Ive been doing mine for 4 years, very interesting and addictive:PDT11
some sad finds along the way, some funny too. great finding out what your history is.
Any members looking at theirs?
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Ive been doing mine for 4 years, very interesting and addictive:PDT11
some sad finds along the way, some funny too. great finding out what your history is.
Any members looking at theirs?
yes I'm well into it. I'm doing quite well on mine.
been in touch with a few distant cousins.
I've been doing mine for 24 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gnomie
When I started it was all about trips to London and Microfilm readers, detective work and waiting for the postman to come with the latest certificate.
Now its all about the internet and instant results.
I helped a friend get started with how to trace her tree last month. She got back to me recently and said she had got in touch with someone on Genesreunited who had 'done the tree back to 17something' so she didn't need to do much more!
I do like using the internet but I'm glad I did it the hard way as well.
I really recommend genesreunited and thegenealogist.co.uk.
Furthest back so far is 1729.
Mike
Been doing mine for about 15 years off and on. It's a fascinating hobby which I would recommend to anyone. I like finding living relatives however distant. The internet has been a boon to genealogy over the last 10 years. My main tip is to keep the same email address. It's surprising how many contact me years after I've left a message on some genealogy forum etc
I've been pretty hopeless at it to be honest but then a knight in shining armour helped me out greatly to the point i'm getting well into it and saw one of my uncles who's in his 70s today to show him where I was up to and to ask him some searching questions. Thanks again if you're looking in :PDT11
Done a bit of mine. Can be a bit exasperating though....It is definitely rewarding when you finally get a result. Got back to 1821 on one side...I hate it though when you get on some of those sites that show a ££ sign :disgust: Suppose they have to make their money...
Started doing mine a few years ago but got very frustrated!! With Welsh ancestry, and names such as Davies, Jones, Hughes, and Roberts, I seemed to be going around in circles!! only got as far as grandparents!
oh tell me about it. I was a Roberts and wasn't getting far until a distant Welsh cousin contacted me through Genes reunited. He'd done quite a bit of the Welsh side, couldn't believe my luck. also turns out one side of his Scottish roots are distantly related to the Body Shop Roddicks!Quote:
Originally Posted by Norm NZ
he even sent me a photo of our shared gtgtgt taid's grave in Anglesey.
other family surnames are also more common than expected, Sealby, Gatcliffe and even Devereux. and the transcribers for the online services often misspell them, making them harder to look up.
still it's been fascinating and quite spooky some of the coincidences thrown up. I've lived near several places my forebears did and didn't even know.
Have been doing mine for years, only wished I had started when all my Grand parents where alive to answer all the questions. Its something that can take over your life but its so exciting when you get the answers and can put a picture to a face and name.
Maybe we can start a social/interest group on this and swap sites and good places to do research?
Hey its cool to see so many researching :PDT_Piratz_26:
My Nan was a Hughes, her dad was a Hugh Hughes who married her mum who's maiden was Hughes, so i got confused :shock: still i found them :)
I have found a few relatives by doing it. and hit many a brick wall:Smiliz_Kingz_PDT_13 but its a great pastime.
as well as family members i even found yo members ancestors as neighbours:eek: In 1881 two of my families are living either side of Ged's from this forum, our lot have been waffling on for years lol:unibrow:
Talk to old rellies, they know lots.
great idea :PDT11Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetcheeks
been doing my family tree for a few years now, started with the irish side which took some doing as a lot of records were lost in the 1920`s, also threw up some interesting facts, which sort of stopped me researching much further. started researching my english side which led me here to this forum, which was very helpful:)
i think its nice to know where you came from, also the history of relatives gives you an insight into the history of the time, how they lived, what they did, also a lot of facts you discover shows things really havent changed that much in the day to day life of us all.
in fact some of my relatives could probably give todays soap writers a run for thier money
I have been researching my family history for over 25 years and have learned a lot of Liverpool history along the way. I used to mail over ten letters a week from Canada to the UK in order to get contacts and information, the advent of e-mail has made those methods obsolete. My Liverpool roots spread all over the UK, Cornwall, Chesire, Herefordshire, Durham, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.. I left Liverpool in 1952 and little has changed in my old neighbourhood, Waterloo/Crosby .
Dave D.
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Originally Posted by Gnomie
Ditto here Gnomie - my Nan was a Hughes as well :). Traced my Grandfathers family back to the Isle of Man to 1820 :shock:
A good site to use is - Free BMD - I got back to 1750
I've been doing mine for a few yrs , it can become costly sending off for certificates to verify , but i love it .
Hit a brick wall as soon as i started though & still havn't managed to find anything on my g grandad , all i have is his name .I thought i would trace his son as he had a very unusual name , only to find for some unknown reason when he married his named changed completly. How can you go from Gambetter Dupre , to Henry Austin ???? Jeeeeeeezzzzzz i'm gonna make sure i make it real hard for my lot to trace me , Lord Lucan would be easier to find than some of mine but i'm hooked .
karen x
Come on now Karen, you,re just taking the micky .......If you can unravel that you,re brilliant:hug:
Hi Chippie ,
Honest to god you couldn't make it up could you ? I'm wondering if he ever existed all i've got is his name & occupation from my nans b cert. By 1901 he's vanished with no trace of a B M or D . I can find one fella who might fit , he married in 1903 in London but even if i send off for that cert it won't prove anything as i don't have any details to compare only guess work ,
i'll find him one day :)
luv Karen
I,ve let up on my tree lately too Karen because the holes are like an old sock I used to have years ago, ha ha. but I go back every now and again to see can "fresh eyes" make any effect, and , you,d be surprised, sometimes it does.
good luck Karen x :PDT_Aliboronz_11:
I was a Hughes too !, I have Hughes marrying Hughes !,Jones marrying Jones !!, Davies,Cobain,Knott,Buckley,Roe,Rowe,Most of them originate from Wales Amlach !and other places,I have got back to the late 1700's and have to say it cost me fortune sending for all the certificats etc,but it is so worthwhile .
The thing I find sad is that I never asked my Nan etc all the history when she was here !.
Some one said they had a Hugh Hughes I have got one too on the 1861 Wales census !.
Karen, did you notice in the 1901 census that Gambetta's mother is named Mary Alice AUST?....not too far away from AUSTIN.Quote:
Originally Posted by gorgeous
Dave.
Just got a marraige certificate from a relative (ling ago !) from 1851 in the ages section it says "full" and in the other "minor" does anyone know what the minor age would be ??
any mc evoy,s from st sylvesters out there1920s--1950s
Hi Dave ,
Thanks , i eventually after purchasing futher certs figured it out , lol but that was also confusing Mary Alice Aust , she was actually , Mary Alice Millington , then Alice Stack , then according to nans b cert Alice Dupre , then finally Alice Aust ,
Just off to check as i'm sure i have Mc Evoy's somewhere .
Thanks again Dave
Karen
I knew i had one somewhere
I've got a Mabel McEvoy married 1926 Liverpool ,
Karen x
Squiggs,
Minor is normally under 21 yrs , needing parental consent .
Karen x
Found another McEvoy
Mary A McEvoy m Thomas Minton 1881 Liverpool.
Thanks Karen !, I thought it was but you never know....seems my husband had a few "dirty old men" in his family who all married much younger girls ! LOL !!!:)Quote:
Originally Posted by gorgeous
One of my few ancestral connections with Liverpool is that my wife's great-great-grandfather, Peter Mayor CAMPBELL married Christina SYME, who at one time lived in Mason Street. Peter knew Christina, as she was the daughter of Adam SYME who had worked with him in the printing trade. Unfortunately Christina's brother was killed in the Tay Bridge disaster and I think the shock polished off the old man, leaving Christina an orphan at the age of 20. So Peter, who was 42 at the time married her, and the result was my wife's great grandfather.
I started this very addictive hobby about 3 years ago and can't stop now :)
It's difficult sometimes, but when you get a breakthrough it makes up for all the frustrations :)
My gt.grand-dad was called John Smith.....try finding him in the BMD registers :):):) I did find three great uncles that nobody now living had ever heard of, so that was brilliant. Sadly one of them had been placed in an asylum when he was 29...the reason given was melancholia :shock: These days he'd have been treated for depression, but he sadly died there from TB a few years later :shock:
I have found relatives who were old enough to have served in WWI but I can't find any records for them so far. I also had a sister who died at the early age of 11 months but so far I've found no trace of her anywhere either. Hey ho...I'll keep trying and enjoying the pleasure of searching.
A good magazine to try is Your Family Tree, easy to read, lots of useful information, and a free cd every month. They have an excellent forum as well, a really friendly place with loads of help and suggestions for everyone.
the website address is
http://www.yourfamilytree.co.uk
Give it a try and see what you think.
Don't forget to watch Who Do You Think You Are on Wednesday evening. It gives a good insight about researching.
Squiggs ,
Your not alone , it's amazing what skeletons crop up ,
My lovely grandad a real gentleman , quiet reserved hard working etc , well ...
He married a bigamist , makes a change it's normally the men , she not only married him , she ran off with his money , no one in the family ever spoke of this , until i purchased marriage certificates , then gradually the story unfolded.
Karen x
thanks to Genes Reunited I'm going to meet one of my Welsh cousins this week.:PDT_Piratz_26:
never got the hang of that cousins so many times removed whatnot, but we share the same gtgtgt grandparents. Part of his Scottish side are distantly related to the Roddick's of Body Shop fame. He says he's from the poor side of the family lol.
other cousins turned up on his doorstep all the way from the States a couple of weeks back. a line of family we couldn't follow through had emigrated after the coal mine closed.
my tree now has over 500 names on it. :shock:
expect lots of boring pics in the Wales thread by the weekend :034::ninja:
Your Pics are anything but boring , look forward to seeing them ,
Hope the meet goes well & you have a great time
Karen
thank you, it's going to be a very wet meet as it looks like Anglesey is going to be awash with rain. still what's a drop of water when going back to the land of my forefathers :)Quote:
Originally Posted by gorgeous
My Dads side of the family originate from Amlwch so some pictures would be nice ! the address on the 1851 census is something like Tclyie ? and on the 1861 census 49 Penycio Road, LLaindelyn ? the name was Thomas Hughes so should be really easy to find ! LOL !!!:shock::rolleyes:
Hi SeasidenanQuote:
Originally Posted by seasidenan
If you pm me their names/locations i could try looking for them.
Tony
Hi Squiggs, sorry won't be going that far up.:PDT_Aliboronz_11: Amlwch is the north coast and Llain Delyn is down the coast to the east.Quote:
Originally Posted by squiggs
I'm going to be around, Gaerwen/Pentre Berw/Llangristious which is south central.
One of my family tree branches comes from that area (1820s). Say hello for me to any Joneses you meet. One might be related to me !!!Quote:
Originally Posted by quincyg