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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2016 16:39:17 GMT
I've been researching my family tree for some 15yrs. In that time if I say so myself I have become quite good at it. So if I can offer any help or advice I'll do my best to oblige. Other than that it would just be nice to talk to people who share my passion for researching family history.
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Post by Miranda on Jul 9, 2016 17:03:35 GMT
I researched my tree for quite a while. But found getting more than basic information was getting more and more expensive.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2016 19:27:47 GMT
I agree that it can expensive but there are a number of free sites that can provide useful info. Other than that I can do a lookup for anyone who needs it. My tree has 6500 names and goes all the way back to William Wallace's right hand man. Which is all very well but having now filled in the main branches I'm reduced to working on the twigs and leaves so to alleviate the boredom I enjoy helping others.
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Post by sleepyp on Jul 9, 2016 22:26:37 GMT
That's good going LS I'm a FH addict since the days when you had to lug the index books around in St Catherine's house On one side I'm faced with a lack of Irish records, on the other I think (with fingers crossed) that I'm back to 1655.... I've investigated some of the twigs too Have you been to the WDYTYA exhibition at The NEC? Went for the first time this year and had a good time, profitable too!
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Post by Miranda on Jul 9, 2016 23:28:15 GMT
I've got 3 branches back to the 18th century but I also found the Irish side very difficult. But luckily one of my Irish uncles was also researching the family and found it a lot easier as he lives there! And bless his heart, he shared it with me.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2016 12:46:02 GMT
That's good going LS I'm a FH addict since the days when you had to lug the index books around in St Catherine's house On one side I'm faced with a lack of Irish records, on the other I think (with fingers crossed) that I'm back to 1655.... I've investigated some of the twigs too Have you been to the WDYTYA exhibition at The NEC? Went for the first time this year and had a good time, profitable too! It is very addictive isn't it. I don't spend as much time researching as I used to but there was a period when it quite literally took over my life. I was contacted through Ancestry by a distant relative in Australia who was trying to find her grandfather who had abandoned his wife and daughter (her mother) not long after their marriage in 1916. The wife he abandoned was my wife's 1st cousin 2x removed who had emigrated alone to Oz in 1913. Well to cut a long story short the delinquent husband I found was a serial bigamist and conman who spent nearly 40yrs in prison for various crimes. He was described at one of his trials as "one of the oldest and most astute criminals in the state". Despite having spent most of his life enduring the hardships associated with prison life he lived to the ripe old age of 82 and died in a home for the aged not far (in Australian terms) from his estranged daughter and grand daughter. We're still in contact with our distant cousin who we exchange emails and greetings cards on a regular basis. I've attached his biography. As you will see it makes very interesting reading. Thomas Henry Augustine Penny-Individual Report.pdf (90.98 KB)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2016 12:53:29 GMT
I am coming up against a brick wall soon, I think, involving a possible liaison with an Allied serviceman stationed in Scotland during WW2 - maybe Polish or Canadian. May come back to those on here who know more about investigations than I for some help if my last avenue proves unsuccessful.
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Post by sleepyp on Jul 11, 2016 10:46:11 GMT
Good luck with the search Maxibaby, I'm sure someone will have some good advice if you do get stuck
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2016 8:11:33 GMT
Before she died, my mother gave me a copy of our family tree back to the 17th century, which she had spent years compiling. One day, as I was tidying my desk out, I accidentally shredded it. My sisters, who had never been interested in such things, had long since thrown theirs out.
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Post by sleepyp on Jul 12, 2016 10:26:56 GMT
Oh no Were there any notebooks or anything which would help you reconstruct any of it?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2016 10:43:26 GMT
Oh no Were there any notebooks or anything which would help you reconstruct any of it? No. The assumption had been that everybody who needed a copy had one.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2016 10:59:35 GMT
My sister has spent a lot of time on this. One source she used was the Mormon Church as they have extensive records - if you are not on the list you are condemned to hell!
She was at the Mormon church in East Grinstead and was waiting. A chap came in and gave his name, and co-incidence being a wonderful thing it was the same name as my sisters maiden name. And it is a very unusual name. Only 1 other in the Bristol telephone book.
So she introduced herself and they had coffee. It turned out that my (and of course her) great-great-grandfather had been widowed and married twice. We are the descendants of his first wife and the chap at the church was a descendant of his second wife!
I know a man who is well into this and has collated an enormous amount of data from gravestones. He lives in Cyprus and gets memory sticks with thousands of images on them from all over the world.
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Post by pearl06 on Jul 15, 2016 18:19:09 GMT
Regarding Irish family history, I believe there was a major fire in Dublin archives a while back which is probably why people have trouble finding Irish ancestors. I cannot access my husband's ancestors before they left Ireland.
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Post by sleepyp on Jul 15, 2016 19:20:30 GMT
Sadly, that's true it was during the Civil War, about 1922 I think... and most of the 19th census records weren't kept properly, some were deliberately destroyed because it wasn't deemed important to keep them Mind you, they didn't know how many of us would be doing research over 100 years later There are still plenty of records and more are becoming available online, but it's not an easy search
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2016 16:28:11 GMT
I would and do, recommend that anybody starting genealogy, should join their local Family History Society. You should be able to find yours here: www.ffhs.org.uk/
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