Extract in an Old Parochial Register .....

[Malcolm]

Thank you Laura and Andy
I consider myself duly rebuked for not reading the instructions. I am always too much in a hurry. This is why there are always bits left over when i repair or assemble things.
Refering to the above, how do you know that number eight and nine married each other and what is it that makes you think they are cousins?
The information you gave me following the parent search for Alexander and Elizabeth is illuminating. However, refering to Andy's suggestion, when i try to do it, i get no further information. I go to the IGI As Andy advised, enter the parent names in the extreme right hand boxes, enter the batch number M119834 and country, light the blue touch paper and stand back. It's a dud. There must be something else. Can i trouble you one more time please.
Regards Malcolm
ps I'm off up to Edinburgh early next week. If you want anything please let me know. "my purse, my person, my extremist means lie all unlocked to your occasion"

[DavidWW]

Thank you Laura and Andy
I consider myself duly rebuked for not reading the instructions. I am always too much in a hurry. This is why there are always bits left over when i repair or assemble things.
Refering to the above, how do you know that number eight and nine married each other and what is it that makes you think they are cousins?
The information you gave me following the parent search for Alexander and Elizabeth is illuminating. However, refering to Andy's suggestion, when i try to do it, i get no further information. I go to the IGI As Andy advised, enter the parent names in the extreme right hand boxes, enter the batch number M119834 and country, light the blue touch paper and stand back. It's a dud. There must be something else. Can i trouble you one more time please.
Regards Malcolm
ps I'm off up to Edinburgh early next week. If you want anything please let me know. "my purse, my person, my extremist means lie all unlocked to your occasion"

Malcolm

And you're not reading Andy's instructions correctly, either

Forget the batch number, it's just the entry of the father's and mother's names that is required, plus the "Region" - select British Isles, - and preferably but not necessarily the "Country" - select Scotland. Just tried it in case there was something peculiar going on, and it gives the results previously supplied earlier in the thread, in fact more as there are both baptism and birth dates.

Add in the batch number, and, yes, no hits.

Incidentally, what do you normally do with the left over bits

Orraverybest

Davie

PS Folk, please don't knock him down in the rush for lookups!!
dww

[Laura]

"my purse, my person, my extremist means lie all unlocked to your occasion"

Malcolm,
What an interesting quotation. Do you remember who wrote it?
Thank you for your generous offer, but I'm sure you will be busy enough with your own searches.

Kind regards,
Laura

[Guest]

I am always too much in a hurry. This is why there are always bits left over when i repair or assemble things.

Incidentally, what do you normally do with the left over bits ?

He likely puts them in a 'junk box', as I've done for years! However, such a box must be kept safely secured at all times.

It was a common procedure in the USAF to 'test' a rookie radar repairman's integrity as he tore down and rebuilt a steerable aircraft antenna. When he had nearly disassembled the entire unit into a few hundred bigger and little pieces of hardware - all of them amassed in a pile on his workbench - you'd send him to the chowhall for lunch.

The heavy coffee can full of odd 'spare parts' would come out - a hundred different sizes of screws, bolts, nuts, and the odd hollow-wall anchor - and you'd select two or three types that were NOT already a component of a radar antenna, and mix them into the pile...

"Nothing shows poor workmanship like lumps in the duct tape". (Proposed quality-control slogan for a Scottish records website...)

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[Malcolm]

OK, I'll sit down quietly and try again tomorrow.
As for the left over bits Davie, i do as Dweezild intimated. I put them neatly aside until such a time comes round when i can move them somewhere else. However, i do not nead a USAF to muck things up for me. My wife and children manage perfectly well without any military support.
The words Laura come from Skakespeare, but i said it first. He swipes all my best stuff.
Goodnight

[Malcolm]

I'm beginning to get the hang of this now. It seems that less is more in this game. The least information yeilds the biggest return. How peculiar.
Thank you to all for your help
Malcolm Morris

[Laura]

It seems that less is more in this game.

Yes, Malcolm, . . . more or less.

Laura

[Malcolm]

Nice pun Laura.

[Malcolm]

You know how i balked at the number of dustbin lids produced by our Elizabeth Morris, nee Cockburn in less time than it takes me to, er........repair something really simple. Well, three of them were triplets. Not one, not two, but three. All boys. All at once.
This leads me to my next, perplexing question. I'm one of twins. Are the genetic forces that produce two babies in one sitting, as it were, the same as that which produces three?
I might need to warn my children.

[Guest]

This leads me to my next, perplexing question. I'm one of twins. Are the genetic forces that produce two babies in one sitting, as it were, the same as that which produces three?
I might need to warn my children.

It depends mostly upon whether these twins/triplets were identical or fraternal. The female trait for multiple "egg drops" at once may be passed on to daughters genetically - but that produces the fraternal variety.

I don't think there is any data on a genetic trait for fetal cells dividing and separating (after conception) into two or more identical individuals sharing the same DNA. Still, it happens all the time at a statistically-predictable rate.

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