RobertJackson58585858

RobertJackson58585858, 13 days ago to random

#FamilyHistory

Has anyone had the new #AncestryDNA beta matches list?

I really don't like it and have submitted feedback to that effect.

On my android tablet it's really slow and clunky.

Only the first few words of my notes are now shown.

Having to click through to successive pages of matches is a pest.

It might work OK on a modern pc with lots of memory but for me it's a retrograde step.

Makes things deeply unpleasant :((

RobertJackson58585858, 18 days ago to random

#FamilyHistory

I see the latest update to #AncestryDNA has addressed the #Colourblindness #Colorblindness problem that affects around 8% of men and 2% of women.

It affects me.

The coloured dot system to group matches by family branch was virtually unusable by me.

Now the dots include a letter ... The first letter of the group name.

Brilliant!!

A really great improvement!!

RobertJackson58585858, 24 days ago to dystopia

https://janeactsandchats.com/2024/05/16/the-prisoner-now/

A blog by Jane Merrow about Patrick McGoohan and his UK 1960s TV series Dangerman and the better known one: The Prisoner, in which she took part.

#ThePrisoner
#Dangerman

#Portmeirion
#Dystopia

#IAmNotANumber

RobertJackson58585858, 30 days ago to random

Good afternoon #Genchat ... hope all had a good fortnight.

RobertJackson58585858, 1 month ago to random

#FamilyHistory

#FindMyPast has added to its collection of school registers. This morning I've dipped into the beginnings of Bearwood Road school, Smethwick. The trials and tribulations and the first inspector's report.

Really rather good :)

RobertJackson58585858, 1 month ago to UKpolitics

#NatalieElphicke
#Defection

#UKPolitics

This defection reveals, in my humble opinion, a much greater level of dissatisfaction within the governing party than many of us would have believed.

RobertJackson58585858, 1 month ago to random

Feels like everyone in #Tewkesbury knows I've got the decorator in the house.

Just had friendly conversation in the café with a couple who hitherto we'd only exchanged smiles.

First Q: "How's the decorator getting on?"

It started a few weeks ago when I shared it in the street with someone who occasionally joins the coffee table after which it's become the opening line with more folk than I thought I knew.

(Am somewhat flattered, in truth.)

RobertJackson58585858, 1 month ago to random

#genchat

A happy hour!

Thank you for your company ... will catch up with the after time chat later.

Time well spent!!

RobertJackson58585858, 1 month ago to random

#genchat

Good afternoon all, Sorry I'm late.

I enjoyed reading Jan's repost of the finding of Mary Smith earlier.

Now to catch up :)

RobertJackson58585858, 1 month ago to random

#ScottishPolitics

That's the post ...

#ScottishPolitics!!

RobertJackson58585858, 1 month ago to random

For those who think the antics of Tory MPs can't get any racier ... you didn't read about the run up to the 1997 election!

If you can find an old copy of Gyles Brandreth's memoirs you won't regret it. Be assured. There are more boxes yet to be ticked :))

RobertJackson58585858, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

There's something I still don't understand about #FindAGrave.

My granny's grandad was buried at Witton Cemetery Birmingham in 1905. I confirmed ages ago with the Birmingham cemetery office he is buried in an unmarked grave in a communal plot.

I found a few minutes ago that he's got a memorial on Find a Grave created by "! WooWoo" who seems to have created 14,618,067 memorials and manages 15,050,447 memorials on Find a Grave.

All credit to "! WooWoo".

Busy lad.

:((

#Genchat
#FamilyHistory

RobertJackson58585858, 1 month ago to random

#SilentSunday

RobertJackson58585858, 2 months ago to random

That thing where you get a parking ticket in the post. Over two weeks after the event and long after you've thrown the cash receipt away ... and the parking ticket people don't tell you how much you paid.

So you can't check.

Yes, I likely made an expensive mistake. No arguing.

But I've no reason to revisit that town for pleasure shopping, charity shop shopping and meals.

There are a lot of towns and villages within half an hour's drive from here that meet our needs.

Simple. End of rant.

RobertJackson58585858, 2 months ago to guitar

#Guitar
#DiddleyBow
#CigarBoxGuitar

My latest creation, Frankenstein-like ... a diddley-bow or single string guitar.

I only mark the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 12th fret positions. The rest are guesstimates between them.

Tuned G so the fret marks are on A#, C, D and G octave.

It rings rather nicely with good sustain.

In other respects it sounds dreadful ... which is 👍👍👍😎

RobertJackson58585858, 2 months ago to random

#FamilyHistory
#BunnyTrails
#InsertTearingHairOutEmojiHere

Inexplicably I started reading about county boundary anomalies called enclaves, exclaves and salients (?!?) that affect us all at some point.

This page here is about a small area just west of Birmingham.

Oh, btw, these are administrative boundaries, I believe, not religious/ecclesiastical boundaries.

:ablobcatenjoy: :ablobwobroll:

RobertJackson58585858, 2 months ago to random

https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/48974-voting-intention-con-19-lab-44-19-20-mar-2024?s=09

Good grief!

Well, grief if not necessarily good grief!!

RobertJackson58585858, 2 months ago to random

For #StPatricksDay2024 I remember my paternal granny's granny ... born at Kinsale but baptised shortly after at Nuneaton.

RobertJackson58585858, 3 months ago to random

Am no fan of enablers of Fascism in the USA or anywhere else in the world.

I'm young enough to remember a presidential candidate making a speech in the 2016 US election standing there praising WikiLeaks ... it wasn't Hillary Clinton.

Main beneficiary was Trump.

#Assange

RobertJackson58585858, 3 months ago to photography

#PhilLoach
#Photography
#BlackCountry
#RBSA #Birmingham

The canal at #WindMillEnd near #Dudley by Phil Loach. Superb show at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists now open.

Well worth a visit.

RobertJackson58585858, 4 months ago to random

#SilentSunday

RobertJackson58585858, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

The EDIT: GARREG-DDU (not Pen y Garreg) SUBMERGED dam in the Elan Valley.

The stonework wall to the left is Nantgwyllt Chapel which contains a plaque in memory of Tommy Jenkins killed at work building the dam aged 14 in 1902.

His parents were James Jenkins and Hannah Morris of Montgomeryshire.

Tommy was one of too many workers killed in the construction of Birmingham's water supply.

#FamilyHistory

RobertJackson58585858, 4 months ago to cymru

#ElanValley
#Wales
#Sculpture

The sculpture at Elan Valley visitor centre marking the centenary of the civil engineering project to provide the city of #Birmingham with wholesome fresh Welsh water.

RobertJackson58585858, 4 months ago to random

Oh!

That hour of the night where one says farewell to 2am club before it morphs into 3am club.

Waves

RobertJackson58585858, 4 months ago to random

#FamilyHistory
#AncestryDNA

I received a message via Ancestry last night from a distant paternal relative who tells me he has found potentially my great grandfather's father's grave.

My rellie hasn't done the dna test and is puzzled why I reckon he'd be my gt gt grandfather

My great grandfather was born illegitimate in 1852 after his mom was in service the previous year to the family whose grave my distant rellie tells me he found.

I'm confident through DNA it will be the correct grave./1