Needed a break folks

[sue ault]

Hi all
Just needed to have a break from research as i find after a while i no longer know what im looking for or for who. I am one of those old fashioned peeps who need to put as much infomation as i can onto paper form. i have a large tree on line but there is nothing like a bit of paper laying around. This drives my other half mad but i know what they are and what im doing.
i have put this bit of info on before but i find it so frustrating, my grt x 2 grandfather appears to have been called Collextor george Brown. The only two places this name came up were on my grt grandfathers birth certificate, where is father is Collextor and also on the 1851 census where you can just about make out the collextor name. Well with a break and a fresh look at things. I have found my grt grandfathers siblins baptisms and strangely his name on all the bapts is not collextor but callaxter ?. All very strange as his marriage certificate he doesnt use the name at all and put's george. This man is so so driving me mad, where does this name come from ?.
Thanks for letting me whinge a wee bit hope you are all well.

Sue xxxxxxxx

 

[p.risboy]

Whinge away Sue.

Was he a tax collextor. :2fun: :2fun:

Know how you feel, and I've only been doing FH for two and a half years.
I think I would have fallen at the first hurdle, if I had started doing it before the internet age.

I left it alone for a few hours, but the withdrawl symptoms were too great.:biggrin:

Steve.

 

[nainmaddie]

Hi Steve

I can assure you that having done about 10 years with a few breaks, without the Internet is very hard work.

Even so the Internet does not always provide the answers. Even now Welsh FH is still very much behind the rest, although I have some private CD's, they do not give the whole history.

I used to go to Aberystwyth and spend a whole week there and usually got quite a lot done in that time. If only it was a bit nearer or I did not have to change at Birmingham New St. I HATE the place !! Then you still have only 2 small carriages all the way to Aberystwyth, but do not choose to go when the Uni is going back !! Hell !!!!

I'll stop moaning now

Maddie

 

[p.risboy]

Carry on Maddie, good to get it off the chest.

I take my hat off to you, and those it have done it the hard way. I would never have started doing FH, whilst living in Ireland.
Getting over to England once a year is OK, to get to the Bucks studies centre. But without the internet, I would not have the patience nor conviction.
My paternal line would have been quite easy(ish), but my maternal line would have ground to a halt within one generation.

So salutations to you Maddie, for having the stamina and commitment.

As someone said...."I've never had it so good".

Steve.

 

[benny1982]

I have some birthday money and shall be increasing my PR collection. I have some Sussex and Oxon databases which is handy as I can do the research in my own home to some extent.