This is the weblog of Brian Curd. A lot of it is written on the spur of the moment and any benefit you gain from it is worth exactly what you paid!
We now have a date for the family get together:
Sarratt Local History Society are planning an Open Day and Curd Family get together in the village of Sarratt on Saturday July 19th.
There will be a display devoted to the story of the family of John Curd who married Susannah Pymley in the village church 8th [...]
After months of spam abuse I had to take down the Curd family forum . Seems phpBB is just too open to abuse and requires constant tweaking and attention to keep running.
I have now switched to another system and am hoping it won’t be such an “open target”, we’ll see..
Check it out at www.curdfamily.com/bbs.
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There are plans underway to organise a CURD family get together for those interested tracing the family history.
This applies particularly to people, like me, who can trace their ancestry back to John CURD and Susannah PYMLEY in Hertfordshire UK.
It’s hoped to hold the event in September 2008 in Sarratt Herts - stay tuned for more [...]
This time of year always seems to encourage a sudden burst in genealogy activity - I have made three solid new contacts for my tree in the last couple of weeks and am looking forward to making a few steps further back on the CURD line and a completely new start on the GRANT tree [...]
I now have the results from my DNA test. It turns out I am part of Haplogroup R1b1 (which means little to me yet!) but here is the description from Wikipedi which doesn’t tell me a lot except that I seem to be in the most common male group in Europe.
Markers 1-12
Locus
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
DYS#
393
390
19*
391
385a
385b
426
388
439
389-1
392
389-2
Alleles
13
23
14
11
11
14
12
12
12
14
14
30
Markers 13-25
Locus
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
DYS#
458
459a
459b
455
454
447
437
448
449
464a**
464b**
464c**
464d** [...]
My previous heads up about my niece, Katy Curd, and her downhill mountain biking deserves another mention.
In the recent WORLD Championships, held at Fort William last weekend, she managed a fantastic silver medal in only her second “full on” event.
There are loads of links to her success - just search for “Katy Curd” in Google [...]
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Had some great news about my niece, Katy Curd, today.
Katy has been selected to ride for Great Britain at the forthcoming 2007 World Mountain Bike Championships in Fort William, Scotland. Here’s a link to the website and another to the Championship site itself.
Well done Katy!
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Isle of Wight Plane Crash - Apse Heath Sunday 5th August 2007
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It seems that some of my relatives may have had criminal tendencies. Early days yet, but I have been told that one branch had close connections with certain, well-known, East End villains.
There are a few links and mentions out there on the net but I won’t reveal the full story until I know more. [...]
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Well that’s it, the digger is back with the hire company, the work is done and nothing got broken.
I can thoroughly recommend hiring a mini-digger, I had great fun with it and surprisingly it didn’t take long to get to grips with. At first the controls were a bit strange and I found I was [...]
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