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OGFB Blog: Julie in Norfolk
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08 November 2008
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It is Saturday morning again, my usual time for catching up on the week. By, don't the weeks go flying past nowadays. Has the government speeded up the clocks or something?
It was Steve's birthday this week and I have got him a shedload of books by a chap called Jim Butcher. They are a series called the Dresden files and promise very entertaining reading. Oh, that is entertaining reading for Steve of course.
It is always quite sad on birthdays to be reminded of how few our family are and of who we are no longer in touch with so a great big resolution is in hand.
Actually, with the impending new job I have quite a few resolutions at hand. I think I will have to get up earlier so am going to bed earlier to enable this. I will have to dress tidily (not something I can always be accused of) and so am going to get my clothes out the night before. I can be accused of looking like I got dressed in the dark - and mostly I do.
I will also have to get back to working closely with people instead of trying to push stuff along on my own. I'm not sure how I will fare at that thought - but I will give it a try. What I don't want to do is to appear indecisive or to appear like I am not in charge of my own processes.
I have 7 working days left at the old job of which the last 2 are an audit by the British retail consortium. As soon as the auditor leaves, so do I. In fact I think I will have to ask him for a lift down to the station as the white van will have to remain in Essex. It will be the end of one era and hopefully the beginning of the job that will see me through to retirement.
I have cleared my desk and the only thing is that I will have to remember to bring my certificates home. I will miss a few people, but there are also a few that I will not miss. I let my guard down once this week already - BUT I DON'T CARE!
Counting the days....
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02 November 2008
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This has been a quiet week for me on Oneguy as I have spent all week in Essex, well from Monday to Friday. As I have to hand my computer back when I leave I have emptied my favourites area deleting oneguy; additionally the internet is always patchy at best in my portacabin (wireless). I had a look what was going on but didn't sign in.
The handy thing wiht being away is the evenings are filled with nothing. I spent my time transcribing the Ulpha register and have nearly finished all of the baptisms - only another 5 years to go. I am now wondering whether to add it onto this site as as an article or a download, I don't feel that the forum entries are the right media.
It is Steve's birthday soon (that day with fireworks and bonfires and baked potatoes and sausages). I have ordered (hopefully in time) some books by an author he hasn't read before, finding one was a challenge. These books are a mix of Harry Potter and that american "private dick" whose name escapes me at the moment. We may be recommending them or we may not. I might add another of those what I was reading and what I was drinking photographs to the site.
I note that someone had recommended the "Range" as a source of art materials, funnily enough that is exactly where I am going this morning with my daughter. I can't remember what she wants but I am after two picture frames for some prints that we bought at a car boot sale a couple of weeks ago. I hope to get some to match the frames we have already - rather distinct gold frames with cream inserts.
I am still trying to nail down that I have the correct mother and father for my elusive Wilson Stable ancestor. He appears in 4 census' giving his place of birth as Broughton and Whitehaven. By Broughton I think that he means the "in Furness" one and the Whitehaven is in Cumberland. As the Lancashire Parish Register people have released a cd for Broughton I bought it and had a look. There is a William Stable born about the right time to a John Stable, but I could find no good reason for the odd first name and the father's occupation was wrong, but people did change occupation sometimes I suppose.
I have got to chase the Whitehaven registers now, the IGI gives nothing hopeful and Cumbria have been a bit patchy with their transcriptions - unless I am missing something.
More soon.
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26 October 2008
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It is a fortnight since I last updated this blog.
I have handed in my notice at my current job having secured another position and enhanced renumeration. It is difficult to be specific or detailed about the circumstance but I was able to give specific well founded reasons that I felt it was time for me to part company with that firm. I feel that I will not have the same conflict with the new company, fingers crossed.
I still have another 4 weeks or so to work to complete an audit with the old firm before starting again with the same audit due with the new. Everything changes and yet nothing changes.
Family history wise I am working on the transcript for Ulpha and am further ahead on paper than I am on computer but it will all catch up. I thought that I was the first to transcribe the detail and, by rights I think that still counts. Someone else has transcribed the data but not the detail and this information is available on the IGI. I will continue to transcribe word for word.
More news on this department arriving at least weekly on the Ulpha Transcripts thread in the rare books department.
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11 October 2008
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A lot has happened in the last couple of weeks, some of it I can't mention until next week - but hey, you may come back to read about it.
My daughter's old squeeze has moved out of our house after living here for 4 years or so. We moved him last weekend to Essex into a room and we wish him well. The net result is a quieter dog who felt the need to bark at this chap every time he walked through to make a coffee. The other result is that we get our front room back - quite a large room. This means that we can move our speakers back into that room and (as they are large old ones) this makes for a better space in the living room. The down side is that I get no free German translations for work, but there is always babelfish.
I (or he) was fortunate enough for a room and a permanent job to be available both at the same time.
We want to get the front of the house "done" to remove the particularly rubbish front that was put on some time in the sixties we think. The previous owner obviously had a caravan and wondered what to do with it when the enthusiasm waned. Answer was to "renovate" the house using the various parts of it! I kid you not!
Anyway we have photographs of the house when it was a pub and (apart from the sign) we want to get it back looking similar and more symetrical - as befits this type of house.
We also have the only house in the village with a cellar - or indoor swimming pool probably. The cellar was built for the pub but the barrels used to float across it as the water table is so high here, tanking and a pump is required to make this a useable area. We would like to dig the cellar out as it has been backfilled with rubble but that may be a job too far. We have access and have gone down a couple of feet a few years ago.
On the family history subject, the photocopy of the parish register of Ulpha in Cumberland has arrived and I opened the parcel with excitement. All I need now is to work out the best method of publishing the transcription on the site. Any and all suggestions are welcome but in the meantime I will carry on doing the transcription by hand.
That'll do for now.
Julie
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28 September 2008
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Anyone who has read the thread about John Pollard of Habergham Eaves will know that Wendy did some research on John Pollards of that area and we have come up with a plausible John Pollard and also a reason for his son being called Taylor. It is so tantilising, I do want it to be true but I must find a marriage for John and Ellen - I don't know what that will prove - maybe if it says John Pollard, son of John Pollard the tailor? anyway, thank you again Wendy.
Two weeks to go I think before we start putting up the Ulpha register, remember - you saw it here first.
I was contacted by a previously unknown probable relative who has done some research in the Ulpha register and we have a few differences so it will be interesting to see what I make of it having seen photocopies of the parish register, thus far my research in this area has been from the IGI mainly and I know it is not to be taken too seriously as the parish register may tell you more, the IGI being an index only.
I keep saying this about the IGI, but you cannot keep an optomist down and I do keep going off on tangents. I keep asking myself what is possible, then what is probable and then trying to tie stuff down by dates etc. If you are reading this with a view to researching your own tree, this is NOT THE WAY TO DO IT! However...
Changes in this household are still afoot and more on that when it has happened.
I did the month's meat shopping last Friday, I tend to buy in bulk each month reducing actual trips to "the cathedral of my choice" to a minimum, fresh food only. It does work, it does reduce my overall spend on food and other stuff that catches my attention. I also buy further ahead if there is a longer life non-food type product say toothpaste on bogof or other offer, I will buy 8 tubes or so rather than a couple. This method of shopping is not easy to do if you are already on a constrained budget and paid weekly say, but it works on monthly pay. Margerine, butter other fats and cheese all have an adequate shelf life to get the most out of a special offer.
Time to take Samuel the Span-u-el out for a walk now, I can hear him getting restless in the background. It looks like a nice day for a fair walk so boots on and off we go.
Have fun everyone.
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