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The Lighter Side / Re: Combining last names to create a new legal married name
« on: Saturday 17 December 16 22:53 GMT (UK)  »
You have hit the nail on the head, groom. When asked, all officialdom just shrugs their shoulders and mumbles about "The Law". It makes a mockery to my mind. What is the point of getting married ...

Regards

Chas

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The Lighter Side / Re: Combining last names to create a new legal married name
« on: Saturday 17 December 16 22:34 GMT (UK)  »
It seems that the Canadian equality laws have been taken to extreme and some people are treating it as a kind of official joke.

I cannot remember the names, but if you were to search the Canadian Heraldic Authority's register you would find a Mr Smith married a Miss Jones.

He is now called Mr Smith-Jones and she is Mrs Jones-Smith.

They produced two children - Master Smithjones and Miss Jonessmith.

Four different surnames, but for once the right number of marriages n the family.

Regards

Chas

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The Lighter Side / Re: Word of the Day - Wharfinger
« on: Saturday 17 December 16 22:18 GMT (UK)  »
In the RAF in the 70s and early 80s, a married serviceman could wharf all the RAF furniture back to stores if they had their own. One of the joys of a Far Eastern posting.

Regards

Chas

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The Common Room / Re: advice on whom to put on family tree charts
« on: Friday 16 December 16 12:13 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Rosinish on Saturday 10 December 16 02:04 GMT (UK)
Quote from: sirsimon on Friday 09 December 16 20:22 GMT (UK)
Do you guys have any advice on how to layout family trees? I do business with a great company that do family trees on canvas from gedcom files.

I can only agree with what others have said but....

Sorry to gatecrash, I'm wondering if you could please give me a link to the company for a canvas tree as I'd love one for my brother as a gift?

I would only be doing direct lines though of our parents as it would be too big not to mention the expense.

Annie

A big PLUS 1 please! I too would like my tree on canvas. We have a long corridor - rooms on one side, blank wall on the other. Something like this would be ideal.

Thanks

Regards

Chas

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The Common Room / Re: Identifying a half brother with no information
« on: Friday 16 December 16 11:50 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: amberdog on Wednesday 14 December 16 16:26 GMT (UK)
P.S.  you could always take the bull by the horns and confront your family, this could be festering away inside them too. And who knows medically in the future how a sibling could help out or vice versa.

I agree with amberdog.  Life is too short for all these pretend delicacies.

If it were me, I would write a letter to every family member who was old enough to have any information. Tell them that you have put up with this nonsense for far too long and now is the time to end it. Remind them, in no uncertain terms who's brother you are talking about and demand to know (from each of them) what they know or possibly know.

SMS messages, texts, emails and the like are far too easily ignored and discounted. A letter arriving through their letterbox will have the same weight and power as a final demand from the tax man - almost impossible to ignore. Until you get the information you want, stop calling him your half brother. Call him your brother. Half brother gives them wiggle room. "Oh, he's not really one of us", type of thing.

You will have to be bloody-minded about this - make it your only topic of conversation till you know the truth. "Yes, it is a nice day, auntie, but what about my brother?" If you carry on long enough, one of them will break down eventually, with something like "For goodness sake, he drives the No 37 bus for Jones's Coaches over in Nexttown."

Remember that they are the guilty ones; they are the ones suppressing the truth - make them feel guilty - they will feel so much better once the burden is removed.

Regards

Chas

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Opinions required please
« on: Tuesday 13 December 16 16:10 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: jim1 on Tuesday 13 December 16 15:55 GMT (UK)
Wouldn't it be easier & cheaper to scan what you want & put it in individual folders & print it off when required. Much easier to update that way.

Hi Jim, I probably haven't explained myself properly.

Last year we had a family get-together. I had the whole tree printed out, which was a hit with everybody. But when it came to them wanting to see their own individual record and information, it all turned into a bit of a scrum. I could not do all the tasks at the same time.

But if it was printed out separately, they could check, or make notes, or additions, while I was dealing with others. All the printing would already be done.

Long dead people, or family groups could be all in one file and probably never altered.

As a rule of thumb, I don't think that I would reprint for every alteration or amendment. I would make the alteration on Ancestry and FTM and make a note of it in the master file. And then just re-print the individual pages.

That's how I envisage it.

Regards

Chas

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One Name Studies: T to Z / Whannell
« on: Tuesday 13 December 16 15:56 GMT (UK)  »
Whannell, Whannel, Whanell, Whanel, Wannell, Wannel, Wanell, Wanel and then the whole lot again with We and again with Wo.
Honourable East India Company,
any of the Indian Railway Companies,
Australia,
or pre 1799 in Scotland.

Thanks

Regards

Chas

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The Lighter Side / Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« on: Tuesday 13 December 16 15:14 GMT (UK)  »
I once served with an airman called Prickhard (not Prichard). His parents named him Richard. So, of course he was known as Dick Prick Hard.

Regards

Chas

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The Lighter Side / Re: FindMyPast....cheapest sub
« on: Tuesday 13 December 16 14:58 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Ringrose on Monday 12 December 16 10:41 GMT (UK)
Are there any discounts around for FindMyPast at the moment
Thanks
Ringrose

Although I now have a FindMyPast subscription, for about 2 years I made good use of their free weekends. I once downloaded 91 images of BDM records and wills (all from India) in one day. Christmas/New Year, Easter, Remembrance Sunday and Another One, are regulars. Then there are also the anniversaries of the famous WWI battles.

There will be one coming up in the next few weeks - get your questions and searches ready.

Regards

Chas

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