No, this doesn't mean I have my laptop sorted and it's printing off some hot news on the family tree, but it's just as exciting!!
Wednesday, 28 November 2007
Exciting News - The Burnt Documents
Posted by SJ at 16:09 0 comments
Labels: Genealogy News, World War 1
Monday, 19 November 2007
Laptop News!
There is none!! Which may or may not be a good thing!!
Hopefully by the end of the week I should ……….
a) Have it back all fixed and working :o)
b) Have some pretty vouchers for a new one
c) Be pulling my hair out and screeching at PC World!
I am secretly hoping that option ‘b’ is the one I am writing about come the weekend!
I have loads of things to add to my tree and lots of you lovely people who have emailed me that I want to send reports to, but the program for this is sitting on the lappy. Also my main tree is kept on Ancestry.co.uk and for some reason this website wont display properly on the macbook :o( All the dates and timelines are all over the place and it makes it really difficult to try to add things *sigh*
I am still also awaiting deliver of my copy of Wearside Battalion by John Sheen, the publishers say it’s “booked in” but Play are saying they don’t have any copies as yet! I was hoping this would prove an interesting read while my laptop was away. Never mind, patience is a virtue – so I’m told :o)
While I’m waiting for full service to be restored, I’ll leave you with this, which I found here à http://lest-we-forget.com/The_Outhouse/
GENEALOGY POX
WARNING: Very contagious to adults.
SYMPTOMS: Continual complaint as to need for names, dates and places. Patient has blank expression and is sometimes deaf to spouse and children. Has no taste for work of any kind except feverishly looking for records at libraries and courthouses. Has compulsion to write letters. Swears at mail carrier when s/he does not leave mail. Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins and remote, desolate country areas. Makes secret calls at night. Hides phone bills.
TREATMENT: There is no known cure. Medication is useless. Disease is not fatal, but gets progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy workshops, subscribe to genealogical magazines, and be given a quiet corner in the house where s/he can be alone with his/her computer.
REMARKS: The unusual nature of this disease is.....the sicker the patient gets, the more s/he enjoys it!
Posted by SJ at 14:59 0 comments
Labels: General
Sunday, 11 November 2007
Thursday, 8 November 2007
Mobile blogging
Yay if this posts i can now blog from my mobile ... Cool! :-)
Posted by SJ at 22:22 0 comments
Monday, 5 November 2007
Boyd Marriage
I think I have found the marriage of Silas George Boyd and Elizabeth Wilson (nee Bowyer) but only one side of the happy couple is transcribed.
There is an Elizabeth Wilson marrying in Croydon in 1890, no spouse details, I think this one must be it.
Marriages Q2 1890
WILSON Elizabeth Croydon 2a 361
Posted by SJ at 19:53 0 comments
Labels: Surnames - Bowyer, Surnames - Boyd, Surnames - Wilson
Boyd, Boyd, Boyd, Boyd, Boyd's
*sigh*
I thought I’d have a little look at lunchtime today for the Boyd’s. Every now and then when I get a bit bogged down with one branch I have a little look at another to see if I can fill a bit in somewhere!!
Now I have more blinkin’ questions !!! LOL
OK The Boyd’s ……..Lets start with Great Granddad Boyd – Frederick George, 1892-1956. His birth certificate states he is the son of Silas George Boyd and Elizabeth Boyd, late Wilson, formerly Boywer.
Pretty sure I have Elizabeth on the 1901 census with Frederick George, but no Silas George. Also with an Alice and Eliza (transcribed as Elliot) Booser. I’m pretty sure the census doesn’t say Booser – or Boyd, or even Bowyer, but I can’t work out what it does say. RG13; Piece: 637; Folio: 18; Page: 27. If anyone is feeling in a translatey kind of mood!
I have a marriage for Silas Boyd in 1888 but not to an Elizabeth…….and no other marriages after that for a Silas Boyd.
Marriages Q2 1888
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Boyd Silas George Croydon 2a 331
Butler Jane Croydon 2a 331
Greenslade Ann Mary Croydon 2a 331
SAYERS William Croydon 2a 331
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No way of telling which one of these lovely ladies married the Boyd though, without ordering a certificate!
So it looks like I’ve set myself yet another task LOL
…….and still no laptop!!!!!!!!!! ß Look how PC World make me overexclamate!!!
:o)
Posted by SJ at 15:12 0 comments
Labels: Surnames - Boyd