Trouble over Family History !!!

[Berlin-Bob]

Reminds me of the sign you sometimes used to to see in shops, many years ago,

                "You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it does help"

[D ap D]

Reminds me of the sign you sometimes used to to see in shops, many years ago,

                "You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it does help"

My secretary has a sign abover her desk:

Everyone here brings me pleasure: some by coming, some by going

[cheryle.f]

hi Darcy, thanks for the welcome.No sprouts in the printer tonite i had dinner at the table.noticed your doing research in Northampton area and wondered if you could put an old map to use...another hobby of mine in a former sadder life than this one. The map i have is of Northamptonshire...could be of some use to run alongside your reasearch.Get your address to me somehow(dont forget i'm new at this so i,m not sure how you do that)and send it to you...no charge ...my treat.Just nice to know it,ll get some use at last.

[Fitty]

My husband is not remotely interested in what I do (and it is his family I am researching) until I make a discovery of some sort.   He then spends hours on the phone telling his relatives what "we" have found!

Jill

Sounds like my Dave does that.
My other hobby is gardening, Dave has no interest in that either....in fact we don't have that much in common, come to think of it     anyway....  my garden won an award this year, it came 3rd in the Calderdale garden competition...( Chuffed!).  The awards were presented the other night and because of my bad back i was unable to go so Dave went on my behalf.   He came home with a £10 cheque and lots of goodies and told me he'd had his picture taken with the Lord Mayor.  Then he presented me with the certificate " Awarded to Mr & Mrs Lister"..........( we aint even married).   

I,m off to B&Q on a spending spree!.....oooh second thoughts.....it's 1 and a half Certs!

[kimmieto]

My Dad is very interested but the rest of the family will listen but not as keen as Dad (as long as I keep it short).

One relative is very annoyed about it all - she has accused me of having some certificates of her parents and demanded them back, even though I've told her I got them from the GRO she still insists they are hers. Don't think she has grasped that I can get them anyway.

Its a pity she feels like this because at the moment she would be my best source of information.

[kerryb]

What a shame Kimmieto

My aunt has just found out I am into the family history and is searching out photos and stuff for me.  She is quite interested in what I have found.

My dad is a bit interested but when I see him weekly on a Friday night he's just off to work so he keeps saying we'll have to get together when he retires in January.  Bless him he's getting very excited about retiring!

Kerry

[Cas (stallc)]

My wonderful OH is not the least bit interested in FH, although I have investigated his maternal side, as his mother asked me, and did quite well 

I don't tell him anything about FH anymore, as he pretends to fall asleep, also try not to do too much on the comp if he is around. Men can be such little boys at times...100% attention please 

Friends and colleagues have asked me to do theirs, and are interested in their FH, but most don't feel the need to buy certs...so are not really taking it seriously.

Thank god for Rootschat and Rootschatters, in the 'are we mad' world of rellie chasing, we all know we are quite sane 

Cas

[Bee]

Old folk, don't you just love them

I've just come off the phone, my mother in law rang me all excited because she'd been sorting through her drawers and had come across a birth certificate.  She said the didn't know where it had come from or who any of the people named on the cert were, she then gave me the details at which point I burst out laughing.

It turned out to be a copy of her grandmothers birth cert that I had given her last christmas.

Bee

[KathMc]

Most people show a peripheral interest and as long as I don't get too carried away, they are pleasant. I get the eye-glazing when I start talking about my 5x great grandfather or a 3rd cousin's great aunt or some such.

What gets to me is the people who say they are interested and have information to pass on and then never send it. Don't profess interest and give me a tease...I'd rather have nothing.

Kath