Genealogy Chat

Hi all,

Thank you for all the sound advice about the pre-diabetes condition. He doesn't get the results until later this week. Mind you, he saw his doc yesterday and it never even came up in the conversation.. :-S


Anne, I'm going to have to copy your good advice out.......I once used a gedcom and got into such a muddle that I haven't tried since. Mind you, it was a long time ago and I'm a bit more computer savvy than I was then so, hopefully, I won't be as dense.... :-D


How come retirement is so busy for me? I used to think that life would calm down a bit................ :-S


Hopefully, a non-pressured day........hopefully!


Love to all, Cx <3

Sue - I haven't done a Gedcom from GR - but usually I download it to a memory stick - then upload it on to ancestry -

Give me a few mins & i will try something

To export your family tree as a GEDCOM file, click the button below. Your GEDCOM file will be emailed to you once it has been prepared. This process normally takes 5-10 minutes depending on the size of your tree.

Well first time I have seen this as an email - so looks like you get it as an attachment

Went in to Ancestry

On the Upload a Family Tree page on Ancestry, click on the "Browse" button to the right of "Choose file". This will bring up a window in which you should locate the appropriate family tree file or GEDCOM file on your hard drive. When you've selected the appropriate family tree file, click the "Open" button. Finish filling out the information on the page, and Ancestry will begin processing your family tree.


Sue looks very easy - in simple terms (In theory)

GR will send you an email with an attachment -
save the atttachment to your own drive (on the computer) -
then go into Ancestry - there are a few boxes -
the one that says Choose file -
hit the browse button & pick the letter of your drive -
click on the file you just saved (it should appear in the box

In the next box - give your tree a name

I would then untick the box and keep your tree private for the time being


Then click upload

Should take a couple of mins to do - sounds very easy - If I lived near you I would offer to do it for you

As long as you remember to just take your time when you do it - it does not matter how slow you go - do it at your own pace.

You can also use the Gedcom for Rootsmagic - but I have to admit - I do like to input the details myself - and on Rootsmagic you can colour code - I have the four lines all in different colours - so I can see at a glance which person belongs to which Grandparent.

Well after all that - better go & finish my lunch

take care all <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

HI Everyone

Sylvia I think this answers our question....you were spot on .

From J... thread

""Aim is to give them a platform for further research long after my day ie after 2052 when I expect to shed this mortal at age of 106.""

That works out to 66 by my math....if he is telling the truth now .

I did notice he has started a thread on Welsh Ancestry,I think Rose suggested that, it may keep him out of trouble.... for a while anyway.

We have had so much rain over the last day and a half but it is so cold with it .

I have the OH home at the moment ...work has really gone very quiet.

I hope it picks up soon ...I can't get anything done with him around.

God knows what I am going to do when he retires,he hates not having anything to do it frustrates him.

Glad you had a great Anniversary Sylvia ... a few more months yet for us ....bet it will be another chinese meal.

Anne I am going to take your advise and get the Roots Magic tree.

But I must get my tree off Genes first...I do not like the new tree at all so i will transfer it to Ancestry.

If I Gedcon it from Genes do they send it to me by email then I send it to Ancestry is that correct .

I have never done a Gedcom before so flying blind with this one
:-S :-S :-S


Drop in later
Suex :-D :-D :-D <3 <3 <3

Lovely to have my Icons back again THANKYOU CYNTHIA :-D <3

Happy anniversary Sylvia - heres to many more happy years together.

Sue - sorry to hear your news - its not the end of the world - everything in moderation

Lovely day again - it is very humid though.

Just a flying visit as was working this morning - so going to do some family tree work this afternoon.

Take care all

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Hi Sue


we're having lovely sunny weather here ................. a bit too hot for me though!


Today (Sunday) is our 45th wedding anniversary ................. and OH gave me a big bunch of freesias, which were one of the flowers in my wedding bouquet.


Sue .................


Thank you!


Sorry to hear that you have been diagnosed with borderline diabetes. I'll have to go and have a fasting test in about 3-4 weeks, then see whether I have been successful.



Re that guy ......... he's NOT 92!!

He's somewhere between 60 and 70 ..................... he commented somewhere that he was past retirement age, but was still working full time, and would retire at the end of 2013.

Now, I don't know what retirement age is in the UK ................ 65??


he's very strange!





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Hi Everyone


Wild Wet Wollie night for us last night ...glad to see this morning that the roof is still on .

Sylvia I have just been diagnosed with borderline diabetes so your list is very helpful to me but it is going to be hard as I am a bit of a sweet tooth and I love spicy food.

I will do better I think in summer as we have a lot of barbies and salads.

ON that other thread...I have been having a bit of a look around on the threads he has visited and to be honest I am shocked at how he is going around upsetting other people.

I can't understand what he is getting out of it ,at first I saw him as being picked on and being 92 ;-) I now think that is rubbish...I can't see a 92 yrs old speaking that way, not that generation ...just not that rude.

I take a lot of things back that I said on his thread but not all...still hate the way some helpers speak.

The rain is just pelting down at present ...collecting it for drinking as we still have not got our Water authority to change back yet from Chlorinated to UV.

Could be flogging a dead horse with that one I think.

Off to pull some posts :-S


Have a good day everyone

suex <3

Edit HAPPY ANIVERSARY SYLVIA :-D :-D :-D <3 <3 <3

You can even have "treats" such as chocolate or icecream, or a cinnamon bun ........... if you do it in absolute moderation, and not every day


1 or 2 dark chocolate ginger chocolates once or twice a week

half a scoop of icecream once a week

a small portion of the cinnamon bun

1-3 dates (very high sugar content, even though good fibre content) a couple of times a week

etc etc etc


:-D :-D :-D :-D

Hi Sue


and everyone



a lovely sunny day here.


C .................

I tested as what they call pre-diabetic here back in mid-June

I'm on a 3 month trial to see if I can control it with diet, exercise, and losing some weight.


It's been easy-peasy to adjust so far ..................... so I am hoping that it works, and that I don't have to take any more drugs.


I no longer add sugar to anything, tea, coffee, cereals, etc.

I check the labels on bought food, and try to choose the ones with the least amount of sugar or sugar-free.

I eat more veggies and fruits than I used to to do

and I have reduced and/or changed the size of my meals.

I have 3 meals and 3 snacks a day

I'm following the "plate" method .....................

use a salad plate rather than a dinner

divide the plate into quarters. Meat occupies 1 quarter (or is about the size of a pack of cards). Veggies occupy 1 half of the plate, using 3 -4 different veggies. Carbohydrate, in the form of rice, pasta or potatoes take up the remaining 1 quarter.

Brown rice or past is preferred .............. I don't like them, so haven't yet gone that far.

Potatoes are the least recommended ................ but I still have ½ a small potato.

You can eat desserts, as long as they do not have a lot of sugar in them

You can eat cheese, yoghurt, etc etc ............. unless you are lactose-intolerant like me!!


Check out the Diabetes Societies advice on the web.

The 2 sites I used are the food guides on .................

http://www.diabetes.ca/diabetes-and-you/nutrition/just-basics/

http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/prevention/pre-diabetes/if-you-have-prediabetes.html


I'm sure there will be an equivalent for England.


I googled diabetic menus/meals/foods



Snacks can be cheese, yoghurt, hummus, carrot sticks ............... you'll get lots of ideas for that.

I am much more limited than most people because of the lactose intolerance.

I have lost around 10 lbs so far ........ and I am not taking as much exercise as I should! That's 10 minutes walking per day.


It has made no difference to our usual meals, except for the desserts.




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I have type 2 diabetis and am on metformin providing I dont eat too much rubbish I am fine, certainly the metformin is a great help.
Its a beautiful day here in the island too hot for me outside in the garden but nice and cool indoors so I shall remain indoors for a while with all the windows open.
Time for coffee, does anyone want one?
Evelyn X

Cynthia

If your OH is borderline diabetic, I hope his surgery will put him on Metformin tablets.

I was diagnosed over two years ago and my doctor insisted on the tablets, rather than trying to control with just diet. Apart from giving up my great loves - chocolate and ice cream - I can honestly say my diet is pretty much the same.

I lost 2 stone initially, but have now plateaued - think I need greater portion control.

Arthur

Good grief.......everyone's very chatty - isn't that lovely :-D


Glad you've calmed down Anne - chocolate cake can work wonders can't it?? ;-)
Must remember to have a look at the site you mentioned too.



I don't mind cranky babies...........................as long as I can hand them back eventually :-D :-D


I hope folk are now settling down with the changes to the site. To be honest, I've got used to it now and I think the brightness has been toned down too. Hopefully, that will make it easier for those who have eye probs.


I've been meeting myself coming back this week. When it's term time, my daughter tends to spend quite a bit of time with us so it leaves me less time to play about on here.


I've also got a relation of OH who is interested in his paternal family tree. I'm not as gifted as most so it takes me a while to get things sorted. I do hope it doesn't turn out to be as convoluted as Josie's tree :-S


This relation was very helpful to me a couple of weeks ago when I wanted something translated from Russian. He works as a translator so that was very, very, useful.


OH went for tests yesterday to see if he is borderline diabetic. We had to wait for 2 hours in the doctor's waiting room listening to people coming in and describing their ailments to the receptionist :-(

He gets the results next week. I do hope he's not borderline as he has enough to cope with to be honest. Hey ho.

Had better go and get ready for the day - whatever it may bring......


Love to all.... Cx <3 <3

Hi Everyone

Josie sorry but that one looks to confusing for me to help you with.

Sounds like you are having very cold weather the same as us,I have usually got my Roses cut back by now but with all the frost we are having just can't do them yet.

Our Grt Grandaughter was great to look after she is such a good baby always smiling,now her parents have bought her a swing thing that hangs from the doorway and she can bounce her self up and down ..she just laughs with excitement.

Must go shopping shortly cupboards are a bit empty after having the 17yr old grandson for the week.
He was good and us oldies did not cramp his style to much as they say :-D

Drop in later tonight....enjoying the O Games very much.

suex <3 <3 <3

Hi Sylvia... trade your 27C for my 8C. It's cold wet and miserable here.

Had what I thought was another breakthrough in the hardest and most frustrating part of my Family tree, only to discover lies and more lies!!! :-0 :-0

The woman I think is the Mother of my My Great Grand Mother's first Husband Abraham Cross appears to have married one Christian Henry Cross a Ships cook in Liverpool in 1861, Had Abraham and a sister then left her husband
And got pregnant to a James Craney
and in 1871 Census it states that she is his wife they have a 5 month old Son Alexander Craney and her 2 children are shown with the surname Cross and as step children.
Where it gets interesting, is that I have found another Parish Marriage Record in 1882 in which she and James finnaly get married ! ;-)

Only 12 years after she lied in the Census making out that she was his wife
. In the 1881 Census it shows that Abraham and his Sister have left home, but there are now 2 more Sons of James.
In the second Parish marriage Record she states not only is she 30years old :-D definatly a big 'porkie' but that she is a Spinster and uses her Maiden Name. The name of her Father and his occupation as Corn Dealer and Place of Birth in Ireland are the same on both Marriage Records, so we know it's the same person.

As if her duplicity was not enough her First Husband Christian Henry Cross lied about who he was and apart from The Marriage Entry have found no other record s for him, the fact that he was a Ships Cook and stated that his Father was Bastiano Cross? I am starting to strongly think that he was of Portuguese or Spanish origin and Anglised his name. And most likely dissapeared back to the Continent. So my chances of going back any further than this would seem to be impossible. :-(

So once again this miserable family has beaten me. :-( :-(

So will migrate to another part of my tree and work on that instead.

Suppose I better go and Make some dinner.

take care catch you all later Josie :-) :-) :-) <3 <3 <3

BTW

That J... .............. was/is nothing but a wind-up artist, and very rude with it.

having slated the Welsh and Australian threads as having no part of GR, because GR was a genealogical site, and then having slated those who posted on there as ones who basically were of no consequence ...................


............ he posted on the Welsh thread earlier today, making fun of how everyone on the street where he lives knows him, and how he knows which woman has or has not had a hysterectomy.

It was a wicked post, basically making fun of, as he called it somewhere, "the banal postings" such threads.


He also said on a thread to me that the reason that he used the wrong terminology was because he wrote in Welsh, and had to use a translator programme to convert into English. BUT he posted on the Welsh thread that he had worked for many years all over England, and had now moved back to Wales.


What he says is not to be trusted





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Hi everyone

We had a good time up north. Stayed in town, and drove the 60 km to the cabin each day. The weather had been wetter than usual (surprise, surprise!!) ....... so the grass and Marguerite daisies were almost waist high!

As the lawn mower was among the items that "walked" back in May, OH had to use the weed eater to make a path down the driveway to the gate (only about 200' long), around the outside of the gate, and from the drive to the cabin. He managed to do some painting outside, and chopped the trunks of a couple of trees that had fallen across the farm road down to the flat meadow and creek .............. cutting out chunks of the trunks wide enough to walk through.

We thought the 4 or 5 trees that had fallen since last year had all been blown down during the winter ....... but he discovered that 2 of the ones across the farm road were actually "helped" on their way by BEAVERS!!! Both had had their trunks gnawed away near the base ..... it looks just like a tree faller would have done if cutting down a tree. AND they were both very big trees!

We brought away some more stuff ............... and now have a very nice patio set of aluminium and glass table and 4 chairs on our sun deck. We've never had a good set down here before

We'll go back up for 3 or 4 days in 2 or 3 weeks time, so OH can finish painting the outside ...... then we'll see where we go with selling it.



We had the strangest weather last night .................... thunder, lightening, and very heavy rain "squalls". It began just before 7 pm, and lasted until around midnight.


Today it is cloudy, and very much cooler than it has been ................... the temperatures here in Vancouver were above 30C from about last Friday or Saturday through until Monday, then dropped slightly ............. to about 27C


Himself has been sleeping in the basement since we got back ..... it is very cool down there (he's even needed a quilt). I can't sleep on that bed, so I've stayed in the bedroom, with 2 fans blowing on me, and just a sheet for covering.

We've both slept very well :-D :-D :-D :-D


Came back to all these changes!

Don't use my tree, or the various records, so I cna't say anyhting about them


BUT I do find the background too bright, and glaring. So sorry to see that Sally is leaving because of it.


Please ........ send an email to GR at [email protected] to complain, and let them know you have a problem.



Evelyn ................ nice to see you posting back on here.





take care everyone




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You will be pleased to know i have calmed down now Cynthia

Yesterday was a NIGHTMARE here in the office they all threw a few wobblers at some point - so if you cant beat them - join them It did feel good though.

Lot calmer today & we have an office buffet - so that was good - homemade Chocolate cake & it really is good too - just demolished some french bread with some very nice ham and beautiful cheese and olives with houmus & carrot sticks Yum Yum

WDYTYA back next week in the UK - 10 more weeks of interest on the TV

Sue you are so lucky looking after the little one - I bet you spoil her when you have her to yourself.

Dont know if its on sale in OZ - look for a stand alone programme called
ROOTSMAGIC - its a very very simple family tree programme - OH loves it and its so easy to use but you can do a lot with it - not that I do - and you can put photos on it.

It has a wonderful search facility its so easy to find any person in the tree - you can colour code families (which i have done) so you can easily see which side the ancestor belongs to.

We both love the Report function - after you have added a couple of hundred or so people you can run an error report and it shows up any silly errors - eg child born 100 years after mother died (wrong date) Father 96 when child born or mother was minus 50 years when child born.

OH did a classic - one of his lines had George son of George son of George etc I think there were 6 in all - he married his 5 x George to the 1 x George wife and added all the children - the report was really interesting - took him ages to try & get it sorted out - took me about 10 mins to work out what had happened - he wont do that again. Gave us a good laugh

Cynthia well done on the precis - it would be amazing to find Diane after all this time.

Well better go back to work (& the chocolate cake)

Take care all <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Hi Everyone

Wow ! that site on the Gr changes got very heated at times....shame realy

Funny but I did not get offended by the remakes made I thought he was spot on about the new look site really.

I am not computer Savvy and I don't mind who knows it ...I think that was his point in the beginning....it does take me a long time to work things out when they do these changes.

I am not even going to my tree until they sort it all out because I know I will do something wrong and it could spoil my tree for me and I don't have a tree anywhere else to back me up.

Before anyone says it..... dumb I know

I went out the other day to buy an outside tree but I don't know what one to buy,this is where the Genes tree was great for me because it was so easy to use as J...said.
So I am going to agree with J to a degree...maybe he just expressed himself just a bit to strongly at times but in my mind so did others everyones opinions are different re; this new look Genes esp the tree .....he does have some good points and I now have to get my Computer man out (another cost) to Gedcom my tree to Ancestry so I do have it in two places :-S

Cynthia good idea to bring everyone up to date with Evelyns thread ,it has been a while.

I did have a look the other day on my new aquired world FMP but again I am still learning how to use that site so it may take me a while .

I have my Grt Grandaughter today for a few hours..she has just had her second lot of vacinations this morning so mum has gone shopping and let me mind her just incase she gets a bit cranky.

Catch you all later
suex :-D :-D :-D <3 <3 <3

Good heaven's Anne....what a noise! I've gone deaf now...... ;-)


I can't help it if the tree works for me now can I.....it must be something to do with the way I hold my mouth... :-D :-D

Some of the probs on this site have been sorted through using the compatability wotsit in Tools.

It gets quite embarrassing to say that you aren't having any problems when so many others are. :-(


Okay folks.......Evelyn's thread is back up and raring to go. I have done my best with a precis to bring everyone as up to date as I can. Evelyn, I need some feedback on there from you please - re the newspaper bit.

Wouldn't it be a joy to find out who Evelyn's mum really was ?


Take care......Cx <3 <3 <3

Cynthia - referring back to "The Other Thread" we all seem to have been on at one time or another in the last few days - ref new style GR - i will try the tree search again - just for you Cynthia

I Tried it again STILL DOES NOT WORK :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-(
Grizzle snivell grizzle - sob sob sob sob :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P

Why does it work for you and not me - its not fair -:-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P throws tantrum & toys out of pram :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) Not really just felt like it - have had to deal with several of those already this morning - felt like joining them

No not fair - - have been in my tree & others and i cannot perform any search for any person in any tree -

Never mind will try again another day

Evelyn its not you - they disappeared on me too and that was for over two days - sobbed & sobbed i did & no-one took any notice of me -

I am now going back to the mad house - i want a Tantrum - i deserve one - i have earnt one & i am jolly well going to go & have one

Take care all
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Hello everyone :-D


Sorry, I got sidetracked off into discussions about the new look site. Think that topic has nearly died a death now so I will be able to concentrate more.


That's fine Evelyn - I just need to get my head into gear with a precis for your mum now. :-D :-D


Not stopping as have to go shopping when OH is mobile....and that's now!!

See you later.... ~~~~~