Thanks Lou, there has not been very much activity lately, and I am as guilty, but I have had shingles since last August, but thankfully, it might be on the wane now, just left with little headaches each day., which is my excuse anyway. regards Bazza On 18 March 2017 at 20:31, <lr_mills@mauimail.com> wrote: > Hi, Missing Lincs, > > I see that neighboring Leicestershire is having a "rash" of gardening > tool thefts. So make sure that you don't leave your banged up, rusty old > spouse out in the yard where they might be "lifted". I'm sure that most of > my missing gardening tools were used by my children as playthings, then > hidden so that I wouldn't notice. That might also explain the imbalance in > my dinnerware set. Several odd forks that don't match and a lack of dinner > knives. Now that they've all moved out, perhaps we should finally use the > silver. Maybe I should hire an archaeologist! > > How's that family history work coming along? How can the list help? > Have you tried some of the non-traditional sources like tax lists, Rolls of > Honour, newspaper articles? I found a relative in the poor law records > that Anne COLE worked so hard to document. Thank you, thank you, Anne. > What's your excuse? Tell the boss that your great, great grandmother died > and that you need two weeks off for the funeral. We won't tell him that > she died 38 years ago. but you get your notepad and pencil down to the > Archives and ask for help finding her. Then tell us how succesful you > were. Make us jealous. > > Me? I've been working on the War Memorials for Leicestershire this > month. The county and several district councils decided to support an > effort to document all those memorials and they've done a great job so > far. But they have the same problems we have. People show up on a > memorial with no apparent link to the local parish. Or they get a name > like "L MILLS", but there is no "L MILLS" in Commonwealth War Graves > registration. If you EVER find one of your relatives on a war memorial or > Roll of Honour, make sure that we know who he is and where he or she is > from. I remember years ago I was in charge of a payroll system that wanted > us to use two initials and the surname for each eamployee. I had a Susan S > SANDS and a Sharon S SANDS, so the system wouldn't work well for us and > they would fight over who got which cheque. Since Susan was the first one > hired, we put her into the system as S SANDS and her sister as S S SANDS. > All worked fine after that. (Except that I wanted to call Sharon > "Steamship" because of her initials.) Of course, this was before I ran > into the guy with just one name. You will find "institutions" in England > that recorded census records with entries like "MILLS L" and no Christian > names at all. Workhouses and Militry barracks were commonly done this > way. It waa just done to frustrate you. I know my American friends get > upset when they find an old English phone book and all their relatives are > listed with just one or two initials. Tough, that's the way it was. Heck, > we don't even use phonebooks anymore! > > Remember, the Archives may want a photo to give you a reader card. > Have fun and smooth researching. > > Lou (list admin.) > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I am originally from Leicestershire and am presently having problems trying to find the plaque in memory of my father who was killed in world war two. It has disappeared from the church where it was. An organisation, the Leicester War Memorials Rescue Project, which has several unclaimed plaques, is looking for it for me. If you come across it in your work there his name was HWW Brown and his name was the third on a small plaque, a rectangle of about 6" x 8", but I can't tell you the other 2 names at all, I'm sorry. All my mother's ancestors were in Lincolnshire as far as I have gone, back to the 1700s, so I am on both lists. Jan Marchant Australia ________________________________ From: ENG-LINCSGEN <eng-lincsgen-bounces+oziepoms=live.com.au@rootsweb.com> on behalf of Barry Wilson <bazwilly53@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, 20 March 2017 1:31 AM To: eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LIN] Admin. note: is it Spring yet? Thanks Lou, there has not been very much activity lately, and I am as guilty, but I have had shingles since last August, but thankfully, it might be on the wane now, just left with little headaches each day., which is my excuse anyway. regards Bazza On 18 March 2017 at 20:31, <lr_mills@mauimail.com> wrote: > Hi, Missing Lincs, > > I see that neighboring Leicestershire is having a "rash" of gardening > tool thefts. So make sure that you don't leave your banged up, rusty old > spouse out in the yard where they might be "lifted". I'm sure that most of > my missing gardening tools were used by my children as playthings, then > hidden so that I wouldn't notice. That might also explain the imbalance in > my dinnerware set. Several odd forks that don't match and a lack of dinner > knives. Now that they've all moved out, perhaps we should finally use the > silver. Maybe I should hire an archaeologist! > > How's that family history work coming along? How can the list help? > Have you tried some of the non-traditional sources like tax lists, Rolls of > Honour, newspaper articles? I found a relative in the poor law records > that Anne COLE worked so hard to document. Thank you, thank you, Anne. > What's your excuse? Tell the boss that your great, great grandmother died > and that you need two weeks off for the funeral. We won't tell him that > she died 38 years ago. but you get your notepad and pencil down to the > Archives and ask for help finding her. Then tell us how succesful you > were. Make us jealous. > > Me? I've been working on the War Memorials for Leicestershire this > month. The county and several district councils decided to support an > effort to document all those memorials and they've done a great job so > far. But they have the same problems we have. People show up on a > memorial with no apparent link to the local parish. Or they get a name > like "L MILLS", but there is no "L MILLS" in Commonwealth War Graves > registration. If you EVER find one of your relatives on a war memorial or > Roll of Honour, make sure that we know who he is and where he or she is > from. I remember years ago I was in charge of a payroll system that wanted > us to use two initials and the surname for each eamployee. I had a Susan S > SANDS and a Sharon S SANDS, so the system wouldn't work well for us and > they would fight over who got which cheque. Since Susan was the first one > hired, we put her into the system as S SANDS and her sister as S S SANDS. > All worked fine after that. (Except that I wanted to call Sharon > "Steamship" because of her initials.) Of course, this was before I ran > into the guy with just one name. You will find "institutions" in England > that recorded census records with entries like "MILLS L" and no Christian > names at all. Workhouses and Militry barracks were commonly done this > way. It waa just done to frustrate you. I know my American friends get > upset when they find an old English phone book and all their relatives are > listed with just one or two initials. Tough, that's the way it was. Heck, > we don't even use phonebooks anymore! > > Remember, the Archives may want a photo to give you a reader card. > Have fun and smooth researching. > > Lou (list admin.) > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message