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Title: Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Boongie Pam on Wednesday 19 May 04 22:40 BST (UK)
 ;D

I know and I've irritated the living beings around me so I come to you at Rootschat to share my joy!   ;D

I just got a letter from my Stepdad I'd asked him what he could remember about his family.  I got a reply today.  New names, new puzzles this is so exciting...

Has anyone got PHYTHIANs in their tree - if they are in Bidston or Fazackerley, they're mine and I'm coming to reclaim them!!!!!

Tata,
Pam
 :D

Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Chris in 1066Land on Wednesday 19 May 04 22:54 BST (UK)
Hi Pam

I always though that Pythons lived in the jungle - dont tell me you have got that far back  ;D ;D

Seriously though, its great to be able to share ones joy at finding new ancestors.

Look forward to seeing your postings on the boards for more / new info

Chris in 1066Land
Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Kazza on Thursday 20 May 04 02:16 BST (UK)
Pam,

Thank you for sharing your good news with us.  We love to hear good news.   ;D

Anytime you have been banished by your living beings,  come and talk to us about it.  Good news,  bad news,  puzzles and brick walls,  we listen to them all.  ;)

Kazza.
Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Boongie Pam on Thursday 20 May 04 09:56 BST (UK)
 :'(
I got sent to bed at 23:30h for being annoying!  But in the hour I was allowed to mix with the living I found my 1881 family and 1901 family - I guess the name PHYTHIAN is a bit easier to find than Hughes in North Wales!

Thanks for your kind words, a couple of look-up requests to come.

Pam
 ;D
Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Chris in 1066Land on Thursday 20 May 04 10:04 BST (UK)
Hi

Couldn't resist having a quick look on the 1891 census for PHYTHIAN

There are 382 people with that surname, about 75% of them seem to be living in Lancashire.

Mouse finger is itching to get amongst them

Chris in 1066Land
Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: munchies on Thursday 20 May 04 10:14 BST (UK)
Funnily enough I noticed 2 marriages of Phythians (on the same day) whilst at the Liverpool record office yesterday. Not much help though as cannot remember exactly where i saw them  :(  Will try to narrow it down when I've sorted out my notes if you like.

Donna
Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Kazza on Thursday 20 May 04 10:31 BST (UK)
Pam,   :D

It seems you are not the only one to get excited, Chris and munchies are getting carried away with your Pythians too. :o

Kazza.
Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: bloo-peepers on Thursday 20 May 04 10:46 BST (UK)
Hi Pam,  I can feel your excitement through the computer cable!!!!!    ;D  and what a "wicked" surname to be tracing, sure beats Smith or Jones (apologies to Smith's and Jone's in advance!!)  ;)

I understand what you mean about non-genealogists!!!  Even when they are smiling politely you can see the "glazed" look in their eyes...... ::)  That is why we all congregate here, so we know we are not the only one's fixated with our pasts!!!!

Enjoy your new line of research and I am absolutely sure you will have no problems getting help on this site.

Best wishes
Di xx
Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Boongie Pam on Thursday 20 May 04 13:27 BST (UK)
Right then, I'll take up the kind offers!  I'm off to the requests forum! The bloomin director of the company keeps walking past my desk but I can't contain myself!

Cheers,
P ;D
Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: granny13 on Thursday 20 May 04 17:56 BST (UK)
Hi Pam it was great to read your message and feel your excitement, good luck with the research.  Just wanted to say that it was also good reading the replies I thought it was just my family that were afflicted with cloudy looking blank eyes accompanied by an irritating cough!!!

Jean  ::)
Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Kazza on Thursday 20 May 04 23:02 BST (UK)
Hi all,

Cloudy blank eyes?  Cough?  ::)

My hubbie claims I am driving him down the pub more often than he'd like,  claims it's the only place he can get a conversation that's not about dead people.  ???

Kazza.
Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Boongie Pam on Thursday 20 May 04 23:18 BST (UK)
Well I for one like my dead'uns.  They don't answer back, they don't ask fo rmoney  -eh  ??? yes they do!  They're always wanting 5 credits to download or 75p to view.

Hayho.
 ;D
Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: munchies on Friday 21 May 04 00:48 BST (UK)
My kids are also fed up of hearing about dead people and my husband who has been vaguely interested went with me yesterday to the records office and was fed up within an hour and wanted to stop for dinner ....I ask you time there is far too precious to eat  :-X

I received the British Vital Records 2nd edition today and his eyes glazed over before disk 2 was in.

he quite likes the finished product of the family tree though just doesn't want to know how I got there.

Donna
Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Boongie Pam on Friday 21 May 04 09:49 BST (UK)
Teehee.

I took my boyfriend grave walking to Wigton, that was an hilarious day!  It was in February.  There was torrential downpours interspersed with hailstones and snow.  But I packed woolley hats and boiled eggs and after a 5 minute moan he plugged himself into the radio and marched down the rows.  He did one half and I di the other.  He loved it!  Mainly because he found all the graves I was looking for and I found none..

I haven't heard the last of it.

P ;D
Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Kazza on Friday 21 May 04 10:18 BST (UK)
Hi Pam,

I took my husband searching a graveyard some months age,  he wandered around,  looking bored until I told him who I was looking for.  Then he was like a man possessed,  looked on every stone,  even those I had already read.  

We did not find the one we were looking for,  and he was really disappointed.

It turned out I had taken him to the wrong church.  ::)

Kazza.
Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Chris in 1066Land on Friday 21 May 04 10:27 BST (UK)
Hi

After reading the above posts, I must be very lucky as all of the Family are keen Genealogists - even my 5 year old, bless her.

We all love looking around old churchyards, especially if its one that may contain some of our ancestors - kids have a competion to see who can find the first one, the most, etc.

They like taking pictures of unusual stones and images on stones, which they use when doing family history at school (basic family trees) and often accompany me when I am surveying, transcribing and photograping a churchyard.  My son (10) loves it best when the churchyard is near a railway line as he is train mad, and wants to be an engine driver when he grows up.  I can remember having that dream some 50 years ago.

 Chris in 1066Land
Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: anne on Friday 21 May 04 19:42 BST (UK)
I have just an awful day at work,one of those days you wish you had rang in sick but i have just been reading these replies about graveyards,dead people and pubs and it has really cheared me up.Thanks you lot,its a good job we can be as silly as we are serious.Anne. :)
Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: granny13 on Saturday 22 May 04 09:05 BST (UK)
Well done to everyone who replied to Pam it has been great entertainment reading them.

 We attended a family wedding and hubbie couldn't believe i was taking my printed (1.5ins thick) book with me.  When I got there I suddenly realised I knew more about the dead than the living, so currently ringing everyone for their info even more glazed eyes and bored voices.


Jean
Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Boongie Pam on Saturday 22 May 04 13:39 BST (UK)
Chuckle..

My family love the output but not the search.  My younger sisters, are hilarious.  Y'see I'm a scientist but they are artists so we have different views of how it all works.  One of them has created a quilt and she is embroidering the tree on it and give her the names only hyen I'm completely sure of the connections.

She did this whole branch of GREENs in Lochmaben - a good 20 odd people. BUT I discovered fairly recently I'd made a boob!  There were 8 Robert Greens in the village all born within 3 years of each other and got the wrong one!

So the glazed look has gone to venom as she unpicked it... :(

Anyway, Good luck with your asearches off to shop..

Pam
 ;D
Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Jacquie on Sunday 23 May 04 15:54 BST (UK)
Hi everyone,

Loved reading this topic.  I to get very excited when I find something new and my family think I am completely mad.

I get great support from my husband, though when I start rambling on he has that look in his eyes as if to say "God here we go again.

He did come with me the first time I when to the library in the city. I got so excited when I found the first person I was looking for that the lady next to us reminded us that we were in a library.  So when I found the next one I got excited quietly.

My eldest son said I don't need to find all the dead relatives because he already knows where they are they are dead and buried.

My youngest asked me the other day how old will he be when he dies so I went through the family tree and told him he should live to be in his mid to late 80's.  So now I think he is thinking what is he going to do for the 70 or so years he has left.

My sister said that all parents should be made to write down everything they know about the family so it make it easier for future generations.  Though I can see why some don't want to tell things as I discovered when I found out that my Grandmother was illegitamate and her children did not know.  I think my Aunties have for given me.

Anyway I think this site is fantastic and I have gotten lots of help from it.

Keep up the good work.

Jacquie.  
Title: Re:Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: GRACELAND on Tuesday 25 May 04 17:27 BST (UK)
:'(
I got sent to bed at 23:30h for being annoying!  But in the hour I was allowed to mix with the living I found my 1881 family and 1901 family - I guess the name PHYTHIAN is a bit easier to find than Hughes in North Wales!

Thanks for your kind words, a couple of look-up requests to come.

Pam
 ;D
 YES and alot better than tryin to find a JONES !!!!
Title: Re: Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Jo New on Saturday 28 August 04 09:44 BST (UK)
Hi

saw that you were looking for Phythian
have you looked at the rootsweb archives for Lancsgen and eng-manchester as there were a few , also there is a list for phythian-L?

Have come across that name before, but can't remember when i am a member of the mlfhs so i will have a look in my copies, to see if what there

regards
joanne
Title: Re: Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Boongie Pam on Saturday 28 August 04 09:57 BST (UK)
I'll check out the archives - thanks.

This line went on hold a few months ago - I find research in England and Wales a bit annoying, the certs are so pricey.  To top that I broke a major wall down in my Scott/Carruthers line so I've been working on that.

Maybe it's time to pick teh Phythians back up  ;D

Thanks for the tip.

Pam
 ;D
Title: Re: Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: munchies on Saturday 28 August 04 19:15 BST (UK)
Found this in my notebook
Nov 13 1864
Ann Jane or June Phythian age 30 yrs
Burials Toxteth Park section M 203
wife 19 Head Street

Don't know if it means anything to you as that is all I have scribbled down.

Donna
Title: Re: Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Boongie Pam on Saturday 28 August 04 19:21 BST (UK)
Cheers Munchies.  It's such a strange name I reckon they'll all link up eventually so that's excellent to add to the files..  Thanks.

Though you guys are doing more than me on this lot - I'm shamed  :-[

P ;D
Title: Re: Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: suey on Saturday 28 August 04 22:03 BST (UK)

 :(  I was giving my nephews partner an update on the Fam Hist today and she had the cheek to yawn  >:(.  Can you beleive that  :o

Suey.

Title: Re: Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Jacquie on Sunday 29 August 04 03:55 BST (UK)
Hello Suey,

I would not worry about your nephew's partener some people are just not interested in family history, though it was a bit rude to yawn. 

I use to ring my mother up if I found anything out about her family because I was excited that I had found something.  All my mother would say is are you sure it is the right person and how do you know it is, you could be tracing someone elses line by mistake.  I once asked her if she wanted a copy and she not now maybe later. 
I don't ring her any more I just tell her I have found something when we see each other.  I am sure she is really interested as she has told me some interesting stories about her family.

So we should all get excited when we find something new and not worry about what other people think when we tell them about family history. 

Regards Jacquie. 
Title: Re: Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Annahannah on Monday 30 August 04 08:07 BST (UK)
My mother would answer questions and tell me stories about her family, but other than that she didn't want to know. Until I found her GG-grandparents, and her illegitimate uncle.  Then she got quite keen.

Anna
Title: Re: Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: Jo New on Monday 30 August 04 08:51 BST (UK)
Hi
sorry no Phythians in my mlfhs books, but i will keep an eye out for them  ::)

My other half is amazed that i know more about his family than he actually does and he sometimes looks interested when i find another one!

joanne  :D

Title: Re: Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: MrsLizzy on Monday 30 August 04 11:14 BST (UK)
My husband says I am obsessed with dead people.  I have often wished he'd get interested but no luck and now it's too late as we are separating anyway!  ;D  One time we were wondering what to give his mother for her 60th birthday, and he said "I know!  You can research her family tree!"  I said "In three months???"    :o
Title: Re: Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: munchies on Monday 30 August 04 16:39 BST (UK)
Found this in my notebook too (knew they were there somewhere)

1871 67 Edgerton Street Liverpool
RG10 3785 folio 79

William R Phythian lodger unmarried 25
ship ironmonger born Lancaster Banford

Donna
Title: Re: Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: crab2 on Monday 04 October 04 03:28 BST (UK)
 Have you thought of putting in the surname and do a search throught Google etc, I did this with the Grunefeld name and then sent off emails explaining what I was doing, I ended up with 2 families with their tree to add to mine, it grew from around 50 ppl within a week to over 300 ppl on it. Might have to try that with my father's side and see what happens.


          lindanz
Title: Re: Soooo Excited a new name a new line...
Post by: JillJ on Monday 04 October 04 22:04 BST (UK)
Would you believe I have only ever done one graveyard search and I made the huge mistake of taking the worse half with me!   I located the right area of the cemetery and started walking up and down the rows.   Hubby became self-appointed Director of Operations and started telling me I was in the wrong place, etc.   After nearly an hour of this he suddenly asked "what are we looking for?"

It was probably the most disastrous day I have ever had, but I won't bore you with the rest of the details!

Jill