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[Mutley]

Can you play golf without a club?
Can you play tennis without a ball?
Can you cook without ingredients?
Can you read without a book (or ebook)?
Can you knit without needles and wool or sew without thread?
Can you run without shoes?
Can you travel without tickets or petrol or a suitcase?
Can you ski without skis?
Can you gamble without ready cash?
Can you 'roll in the hay' on your own?

Can you find your ancestors without certificates of birth, marriage or death?

[stepives]

Yep, I can find baptisms, burials & marriages for my rellies. Parish regs CD's. Does that count.

I can travel on my bike, and my car is diesel......does that count.

If Zola Budd can run barefoot, so can I.

As for the rest.......no chance.

Steve.

[Lizzy9]

Can you find your ancestors without certificates of birth, marriage or death?

Definitely not Mutley, even a visit to a psychic wouldn't achieve that

But hey ho! We who do realise have well researched and documented family trees, those who try 'the cheap route' haven't a cat's chance in hell of producing a genuine documented family tree. Their loss; except if they publish it to the web, as we know, other cheapskates copy it and so it flourishes!

[Waitabit]

"Can you 'roll in the hay' on your own?"

you betcha, unless you have a different style.
Still get the same itches & prickles from the straw.

reminds me , must get more peastraw for mulching. taa Mutley.

[stepives]

Definitely not Mutley, even a visit to a psychic wouldn't achieve that

But hey ho! We who do realise have well researched and documented family trees, those who try 'the cheap route' haven't a cat's chance in hell of producing a genuine documented family tree. Their loss; except if they publish it to the web, as we know, other cheapskates copy it and so it flourishes!

Oh....so any rellies pre 1837 don't exist. No b/m/d certs for them. So does that mean we stop going back any further with out these certs.

So any tree that goes back beyond 1837, is no good.........or have I misunderstood something.

[Mutley]

Oh....so any rellies pre 1837 don't exist. No b/m/d certs for them. So does that mean we stop going back any further with out these certs.

So any tree that goes back beyond 1837, is no good.........or have I misunderstood something.

I was actually referring to post 1837.
Of course you need parish records pre 1837, that goes without saying but..
firstly you have to get back to that point in time with the right family.
You will not find a Registry Office marriage in the Parish Records.
Not all children were baptised.
A burial, if you can find it, rarely gives the same information as a death certificate.

[stepives]

Ok, sorry. I am one of the fortunate ones who can go back from 2005 to the 1500's using Parish regs. But mostly they are from the 1970's back.

It's when the little devils skip the county I'm in a bit of bother.

[Guy Etchells]

Can you play golf without a club?
Can you play tennis without a ball?

I have played with a shuttle cock, we (my sister and myself) called it tennis

Can you cook without ingredients?

Perhaps, some say I am half-baked

Can you read without a book (or ebook)?

I regularly read without a book or ebook, I read posters, time-tables notices, newspapers etc.

Can you knit without needles and wool or sew without thread?

I have seen women knit with a singlel needle does that count?

Can you run without shoes?

Yes, at school when the pitches were too frozen to play rugby we had to climb to the top of the hill overlooking the village and run back down to the Rugby pitches, there we had to remove our rugby boots and socks and run barefoot around the outside of field.

Can you travel without tickets or petrol or a suitcase?

Yes I spent many happy days hitch hicking around the UK

Can you ski without skis?

I believe it can be done barefoot.

Can you gamble without ready cash?

Yes online sites offer free cash to hook the guliable

Can you 'roll in the hay' on your own?

Yes see Waitabit's reply

Can you find your ancestors without certificates of birth, marriage or death?

Again yes, wills, inquistions post mortem are just two examples of records that may provide such ancestors.
Cheers
Guy

[Gododdin]

Can you play air saxophone without air?

[Colin Rowledge]

"Can you 'roll in the hay' on your own?"

you betcha, unless you have a different style.
Still get the same itches & prickles from the straw.

Reminds me of an old - VERY OLD - joke and not suitable for this forum

Colin