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Offline Lydart

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #99 on: Monday 29 January 07 16:16 GMT (UK) »
Hello Milly. 

Welcome to RootsChat !   May I say you must be the oldest member at 143 (see, I DO read peoples profiles) ... so the ancestors you can remember must go back further than ours !!

I hope you can cope with the peculiarities of the people on here ... do we need to shout ??

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Glad to have you on board !
Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge Williams Sturney/Sturmey Prince Foyle/Foil Hoare Vincent Fripp/Frypp Triggle/Trygel Adams Hibige/Hibditch Riggs White Angel Cake 
C'wall/Devon/France/CANADA (Barkerville, B.C.): Pomeroy/Pomerai/Pomroy
Som'set: Clark(e) Fry
Durham: Law(e)
London: Hanham Poplett
Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (Kelowna, B.C. & Sask): Stubbs Walmesley

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #100 on: Monday 29 January 07 17:25 GMT (UK) »
Milly,

Welcome to Rootschat. Enjoy and it will be nice to learn about the late 1800s from you. ;D ;D

Lydart, I am sure with hearing aids in these modern times, she can hear us just fine.

Kath
Sligo: Davey (also Mayo), McCluskey, McNulty
Wexford and Staffordshire: Hayes, McClean
Galway and Staffordshire: Scott
Coventry: Wells, Collins, Palmer, Moody, Beck, Mickelwright, Husbands
Ireland: McNulty (Sligo), Kealy, Murphy (Carlow) Connolly, Gillen, Powell, Ryan, Moore, Martin
Davis from I don't know where originally
Stahl, Russia to England to USA

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #101 on: Monday 29 January 07 17:36 GMT (UK) »
Oops! :-[

Well I have been saying it feels as if I really knew some of these people...and now I know why.
McBride (Monaghan, Manchester), Derbyshire (Bollington,Cheshire), Knight (Newcastle,Staffs), Smith (Chorley, Lancs & Ireland), Tipladay (Manchester & Yorkshire) ,Steadman (Madeley,Shropshire), Steele (Manchester,Glasgow), Parkinson (Wigan, Lancashire), Lovatt, Cornes & Turner (Staffs) Stott (Oldham, Lancs). All ended up Ardwick, Manchester
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #102 on: Monday 29 January 07 17:45 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Lydart on Monday 29 January 07 16:16 GMT (UK)
Hello Milly. 

Welcome to RootsChat !   May I say you must be the oldest member at 143 (see, I DO read peoples profiles) ... so the ancestors you can remember must go back further than ours !!

I hope you can cope with the peculiarities of the people on here ... do we need to shout ??

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Glad to have you on board !


I guess you know you're an addict when you fill your birthdate in as 1863 instead of 1963!! All fixed now.   :) :)
McBride (Monaghan, Manchester), Derbyshire (Bollington,Cheshire), Knight (Newcastle,Staffs), Smith (Chorley, Lancs & Ireland), Tipladay (Manchester & Yorkshire) ,Steadman (Madeley,Shropshire), Steele (Manchester,Glasgow), Parkinson (Wigan, Lancashire), Lovatt, Cornes & Turner (Staffs) Stott (Oldham, Lancs). All ended up Ardwick, Manchester
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #103 on: Monday 29 January 07 17:55 GMT (UK) »
Ah ... you're just a bright young thing then !!

And we don't need to shout !!!!
Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge Williams Sturney/Sturmey Prince Foyle/Foil Hoare Vincent Fripp/Frypp Triggle/Trygel Adams Hibige/Hibditch Riggs White Angel Cake 
C'wall/Devon/France/CANADA (Barkerville, B.C.): Pomeroy/Pomerai/Pomroy
Som'set: Clark(e) Fry
Durham: Law(e)
London: Hanham Poplett
Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (Kelowna, B.C. & Sask): Stubbs Walmesley

WRITE LETTERS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO TREASURE ... EMAILS DISAPPEAR !

Census information Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #104 on: Monday 29 January 07 19:18 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Lydart on Monday 29 January 07 17:55 GMT (UK)
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And we don't need to shout !!!!
or maybe you do, i have a habit of falling asleep in front of the screen
 ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D
stephen
watson,smith,(cambridge)cadle,(gloucester)hutton,utton, phenix,(norfolk)tarleton,paterson,sommerville,stephenson ( lanarkshire) ,walker, lewis, mordecai,sparks,(glamorgan),bolitho. (cornwall)

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #105 on: Monday 29 January 07 19:19 GMT (UK) »
P.S.
welcome to rootschat, milly
watson,smith,(cambridge)cadle,(gloucester)hutton,utton, phenix,(norfolk)tarleton,paterson,sommerville,stephenson ( lanarkshire) ,walker, lewis, mordecai,sparks,(glamorgan),bolitho. (cornwall)

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The Dedication Of a True Genealogist
« Reply #106 on: Tuesday 15 July 08 12:59 BST (UK) »
From my website:

You know when you're an addicted genealogist...

When you brake for libraries.

When you get locked in the library overnight and you never even notice.

When you hyperventilate at the sight of an old cemetery.

If you'd rather browse in a cemetery than a shopping centre.

When you think every home should have a microfilm reader.

If you'd rather read census schedules than a good book.

When you know the town clerk in every county by name.

If town clerks lock the door when they see you coming.

When you're more interested in what happened in 1797 than 1997.

If you store your clothing under the bed and your closet is carefully stacked with notebooks and journals.

If you can pinpoint Kirkcaldy and Inverness on a map but you're still not sure if Whitehorse is in the Yukon or Washington in DC.

When all your correspondence begins "Dear Cousin".

If you've traced your ancestral lines back to Adam and Eve, have it fully documented, and still don't want to quit.


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ANDREWS from Pitney, Martock, and surrounding area of Somerset.
ANDREWS from Hartlepool, Co Durham and surrounding districts.
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Re: The Dedication Of a True Genealogist
« Reply #107 on: Tuesday 15 July 08 13:49 BST (UK) »
Stop to look at gravestones even when you don't have any relatives buried in the graveyard.
Read the obituaries and get excited when you recognize a person's name.
Go through the telephone book looking for your surname when on holiday (even in foreign countries where you have no relatives).
Your toddler builds graveyard with their dominos (my second child did this!)
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!
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