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Ach! I had heard about the quake when it first happened, but it's
slipped off our news some time ago... Extreme weather, indeed.
We've been getting fall rains lately, temps in the 50's, mostly grey skies... but at least we get some sun every so often, and the earth
doesn't shake... We're supposed to have sun and temps in the 60's by
the weekend, even... We'll see... <G>
somewhere...There'll be a connection linking the two [Maxted families] lurking
That will be a fun thing to find... :) Probaly cousins...? Or are the dates such that they could be in the same line?
I'm not that connected to the I'net. Other than telnet and email, I
hardly do anything on the net, and what I do is all text-based... dunno
if I even could set up Google alerts with my system.
... Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Must be you are heading into spring down under... Our autumn is
officially here, with temps and weather to match. :)
Nothing new on the genealogy front, though... :(
I see you are posting from Doc's... what's up with your bbs down there?
... A wok is what you throw at a wabbit.
Quoting MILES MAXTED to NANCY BACKUS on 23 Oct 10 21:19:34 <=-
And that's from Whangarei in our Winterless North; I'm in a motel
while the Management indulges in a Country Scottish Dancing School... well away fronm the dreaded quaky Christchurch.
Yes, that last is getting on our news again... will it never stop? Perhaps it really is getting to be the end of the world...? ;0
Don't know about the End; it's certainly frustrating the
Christchurchians who'd like to be able to re-build and settle down.
No descendants of the elderly aunt still at the Key Street Kent address?
Not even a street number or location on Key Street !
Or nearby? No jotted notes that would indicate why your father decided
to pay her a visit? But life is full of such tantalizing tidbits...
He'd passed on before I heard of the incident from the other family !
That's sensible, not Luddite; this machine gets switched on when I
get a spare moment, while my ISP accumulates my messagery which
downloads when I fire up Firefox, my email programme.
It runs on a plain-text setting, which speeds up the process and
avoids all the clever-clogs pictures and HTML screens.
The result is just like Doc's Place screens.
You should be able to trial it all out at your local library without having to install and setup on your own computer - log into gmail (google's email service) and if you like what you get, you can keep
going from any internet-active computer anywhere....
I'm off now - this weekend is our Labour Day celebration, and the weather's balmy outside - catch you later :-)
Quoting MILES MAXTED to NANCY BACKUS on 04 Oct 10 14:12:28 <=-
These last three days have seemed very Springy, ending 6 months of
wet misery that culminated in an Australia-sized storm escapee from the Roaring Forties, plus an on-going force 7 earthquake in Christchurch
that started a month ago and marked the 28th day with two force 5 aftershocks last night...
Apart from all that, things are good....
Nothing new on the genealogy front, though... :(
Mmmm ... I've set up some Google alerts that report any 'net mentions
of Maxted, Mexted, Maxsted, Maxstead, etc., etc.
This produces a lot of trivia and intrigue - and the occasional
nugget; yesterday's alerts revealed the 1880's existence of a parallel family ancestor named Robert Maxted, butcher, in the High Street of Ramsgate - matching my Robert Maxted, butcher, in the High Steet of Margate, geographically a hop and a skip away on the coast of Kent, England.
There'll be a connection linking the two lurking somewhere...
Might you try setting some Google alerts for your sought-afters ?
I see you are posting from Doc's... what's up with your bbs down there?
The BBSS is fine; the old, beloved laptop that was dedicated to
dialling it up over the local telephone network gunged its hard drive, and I haven't managed to resuscitate it so far...
... A wok is what you throw at a wabbit.
Weally ?
Quoting MILES MAXTED to NANCY BACKUS on 17 Oct 10 11:59:58 <=-
Ach! I had heard about the quake when it first happened, but it's
slipped off our news some time ago... Extreme weather, indeed.
It's all still happening ! They had a Richter force 5 aftershock
last Friday, right in the midst of planning to start rebuilding the city...
Not much one can do about it all now - the weather forecasters (only invented to make economics forecasters look good) are warning of
El Nino states and horrendous hurricanes ... just as a few fine days
slip past Thor and his atmospheric friends...
There'll be a connection linking the two [Maxted families] lurking somewhere...That will be a fun thing to find... :) Probaly cousins...? Or are the dates such that they could be in the same line?
The dates are contiguous, but the connections haven't yet turned up.
I once found a Robert Maxted living locally (who knew of my father,
Robert Maxted, who had been brought to NZ to live in 1910). His own father was a Robert Maxted who lived in New Zealand, too.
Both these Roberts had gone to England in the 1920's; his father had
gone one day to visit an elderly aunt who lived in Key Steet, Kent, and was taking tea when a knock came on the door.
Sent to answer the door, his father found a young man who said "I'm
Robert Maxted from New Zealand"... my father.
This elderly aunt is obviously the link between these two branches,
but the participants of the weird coincidental meeting both failed to record or pass on the details. Another mystery that may never be solved....
I'm not that connected to the I'net. Other than telnet and email, I
hardly do anything on the net, and what I do is all text-based... dunno
if I even could set up Google alerts with my system.
I've got google set as a text-only tool to speed things up and avoid
all the dazzle-rah-rah stuff, and run alerts on all my main interests
to keep me up to date usefully....
... Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Sneaky bloody programmers...
Quoting MILES MAXTED to ALL on 30 Sep 10 15:51:10 <=-
! Origin: Doc's Place BBS Fido Since 1991 docsplace.tzo.com
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Yes, that last is getting on our news again... will it never stop?
Perhaps it really is getting to be the end of the world...? ;0
No descendants of the elderly aunt still at the Key Street Kent address?
Or nearby? No jotted notes that would indicate why your father decided
to pay her a visit? But life is full of such tantalizing tidbits...
avoidI've got google set as a text-only tool to speed things up and
interestsall the dazzle-rah-rah stuff, and run alerts on all my main
to keep me up to date usefully....
Hmm... Guess I don't even have a clue how to start going about any of that... Does something like that work when one doesn't keep an always
open connection to the internet? Or usually has the computer turned off except for when it is actually in active use? (Yeah, I know... I'm
Luddite material, for sure... <G>)