The latest Basil Fawlty award for "Stating the bleedin' obvious" goes to :- "some gangs are intent on waging a feud where human life counts for nothing" from Irish Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald,...
Went to our local Chinese restaraunt with friends tonight. As usual food was excellent. We went specifically because it was their New Year and we thought it would be fun. There was no atmosphere. A...
I've read the comments on my last post about the demise of this section of AB. Well, decline rather than demise cos it's still here., Anyway, I've found a massive amount of information from...
The 1842 Tithe Register for the area in which I live refers to a cottage/farmhouse with attached barns (now Grade 2 Listed Buildings) as being `Farm Buildings`. Am I correct in assuming therefore that...
have been in touch with a former answerbank user for quite a while and have given a little assistance in her search on the name "siney" a name i had never heard of. she has found out very little about...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-34637958
Another slice of history, gone, gone gone, after lasting out so many depressions and downturns. Woe oh woe....
On a birth certificate for Eliza Jarrett names her mother as Martha Jarrett but no father. A year later Martha marries Thomas Painter. On Eliza's marriage certificate she names her father as Thomas...
I think there are 1 0r 2 genealogists on here, so a question for you if I may? Under what circumstances would a person be registered TWICE on the same document, but with a different surname? I ask...
Do we beam like a lighthouse across the empty infinity of space?http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/stephen-hawking-launches-dollar100m-search-for-alien-life-beyond-solar-system/ar-AAdePAE...
My mother in law has moved into a care home. She has given notice on her housing association house which still has 3 weeks to run. There is still stuff in her house - rubbish mainly that we have to...
I'm sitting here mesmerised by the latest posts when I should be getting much needed beauty sleep It's addictive, waiting for something interesting to appear on Latest Posts Could someone send me the...
hi, not sure what to do - am going round in circles. My MIL has moved to a care home, and we need to cancel her talk talk account for the old house. She has memory problems and can't remember the...
When an early 19C will by widow Mary Smith mentions my natural child John Jones it seems reasonable to assume that the child is illegitimate? Do you agree?
I've had lots of fun with this one, it's a great help in research but a smashing thing to play around with too, use the blue dot bottom left to superimpose old maps on new....
So police have pulled a suitcase containing a body out of a river and they're treating it as suspicious, really!! Are there any circumstances when this wouldn't be suspicious!?!?...
I wonder if anyone can help. I've been casually doing my family tree & am stuck on tracing my paternal grandfather. He died quite young (aged 48) in 1961 so my Dad, who recently passed & my Aunt have...
