to repair, and the fence....the list goes on and on and on ....money floating out quick.