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Sacha, are you around on the 15th and 16th September? I shall be visiting
Exeter Record Office and thought I might take a trip westward for an afternoon. Would love to meet you, Ray and Oscar Underfoot :-} Please could you let me know on kathleendotmcintoshatmypostofficedotcodotuk? Thanks. -- Kathy |
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Kathy wrote:
Please could you let me know on kathleendotmcintoshatmypostofficedotcodotuk? It's very childish, but I did find "shatmypostoffice" a very funny domain name. :-D |
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"Kathy" wrote
Sacha, are you around on the 15th and 16th September? I shall be visiting Exeter Record Office and thought I might take a trip westward for an afternoon. Would love to meet you, Ray and Oscar Underfoot :-} Please could you let me know on kathleendotmcintoshatmypostofficedotcodotuk? If you are doing your Family Tree I hope you have better luck at a Records Office than I ever have, never anything at all and some of the staff are certainly not helpful like the ones on the TV. Good luck. -- Regards Bob Hobden W.of London. UK |
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On 07/08/2011 15:25, Bob Hobden wrote:
"Kathy" wrote Sacha, are you around on the 15th and 16th September? I shall be visiting Exeter Record Office and thought I might take a trip westward for an afternoon. Would love to meet you, Ray and Oscar Underfoot :-} Please could you let me know on kathleendotmcintoshatmypostofficedotcodotuk? If you are doing your Family Tree I hope you have better luck at a Records Office than I ever have, never anything at all and some of the staff are certainly not helpful like the ones on the TV. Good luck. Apart from the dragons that infest the Durham County records office I have found most of the other County records office and local history staff reasonably helpful. You cannot expect them to have the right book open at the right page for you when you arrive as usually happens on TV. If you have done your homework then the Records office is one place to find the microfilms of the actual marriage and birth certificates. It speeds things up enormously if you already have a prepared list of what you are looking for gleaned from IGI or FreeBMD. Tricky bit is playing guess the parish church in larger towns. Regards, Martin Brown |
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On 7 Aug 2011 14:09:01 GMT, wrote:
Kathy wrote: Please could you let me know on kathleendotmcintoshatmypostofficedotcodotuk? It's very childish, but I did find "shatmypostoffice" a very funny domain name. :-D Well, if we're going to be childish, I could mention a few placenames which get filtered out by some software ... -- Mike. |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
... "Kathy" wrote Sacha, are you around on the 15th and 16th September? I shall be visiting Exeter Record Office and thought I might take a trip westward for an afternoon. Would love to meet you, Ray and Oscar Underfoot :-} Please could you let me know on kathleendotmcintoshatmypostofficedotcodotuk? If you are doing your Family Tree I hope you have better luck at a Records Office than I ever have, never anything at all and some of the staff are certainly not helpful like the ones on the TV. Good luck. Last time I was there I had one awful woman on the first afternoon, and a really splendid one the next day. Also, it was there I discovered my GGGrandfather had been Christened twice, also looked at maps of the area of Exeter he'd been born/lived in and lots of info on his wife's family. -- Kathy |
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"Martin Brown" wrote
Bob Hobden wrote: "Kathy" wrote Sacha, are you around on the 15th and 16th September? I shall be visiting Exeter Record Office and thought I might take a trip westward for an afternoon. Would love to meet you, Ray and Oscar Underfoot :-} Please could you let me know on kathleendotmcintoshatmypostofficedotcodotuk? If you are doing your Family Tree I hope you have better luck at a Records Office than I ever have, never anything at all and some of the staff are certainly not helpful like the ones on the TV. Good luck. Apart from the dragons that infest the Durham County records office I have found most of the other County records office and local history staff reasonably helpful. You cannot expect them to have the right book open at the right page for you when you arrive as usually happens on TV. If you have done your homework then the Records office is one place to find the microfilms of the actual marriage and birth certificates. It speeds things up enormously if you already have a prepared list of what you are looking for gleaned from IGI or FreeBMD. Tricky bit is playing guess the parish church in larger towns. Why waste time and money going to a Records Office to look at a microfilm of a Cert when you can order an official copy online for £9 once you have the Volume and Ref No. There is also no need to know the Church involved. Certainly cheaper than travelling the Country as I've done in the past and to no avail. It's once you are back past 1837 (probably nearer 1800 in reality) it gets more difficult and Records Offices become more useful (if you guess correctly and have some luck). -- Regards Bob Hobden W.of London. UK |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
... "Martin Brown" wrote Bob Hobden wrote: "Kathy" wrote Sacha, are you around on the 15th and 16th September? I shall be visiting Exeter Record Office and thought I might take a trip westward for an afternoon. Would love to meet you, Ray and Oscar Underfoot :-} Please could you let me know on kathleendotmcintoshatmypostofficedotcodotuk? If you are doing your Family Tree I hope you have better luck at a Records Office than I ever have, never anything at all and some of the staff are certainly not helpful like the ones on the TV. Good luck. Apart from the dragons that infest the Durham County records office I have found most of the other County records office and local history staff reasonably helpful. You cannot expect them to have the right book open at the right page for you when you arrive as usually happens on TV. If you have done your homework then the Records office is one place to find the microfilms of the actual marriage and birth certificates. It speeds things up enormously if you already have a prepared list of what you are looking for gleaned from IGI or FreeBMD. Tricky bit is playing guess the parish church in larger towns. Why waste time and money going to a Records Office to look at a microfilm of a Cert when you can order an official copy online for £9 once you have the Volume and Ref No. Except he was born in 1809. There is also no need to know the Church involved. Certainly cheaper than travelling the Country as I've done in the past and to no avail. It's once you are back past 1837 (probably nearer 1800 in reality) it gets more difficult and Records Offices become more useful (if you guess correctly and have some luck). No need to guess, I know the family came from Devon. -- Kathy |
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"Martin" wrote in message
... On 7 Aug 2011 14:09:01 GMT, wrote: Kathy wrote: Please could you let me know on kathleendotmcintoshatmypostofficedotcodotuk? It's very childish, but I did find "shatmypostoffice" a very funny domain name. :-D Shame on you! chortle There are various ways of spelling McIntosh, but that isn't one of them :-} -- Kathy |
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On 07/08/2011 22:44, Bob Hobden wrote:
"Martin Brown" wrote Bob Hobden wrote: If you are doing your Family Tree I hope you have better luck at a Records Office than I ever have, never anything at all and some of the staff are certainly not helpful like the ones on the TV. Good luck. Apart from the dragons that infest the Durham County records office I have found most of the other County records office and local history staff reasonably helpful. You cannot expect them to have the right book open at the right page for you when you arrive as usually happens on TV. If you have done your homework then the Records office is one place to find the microfilms of the actual marriage and birth certificates. It speeds things up enormously if you already have a prepared list of what you are looking for gleaned from IGI or FreeBMD. Tricky bit is playing guess the parish church in larger towns. Why waste time and money going to a Records Office to look at a microfilm of a Cert when you can order an official copy online for £9 once you have the Volume and Ref No. There is also no need to know the That only works after 1837 - they are the easy ones. I am back to before 1800's on most lines and down to early-1700's on some. It gets expensive at even £7 a throw when you have something common like eg Sarah Brown in Liverpool to find. Lancs BMD is very useful at giving full church references so microfilm is fairly easy to use. It is worth paying careful attention to what records are held where. I was once caught out visiting Preston (Lancs CRO) only to find that the material I wanted to see was only available in Manchester. Church involved. Certainly cheaper than travelling the Country as I've done in the past and to no avail. It's once you are back past 1837 (probably nearer 1800 in reality) it gets more difficult and Records Offices become more useful (if you guess correctly and have some luck). Use IGI or county specific resources for searching and then going to look up the primary records works pretty well for me (with IGI allow for the occasional USian MM/DD vs DD/MM date twiddle error too). Regards, Martin Brown |
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In article , Martin
writes They even got the Ecclesiastical records people to search for plants for our house, though without success. plants or plans? -- Martin Gosh and there's me thinking what a great service for doing up your flower beds !! -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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"Jake" Nospam@invalid wrote in message ... On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 12:36:54 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 2011-08-08 11:42:25 +0100, Jake Nospam@invalid said: On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 11:00:51 +0100, Sacha wrote: Which reminds me I've left two glass flutes in church since Easter!! I hope they're still safe. What do they sound like when you play them? Cheers Jake ============================================== Gardening at the dry end (east) of Swansea Bay in between reading anything by JRR Tolkien. www.rivendell.org.uk You and Martin should work up a double act! ;-)) We're way ahead of you (http://martinandjake.com) though Martin seems to hog all the writing. But then he does write a lot better than I. :) Cheers Jake ============================================== Gardening at the dry end (east) of Swansea Bay in between reading anything by JRR Tolkien. www.rivendell.org.uk Is it a Stage Act? ;-) http://www.shanklintheatre.com/default.aspx I am very heavily involved with this Theatre and I could put a word in for you :-)) You will be secure in booking the Theatre, it has just been taken off the "At Risk" List whilst other Theatres are going on :-( Mike http://www.friendsofshanklintheatre.org.uk/ -- .................................... Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive. .................................... |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
... "Kathy" No need to guess, I know the family came from Devon. My wife and all her family "knew" their family came from Norway three/four generation back. Not so, Carlisle more like, certainly up that way but with nothing in the records offices up there it's difficult to go any further. What I did find was that two generations of the family didn't know their fathers and one lost their mother too whilst very young which is probably where the myth came from. No, this is not a myth, it's fact. Our family myth was that Great Uncle Arthur went to Australia, made a fortune, owned land, died at Gallipoli and left it all to an Australian girlfriend. Not so. He died at Calais and owned nothing. -- Kathy |
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"Sacha" wrote in message
... On 2011-08-07 23:40:14 +0100, "Kathy" said: "Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... "Martin Brown" wrote Bob Hobden wrote: "Kathy" wrote Sacha, are you around on the 15th and 16th September? I shall be visiting Exeter Record Office and thought I might take a trip westward for an afternoon. Would love to meet you, Ray and Oscar Underfoot :-} Please could you let me know on kathleendotmcintoshatmypostofficedotcodotuk? If you are doing your Family Tree I hope you have better luck at a Records Office than I ever have, never anything at all and some of the staff are certainly not helpful like the ones on the TV. Good luck. Apart from the dragons that infest the Durham County records office I have found most of the other County records office and local history staff reasonably helpful. You cannot expect them to have the right book open at the right page for you when you arrive as usually happens on TV. If you have done your homework then the Records office is one place to find the microfilms of the actual marriage and birth certificates. It speeds things up enormously if you already have a prepared list of what you are looking for gleaned from IGI or FreeBMD. Tricky bit is playing guess the parish church in larger towns. Why waste time and money going to a Records Office to look at a microfilm of a Cert when you can order an official copy online for £9 once you have the Volume and Ref No. Except he was born in 1809. There is also no need to know the Church involved. Certainly cheaper than travelling the Country as I've done in the past and to no avail. It's once you are back past 1837 (probably nearer 1800 in reality) it gets more difficult and Records Offices become more useful (if you guess correctly and have some luck). No need to guess, I know the family came from Devon. You don't have Prowse, Luscombe, Lake, in there, do you, Kathy?! Sorry, no. Hall, Chappell and possibly Sweeting. -- Kathy |
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"Kathy" wrote
"Bob Hobden" "Kathy" No need to guess, I know the family came from Devon. My wife and all her family "knew" their family came from Norway three/four generation back. Not so, Carlisle more like, certainly up that way but with nothing in the records offices up there it's difficult to go any further. What I did find was that two generations of the family didn't know their fathers and one lost their mother too whilst very young which is probably where the myth came from. No, this is not a myth, it's fact. Our family myth was that Great Uncle Arthur went to Australia, made a fortune, owned land, died at Gallipoli and left it all to an Australian girlfriend. Not so. He died at Calais and owned nothing. I've got an offshoot of the family way back that actually did just that, sent to Oz originally for stealing a loaf to feed his wife and 4 kids, he ended up owning 3,000 acres and was the first person to plant vines in the Hunter Valley. -- Regards Bob Hobden W.of London. UK |
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