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I have back to 1525 on one branch ( thanks to another's lifetime work) , 1770 ish, and 1840 on two other branches..... both may be nigh on impossible to get further back on in a direct line ( especially the Irish ones 1840 ) ...

when do you stop going backwards and do you then go sideways...or just content yourself with doing look ups for other peoples trees ? With the people I have on my direct tree, I can have some idea of them as people, what their daily lives might have been like, and a real sense of an 'individual' which I like . Do you feel 'connected' to those further back , where you can really only find 'names'?

i have up to 1512 :1846 people in all
but i do not intend adding anymore people just yet
i am researching the meat to add to the bones
as i really want more info on the one i already have

Rose, I have 550 names in my tree, a load of those will be killed off as they are not in my direct lines.

I keep the interesting ones as background but would rather have details rather than names.

I have only got back to late 1700s (at most) on all sides.

I do get distracted on Ancestry though and waste so much time reading about people I shouldn't...lol

x

Hello Rose:)

I'm obsessive about genealogy so I just trace everything I can. A couple of lines are back to the late C16th and some still stuck in the first half of the C19th. Like you, I don't think I'll ever get anywhere with my Irish lines but I see them as paused rather than stopped cos if anything else comes up , they're still there waiting to be added to. Bit the same with the French and Flemish but they are further back.

I don't really get the thing about just "names". You're not going to find out what colour eyes an ancestor had in the C17th but I just find out as much as I can. There are wills and indentures, Poor Law records, overseers projects, parish records and registers - there's so much info to find that gives them background.

I have thousands in my tree - not a boast just a fact cos I've spent 20+ years researching.

Hi Uggers, I was rather hoping one of mine might show up in the earlier criminal register on Ancestry.... some of those do have the colour of eyes etc lol. But no luck , they were either squeaky clean or didn't get caught :)

I do like it when I find even just a snippet of 'personal' information about someone...like they married the lodger, or my Irish gt grandfather who was put on report for having 'the drink taken' while on duty lol

xx

PS if I don't answer on here it is because my screen is jumping at the moment and keeps throwing me to other places lol

lol Angie , you might be right about that, just think of how much i might have done/ not done if I had not begun searching for dead people :)

Hi Rose we have talked before I do not want to give up yet I have 550 on my tree but I am addicted I get exited every time I discover someone new. This week I was chuffed to find my Dads pow stalag thanks to another genes member brill x

I think I'm a bit sad but I love researching cousins and second cousins and so on. I like it when I'm looking at a village on the 1851 and I can see that most of the people in a street are connected in some way.

Hi Uggers,

Just read you have Flemish rellies - where does one go about researching them?

Regards, Gina

Hello Anne ~~~~~

do you know I haven't counted how many are on my tree so far :) it is exciting when you find someone new, or a little piece of information crops up.

Uggers, several times I have found family members or their in-laws just by going on to 'next page' of the census :)

Rose, I have been going through the whole of Beer in every census today and found lots of stuff:))

Hello Gina, mine all came over from Flanders around the turn of the C17/18th so they're really all in English records - they were Huguenots and the early church records here often give a lot of information - sorry if I misled you

Uggers lol had to read that first line twice.... catch up Rose :))

No problem Uggers, my Gran arrived in England in the teens of the 1900's, and I have zero info about her.

Shall live in hope,

All the best, Gina

one of my lot has a criminal record
he was find 4pence for not marking his pig
and fined again for missing church