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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: AiredalePete on Tuesday 16 December 08 06:28 GMT (UK)
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Hi Everyone
I stumbled upon this discussion board in the process of trying to trace a relative. A member here has the same surname. No, I'm not going to ask for help at this stage. It's very nice of you to ask but we have only just met! I'm a big believer in 'serving my apprenticeship' by helping with other posters' queries for a while first.
You will gather from my username that my name is Peter and I am in Airedale, just on the outskirts of Leeds more precisely. I have been researching my own and my wife Christine's family histories for several years and have made lots of friends around the world in the process. For me, this is one of the exciting things about genealogy: it isn't only about researching 'dead rellies'.
I was born in Nelson, Lancashire in 1951 but my father's family came from Thornton, Bradford and my mother's family came from the Halifax area around Heptonstall and Todmorden. There are a lot of farmers and weavers among my ancestors. Up to now I haven't discovered anyone famous and I haven't come across a stately home to which I can lay claim. It hasn't stopped me trying though. You never know what might turn up!
Thank you for accepting me as a member of your community and I wish you all a very Happy Christmas and a Peaceful and Prosperous New Year.
Peter
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Great introduction Peter
Welcome to Rootschat, you'll soon find it addictive :)
Compliments of the season to you and yours
:) mare NZ
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Hi Peter,
Welcome to RootsChat. I am sure that you will find many people here willing to help you.
A very Happy Christmas and peaceful New Year.
Geoff
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Welcome to Rootschat Peter :D
Addictive :D helpful Rootschatters :D and of course making new friends.
Merry xmas and all the best for 2009
Cheers
KHP :)
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Welcome, WELL COME ON IN !!
Pete, I joined about three months ago, I promise you tis an addictive place - always open, always cheerful, always informative, and always full of people willing to help each other.
Cheers,
MA
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Hi Peter,
Welcome glad you stumbled in, we are really all very nice and you will find many people just willing to help you, if you can help someone else thats a bonus for us. :).
Merry Christmas
Jean
In Australia
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Welcome to RootsChat Peter........as has been said before, we're a very nice bunch. And yes, RC is very addictive (it's also a trifle mad on the ToT boards.......pop over sometime and join in the madness, we're fun really.)
Barbara
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Thank you very much for your warm welcomes! I see there are members in Australia, where the WALMSLEYs in my wife's family now live and in New Zealand where the SHACKLETONs in my own family now live.
I envy them at this time of the year, when it's cold and damp in England. I don't blame them for turning their backs on the windwept hills of West Yorkshire and starting a new life on the sheep farms of New Zealand. Their descendants seem to be builders and chemists now though. Perhaps there isn't much call for woolly jumpers!
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Hi Peter, Welcome to Rootschat from me as well
Depending What part of NZ you are in we still need woolly Jumpers.
It can get very cold in Winter
Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2009
Cheers
Newbe
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A warm welcome from me too Peter. :)
You're not too far from my neck of the woods. It's brilliant here, even when I'm not in the mood for searching I often pay a visit and become totally engrossed, better than TV. Everyone is so friendly and very helpful.
Evie
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A very warm welcome & Merry Christmas from Chesham Peter :D
Carol
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Hi Pete
Welcome to rootschat,
I have ancestors round the heptonstall/todmorden area too :)
Merry Christmas :D :D
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Hi Pete,
Welcome to Rootschat it a bit like a mad family, all mad keen to help.
I,m in Melbourne have been for 5 years not enough rain unlike Glasgow!.
We had a heap of rain here at the weekend 73mm the heaviest rainfall in 3 years!!!
I only get home sick for Glasgow when the temp hits 40oc!!
If you have any ancestors to look up in Melbourne give me a shout!
kind regards, Billy.
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Hi Peter,
Welcome to Rootschat - I'm sure you'll enjoy it and find us helpful - don't be shy - ask away. ;D
Merry Christmas.
Bev.
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Hello Pete
You will have all the help anyone can give you on the site.
Welcome aboard
failsafe
8)
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Hi Pete and a warm welcome from me also ;D
Best wishes for the festive season and the coming New Year
Jane ;)
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Hello Peter,
Welcome to RootsChat from a member of the Canadian contingent.
This is a world within worlds, full of helpful people.
Don't be shy, make yourself at home.
Season's Geetings,
Genie :)
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Na then Pete lad.
Its grand ter av anuther Yorkshire lad on board.
Dave :D ;)
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Ee Dave, I dooan't know as I'm qualified to call mesen Yorkshire. I were born just over t'ill i' Nelson.
It wouldn't a qualified me for t' cricket team tha knows.
I've lived i' Yorkshire sin I were eleven though, so them as I dooan't tell, dooan't realise. :)
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Hello Pete. Couldn't believe it when I saw the name 'Airedale'. I lived there until aged 8 yrs old. My maternal grandmother lived there all her life in Redhill Avenue, at the bottom of Broom Hill. I believe it was once called Airedale Road and was then altered to Redhill Avenue. Loved the area and just about all my ancestors come from round there. Welcome to the site by the way. I now live in Suffolk.
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Hi Silas
Thank you for your greeting. There may be some misunderstanding about my location, it seems.
I have moved house ten times during my life and on the last seven occasions I have ended up living not far away from the River Aire: Saltaire, Keighley, Bingley, Shipley, Pudsey, Stanningley and now Bramley.
I'm more of an Airedale Terrier than a Yorkshire one, so to speak. :)
If the Redhill Avenue you refer to is the one in Wakefield, I am familiar with Wakefield, though I have never lived there. I do however have a great affection for the people of Wakefield, to whom I used to sell eggs on a market stall in the late 1960s.
I am thankful that none of the shoppers felt inclined to throw one back at me!
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Hi Pete. Yes, a bit of confusion on my part (nothing new). I assumed it was the Airedale, Castleford. Never mind. I have a great affection for that area, which is why I was gobsmacked when I saw 'Airedale'. I adore Yorkshire and would love to be back there, but circumstances meant having to move away - that's life!Most of my ancesors were into coal-mining in the area, including my late grandfather.
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Hello
:) Merry Xmas from a Brummie in Western Australia
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Merry Christmas Down-Under!
I imagine you'll be missing the chilly Birmingham weather at this time of the year. :)
Sunstroke is not so much of a problem in England at Christmas.
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Hello
It will be quite warm here on Xmas day.
This month has been cooler than normal. We still have the hot Turkey and vegs plus prawns and salads. All our family will be at my daughters mostly in the pool.
It will be 40 years on Christmas Day since I landed at Fremantle I was age 21.
Regards Pam
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Hello Peter
I live in Horsforth and my daughter lives in Bramley.
I'm a Southerner, only been here 40 years so don't have the accent yet.
Welcome
Sylviaann
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Hi Sylviaann, it's a small world isn't it?
Only 40 years? I hope you're settling in nicely. :)