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Message 1.Ìý
Posted by Drew Peacock (U9721337) on Monday, 19th December 2011
As the end of the board is nigh, Id like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to the wonderful members on here.
Ive had help on numerous occasions with my tree and have also been able to help others with look ups etc, which I have enjoyed doing.
A few years ago you were all just 'screen names' to me but I have now met many of the regulars and class you as friends. You have been with me through the ups and downs that have been my life for the last four years - the saga of the knee, the fridge chasing incident
finding a nun in my family, the loss of my MiL, OH being away from home in his birth country, my daughter's going through college and uni and lately my first chick flying the nest and my dad's illness. You have all kept me going through the bad times and I hope I have been able to bring a smile to some faces along the way too. Thank You 
Hopefully many of you will join us on the myfamily site jc has organised and also on the facebook page for Â鶹Éç evictees - this is a private group so if you would like to join please pm me on Rootschat and I will give you the details and add you.
I hope you all have a wonderful and peaceful Christmas and a very happy and healthy 2012.
May all your brickwalls crumble and your trees grow upwards and outwards.
Jen
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Message 2
Posted by blossom (U8480392) on Monday, 19th December 2011
Hell Jen,
Can I join you in your thanks?
When I first joined this site I could barely use a PC (still haven't mastered it)
and have had so much help in sorting things out. Lots of help from past members as well as present ones with my family tree. Not sure that I shall want to go wider,(mine is so wide it really needs lopping but I am reluctant to do that as it often throws up something closer), I certainly have a bit of room to go taller though.
I have also had support through my moans and groan, kitchen problems, neighbours etc not forgetting my rellie. OH has also felt that he knows most of you through your messages when he has not been well,had a Birthday or it has been our Anniversary.
You have certainly raised a few giggles from me and I hope you continue to do that on the new board. I have also appreciated your help and support privately.
HAPPY CHRISTMA EVERYONE AND A VERY HEALTHY AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Here's a toast to you all
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Message 3
Posted by bishenbertie (U13222350) on Monday, 19th December 2011
All I can add to Jens and Blossoms praises is
Thank you for being there for me these past 3.5 years -
Message 4
Posted by blossom (U8480392) on Monday, 19th December 2011
I have just noticed that the typo fairy wasn't going to let me post a message without joining in.<
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Message 5
Posted by jack29p (U1877186) on Monday, 19th December 2011
Ditto Jen and Blossom. Couldnt have put it better myself
The friends I have made on here are fantastic and always willing to be mountains of strength when you need it. Thank you everyone for your wise words they have been much appreciated 
and I would also like to add that I hope everyone has a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HUGELY HAPPY NEW YEAR
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Message 6
Posted by niksmum (U3275090) on Monday, 19th December 2011
I have to add to this thread and thank all those who have helped me in the last 5+ years Jowin, Grumpyjaywit, JC, Kalady, Sheron and Biggles to name a few.
I have learnt so much from all of you and hope that I have helped others in return.
I have lots of happy memories of laughs we have had along the way, and who can forget the stories of Bash and Paulas Eliza.
I now spend most of my time over the road on the Restoration board but still liked to drop in occcasionally and see all my friends here .
Thanks again and Merry Christmas everyone.
Niksmum -
Message 7
Posted by harrywrag (U5960852) on Tuesday, 20th December 2011
hi , i would just like to say my thanks also to everyone on this board for there help and kindness to me on my search for my staulkey name without all your help i would have never found anything on the name have got as far back as robert staulkey 1804, leiston suffolk but have hit a brick wall ,the name is very unusual and i can find only one other with the name staulkey and we are connected and he like me has no family so it looks like the name staulkey will dissapear if anyone has any ideas of how to go further back i would be most greatfull for them ,its a bit of a mystery where name came from robert staulkey was sexton at st. margarets church leiston for 25 yrs (robert d.o.b 21/02/1804 - 25/12/1893 from headstone at leiston ) once again thank you everyone before i started this i had never used a computer so just learning as i went along using the local librar y computer sorry i have not helped to much on the boards but have manged a few ideas, i have enjoyed looking in to the boards most days and a lot of people will have been most pleased with all the help given so a BIG THANKS to everyone i have an old aunt 90yrs and through help received i managed to trace her fathers grave at willsden (herbert staulkey) she did not know to much of her father as marrige broke down when she was young , she was most pleased that we found his resting place and i payed a vistit and got photo of grave for her also on my visit to leiston i managed to get a photo of her dad she did not have one she is delighted with everything that we have found out also the local museum at leiston have been most kind with help and a few photos of her grandfather (my grt grandfather)
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Message 8
Posted by harrywrag (U5960852) on Tuesday, 20th December 2011
p.s harrywrag on otr (.ootschat) and my family
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Message 9
Posted by silvery (U8422462) on Tuesday, 20th December 2011
I'm sorry to see this site go. I've learned a lot on here from seeing other people's answers to questions.
It's a shame. Hope to be in touch a little bit elswhere, although I don't do as much now. -
Message 10
Posted by anitamo (U5717936) on Tuesday, 20th December 2011
I was wondering how I could phrase my addition to this thread without having Paula scurrying under the desk with a blanket over her head as I really need to mention THAT name, not Eliza....who may now become famous...but that other name.......... WEBB.
The members of this board solved the strange case of the "Changing Surname" and without the members I would still be wondering if my dad had been deposited here in Sheffield without any predecessors at all!
I have made new friends not just on the screen but in real life.
You have all shared in the life and times of my family and I have shared yours.
I hope we will all continue in our new home, but feeling comfortable here has been rather special.
May I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and all the best wishes for a grand and fruitful New Year -
Message 11
Posted by siamesewillow (U3516812) on Tuesday, 20th December 2011
I would like to add my thanks to all who helped me though the years as a member of the Â鶹Éç. Everything has been said that I also feel. So a big thank you to you all.
siamese -
Message 12
Posted by Bashfuljan157 (U5893214) on Wednesday, 21st December 2011
Another one wanting to add thanks to all , , I've learnt a lot from the experienced people on here on FH matters ,
Merry Christmas to all , -
Message 13
Posted by Syljun (U3878472) on Wednesday, 21st December 2011
I would like to add my thanks to everyone for their help in the past and wish everyone a Happy Christmas and New Year.
Syljun formerly Grumpywelshrarebit -
Message 14
Posted by clematised (U3233879) on Wednesday, 21st December 2011
I joined this board in Jan 2006 when I first got my PC and have never looked back making many friends along the way, all of you helped me through the hard times as well as the good but will keep in contact in the new place's and OTR as well as FTF
we can be contacted on rootschat or Family tree forum for an invitation to the new place if you just wish to come and chat or ask for a bit of help.
Thank you all for all the help over the years and enjoy 2012 whatever you
may be doing
Edna -
Message 15
Posted by Familysearch (U2959402) on Wednesday, 21st December 2011
My interest in family history goes back a long time. I started working through the records at Somerset House, then to St. Catherine's House. Perhaps some of you were there on those rare Saturdays that I got off work!
After that came microfiche at the local history records office at county hall.
Now we can sit at our own computers and search the internet. I, too will add my thanks to those who had subscriptions to places I had never heard of, and came up with the answers. I still have a few brick walls, but hopefully they will come tumbling down some day!
It's been great fun watching the stories unwind, and hearing of successes. Again THANK YOU to all who have been involved.
FS -
Message 16
Posted by Bashfulewanewan (U7226368) on Wednesday, 21st December 2011
I feel this is an end of an era really, quite sad. When I first joined the bbc it was in the early months of 2005 and have been so grateful for the help I have received since then. Like others I did my research at St Catherine's, I had heard of Somerset House but never got there, after that it was heaving those big heavy book down from the shelves at The Family Records Centre, London. In the early days I had subscriptions to sites but over the last few years I have wound this hobby up and have just been concentrating on one or two individuals, so again I thank
all those people who did look ups for me without questions 
and will fondly be remembered.
So a final
to everyone, good health and good luck to you all. -
Message 17
Posted by Jak (U1158529) on Wednesday, 21st December 2011
And I have to say very many thanks to Edna ("clematised") for those two threads she started: Useful Websites and Free Websites - which have helped me, and no doubt many, many, other searchers - ENORMOUSLY.
The least I can do is bang them up to the top again, sadly, for the last time.
Jak. -
Message 18
Posted by kk forever in the cyber atlantis of mustardland (U4670994) on Wednesday, 21st December 2011
Tagging onto the most recent post ...
Me too, I wanted to thank all the helpful posters on this message board - I was always an infrequent visitor, and I posted using a different Â鶹Éç iD, but I've always valued Family Trees as a resource and have it bookmarked for future reference.
Wherever you migrate to, collectively or individually, I wish you all well - oh, and please do carry on offering support and advice to noobs and the perpetually befuddled. Sometimes it's only on occasions like this that appreciation can be (inadequately) expressed ;~)
Season's Greetings to one and all, and here's to 2012 and the future from what is already the past. -
Message 19
Posted by Aussie Barmaid (U5591067) on Wednesday, 21st December 2011
May I also add my bit?
As an antipodean, I have been very grateful for the help I've had on this site over the years with my research of English ancestry? I'm sure those who were involved will remember the help given on my Frederick Button search, and MM's wonderful breakthrough. And there was my wonderful Nunley's Carousel thread as well others for which I must say thanks to all who helped.
I've been glad to help out at times with research for those who wanted information from Australia.
But most of all, I want to say thankyou for the friendships made on here. I've only met one of you in person..... and what a lovely afternoon that was.......but there are so many of you that I count among my friends. We've helped each other, chatted together, "played" together, laughed together and cried together. Let's hope we will continue to do so elsewhere.
Dee -
Message 20
Posted by Hazel17 (U13274041) on Thursday, 22nd December 2011
Thank you to everyone on here to has helped me with searches especially with untangling some of my London ancestors.
Thank you also to all the bar regulars who have been there to listen to my grumbling and stressing.
Thank you also to everyone who joined in with celebrating my wedding last year - it was so nice of everyone to join in. At least most of us have ways to keep in touch. -
Message 21
Posted by meandhim (U3101036) on Thursday, 22nd December 2011
Hello Everyone
Though i rarely come on the Board these days,i would like to once again thank the people who helped ME break down HIMS
Brick Walls.
Its a Sad day today,such a shame the Boards are closing.
I would like to wish you all a Peaceful & Healthy Christmas &
2012
Me (omega 1 OTR)Found mainly on the Sussex Board -
Message 22
Posted by gnatalee (U1758936) on Thursday, 22nd December 2011
May I add my thanks for the help I have received, the wonderful "mysteries" which have been unlocked for others (Bashful Rodgers and the like) and the many entertaining and interesting stories which have been posted. I have learned so much just reading the posts and looking at how others solve their problems in family history research.
This board, as a resource in itself, will be a great loss to our band of family historians.
Good luck to everyone in their future searches - hopefully I will sump into you on other boards. Hope you have a lovely Christmas.
Gnats -
Message 23
Posted by gnatalee (U1758936) on Thursday, 22nd December 2011
Ooops ! - I meant "bump" into you - lol !!! Sorry
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Message 24
Posted by gb4yzj (U2355837) on Thursday, 22nd December 2011
I would like to thank everyone who have helped me with my own tree and helped when I have been trying to help other people with their trees.
It is a great pity this board is closing as it has helped a lot of people and will be missed by a lot of people. I do believe this is another mistake the Â鶹Éç is makeing.
Good luck to everyone and good luck in your research.
Christine -
Message 25
Posted by Small Town Girl (U1483784) on Thursday, 22nd December 2011
I would like to thank everyone who have helped me with my own tree and helped when I have been trying to help other people with their trees.
Good luck to everyone and good luck in your research.
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That goes from me too.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone.
I'll "see" some of you elsewhere.
STG -
Message 26
Posted by sudsie (U5551569) on Thursday, 22nd December 2011
Looking back over my discussions since I joined in 2006 I see my third one related to my own problem with the infamous Webbs. Calm down, calm down!
Anyway I would like to add my own thanks to everyone who has helped me in my searches over the years. This Board has been invaluable and the first port of call, I'm sure, for everyone who came to family history after watching WDYTYA. So we move on, get together at our new locations and bars and hope the newbies find us to share their questions and stories.
Happy Christmas and a successful New Year to you all.
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