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Grogger

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Been meaning to start tracing and researching my family tree for a while and have found some spare time to do it.

Signed up to a genealogy site this afternoon and started doing some snooping around with the limited family knowledge I had at my disposal.

Some was quite sad. My Dads mother died when she was only 25. Something I knew already but was emotional seeing it on a death certificate record. Some interesting stuff I found out was that I have a great great great grandfather who was a wine merchant and a great great grandfather who was a steam engine driver! Interesting to me anyway.

Anyone else took the time to research their family?
 
Mrs Imurg was into Genealogy big time for a few years.
Managed to trace most sides of the family back to the mid 1700's but there's a brick wall in the way now that will only be broken with copious amounts of cash and time ...
 
Imurg said:
Mrs Imurg was into Genealogy big time for a few years.
Managed to trace most sides of the family back to the mid 1700's but there's a brick wall in the way now that will only be broken with copious amounts of cash and time ...
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I've not gone back to far just yet but I'm sure I'll reach a brick wall somewhere? If I'm onto the right line of people then they all seem to be from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire but that's now leading onto Yorkshire and Glasgow! Been fun doing it so far.

Not been the weather to play golf down here so I've had to find something else to fill the time! :)
 
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chrisd said:
Good luck with your venture but I'm quite the opposite, I have absolutely no interest looking back.
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I'm not interested in who they were and what they did but I am interested in where they lived. On Dad's side they're from Sunderland(spit) but the surname is from Lincolnshire originally. Mum's side is from the west of Ireland - there's a derelect farm stuck up the side of a mountain which I'd like to see.
 
I looked into it and went down to St Catherines House in an attempt to gain more information, only found that I was born in Greenwhich, fostered in West Hampstead and eventually adopted, the trail is very cold in these circumstances and whilst there are questions I'd love to ask, sometimes the not knowing may be better?
 
My dad spent some time tracing our family back, not sure how far back he got, but he did spend some time in the archives in York, before they were made available on the Internet. I think there is an Irish link somewhere and possibly way back some left for America, he may have got further back but our surname has a few variations which made it difficult to trace people back accurately.
 
My uncle managed to trace my dads side back quite some time to a small village in Wales. I really do need to get in touch with him and see exactly what he has uncovered.
Legend has it my mothers side were from Jarrow and came down looking for work in the pits or summat.
 
Got my dads side back to a small village in Scotland at the beginning of the 18th Century, but coukd only take my mothers side to 2 generations as they came from Ireland and had no further info.
 
My cousin has - to investigate the family belief that we are direct descendants of Rob Roy MacGregor. She has got to the point where a girl my cousin has proved we are descended from gets married and we have the marriage cert. It looks like she is a granddaughter of the man through her mother - but as yet no proof. Frustratingly close.
 
My Mrs is somewhat of an expert and has an amazing family tree on her fathers side.
Botanists/ gardeners/plant discoverers, artists/architects and even the guy who patented the Wright Brothers flying machine.

She says that 'Find My Past' has a very good offer on at the mo. £130 normal price but if you type in Promo Code WDYTYA50. You can get it half price. They are very good for newspaper archives.

The only other one worth bothering with is Ancestry which is good for building your family tree.....she says that is quite expensive ATM.

You can get a 14 day free trial with Ancestry.

PM me if you want more info.
 
Grogger said:
I've not gone back to far just yet but I'm sure I'll reach a brick wall somewhere? If I'm onto the right line of people then they all seem to be from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire but that's now leading onto Yorkshire and Glasgow! Been fun doing it so far.

Not been the weather to play golf down here so I've had to find something else to fill the time! :)
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If you have family in the Notts Derbys area,

1, they like sheep.

2, they end there sentences with mi duck.
 
My cousin has done a fair bit back as far as the 1700's. Turns out we had some wrong un's including one appearing that the Old bailey in the 1800's. Haven't seen her efforts in full and know she's hit a brick wall at the moment.
 
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