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Thanks for reminding me about the clocks.    Today I noticed that my Scottish ancestry tree is on the genie website - I'd forgotten I'd put it there during 2012.   I was impressed when I saw that several people had a match.  I clicked on that ancestor and saw the website had changed the person's address from the original one to one that the website thought was the nearest modern postcode.  Thus instead of "Echobank" she now (allegedly historically) lived at "no. 1 Liberton Drive, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland".  I was unable to change the entry !!

Due to not moving much during my winter period of doing jigsaw puzzles to pass the winter days away my left leg decided to see how much is could swell and stretch the skin without splitting it.  We Brits have been urged to get our NHS prescriptions via the local chemist and not the local general practitioner doctor.  I did this and found that I had to pay over £17.00 for two tubes of gel, which is taking its time reducing the swelling and itching.

It was a mistake to think that I had piles of old documentation (old insurance, old bank statements, old etc.) that needed throwing away.  I only  found four scraps of paper that went into the bin but the rest of the pile has been family b.m.d. documents that cost me a pretty penny.

My front garden smells wonderful all due to the blue hyacinths and coupled with the yelklow daffodils and other plants it looks very colourful

I must admit that when the foreign owned Cadbury company decided we Brits would celebwith "Gesture Eggs" I was as much annoyed as thewhen the foreign owned Nike decided we English had a "humorous" blue on its flag.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1921 Census - Colliery Work Job Title
« on: Monday 25 March 24 17:49 GMT (UK)  »
You might be interested in this website.

Colliery workers and dockyard workers would wait at the gates hoping to be cholsen to work that day .  At the gate would stand the "Tallyman2 who handed out tokens to men in the crowd.  Many men would go home to their families if the tallyman hadn't chosen them to work that day

I lived in a port and used to see about 10,000 men waiting at the various dockyards.

https://museum.wales/articles/1072/Colliery-checks-and-tokens/

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: What did my great grandmother die of?
« on: Friday 22 March 24 20:35 GMT (UK)  »
In the 1950s  most of my male friends were conscripted into H.M. Forces.  It was a surprise to discover during his medical examination that one of them had tuberculosis .

He didn't cough, wasn't in pain, etc. but the result of the examination meant he was shipped off to a T.B. sanitarium in the south of England where he had his own room. Every day his bed was wheeled out into the fresh air.   I think he stayed there for over a year until discharged.

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The Stay Safe Board / Re: Diary Week Ending March 24th.
« on: Wednesday 20 March 24 22:47 GMT (UK)  »
They do say that an hour's catnap is as good as two hours sleep.  After the loud bangs and rumbling noises that seemed to last so all night I've been glad of a day time catnap.   I live behind a pub and I assume that the pub was stocking up for a profitable holiday

I finished my Alfred Hitchcock jigsaw puzzle then found a black piece of puzzle on the floor when the completed puzzle was still on the table  - the question now is:  did the makers put an extra piece in the box or does it belong to the earlier puzzle that I finished last week?

I had a surprise when I opened the envelope from my bank.  I expected to see a statement but for once in my lifetime they have sent me suggestions of how they will give me money instead of taking it away in fees.   The suggestions could have come straight from the money saving expert.

The heating bills are frighteningly high - I used to be able to control the heating by a simple turn of a dial in each room - the modern expert doesn't think that's a good idea - the brilliant idea is to control the heat meeded in various rooms by the boiler sited elsewhere.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: What's written on this hat?
« on: Wednesday 13 March 24 19:33 GMT (UK)  »
I just had to stop and say

"WELL DONE" JEN

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... and a big congratulations to all concerned from me too.

Coincidentally this last week I received a memo from family search giving me some "exciting" news that they have discovered new information.

What a load of codswallop!  That branch of my family are firmly stuck in the UK and not scattered all over the USA.   I'm assuming the mix up is due to the fact that some American towns have the same names as UK towns.

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The Stay Safe Board / Re: Diary summary week ending 10 March 2024
« on: Saturday 09 March 24 17:24 GMT (UK)  »
The return of clear blue skies and the yellow glow of Phoebe in the sky yesterday and today brought me out of my usual winter torpor and I started a clear out of  years of accumulated documents, stored in cupboards.  that I no longer need.    the bin men will be surprised at the amount of paper they find in my bin on their next visit.

The Alfred Hitchcock mystery murder puzzle that I'm currently doing  is coming along but for the life of me I can't recall previously doing it, although I can see that I've cellotaped the bag that holds the pieces, which I usually do.

Phoebe awoke me early today and I hand washed a few smalls before having breakfast.  I'd just settled down to enjoy a TV programme when two little girlish squeals startled me - I had two more hours of excitedly squealing children aged one and three asking me to  "Snickersneeze me grandma".  "My turn grama".  I think the three year old has been here before and she's a whizz at maths !!!



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The Lighter Side / Re: Psychic Genealogy
« on: Wednesday 06 March 24 10:24 GMT (UK)  »
Bristol, Harvey, Mary, Cotswolds ...!!!

All of those items occur in my tree.  My mother (Mary!) was from Bristol!  Her paternal ancestors had come to Bristol from the Cotswolds!  Castle Combe!  What could be more classically Cotswoldy? And she liked Harvey's Bristol Cream, too!  Plus, the surname Harvey crops up in my tree more than once


I'm reminded of a saying my father was fond of, which was:-

"Do you want a story or a fight"?  :-) :-)  :-)

 I too have scores of Marys. but unlike you and the other lady they had no connection to alcohol or the Shirras family.  Explain how or why the woman mentioned the Pilot Case - in fact how many people have heard of a pilot case?

.  I really should dig out my notebook to be factual about my notes..  My OH died 1999 aged 61, which would be when our daughter started to try to contact her dad and maybe see what the future held for her children.  I recall an item when the TV news announced somebody in the USA was sending envelopes of white powder to people.  At that annual visit I had made a note of "Philadelphia".  I thought possibly my cousin might have moved there from Florida.  Eventually, the American police announced that a tutor in a Philadelphia college had been sending what could be anthrax in the post to people he disagreed with..

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The Lighter Side / Re: Psychic Genealogy
« on: Tuesday 05 March 24 13:39 GMT (UK)  »
I think the most astonishing visit I made to the medium who said she didn't tell "fortunes", was the list I made of one visit, when I took a notebook with me. .   The first notes I'd made were "Off to the Cotswolds" - I'd heard of the Cotswolds but didn't know where they were.  Then there was a list of names that on first sight I couldn't relate any of them to my family, such as "Bristol, Harvey, Mary, etc, etc."

Not long afterwards I had a message on Rootschat about the Findlay Shirras family that I was researching.   A newbie sent me a message where the first sentence was "Off to the Cotswolds, I'll contact you when I return"

I sent a response and listed all the names I'd been given.  She recognised every one of the names.  Apparently her mother's name was Mary and her children had links to Harveys Bristol Cream sherry (lol).

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