Manky Monkey Motors

I was given the gift of a months subscription to a well known genealogy site recently and been busy researching my family history.
I have predominately concentrated on my paternal line as that's obviously the line of my surname and have traced back to the birth of my great great great grandfather in 1827.
As someone who didn't even know any of his grandfathers, I find it all fascinating.
As yet, I have no skeletons in the cupboard either good or bad but i still have to trace my maternal line, given that I was always told my mothers family were circus folk, I could yet turn up a few suprises!

Circus folk? -cool!

Hey Tbone perhaps we are related,They recon my family were Circus Folk ;D

I once went to a Circus, so maybe we are related as well

with a name like ,baychimp,, you may well have come from a circus ,, :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Knew he must have escaped from somewhere :D
Sorry Bob couldn't resist that one.

Back to Genealogy- Started looking into my family some years ago. Luckily someone had already done my mothers side. Seems they were possibly originally from Scotland and moved to the west country, possibly due to the land clearances. My fathers side have been local for ever. Earliest record I've found is from the 16 th C.
As you say it's fascinating but can also be very frustrating when records are not available.

my dads side of our family comes from cheshire and theres a village of the same name so were sort of famous

If anyone finds a connection to Scotland then they should jump with joy .
The Scottish records were the first records to be fully digitised and put online with full extracts available for peanuts .
Birth , marriage and death records also give much more detail than the English records .
Some English records can also be viewed on the free BMD site  http://www.freebmd.org.uk/

The Scottish naming sequence for children makes it easier to see which family is probably the correct one

The FIRST SON was named after the FATHER,s FATHER   
The SECOND SON was named after the MOTHER,s FATHER
The THIRD SON was named after the FATHER

The FIRST DAUGHTER was named after the MOTHER,s MOTHER
The SECOND DAUGHTER was named after the FATHER,s MOTHER
The THIRD DAUGHTER was named after the MOTHER
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I've never herd of a village called spanners ;D

i used to poo myself a lot so went to the doctor and he said it was in my genes,........ i,ll get me coat                                                                                                                     
sorry about that tbone . :D

My hubby was researching his family and had some leftover credits on one of those genealogy sites so we had a look at my mum's side.  When she died my sister and I were surprised to find out she was born in Cambridgeshire cos we'd always understood she was from Hampshire.  We found her family was from Hampshire so we don't know why she was born in East Anglia - but the really amazing thing was that we found an ancestor (can't remember how far back) was a farm bailiff on a farm about 6 miles from where we live in Dorset!

It took me 5 years of research and most importantly cross referencing all the information i found i could still do a lot more ,i manged to get back to the 1600s with lot of patience.

Been doing mine for about 10 years,off and on.

It can get a bit addictive rod.

I have details from 1550 up to 2012 on nearly every Dryburgh / Drybrough /Dryborough in the world and was instrumental in helping my friend Bill Dryburgh to commission the Dryburgh tartan , which he gave permission for anyone with a Dryburgh connection to wear .
Fascinating hobby .
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Just wouldn't have a clue were to start.

Its ok Dave I often hear people say "He must have escaped from somewear and I wish there would put him back".

Ok, well I'm back to 1754 and have a full picture of my family,  except my mums dad, he's proving a bit of a bugger to track!
I now know that my troublesome back is thanks to my great great grand dad who was a miner!
I'll continue digging up my past (pun intended) but that now means scouring the country for parish records.

Hi tbone me and deb have been doing ours for years now online down and the records office. there is a lot of info on line now,
we have got, the British isles vital records index, national burial index for England and wales, the phillimore atlas & index of parish registers 3rd ed or you could look these up
http://www.parishchest.com/PARISH_REGISTERS__LDD1733

This is the first time I have seen this post, glad you are making good progress T Bone. Many years ago, long before the internet, my fathers elder sister, traced the Sheridan name back to Ireland (cant remember dates) but was disgusted to find out that we were horse thieves :D :D
She refused to go any further.

Yeah, but good quality 'orses only, surely!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D