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This kind individual sent this to me and I thought you all might enjoy reading it.
----- Original Message -----
From: Georgia Moss
To: Me
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 9:46 PM
Subject: Comments seen on a Genealogy Support Group
Thought you'd enjoy these!
Georgia
>From Comments seen on a Genealogy Support Group........
Genealogy Quips
My family coat of arms ties at the back ... is that normal?
My family tree is a few branches short! All help appreciated.
My ancestors must be in a witness protection program!
Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!
My hobby is genealogy, I raise dust bunnies as pets.
How can one ancestor cause so much TROUBLE?!
I looked into my family tree and found out I was a sap ...
I'm not stuck, I'm ancestrally challenged.
I'm searching for myself; Have you seen me?
If only people came with pull-down menus and on-line help ...
Isn't genealogy fun? The answer to one problem leads to two more!
It's 2000 ... Do you know where your G-G-Grandparents are?
A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
A family tree can wither if nobody tends it's roots.
A new cousin a day keeps the bored! om away.
After 30 days unclaimed ancestors will be adopted.
Am I the only person up my tree ... sure seems like it.
Any family tree produces some lemons, some nuts, and a few bad apples.
Ever find an ancestor HANGING from the family tree?
FLOOR: The place for storing your priceless genealogy records.
Gene-Allergy: It's a contagious disease but I love it.
Genealogists are time unravelers.
Genealogy is like playing hide and seek: They hide ... I seek!
Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people.
"Crazy" is a relative term in my family.
A pack rat is hard to live with but makes a fine ancestor.
I want to find ALL of them! So far I only have a few thousand.
I Should have asked them BEFORE they died!
I think my ancestors had several "Bad heir" days.
I'm always late. My ancestors arrived on the JUNEflower.
Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards, as progress.
Share your knowledge, it is a way to achieve immortality.
Heredity: Everyone believes in it until their children act like fools!
It's an unusual family that hath neither a lady of the evening or a
thief.
Many a family tree needs pruning.
Shh! Be very, very quiet ... I'm hunting forebears.
Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors!
That's strange: half my ancestors are WOMEN!
I'm not sick, I've just got fading genes.
Genealogists live in the past lane.
Cousins marrying cousins: Very tangled roots!
Cousins marrying cousins: A non-branching family tree
Alright! Everybody out of the gene pool!
Always willing to share my ignorance ...
Documentation ...The hardest part of genealogy.
Genealogy: Chasing your own tale!
Genealogy ... will I ever find time to mow the lawn again?
That's the problem with the gene pool: NO Lifeguards
I researched my! family tree ... and apparently I don't exist!
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Not by strength, nor by might, but by my spirit says the LORD!
Zechariah 4:6
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Hello Listers,
Following is a copy of my CHARLES Family information graciously given to
me by another lister. Does anyone see any familiar names here? This line
is from Southwest Wales & goes back to Devon, Plymouth. There were 9
children. Surely, I have a living relative somewhere?
Best regards,
EDWINA (Winnie) CHARLES in Calif.
These notes have been prepared from the records held at the
Pembrokeshire County Record Office, The Castle, Haverfordwest,
Pembrokeshire. If you wish to obtain copies of the original records,
write to the Archivist, who should be able to help you.
1881 census, RG11/5412 folio 55 page 20
Market Street, Pembroke St. Mary Parish.
Anne Charles Head Widow 52 Lodging House Keeper Haverfordwest
Clara Charles Dau Unm 16 Dressmaker Pembroke St. Marys
George Charles Son Unm 14 Scholar Pembroke St. Marys
William Charles Son Unm 25 Engine Fitter Haverfordwest
James Caulfield Lodger Unm 42 Labourer Ireland
In 1871, though, the family is a little larger!
1871 census, RG10/5516 folio 14 page 22
Clarence Street, Pembroke St. Mary Parish.
Ann Charles Head Widow 42 Haverfordwest
Geo do son single 18 Basket Maker Plymouth
William J do son do 15 River Boy dys Haverfordwest
Mary B do dau do 8 Scholar Pembroke Dock
Clara A do dau do 6 Scholar Pembroke Dock
George J T do son do 4 Scholar Pembroke Dock
Note that there seems to be 2 Georges in the family! I have heard that
this has occurred in the records, but have never come across it in my
researches before. Unfortunately, George Charles the father is still not
around, but that is cleared up when we go back a further 10 years, to
1861.
1861 census, RG9/4156 folio 73 page 17
Market Street, Pembroke St. Mary Parish.
George Charles Head Mar 33 Basket Maker Devon, Plymouth
Ann Wife Mar 32 Haverfordwest
George son 8 Scholar Plymouth
Frederick son 6 Scholar Haverfordwest
William son 5 Scholar Haverfordwest
Edwin C son 3 Pembroke St. Mary
Emly dau 1 Pembroke St Mary
Francis dau 8 mo Pembroke St. Mary
George and Ann are not in Pembrokeshire for the 1851, or the 1841
census. Possibly Ann was in Plymouth at the time and that is where they
got married. Im inclined to think that this was so, because their
first child, George was born in Plymouth. Why the family then moved
back to Pembrokeshire will be difficult to find out.
However, I can fill some gaps.
George Charles was buried on 18th October 1866 aged 38 years at the St
John Parish Churchyard, Pembroke Dock.
I have not found a burial record for Ann.
Francis Charles was buried on 10th January 1863 aged 2 years, also at St
John Parish Churchyard.
If you check the 1881 census, you will find Frederick, married, living
in Pembroke St. Mary, while both Edwin and Mary are living with their
uncle, George Christmas and his wife, at Haverfordwest. I have not
traced Emily, but she could well be married, living elsewhere, and I
have not found George the elder brother, who would have been 28 in 1881.