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RobertJackson58585858

@RobertJackson58585858@masto.ai

Family History, AncestryDNA, rubbish DIY, rubbish DIY guitars, coffee, leftish politics.😎
Colourblindness😭
Sobriety🙄
Enjoyed A level maths 50 years ago, still do!

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RobertJackson58585858, to random
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Thank you for your company, all!!

Have a great fortnight (or so).

Will catch up later :)

genchat, to genchat
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Some helpful detangling tools from last night:

  • timelines
  • spreadsheets
  • draft trees for unverified family members/FANs

@genchat

RobertJackson58585858,
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Draft trees = floating trees on Ancestry ... very useful indeed.

Sometimes I'm in two minds whether the exploratory nature means I should anonymise by eg leaving off dates of death in my public tree.

Alternatively there are always valid records attached so in that sense they are true trees but not necessarily ever going to be attached properly to mine.

RobertJackson58585858,
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@genchat @genchat

The least productive have been separate private trees.

The most productive are floating (with"Floating" in the suffix field of the name) so are essentially public ... but if I omit the date of death/make "living" it makes them invisible.

The latter quite often eventually flash up a hint as to a parent who is in my tree from earlier working "downhill"

Basically it's what thrulines does!

RobertJackson58585858,
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Yeeees ... especially the living ones well into their 120s.

RobertJackson58585858, to random
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Best tool in my box for sorting out messes I've mentioned before:

The UK GRO website for post 1837 UK births that morphs into FreeBMD around 1911 for confirming mothers' maiden names. It can be tedious but helps disambiguation.

I've only been using it about 12 months so a slow process to verify the wilder branches.

RobertJackson58585858, to random
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Good afternoon all!
I hope all have had a productive fortnight :)

genchat, to genealogy
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Good morning/evening/afternoon, ! Today our Open Mic theme is Untangling from a Mess! What kinds of messes do you have? Big/small? Physical/electronic? How do you untangle them? Let's chat! @genchat

RobertJackson58585858,
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Typically:

Common names (both common common and locally common).

Record gaps UK from around 1800 to 1837 start of registration and 1841 census.

Headwinds of copied trees.

Ancestry thrulines throwing a wobbly.

RobertJackson58585858, to random
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Perfect colour match.

RobertJackson58585858, to random
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I see the latest update to has addressed the 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,
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@PostcardsFromParadise

In beta.

But will help eventually. I'd codged a fairly random use over the years since I tested.

purplepadma, to random
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I just had a shower. I usually only have a shower if there is no bathtub available, but I was very dirty and I didn’t want to sit in a puddle of my own grime. The shower went from hot to cold to hot again, confirming my belief that they are treacherous and not to be trusted

RobertJackson58585858,
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@purplepadma

As the scorpion said to the frog when asked "Whhhy did you do that??" ... "it is in my (combi boiler) nature".

Alice, to random

Paid a visit to my favorite ladder.

RobertJackson58585858,
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@Alice

There ought be a story behind the "design" of the first hoop :)

RickGaehl, to photography
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This is a picture of Brixham harbour, which is only a few miles from where I live. It made the national news last week as the epicentre of an outbreak of cryptosporidium, but is normally thought of as a picturesque fishing port.
It's a popular tourist destination and, to the left of the shot, you can see its well-known replica of Sir Francis Drake's 'Golden Hind', in which he circumnavigated the globe. It's a disturbingly small vessel.

RobertJackson58585858,
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@RickGaehl

Am wondering whether one of the replicas will be at the Gloucester docks Tall Ships event this coming weekend?

Iirc I may have seen one at Bristol pre pandemic.

It's the multistorey cabins that freak me out ... !

RobertJackson58585858,
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@RickGaehl

You are tempting me to actually go ... I've not been for quite a few years.

....

:)

RobertJackson58585858,
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@RickGaehl

It will be.

It always is!

:))

RobertJackson58585858, to random
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ChrisMayLA6, to politics
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What connects the following:

DWP carer's prosecutions;

Windrush deportations;

Infected blood scandal victims;

The Post Office Horizon IT injustice.

... The complete disregard for how an institution's actions & inactions impact on those at the bottom of the 'pyramid' & the subsequent attempt to evade responsibility for the harm caused when publicised.

(you'll have other you'd like to add to the list, I'm sure)

A damning picture of misused power & disregard for others.

RobertJackson58585858,
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@christineburns @ChrisMayLA6

Thalidomide

:((

RobertJackson58585858, to random
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https://youtu.be/qnmTcE5-HpI?si=9rINFLP11b0MY4y9

On braids ... Including hair braids!

I wondered how they were handled :))

RobertJackson58585858, to dystopia
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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.



RobertJackson58585858,
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:(

johncarlosbaez, to random
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Chemistry is like physics where the particles have personalities - and chemists love talking about the really nasty ones. It makes for fun reading, like Derek Lowe's column "Things I Won't Work With". For example, bromine compounds:

"Most any working chemist will immediately recognize bromine because we don't commonly encounter too many opaque red liquids with a fog of corrosive orange fumes above them in the container. Which is good."

And that's just plain bromine. Then we get compounds like bromine fluorine dioxide.

"You have now prepared the colorless solid bromine fluorine dioxide. What to do with it? Well, what you don't do is let it warm up too far past +10C, because it's almost certainly going to explode. Keep that phrase in mind, it's going to come in handy in this sort of work. Prof. Seppelt, as the first person with a reliable supply of the pure stuff, set forth to react it with a whole list of things and has produced a whole string of weird compounds with brow-furrowing crystal structures. I don't even know what to call these beasts."

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/higher-states-bromine

RobertJackson58585858,
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I've not considered this classification of human activities ... Those which impact us from inside our brains and those from outside.

A quick ponder is asking me if Russell's Paradox applies ...

...
...

nsummers12345, to random
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AAARRGGHH Bisto !!

RobertJackson58585858,
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@nsummers12345

My decorator has detected certain "incidents" conveniently forgotten over the years.

One of my late mother's tended to involve one of those pressure cookers with little weights on that, if lifted off before it cooled, tended to shoot brussel sprouts in the air.

RobertJackson58585858,
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@nsummers12345

I bet the conversation around Bisto getting on the ceiling was worth listening to :))

RobertJackson58585858, to random
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Two items of clothing ... pullover and slacks ... have been sitting on a bedroom chair for months awaiting a button and a darn.

Proudly have done both.

Yet more proudly done without extracting blood nor sewing the two together nor sewing either to my shorts, shirt, vest or pants.

The latter, by sheer numbers of ways it could go wrong, is astonishing.

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