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Who's a silly boy then?

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Jean....

Jean.... Report 9 Jun 2006 21:30

I've come to to the conclusion that starting this family tree is making my senior moments a lot more frequent. Mary......sorry Jean LOL Even that doesn't make sense 'a lot more frequent'

Alek

Alek Report 9 Jun 2006 21:06

the other night, I ended up looking for maternal rellies in paternal rellies home town. I am sure I was just tired!

Michael

Michael Report 9 Jun 2006 20:16

My mum can just about manage to send an email unsupervised, but I think anything as complex as Ancestry would be beyond her...

Caroline

Caroline Report 9 Jun 2006 10:49

whoops, ive just noticed ive got a boy called Ethel on my tree!must have forgot to change the gender to female also my sons have rigged the computor up so that it says 'oh yeah' every time i make a mistake like forgetting to type in a birth year! Caroline

Liberty64

Liberty64 Report 9 Jun 2006 00:47

Ive done it lots of times too!

Michael

Michael Report 9 Jun 2006 00:45

I quite frequently click on England when I mean Wales, and I'm only 20 1/2...

Caroline

Caroline Report 8 Jun 2006 23:39

Yes i do that, im always kicking myself and the clever son is always catchng me at it and laughing at me glad to know im not alone Caroline

Unknown

Unknown Report 8 Jun 2006 23:14

Jim we've all done that! And put 1941 when we meant 1841. and clicked on Wales census and then wondered why we couldn't find our English relatives...

Germaine

Germaine Report 8 Jun 2006 23:14

Oh Jim the amount of times I do that. Glad I am not on my own Germaine x

Perranmaid

Perranmaid Report 8 Jun 2006 23:12

We call it a 'senior moment' round here and I don't know about anyone else but mine are getting more frequent. Is it a trait of family history buffs????

Merry

Merry Report 8 Jun 2006 23:08

Don't worry Grampa, I do that ALL the time!! You would think with only two ways to put the surname and firstname it wouldn't be possible to get it wrong so often! Merry

Unknown

Unknown Report 8 Jun 2006 23:05

I was just on Free BMD and was surprised to find no reference to Mary Elizabeth Ormston or Ormstone over a long period. I finally realised that I had not read the instructions and should have been looking for Ormston Mary Elizabeth.