Mission Accomplished

It has been a busy weekend with me working flat-out on transferring all the content from the Webjam site over.  All is now done for the present until the DNS settings for my domain names take effect and I can update them here and at the Event blog.

Now the framework is set up I can go back to writing about the things that interest me and hopefully you.

I hope you had a good Christmas and I wish you a rather belated peaceful, happy and successful New Year.

We had a good Christmas.  It was just Terry and my youngest daughter and I here on Christmas Day so fairly quiet but very nice and relaxing.  We watched a film on the box in the evening - I did a bit of jewellery making while watching.  I’ve been making some earrings and pendants up in birthstone colours and made a few more sets up. 

Boxing Day my eldest daughter and her fiance arrived for an overnight stay. It was lovely to see them.  My daughter and I sorted out the jewellery she wants me to make for her bridesmaids and flower girl and hopefully some jewellery for her to wear on her Wedding Day too.  I would be really proud to see her wearing my designs as she walks down the aisle, although no doubt I will be bursting with pride without her wearing my jewellery.  

The youngest went out with her boyfriend in the evening and the rest of us spent the evening playing Trivial Pursuit, which was so much fun we ended up going to bed really late.

My daughter and her fiance left to return home the next day and I settled down to do some family history research.  I haven’t had the time to do any for ages and it was great to get back to it. Mainly I was typing up an interview I had recorded with my Aunt regarding some of her memories of my Father but I also searched the 1911 census.  I found most of the relevant entries for the branches that were alive at that date but had to be rather inventive to find one set of my Maternal Great Grandparents.

The transcribers had got their name wrong.  I started off thinking that perhaps they’d spelt the end wrong as their name ended with zky and tried all the combinations I could think of. No joy until I used a wild card in place of the first letter. They’d transcribed it as a T not a J.  I didn’t find their daughter, my maternal Grandmother, she wasn’t living at home. It’s possible that she was living in Switzerland as she met and married my Grandfather a couple of years later.  My biggest problem once I start researching is that I don’t want to stop. I find it so addictive and get such a buzz as I discover more. The trouble is I find, that I may discover the answer to one puzzle just to open up half a dozen more avenues to explore.