Chat Room - the RootsChatterBox

[patrish]

Oh! seems I missed a good session last night   never mind I am sure there will be many others when I can try and join in, I just have to be firm with myself and not panic 

[Pels.]

Oh! seems I missed a good session last night   never mind I am sure there will be many others when I can try and join in, I just have to be firm with myself and not panic 

Patrish, you are making it sound as though we were all on the bottle!!
Well we might have been, but poor Gadget as you know, can't drink!!
Teeth - 

PS I've invited our old friend Romilly to join us. She's back

Hi All,

Thanks for the welcome Gadget!

I will definately look in later!!!

Good to be back,
Romilly.

  Romilly, I really look forward to meeting you!! 

[patrish]

Oh dear,  I never intended it to sound that way and I apologise profusely  if it did.

[KarenM]

Hi Gadget,

Would love to see picture of your Tom, I found this on the internet....

Scottish-born Thomas Burgess named the community of Bala after the Bala Lake District in Wales. He arrived in 1868 and set up a sawmill on the Mill Stream. In time he also opened a general store, bakeshop, blacksmith shop and supply boat service and post office.

In 1917 the Burgess family helped establish a hydroelectric facility on the site of Thomas’s original sawmill. This generating station supplied power for much of the Medora and Wood Townships. Nala officially became a town in 1914. Dr. A.M. Burgess, a son of Bala’s founder Thomas Burgess, was the first Mayor in Bala.

Bala is now famous for the bar/concert's that it has in the summertime.  Great times 

Karen

[Gadget]

That's him - my first cousin 4 times removed Karen  To think that when I was over there in the late 60s, I knew nothing about all this 

I hope to put his photo on my website in the next couple of days. There's masses of stuff on this family and it will take me ages to write it all up. They were an awkward bunch - minds of their own they had   

Thanks you so much for popping in last night. It was really appreciated. Maybe we could have a Canadian session in there some time 

Gadget
PS - OK then here's a little one of him as the postman in, I think,  1894 

[01debbie]

What's wrong with Gadget's teeth? 

[Pels.]

They fell out when she was here earlier!! 

[Gadget]

You've heard of that expression biting your head off?

Well.............................   

Too much chattering in the back row. Back to the Chatroom, you two.

Gadget 

[Ann Baker]

Well done all of you who ventured into new room last night! Hope to see you in main room soon.

Always good to have new folks coming in. Don't worry if it all goes bit fast. I found it fast when I started and my typing isn't the best.

lots of nice folks in there who can help with your research.

Come and join us we'd love to see you all

Ann