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Family History Beginners Board / Re: 🚢 Seeking Stories & Clues: The Mysterious Journey of George R. Edge 🚂
« on: Sunday 13 July 25 20:16 BST (UK)  »
Someone who had worked with my father, they were both telephone engineers who met whilst teaching/demonstrating  at the telephone training college in Staffordshire. This colleague was sent over to what is now Pakistan to help sort out their telephone network. At least that’s what I understood.By then my father had been sent down to London and was working there

I’ve just looked up the family in the shipping lists on Ancestry and they went in 1955 returning a year later in 1956.

It might be worth you looking at the passenger lists for sea and air travel.

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Cumberland / Re: Penrith Workhouse
« on: Monday 03 February 25 23:33 GMT (UK)  »
https://www.workhouses.org.uk/Penrith/

The above site lists the available records which are held at Carlisle Archive Centre.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Batchelor or Betrothed or something else??
« on: Monday 03 February 25 23:11 GMT (UK)  »
I agree with the other three that it’s batchelor.

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The Stay Safe Board / Re: Spring 2025 COVID-19 vaccination programme
« on: Sunday 02 February 25 20:07 GMT (UK)  »
Until the one last Autumn I got a vaccination as being “extremely vulnerable”. Suddenly despite nothing changing medication wise I was no longer extremely vulnerable and so no vaccination as I’m not 75 until December this year. Very strange.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Has anyone made contact with "lost" but still living family members?
« on: Saturday 18 January 25 21:24 GMT (UK)  »
Back in the late 1990s I mentioned on a Christmas card to my late father’s, late brother’s wife I’d been doing some family history. She wrote back and  told me I needed to contact cousin Jack and enclosed an address. After Christmas I wrote to Cousin Jack explaining who I was having worked out who he was. I didn’t give a telephone number just my address. A couple of evenings latee I got a telephone call from Cousin Jack who’d got my telephone number from directory enquiries. He was so excited and talked about my father as the big boy who’d played with him.

I went to see them and they knew so much about my family and had loads of photos. For around 3 or 4 years I visited them often and then when I had to retire due to physical problems I moved to be near them. Both he and his wife have now died but I’ll never regret the years I knew them and all the stories we shared. Jack and his wife loved hearing all the new bits of information I found and I loved hearing all the stories about people who were just names on paper.

I have no regrets at all that I contacted them.

PS I live about 100 metres from the church where my great grandfather was the first baby baptised at the newly built church in 1857.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Has anyone made contact with "lost" but still living family members?
« on: Thursday 16 January 25 23:01 GMT (UK)  »
 I started investigating my father’s family in the mid 1990s all I had was a tatty family tree I’d drawn with my father in the early 1960s. It showed my grandfather’s siblings. I’d heard of two of them. My father and his brother both died in 1993 but on a Christmas card to my aunt the following year she told me I needed to contact Cousin J and gave me an address in Southport.

I wrote to Cousin J and it was wonderful. He and his wife were full of stories of my father’s family and had loads of photographs. With their help I’ve met or communicated with many different family members, from the USA, Canada, Australia, the U.K. mainly Lancashire. I even moved over the Pennines to Southport to be near the area were my family were from.

 Of all the people I’ve met or communicated with only one of them I really didn’t like! I even had an Familymeet up. It turned out we have the same shaped ears!

As my surname is not that common I think that helped me in the beginning. I’ve done quite a bit on my paternal grandmother’s family. I really need to make an effort on my mother’s family and to update bits of my father’s family.

Breast Cancer and developing a rare side effect from the treatment and being extremely vulnerable during Covid somehow put me off family history. However I’ve decided that once I’ve tidied up my study it’s back to family history! I might meet some relatives on my mother’s side. Or more on my paternal side.

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The Stay Safe Board / Re: Diary summary week ending 5th January 2025
« on: Wednesday 01 January 25 20:54 GMT (UK)  »
Happy New Year everyone.

The Roots Chat Gremlins have been at work!

Suddenly after Christmas I found I was no longer logged into Rootschat (I just leave myself logged in)
So I signed in and no it wouldn’t accept my password. Signed out and tried again thinking I’d typed it wrong no use. tried again no use. Contacted roots chat to make sure I had the right password. I had, tried again and still wouldn’t let me in. Contacted roots chat again and changed password and thought I’ll leave it till the morning. Forgot all about it until tonight and thought I’ll try again. Lo and behold I’m back in with the new password.

Gremlins we’re definitely

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Lancashire / Re: Garston Miller surname
« on: Saturday 23 November 24 13:57 GMT (UK)  »
https://ariadne-portal.d4science.org/resource/dcb8e45314a8d3347367967749bcd0a28dfc09a589d77ddaee17a883c09e8453

You might find the above interesting.

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The Stay Safe Board / Re: Diary summary week ending 17th November 2024
« on: Wednesday 13 November 24 21:17 GMT (UK)  »
Congratulations from me too.

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