Forum: Pet Hates, Moans & Groans

As I don't have access to census I've always used Family Search 'old site' to check the 1881 census - very easy and quick! Now even when using 'old site' and clicking on census it goes straight to 'new site'. Then when you've found the person you're after you are re-directed to see the original...

I am sure that everyone has come across examples of records being incorrectly transcribed, sometimes understandably and sometimes you really have to wonder what possessed the transcriber. Today I received a death certificate from the GRO for one of my great grandfathers, George Couzens. In the...

Most of the news tonight seemed to be about football managers. Are these stories really worth top billing in the national news? :mad5:

On 1st March a friend of mine had a nasty op - a knee replacement. On Friday 2nd March I posted a rather special card - not your common or garden get well card, it was a tawny owl card with a built-in recording of it hooting. (You may gather she likes owls.) On Monday 5th March she was sent home...

We decided to change our car and yesterday was the day for collection and payment. To try to make sure all went smoothly we took special pains to ensure that there were sufficient funds in the account to cover the balance. Neither we, nor the salesman, were perturbed when a security check was...

Not sure if this has been mentioned before but… I have very recently succumbed to the lure of Facebook and today I came across an advert for a page/program called One Great family which seems to me to be my worst nightmare, but just wondered if anyone else has come across it and whether I am...

Has the word 'relevance' been redefined? Ancestry keeps insisting that folk in the US 1930 census (etc.) are more 'relevant' than my own ancestors over on the other side of the Atlantic.:incazzato: It really isn't doing my inferiority complex any good to discover that my ancestors were all...

For me, it is not the telepnone or email scams. Being deaf, I ignore the telephone. Any messages my wife picks up when she gets home from work. As for emails - if I don't recognize the sender, I delete without bothering. As I'm retired with some investments, I am really bugged with...

Just came across one for one of my forbears that has: Birth: 1791 ... Death: 1855 ... Residence: 1861 ... That would be the cemetery then ... :stuart:

Sunday, we had the misfortune to suffer a significant water damage loss. Tuesday, we had a 2nd one, even worse than the 1st. These events were the only times we've needed our insurer's involvement in 23 years in our home We notified the insurers who very promptly despatched clean-up crews. They...

Normally things just was over my head when it comes to spam messages, I have passed by those spam adverts that can perk up your life with the promise of untold excitement, I have even brushed aside those emails telling me that all my banks accounts have been attacked by some naughty person and to...

I hate the new site. On the old site you used to be able to search within a batch number for all of the children born to specific parents (thanks to Kerrywood for telling me that about 3 years ago!). When I tried that this morning on the old site I got automatically redirected to the new site and...

I know this topic has been aired many times before, but I think in this case it's a tad different and I don't know what to do. Searching Ancestry's online trees database I found a tree with my deceased father and his ancestral line back to his 3 x great grandfather born 1803. My dad's 3 x great...

There seems to be a rule that wherever you live, it is in the corner of an Ordnance Survey map so you need to get four sheets to cover your area. The same rule seems to have attracted my ancestors to living in border places: when they moved half a mile from Devon into Somerset, and then back...

After being bugged with ad's based upon the title of this thread, why do they not address MY NEEDS? My car is 19 years old. I want to repkace it, even though it it runs daily, but probably won't pass the emission test that is required before my birthday? My wife is happy with her 2009 model, but...

I thought it was too good to last........ Relative silence, apart from a particularly annoying pigeon cooing away, sunshine and fresh air coming in through the window. The odd pedestrian walking past, and perhaps one car. (I live in a cul-de-sac.) Bliss. Now it's started - the drone of the...

Having just looked at the Mummy/Mum Thread I thought that I'd look at some translations in other languages. When I typed in Mum it asked whether I meant Mom? A number of search engines do something similar on lots of topics. So why isn't there a big button that says NO, or even better "No, I...

Well GRO has truly astonished me this time. I ordered 4 certs with a dispatch date of March 16 and they arrived today March 23. Just amazingly good flight time! One was wrong and one is debatable, but the remaining 2 are right. Thank you GRO for the best service and the best price :)

Have to have a moan feel so frustrated...............needed a birth cert in oxfordshire thought great they have an online ordering service 2 days return..................but to order you need to know all details you are looking for on cert like date of birth.....I know year and quarter but not...

Just bought 50 credits for £5 on genesreunited, so that I could send a message to someone who may have a connection to my family. I thought it might cost, ooh I dunno, 1 credit? 5 credits? Surely not 10 credits?? 30 credits!! So £3 just to send a message! Unbelievable. In hindsight, I...