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The Lighter Side / Re: Mass Observation Day 2024
« on: Yesterday at 00:09 »
"I haven't been inside a church for yonks."

I grudgingly attended confirmation class and then said, "No thanks, I don't believe a word of it."  In 65 years, I've never been back.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Monday 22 April 24 16:45 BST (UK)  »
US median age at first marriage, 1890 to present:

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01t4p/

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United States of America / Re: COMPANY IN LAKELAND FLORIDA USA
« on: Monday 22 April 24 15:57 BST (UK)  »
Oh, good grief!  If people can discuss fitted sheets and slug control methods, why not businesses in Florida?

>>>>>>>>

You might find some information here at the State of Florida, Division of Corporations:

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01t4o/

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The Lighter Side / Re: Stillbirths.
« on: Monday 01 April 24 23:04 BST (UK)  »
Why wouldn't you include them?  A stillbirth is an event in the life of the mother.  I make a note of all known events - graduation from high school, vacation trip to the Columbian Exposition, purse snatched at the train station, winner of the potato race at the village fair.  Whatever.

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The Lighter Side / Re: 'Put away?'
« on: Saturday 30 March 24 22:56 GMT (UK)  »
Ashamed?  Why?  Do you think such people should be ignored, hidden, never spoken or written about?  Unfit to be mentioned on RootsChat?  They are members of our collective family tree and should be recognized as such.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Tracing the Family Doctor from your childhood? A different NHS in the 1940s!
« on: Saturday 30 March 24 14:55 GMT (UK)  »
My childhood doctor - "a warm and friendly doctor."  Actually, I recall her as cold, distant and intimidating.  Fortunately, I was healthy kid and didn't see much of her except for routine checkups.

https://old-school-boston.blogspot.com/2013/02/remembering-pediatrician-dr-perry-in.html

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The Common Room / Re: Having a senior moment with my nieces children and her grand children
« on: Friday 29 March 24 21:54 GMT (UK)  »
“Grand” is an Americanism.

Not in my experience.  I have never heard it used, certainly not in my family.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Irish immigrants to New York - Potato Famine
« on: Monday 18 March 24 15:30 GMT (UK)  »
It looks like it might have some useful tips on how to track ancestors who immigrated to the NYC slums in that time period.  My own Irish ancestors immigrated before the famine, and they did not go to New York.  They were farmers who went to the Midwest.

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The Lighter Side / Irish immigrants to New York - Potato Famine
« on: Sunday 17 March 24 15:24 GMT (UK)  »
"With assistance scouring records from dozens of his students and a professional genealogist, Anbinder documented more than 1,200 famine immigrants’ lives in detail over time — looking beyond the moment they arrived on US soil and showing what happened to them afterward."

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/17/us/irish-potato-famine-immigrants-cec/index.html

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