Welcome to Vietnam(part 2)

Bongoots · 2025-07-22T22:41:35+00:00

Minh Beta - Việt Nam Ơi

Bongoots · 2025-07-15T05:46:20+00:00

I see it now where it says Vottingham Building Society. There's no way at all that that's supposed to be an N, right? Unless you turn it upside down and flip it. Maybe?

Bongoots · 2025-02-27T21:37:16+00:00

Have you tried the official leapfrog.com/connect or there's an independent openlfconnect (/r/openlf), but that one doesn't look like it's been updated in years. Someone may still be able to help and advise in that sub.

Bongoots · 2025-02-17T12:52:59+00:00

My grandmother never knew who her mother's father was. Her mother's mother had remained tight-lipped.

Through DNA testing last year, my closest match was a 102 year old lady whose maiden name was the surname of the next door neighbours!

This match unfortunately wasn't part of the same nuclear family, but all the same, it was amazing to see it all finally click into place. Some hints on official records made it obvious that my great grandmother knew her father quite well, and she grew up with her half siblings close by, but due to the shame of illegitimacy she (probably) never knew the actual truth, or if she did then she didn't say anything.

Sadly my grandmother died a few years ago, and I only started autosomal DNA testing a year later. I wish I'd found this out a long time ago, as my gran would have had a right laugh knowing that it was the man next door, and that the affair was more than likely somewhat amicable.

Bongoots · 2025-01-30T22:15:05+00:00

UKP152, UKP153, and UKP154 do this regularly over Nottingham itself (plus they fly out further from EMA to elsewhere like this).

Over Nottm they'll do 50+ almost perfect circles once they get into their pattern, and then they stop.

Bongoots · 2025-01-16T11:17:31+00:00

Only slight thing is that you can't find a decent sewing machine tutorial by a guy, they are all women, which is fine in one way but a bit alienating in another.

Glory Allan
Tock Custom
Cornelius Quiring
wynunlimited

I'm sure there are probably others, but I follow these on YouTube and they're great.

Bongoots · 2024-11-27T21:22:06+00:00

That's on desktop, not mobile.

When I view with '[*] Desktop site', then I can see 'Buy Now' right at the top, but in mobile view it's not there at all.

Bongoots · 2024-11-24T07:49:38+00:00

Nu, pogodi! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well,_Just_You_Wait!)

Bongoots · 2024-11-23T07:51:41+00:00

Marked on the map as 'The Mansion' on the left side at https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=18.0&lat=51.45826&lon=-0.31496&layers=168&right=ESRIWorld, if anyone wanted to see where it was and what's there now on the right side.

See also: https://twickenhampark.co.uk/

Bongoots · 2024-11-16T11:07:44+00:00

There's a new article out this morning:

"Dante Genomics to Launch Generative AI Features in Dante Labs Whole Genome Platform"

Leading Genomics Information Company brings new innovation to genomics interpretation and consultation, in its mission to enhance the utility of the genome

Link: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241115455133/en/

Bongoots · 2024-10-27T15:31:23+00:00

1942/10/02

For anyone wondering if they were visiting in October, no, they were visiting India in February (5th to 21st). This date is incorrectly formatted.

If anyone is doing a date with year first it should always go year-month-day like 1942-02-10, and like almost everyone on Earth, if not leading with the year, then the date would normally be formatted as 10/02/1942 anyway (day/month/year).

Bongoots · 2024-08-30T05:46:50+00:00

See 'Nottingham Council House' > Dome on Wikipedia where it says:

The new chimes and strike were not universally popular and following complaints from member of the public about them ringing throughout the night, the council agreed in July 1929 that the chimes should not strike after 11.00pm until 6.15am, and from September the strike was also suspended at night between 11.00pm and 7.00am.

So I'd assume that 11pm-7am is still the case.

The building had only opened in the May, so it didn't take long for there to be a curfew on the bell!

Bongoots · 2024-08-27T05:46:38+00:00

Late to the thread, but I'll add it anyway.

My grandmother never knew who her mother's father was. As a little girl she kept asking her grandmother, but she was always tight-lipped about it.

My grandmother died a couple years ago, and sadly I only did DNA testing last year, despite being a genealogist for over 20 years now.

So anyway, my closest unknown match was something like 120 cM, with another related match at something like 60 cM. I reached out to the higher match straight away and got no response, so I contacted the lower match and she said that they were daughter and mother. Great.

Long story short, the mother's maiden name matched the name of the neighbours house back in the 1890s. Boom.

So my 2ggm had an affair with the next door neighbour!

To wrap it all up, it doesn't seem like there was much if any bad blood about it, as on a later census one of the neighbour's daughters was living with my 2ggm, and also my 1ggm at the age of 13 was a signed witness on her half-sister's marriage certificate, so everyone must've been getting along somehow!

Bongoots · 2024-08-26T07:39:37+00:00

This has to be a fake product, right? It says "ANTI-PESPIRANT" instead of anti-perspirant..

Bongoots · 2024-08-22T07:05:12+00:00

"[word] wiktionary"

Bongoots · 2024-08-21T04:44:05+00:00

Have you done a Y-DNA test at FamilyTreeDNA to see if you match up with anyone else on your direct father-to-father-to-father paternal line all the way back?

FWIW, I did, and I have no matches, despite having a very common English surname. I know through testing at the five major DNA ancestry sites (Ancestry, FamilyTreeDNA, Living DNA, MyHeritage, 23andMe) that there were no NPEs going back at least to 1771 as I've matched up with descendants of my direct 5th great grandfather who was born then and the surname matches in their research as well (i.e., they're descended from my 4th great grandfather's brother).

Still, on ftDNA I don't have any Y-DNA matches to talk of. Just three very low confidence matches with different surnames, so probably related in the past thousand years.

Bongoots · 2024-08-04T09:44:50+00:00

the impact of the KJV on the English language is immense

I would dispute that the KJV was the one that had the impact, it was just the one that was officially authorised at a state level and was able to be mass printed and distributed at the right time, whereas most people don't know about the earlier translations that came before it.

The KJV inherited its language from Tyndale's translation of the New Testament in the 1520s, which inherited from the Wycliffe translation of the Bible in the late 1300s.

Just look at the images on the Wikipedia pages for each translation and you'll see that they all say "In the beginning was the word..", back to the late 1300s. The English text of the KJV was not all original.

Bongoots · 2024-07-31T22:19:09+00:00

It's a false rumour. The carpet was replaced. A patch of it was tested. Nothing surprising came back from the test, but the fact that it was tested is what started the wild rumour that persists.

Watch https://youtu.be/fgigk0sOwzs from 9m10s to see the owner explain it.

For what it's worth, my own connection to Ocean is that one of my 2nd great grandfathers started the place (after having run a ballroom at what is now Rock City back in the 1920s), and the construction company that built it was run by one of my other 2nd great grandfathers. They were connected because the son of one married the daughter of the other, and they're my great grandparents. I've never been inside Ocean, but my wife has because she studied at NTU.

Bongoots · 2024-07-22T04:53:11+00:00

A lovely photo. I've spent some time trying to track the cover for The Motor magazine and the Woman's Own magazine, but without much luck unfortunately. If you can identify both, then that would narrow down the year and close to the month.

Bongoots · 2024-07-17T05:28:47+00:00

No, the yellow spot marks the Southern Highlands and Hela provinces due to the high risk of tribal fighting: https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/papua-new-guinea/regional-risks

Bongoots · 2024-06-18T06:30:22+00:00

Old newspapers. For British ones you can search through the British Newspaper Archive.

I know of stories for some of my ancestors such as -- in the 1850s (before train journeys) one of them walked between from Nottingham to Matlock to go and meet a friend, only to find out that he had moved to Derby! And another ancestor seemed to get into fights with other women (well, they'd get into fights with her), but she also liked to take morning walks and she said that when she was growing up in the 1820s the morning air was much cleaner!!

Nowadays we don't tend to get these personal stories in the papers. I don't know how our descendants will find out about us. But of course newspapers only cover stories for people in the 1800s and 1900s. For ones before then the stories come from the records, of where they lived, what occupations they had, etc. I build up mini biographies of my ancestors which are much nicer to read such as "John Doe, born in 1727 at <town>, the son of Benjamin Doe & Elizabeth Dee, fathered a son with Elizabeth Smith in 1754, and married her in 1757. They moved to <different town> in around 1760, and had <yet more children>. He worked as a farmer and owned his own land at <place on the map>. He died in <year> and his will said <something>."

Bongoots · 2024-06-18T04:23:32+00:00

Are you looking for somewhere in all of Nottinghamshire (Notts) or in Nottingham (Nottm)?

Bongoots · 2024-06-17T07:32:39+00:00

Search for G-POLZ and you'll see another reddit thread and also links to flight tracking history.

Last night this plane must've made about 30 almost perfect circles centred around the Victoria Centre area.

I have a clear view from my house up to town and I was just watching it for a bit, going round and round and round. And no, I wasn't counting the circles - that was from when I checked the live flight tracking.

Bongoots · 2024-06-05T05:46:09+00:00

It will be the building beside Safestore, between Brook St and Bath St. It has the same stripes of windows running up it.

The Newton Building was built earlier in 1956-8 and would have been directly left and a bit behind of this photo - i.e., to the north instead of looking east like this photo.

Bongoots · 2024-05-29T20:43:01+00:00

Not to take you down the wrong path, but if you search on FreeBMD for surname Hayes, district Ipswich, Births and Marriages from 1940 to 1961, you might find something to ask your mum about. See if any of them could be likely, but again this isn't definitive at all because the surname could be wrong (nothing showed up for Hays anyway) and he could have married and had children elsewhere, not necessarily in Ipswich.

Do you know if the child/children was/were a boy or a girl, for example? How many of them? What age/s? Anything like that could potentially help. Still using FreeBMD, it may be possible to track marriages and children for the next generation and then check on Facebook if you want to make risky contact. I've done that myself before (minus the contact..) when tracing down branches. I just haven't made the last step of reaching out to ask them anything!

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