What Else Do You All Get Up To?
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LittleWing wrote:
Thats a pretty large scope..Native American Indian to England and Scotland. I can see how that would be a large project tracing both sides of the Atlantic.
Thats a pretty large scope..Native American Indian to England and Scotland. I can see how that would be a large project tracing both sides of the Atlantic.
How's mine for a small scope :) My father's side goes back to 1780. They were almost all cotton mill workers and all lived within a mile of each other (Preston Lancashire). Farming before that I think, but no definite evidence. Too many Williams to trace my mother's side accurately.
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I also have a problem sending my DNA to somebody I dont know ,so thats never happening on my end.
I also have a problem sending my DNA to somebody I dont know ,so thats never happening on my end.
I hear you on that Joe, I did send mine in, it was a Christmas gift, a DNA kit, so I felt a bit bad if I didn't do it haha. Was interesting, most I knew, and about 25% from Spain, which sort of checks out based on some research I had done on the web. But yeah, I originally registered from an incognito window, via a VPN, using an alias email LOL.
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Video games...
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I used to train kids in football, that took up quite some time but I retired from that a couple of years ago. So now it is motorbikes, cars, motorcycles and fixing stuff at home that other people might throw away. I go to the gym 3 times a week, too. And music. Did I mention my car yet? :D
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I suppose everyone has interesting people in his family past if you spend time looking. On my fathers side I got an interesting family history since 1650 in Silesia/Prussia, including a famous poet, anarchist and political activist who Hitler hated (and killed as soon as he got to power). I have a copy of a booklet that one of my ancestors printed in 1910 for a family meeting, in which he detailed the known history of the family. In the text he mentioned a book that was printed by one of our family members in honour of his father in law in 1850. I actually managed to find a copy in a book shop England (??), bought it and had it restored, one of my most valued possessions :).
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I've managed to trace my surname (my father's side of the family) back to 1670 in Tyrol, Austria. They migrated to Frauenberg, France in the 18th century and then to Glogovatz, Hungary in the 19th century before migrating to America in 1908.
Mothers side of the family has been more difficult to trace as most are American Indian (Cherokee) from Kentucky in late 18th century. Family folklore indicates some migrated from England and Scotland. I have been unsuccessful proving that currently.
Popular genealogy sites:
https://www.familysearch.org/
https://www.ancestry.com/
https://www.findagrave.com/
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Before internet my father traced us back to the 1600s.He did it at the Chciago Library which had one of the best geneology resource buildings in the nation, at that time.
He was able after a year or two of dead end, find we had an ancestor...an Italian Baroness, who had some kind of sex scandal and she had to flee the country and change her name in Poland. We became Sea Merchants. Our family crest includes a boat due to this. Business savvy and wheeling and dealing is a prominant trait in my family.
The old man was so proud he actually called a "Special Family Meeting" and we had a family geneology party where he had the coat of arms, a picture of the hussy baroness , and not only a complete family tree...but a complete family CORPORATE tree showing our businesses from the 1600s. Rock on Dad. Great job!
Regardless, my father did all this at the Chicago library which for some reason was THE place to trace geneology.
Im not sure if that is the case anymore but he spent years on it and LOVED the Chicago Library Geneology building. You may want to see if they still are a major geneology source. I remember him going thru very old and smelly books that detailed countries and family names.
Dont know too much about it or even start with it as the few times I went with him I discovered I could sign out original copies of Mad Magazine or Rolling Stone magazine complete with the original bong and marijuana ads from the 60's, so I would be immersed in those while he was working.
Since my father found everything we could possibly want to know prior to the internet, it never caught my interest once online geneology became popular.
I also have a problem sending my DNA to somebody I dont know ,so thats never happening on my end.
Before internet my father traced us back to the 1600s.He did it at the Chciago Library which had one of the best geneology resource buildings in the nation, at that time.
He was able after a year or two of dead end, find we had an ancestor...an Italian Baroness, who had some kind of sex scandal and she had to flee the country and change her name in Poland. We became Sea Merchants. Our family crest includes a boat due to this. Business savvy and wheeling and dealing is a prominant trait in my family.
The old man was so proud he actually called a "Special Family Meeting" and we had a family geneology party where he had the coat of arms, a picture of the hussy baroness , and not only a complete family tree...but a complete family CORPORATE tree showing our businesses from the 1600s. Rock on Dad. Great job!
Regardless, my father did all this at the Chicago library which for some reason was THE place to trace geneology.
Im not sure if that is the case anymore but he spent years on it and LOVED the Chicago Library Geneology building. You may want to see if they still are a major geneology source. I remember him going thru very old and smelly books that detailed countries and family names.
Dont know too much about it or even start with it as the few times I went with him I discovered I could sign out original copies of Mad Magazine or Rolling Stone magazine complete with the original bong and marijuana ads from the 60's, so I would be immersed in those while he was working.
Since my father found everything we could possibly want to know prior to the internet, it never caught my interest once online geneology became popular.
I also have a problem sending my DNA to somebody I dont know ,so thats never happening on my end.
I've managed to trace my surname (my father's side of the family) back to 1670 in Tyrol, Austria. They migrated to Frauenberg, France in the 18th century and then to Glogovatz, Hungary in the 19th century before migrating to America in 1908.
Mothers side of the family has been more difficult to trace as most are American Indian (Cherokee) from Kentucky in late 18th century. Family folklore indicates some migrated from England and Scotland. I have been unsuccessful proving that currently.
Popular genealogy sites:
https://www.familysearch.org/
https://www.ancestry.com/
https://www.findagrave.com/
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TeeGee wrote:
I used to train kids in football, that took up quite some time but I retired from that a couple of years ago. So now it is motorbikes, cars, motorcycles and fixing stuff at home that other people might throw away. I go to the gym 3 times a week, too. And music. Did I mention my car yet? :D
I used to train kids in football, that took up quite some time but I retired from that a couple of years ago. So now it is motorbikes, cars, motorcycles and fixing stuff at home that other people might throw away. I go to the gym 3 times a week, too. And music. Did I mention my car yet? :D
What a beautiful motorcycle, Tee... here is mine, at my former employers':
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Played golf today with my oldest son. :) It was a hot day but the clouds came in the afternoon and made for a wonderful day. Almost no one on the course since the winter visitors to Arizona have left. :)
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Played golf today with my oldest son. :) It was a hot day but the clouds came in the afternoon and made for a wonderful day. Almost no one on the course since the winter visitors to Arizona have left. :)
Played golf today with my oldest son. :) It was a hot day but the clouds came in the afternoon and made for a wonderful day. Almost no one on the course since the winter visitors to Arizona have left. :)
A golfer prepares to tee off from the green.
He selects his club, positions himself, steadies his swing, focuses on his ball and makes his drive.
The ball sails in a perfect arc for about 250 yards when all of a sudden, a gust of wind causes the ball to veer right , landing in a wooded rough and it rolls just behind a big oak tree.
The golfer finds his ball at the base of the oak tree, assesses his shot, and thinks he can use his 7 iron to get around the tree and back on the fairway.
He lines his shot up and hits the ball.
The ball hits the tree, and bounces back , hitting the golfer smackdab in the middle of the forehead, blood everywhere , he goes down and is dead.
A couple of minutes later the golfer finds himself at the Pearly Gates and in front of St Peter.
St Peter looks down his nose at the golfer and says "Oh, another golfer heh?"
The golfer responds "yes sir!"
St Peter then asks "Were ya any good?"
To which the golfer replies, "I got up here in two didnt I?".
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It is good to know that many of you are tracing your ancestry, I have written several family trees for people as one of the things I do in my spare time.
Now that i have retired from work growing my own food is something i enjoy, I like to keep my hand in with woodwork.
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davidaustin wrote:
It is good to know that many of you are tracing your ancestry, I have written several family trees for people as one of the things I do in my spare time.
Now that i have retired from work growing my own food is something i enjoy, I like to keep my hand in with woodwork.
My grandfather did ours in the 70's before computers. He and his wife spent 10 years after retiring driving around the UK, researching parish records and such, contacting other family members and eventually wrote a book he called "Some tall Ancestral tales" recognising some of his connections back to the 10th C were getting a little shaky, but good fun. We're lucky in that a lot of family has worked for the church so great records. My Great, great, great, great, great grandfather was Queen Victoria's piano and singing tutor when she was a young girl. She wasn't keen or good and so they spent most of the time pretending while having a secret joke about it. She'd do things like pinch his pencil then replace it next time with a silver propelling one and wind him up by pretending she'd tell everyone they hadn't even tried to learn anything. We have Lloyds names, smuggler gangs, you name it. We owned a gunpowder factory in London, Streets in Brighton, all sorts but these things get split until they're worthless as generations pass so we're just lowly and skint these days. It's fun to look back through the families history though. :)It is good to know that many of you are tracing your ancestry, I have written several family trees for people as one of the things I do in my spare time.
Now that i have retired from work growing my own food is something i enjoy, I like to keep my hand in with woodwork.
That's my mother's side. My father's were Scottish Herring fishermen with their own boat and nets. That ended shortly after the war. The boat had been commandeered for mine sweeping and guess what happened! They got a replacement but as the government encouraged over-fishing (for fertilizer) strangely the stocks dried up and that was that. family split to England, Canada and Australia.
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Fantastic that you got back so far, the ordinary folk in the UK can only go back as far as
1650 ish, that was when parish records were saved to County records. The largest tree i have written was for someone who had traced their tree back to Lady Godiva, nearly a 1000 years, as with yours, the family were well connected with the Church.
My wife's family were smugglers:o Calligraphy is a hobby of mine and I enjoy the history
of familys. I have illustrated childrens books which were fun to do, Painting is also something i enjoy.
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1650 ish, that was when parish records were saved to County records. The largest tree i have written was for someone who had traced their tree back to Lady Godiva, nearly a 1000 years, as with yours, the family were well connected with the Church.
My wife's family were smugglers:o Calligraphy is a hobby of mine and I enjoy the history
of familys. I have illustrated childrens books which were fun to do, Painting is also something i enjoy.
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davidaustin wrote:
Fantastic that you got back so far, the ordinary folk in the UK can only go back as far as
1650 ish, that was when parish records were saved to County records. The largest tree i have written was for someone who had traced their tree back to Lady Godiva, nearly a 1000 years, as with yours, the family were well connected with the Church.
My wife's family were smugglers:o Calligraphy is a hobby of mine and I enjoy the history
of familys. I have illustrated childrens books which were fun to do, Painting is also something i enjoy.
Mine had some connection to the Hawkhurst Gang back in the 1700's. I believe taxes were such that there was a LOT of smuggling going on. It was a big business filling a need.Fantastic that you got back so far, the ordinary folk in the UK can only go back as far as
1650 ish, that was when parish records were saved to County records. The largest tree i have written was for someone who had traced their tree back to Lady Godiva, nearly a 1000 years, as with yours, the family were well connected with the Church.
My wife's family were smugglers:o Calligraphy is a hobby of mine and I enjoy the history
of familys. I have illustrated childrens books which were fun to do, Painting is also something i enjoy.
We must have made a lot of candles back when that was a something everyone regularly used too as most of my immediate family are members of the Honourable Company of Wax Chandlers. I declined as I was a punk at the time I was asked and it didn't seem to sit well. Turns out they are simply run as a charity these days spending their investment income on homeless in London. I saw the accounts once, they'd spent £45 on a secretary for something otherwise everyone works for free. So... I regret not looking more closely, I thought it was like the masons and it kind of is in the way they look out for each other except they have zero influence over anything that really matters. Good people.
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davidaustin wrote:
It is good to know that many of you are tracing your ancestry, I have written several family trees for people as one of the things I do in my spare time.
Now that i have retired from work growing my own food is something i enjoy, I like to keep my hand in with woodwork.
It is good to know that many of you are tracing your ancestry, I have written several family trees for people as one of the things I do in my spare time.
Now that i have retired from work growing my own food is something i enjoy, I like to keep my hand in with woodwork.
David judging the marvelous craftsmanship I see from that picture of the chair you built...maybe you can get your old job back:P
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mpointon wrote:
Obvisouly everyone here is a musician so that's a given but what else do you do for fun? What keeps you going when you're not playing music?
For me it's paramotoring (PPG) or, in simple terms, flying around the place strapped to a kite with a lawnmower on my back. Been obssessed with flying since I was a kid but only been able to afford to start doing it much later on in life! One thing's for sure, I seem to only pick antisocial things for my enjoyment!
What do you all get up to in your spare time?
Obvisouly everyone here is a musician so that's a given but what else do you do for fun? What keeps you going when you're not playing music?
For me it's paramotoring (PPG) or, in simple terms, flying around the place strapped to a kite with a lawnmower on my back. Been obssessed with flying since I was a kid but only been able to afford to start doing it much later on in life! One thing's for sure, I seem to only pick antisocial things for my enjoyment!
What do you all get up to in your spare time?
Have you thought of combining paramotoring with drumming? I'd pay good money to see that.
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