Genealogy Chat

Gawd I avoid having my photo done like it may take my soul from me. I was ok til about 45 since then I cant even look in the mirror at the hairdressers.

When my dad died, my brother and I were going through the old photos and found one, circa 1880, of a beautiful young woman. On the back my dad had pencilled 'Edith? Pamela?' (Thanks, Dad) My brother said 'ooh, she looks like you' couldnt see it myself, being quite a few years away from being either beautiful or young. She now hangs on my living room wall and if I stare squinty at her, I can see - my youngest daughter. My oldest daughter. Hair for three out of the four of us (bushy, curly and thick). AND - please dont tell anyone this - if I stare long enough, I can make her mouth move and she talks to me. I just wish I knew who she was! I look like my 2 x GGM, tall, miserable and with frizzy hair. I do not, thank god, look anything like either of my GMs - one thin, bitter and twisted with a face like a bag of spanners, the other fat, squat and vacuous. But I can see BOTH of these women in my daughters, fleetingly and not all of a piece. I inherited the Holden temper, famous throughout history for screaming hysterically and getting purple in the face. Fortunately I did not inherit the grudge-bearing (my memory's not good enough, lol). Totally missed out on the considerable artistic talent in the family, but have a love of good music from my GF, who was an opera singer. Unfortunately my singing talents exist only in my head, once they leave my mouth they are not a talent. I wonder who the ancestor was who gave me a sense of humour - it wasnt a recent one, all my relatives thought that if you were laughing you must be up to no good (ah, well, maybe they were right) Olde Crone

No fear, Sue......wouldn't want to crash everyones computers! Merry

Im quite happy about my mouth - its like Dads, big and fatish lips which may stop me getting the old witch thin lipped look as I approach retirement age.

I look like no-one on earth.

I would like my eyes - except that one of them tends to have a view of its own when I'm tired....

Did any of us actually get any good bits or do we all look like we've escaped from a House of Horrors? I'll start, I quite like my........ errmm.....eermmm....wrists???

My sis has the squashed nose that all the Horstead/Steers seem to have - I have a bloody great concorde of a job - mother used to refer to it as aqualine but its not - its fat and big - all the Dixons have it along with elephantine ear lobes.

We have a picture of my dad's paternal grandparents. If you cover Grannys hair at the sides, my dad is the spitting image - and she doesn't look like a lady you'd want to meet down a dark alley! Helen (not the same Helen as above)

I think my daughter takes after my husband's Nan. Known as 'Big Nan' to all her grandkids, she was 6 foot tall. Daughter at 11 years old is 5 foot 6 1/2..........and growing rapidly....just 1/2 inch to catch me up. She might have made a supermodel only she got my tree trunk legs, the sort with no ankles, and my Dad's big squishy nose.

Got up at 4.30. I did get 3 hrs sleep. Up late fixing a computer problem. Tip........never eat a combination of pringles and choccy after midnight. I feel totally ill. ;-(((

Have you got up early or going to bed late? Merry

lol! Glad you put that mirror away. At 10 to 5 in the morning, I don't want to look in a mirror either.

Well, I can't see a wino from here???? **hastily puts mirror, which caused this thread in the first place, at the back of the drawer** Merry

Oi, you two winos (you know who you are) are you still comparing your default features? lol

I think i'm really lucky as I look like my paternal granny and I'm happy with what she passed on to me. The dangerous bit is I seem to be taking after my mother with regards to temperement. Whilst I love her dearly.... she is one hell of a cantankerous old bu**er :-)) Wilf

LOL All my dad's family, inc the victuallers and the cabinet maker, were/are blonde!! But I'm not :o(( Partial to a glass of sauvignon, too...........Yummy!! Merry

While I contemplate the possible horror unfolding here - me half price Tescos sauvignon has arrived and is calling to me.

Erm, this is getting worrying now - erm, did you mention a larger than average proboscis Merry? And a liking for working as licensed victuallers? Not a tendency for blond or auburn hair in the family by any chance?

Chrispy - please don't mention big noses when I am listening! Heather.....William Allen, cabinet maker, didn't know where he was born. Ashby-de-le-Zouch or anywhere else within a 10 mile radius - every census he says different! His wife (Hannah Lakin) came from Alrewas in Staffs........so not much good for Stepney? Maybe he did an apprenticeship in London? LOL Merry