General Chat

Ah Tec....Linda's been doing some research for you hasn't she. Our lass broke down a massive brick wall for me and gave me the know-how to knock down another one.

Sue xx

Hello Transfixed Tec!!

Good thing Allan is away or I am sure he would have made something of that situation.

Perse

Linda is a veritable genius - she finds people I never knew I had,

They can run - but they can't hide from her.

Tec

Forgetting my manners - I'm so excited.

Good Morning Sue,
Good Morning Perse,

Hope you enjoyed your stay away Perse - and Sue, we will swop places with you anytime. Last night they recorded temps of - 14 ten miles inland from here.

Tec

Forgetting my manners - I'm so excited.

Good Morning Sue,
Good Morning Perse,

Hope you enjoyed your stay away Perse - and Sue, we will swop places with you anytime. Last night they recorded temps of - 14 ten miles inland from here.

Tec

I am not that good tec, I am annoyed that I haven't got Thomas yet, I won't give up though

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Tec

It's great when you get help like that Tec.

Most of us NZ ders help each other out as our history is pretty appalling. They did not have to register births here until 1848 and then it is very hit and miss - my grandfather's siblings all recorded but not him - he was born out in the sticks so they didn't bother to register him. The Maori's are even worse off as they didn't have to register till 1912 and unless you are descended from a dignatory or chief it is very difficult for them.

I have much better strike rate in the UK with all my ancestry from there, mainly because they stayed in the one area.

Perse

Either my eyes have gone funny or Tec has a twitchy finger again

Lot's of my mothers side were Methodists Perse, they were supposed to attend the C of E church on Sundays and have the children baptised there, but they were a law until themselves so often didn't comply with the rules

Linda,
Thomas was eccentric apparently - just like him to hide.

Perse - I had a lady from NZ enquiring about one of my ancestors, but there was no connection. She was trying to trace her Gt. grandfather who sailed from Liverpool around 1900 - I tried to help her but she knew very little to go on.

Tec

The updates on Ancestry have made records even easier to find. Kent and London records are wonderful.

Sue xx

Yes sue, but this is Wales and I haven't got a clue where anywhere is and they all have the same names

Linda............
Nobody in Wales knows where anywhere is either - when the English come here they get terribly lost - although all the road signs are in English and Welsh.

Tec

Sorry been out of the room:

Yes Sue I have the Kent grave sites and have a cousin over there and have ended up with bucket loads of information.

Tec - I have just been talking with OH (we do that from time to time) he had told me the other day that his mother's cousin's wife had died. The cousin was a researcher here on calves being born as twins. He and his wife have two sets of identical twins and his wife studied fleas on birds (of all things) and she is the daughter of Clough Williams-Ellis,

He came to NZ and was very critical of the NZ architecture and our then Minister of Works Bob Semple (this would be in the 1930s) called Williams-Ellis a snivelling snufflebuster.

Just thort you might like that one.

My mother came from a mixture of Methodists and Presbyterians - but they too looked like they pleased themselves.
My Great Grandfather was killed on a pedestrian crossing whilst going to church - a Minister from another church bowled him over - he was running late for his sermon.

Perse

Just said on the news that we can go down to - 20, the same temp as the South pole.
Also gas may be rationed

Tec

Perse,
I do hope that Minister didn't knock your Gt. Grandfather down because he belonged to a different church - poor man.

Clough Williams Ellis's Italianate Village at Portmeirion is about 40 miles from me. It is very interesting, - my nephew was married there last year

Have you been there? if not try to google it

Tec

I have been to Portmeirion Tec, it was very interesting, I am banging my head on your tree now,it might knock some sense into me

Yes I have googled it - and I used to watch "The Prisoner" with Patrick McGoohan.

Hi everyone! All this talk of temperatures going below zero! Mind you - in winter here, our temps do go down sometimes to -2 or -4 overnight (coldest), but usually they rise to at least 15 or more later in the day. Right now, I can't imagine that. No sign of rain here yet, but the sky is covered in cloud. Forecast is for showers - but nothing yet.