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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: Wellington66 on Thursday 23 May 24 17:54 BST (UK)
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I like to look on Rootschat most days. People comment on the weather etc. or some other event. I
sometimes click on the contributor so see what area they live in. It would be really nice if they had added some clue as to their location. Nothing specifice obviously, unless of course they choose to.
Welly :) :)
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I totally agree.
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Thank you for your reply.
We get such lovely comments from Rootchatters. My profile says I am a senior (a real old senior now) and that I live in the East Midlands. Unless someone sends me a personal message that is all anyone knows about me until I choose to enlighten them.
Welly :) :)
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Thank you for your reply.
We get such lovely comments from Rootchatters. My profile says I am a senior (a real old senior now) and that I live in the East Midlands. Unless someone sends me a personal message that is all anyone knows about me until I choose to enlighten them.
Welly :) :)
Nice to know you Welly.
I'm also ancient and would like the road planners to signpost the old counties and not the more "modern" area names.
I used to visit my daughter who lived in Portsmouth many moons ago. Returning home to N.W. Lancashire I'd have to make educated guesses as to which Motorway turn off and entry I needed to use in order to use the shortest route.
For instance, today I posed the question "Where is the "East Midlands" (I feel I should have asked "Where are the East Midlands")
Here's the answer:-
"It comprises the eastern half of the area traditionally known as the Midlands. It consists of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire (except for North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire), Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, and Rutland."
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I would not object to a little county or country flag under our name.
Regards
Chas
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I'm guessing that the Highlands of Norfolk are something like the Lowlands of Pichincha.
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A Rootschatter's location is included in their profile, if they choose to include it.
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In God's Own Country.
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I'm guessing that the Highlands of Norfolk are something like the Lowlands of Pichincha.
Norfolk is generally a flat, low-lying county protruding into the North Sea. My wife has relatives who lived in a village 20 miles from the coast. Their address was No. 5 The Slads. Slads is an old Norfolk term for "drowned land". I live in one of the highest points at 166ft above sea level. When the ice-caps melt, we will have a sea frontage.
Regards
Chas
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And I live in one of the low spots in Pichincha, at ~9,350 feet.
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My approximate location is in my profile. About 200 ft above sea level!
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A Rootschatter's location is included in their profile, if they choose to include it.
It is really helpful if people do complete that information if only the country they are living in then we don’t suggest visiting archives that are nowhere near their home.
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A Rootschatter's location is included in their profile, if they choose to include it.
It is really helpful if people do complete that information if only the country they are living in then we don’t suggest visiting archives that are nowhere near their home.
I agree totally with that.
Regards
Chas
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And I live in one of the low spots in Pichincha, at ~9,350 feet.
Do you get any kind of "altitude sickness", but in reverse?
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I live in Norfolk and was born and raised in Norfolk but to Essex parents who both had some Norfolk blood in them so it is like they "came home". Actually some ancestors came from just a few miles from the village in East Norfolk that I grew up in. Likely many distant cousins in my school.
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"Do you get any kind of "altitude sickness", but in reverse?"
No, when I go down to the coast, I don't feel much difference. I'm used to Quito, of course, but I do feel the altitude at La Paz (the airport is at 13,000 feet). They have medical personnel stationed in the terminal there, with oxygen bottles for tourists who are overcome by altitude sickness. Ditto on some of the train routes over the Andes in Peru.
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Excellent point Rosie99.
Welly :)
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I have Essex om my profile, not an Essex girl, born in London.
LM
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Edinburgh, not ancient but just feel it some days ;D
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I studied geography, so place is very important. I often find myself checking profiles for place and being disappointed there is no entry. Place may affect the way I reply to a question.
I am from the West Riding, which covers a lot of ground, from the East Midlands to Westmorland. There will not be many of us left who can say they once worked for the West Riding County Council!
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I studied geography, so place is very important. I often find myself checking profiles for place and being disappointed there is no entry. Place may affect the way I reply to a question.
I am from the West Riding
Oh, Gaithersburg! Visited there once!
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I didn't study geography, but have found that I place things on an imaginary map. Because I live almost at the south coast, I look north at most things, but have difficulty when people talk about the western docks or western heights in Dover. I have to "go" out to sea, so I can look north, then I know which is west! It sounds very odd, but we all see things differently.
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Clue, I live in the driest state in the driest continent on earth.
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When I joined Rootschat in 2008 I didn't realize how secure the information was and being relatively new to modern technology was cautious. I'm not "down there with the young ones" as my grandson tells me but I have updated my profile today. I live in Derbyshire! Your comments to my post have been really interesting.
Have a great bank holiday weekend everyone, and perhaps when someone comments on some lovely weather we might know which AREA they live in. Looks like sunshine and showers for me.
Welly :) :) :)
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Goodness me Nova67 now you will have us all guessing. Driest continent Antartica followed by Australia? But when I first read your post I was going to say Nevada. Guess I'm wrong then.
Welly :-[
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Not in Antarctica ;D, although heading for winter. You can Google what I wrote though.
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I live in the Festival State.
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Got it! Thanks for sharing Welly :)
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I'm from the Model County.
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I live in the largest city in the Keystone Province in the middle of Canada
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Problem is - does where you currently live bear any resemblance to your ancestral research?
I live in Tamworth, Staffordshire. I was born in Chester and spent my childhood in Cheshire BUT both my parents and their ancestors were from The West Riding. I married a Londoner, moved to London and had our daughter there. Then moved to Cheshire, then Kent and now Staffordshire! :-\ :-\ :o
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I must be honest, not that it really matters but it does cross my mind when weather is mentioned where that RC comes from, although I do check, not all show it.
LM
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I am not ancestrally connected to where I live now, but geography definitely plays a part. I am originally from Newcastle, Australia which had a lot of migration from Northumberland and County Durham.
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I was born in Kensington, London.Many years ago and have lived in Perivale Middx
for over 50 yrs...
I have tried not to show my age !
Have a great weekend everyone !
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Problem is - does where you currently live bear any resemblance to your ancestral research?
I live in Tamworth, Staffordshire. I was born in Chester and spent my childhood in Cheshire BUT both my parents and their ancestors were from The West Riding. I married a Londoner, moved to London and had our daughter there. Then moved to Cheshire, then Kent and now Staffordshire! :-\ :-\ :o
Not in the least BB, but then most Australians would say the same. My first ancestors to arrive here were from Keynsham, Somerset, next were from Anglesey and Denbighshire , Wales, then one from Cornwall and others from Devon and Kent. Just to add to the confusion one from America or Canada.
I was born in Mildura, which is on the Victoria, NSW border and very close to the South Australia border. We moved to SA when I was a child, but came back to Victoria and there I’ve stayed. I have no plans to move again, it’s too stressful.
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My dad was born in Essex, and he had a Suffolk born grandfather, Oxford grandmother who both when young chose Essex as their homes one via London and Sussex. His other 2 grandparents were born in Essex, but out of the Suffolk and Oxon side, he felt more at home with the Suffolk side. I guess because Suffolk was in his remit, being next door to Essex. I can see how he felt as he probably did not know Oxfordshire very well and did not feel a sense of belonging there like he did in Suffolk.
I feel more at home with ancestors from East Anglia than I do Sussex, Durham, west country or Berkshire as I hardly know those areas. But i do feel a strong affinity to my Oxford city ancestors.
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I live in the largest city in the Keystone Province in the middle of Canada
Winterpeg!! 😀😀
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Can you guess?
It’s a big country, though…
My ancestors are from far away (England and likely one smidgen from Ireland). My children have roots in NAmerica back to 1640 in Massachusetts and in the late 1700’s several began the trek northward to Quebec, and others arrived in Canada from the British Isles. As far as we can tell all their ancestors were from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
OH is a real mix - England, Scotland, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, and probably Germany. Some colonial US settlers (New Amsterdam), then to Canada as Loyalists, then back to the US, then back to Canada. And one of this generation is back in the British Isles!
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I live in God's Own Country, but not in the same one as Wexflyer :)
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What did I start ;D ;D ;D !!!!
Hope you have all had some fun with the post. After all it is called "The Lighter Side" I have.
I'm off to the land of my birth for a long weekend. I might buy some leeks, maybe a love spoon but if I'm really lucky I might see a dragon.
Yes, far too easy that one.
Have a great weekend all you lovely Rootchatters.
Welly x
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Well it has been interesting, none of us can be tracked so it didn't matter who knows, most didn't use their rightful names anyway, we are all spread for and wide
LM