Forum: Pet Hates, Moans & Groans

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...

One of my main time for research is a Sunday ... two Sundays on the trot FMP is down for maintenance at 3pm? Why not 3am - when the site is probably less busy? Now I can't escape from the rugby ... *wanders off muttering under breath ... *

There's a really annoying Ancestry advert with a little girl claiming "I'm your Nan". How ridiculous! She's certainly not my grandmother.:no: In fact I think it is safe to say that she isn't the grandmother of the vast majority of people in the world.

or say thanks. I have come across other people searching different ancestors over the years and am amazed at how many of them do not like to share the info, its so frustrating. Recently I queried a local historian who had information about an ancestor, I didnt want to step on toes because another...

This is quite funny but in way a bit worrying as well. I had to ring my bosses bank as he need a number from a branch in London (Capital of the UK), unfortunately it was a call centre not loctaed in the UK. So I said can please have the number for your branch at so and so street, London, the...

...you search some brickwall surnames in Google, and all the results turn out to be your own posts on various forums, some of which you've actually forgotten about? Perhaps I should be better organised. :no:

Hi One of my moans and groans is people who criticise others for faults they are guilty of. Ie people who do what they tell others not to do. That is one of my biggest pet hates to be honest. Pot kettle black. I do love the saying which is the title of this thread. Do any of you get annoyed by...

As with everyone who believes in CHRISTMAS we have discussed this subject before. Christmas versus Holiday. Well, I swear I had seen and heard it all, but the other day I saw HOLIDAY cactus for sale. Come on with this political correctness ...how absolutly STUPID !!!!!! :nono::nono: What's next?...