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« on: July 01, 2013, 07:12:50 PM » |
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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!
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« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2013, 09:49:33 PM » |
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Circus folk? -cool!
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« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2013, 09:52:59 PM » |
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Hey Tbone perhaps we are related,They recon my family were Circus Folk  |
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« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2013, 11:01:24 PM » |
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I once went to a Circus, so maybe we are related as well
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« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2013, 11:12:17 PM » |
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LIVE FAST and DIE YOUNG,, past 50 AND STILL HERE NOW. WAITING. FOR. THE. GRIM. REAPER
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« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2013, 07:05:49 AM » |
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Knew he must have escaped from somewhere  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. |
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« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2013, 08:42:05 AM » |
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my dads side of our family comes from cheshire and theres a village of the same name so were sort of famous
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LIVE FAST and DIE YOUNG,, past 50 AND STILL HERE NOW. WAITING. FOR. THE. GRIM. REAPER
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« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2013, 08:47:32 AM » |
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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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« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2013, 09:30:27 AM » |
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my dads side of our family comes from cheshire and theres a village of the same name so were sort of famous
I've never herd of a village called spanners |
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« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2013, 03:09:19 PM » |
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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 . |
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« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2013, 07:42:14 PM » |
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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!
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« Reply #11 on: July 03, 2013, 02:44:18 PM » |
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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.
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« Reply #12 on: July 03, 2013, 06:05:28 PM » |
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Been doing mine for about 10 years,off and on.
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« Reply #13 on: July 03, 2013, 09:36:01 PM » |
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It can get a bit addictive rod.
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« Reply #14 on: July 03, 2013, 11:29:48 PM » |
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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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