This needs to be brought back
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Commonwealth games soon, you going to ask them to include it?
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Daisy, Daisy…
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Excellent fraud attempt there:
Phone rings: “Hello, this is xxxx bank, can I speak to Mr Adam xxxx please?.. There have been a number of suspicious transactions outside the St Albans area that we would like to confirm are yours.”
Just then, a notification from my bank comes up, asking me to confirm whether a transaction for £2500 is mine.
“That transaction has already gone through, just click confirm and then I can process a refund.”
That’s pretty good, huh? They had my name, phone number, card number, bank name and address, so I guess that an online shop has had a breach?
I’m now in the bank getting a new credit card printed. So I can input it into all my online accounts and go through the same process in a few months!
Gosh, just went to input the new card number into my Android Wallet and it’s already there. Isn’t life scary nowadays, eh?
Google have probably tokenised your card.
They initially present the PAN (long number) and some other stuff, and get back a token to use instead. This means that they don’t have to store the (absolutely toxic) PAN, and they get notified when the expiration date or PAN change.
The good bit is that Mastercard, Visa etc. will only allow the token to be used for payments if the company presenting it is the company that provisioned it. So even if it did leak, it’s useless to anyone but Google.
Sorry 
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Plasterboarding…….with an axe
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Plasterers always used lath axes, I think it was a hangover from when they used lath and plaster and they used the axe to cut/split the oak laths.
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Was at my sisters at the weekend.
Our parents died when the 3 of us were kids/teenagers,so we’ve never known much about our family history.
She paid £99 to Ancestries for 6 months,and had a dna test.
She said there were a couple of people where it became hard work with missing info,so don’t know if it was unmarried parents or something else.
She expected it to show up as strongish Scottish links as one of our grandads was from Airdrie.
She managed to track back to the mid 1700s and it seems other than a tiny bit of Irish,everything showed up as London all the way back.
Not sure if she ran out of time to go back further,or just lack of leads
Need to have another chat about it as we were a bit rushed.
Nice to find out some of our past though.
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Narelle’s late Father had researched his family on both sides. The British side back to Cromwell (yes, they are related) and the Italian side only back to 1880 when his grandfather was born.
Interesting stuff, but it took him 15 years and a lot of hard graft. Narelle has tried to continue but lacks the experience when coming up against dead ends.
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That is very good going.
Unless the family owned land you are relying on census and church records.
One of my Dad’s cousins (My second cousin I think) did years of research and got back to 1750,
Although he has filled out quite a bit of detail along the way, hasty marriages, even a bigamist which is all fun now but probably wouldn’t have been at the time.
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Yes,I’m guessing that Ancestry site is only any good if you have plenty of names,addresses,dates etc
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And a pretty straight forward family history. I tried it out a few years ago with my mob. Not a scoobie after my Great Greats. One side disappeared to France (apparently), while the others were in and around Wolverhampton on the Paternal side. Very few records on the Maternal Welsh side.
Awaits pathetic stereotyping.
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The death of my mother has - belatedly - prompted me to consider my own ancestry, and even with just the very slightest look at easily available documentation, a great deal I was told as a kid was wrong!
One good bit, is that the links to Germany are real, so in common with her brother, I may try to pursue the (probably slim) possibility of dual nationality.
I’ll probably look into it in more detail once her funeral is past (tomorrow), but I do find it annoying that I cannot access a lot of publicly gathered records, digitised with public or grant money, without having to pay some bunch of twats who’ve commercialised it.
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My father’s side were smallholders / peasant farmers in Belgium going back to the year dot.
A genealogist would stand no chance looking at my mother’s side due to several generations of them having a particularly tricky relationship with, y’know, the truth.
Most of the time it was just extreme economy with facts, but there were a few things that turned out to be just absolute whoppers*
A distant cousin in Canada did have a go at tracing things but stirred up such a hornet’s nest (like my grandfather dying 10 years after family legend had it, and in another country 
) that the whole thing was buried quickly
* I only found out that when I was born my mother was married to someone other than my father, by virtue of the wife stumbling across her marriage certificate while looking for some other papers. The date, long after I was born, was a bit of a giveaway.
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While doing his initial research, Narelle’s Dad found out the uncomfortable truth that he was born out of wedlock.
Marriage Certs and Birth Certs gave it away. He waited until his mother died before laughing about it with the family 
Not quite the same with my Dad, he was born 5 months after my grandparents married
My grandfather was 17 my grandmother was 20
There are some pretty dark skellingtons in the closet. But that’s for another day.