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like HRH's son we did family trees today too with out breaking confidentiality I teacher fetched up his tree .................... on genes

HRH bet he's year 8 blimey just had a thought will pm you x

Hi everyone,
I have always loved history, and when I was at my uncles funeral three years I was talking to my cousins and just happened to say that I would love to do a family tree, I only wanted to do the Irish side, I got myself a laptop and away I went. But its the english side that I have been sucked into.
All I knew about grandads parents where that his mother was born in Canada but my dad never spoke about them, it was only when I got g grandmothers death cert. that I found out that she only died four years before I was born. There is other things has well that I cannot explain, unless I find living cousins of my fathers. Have not touched the Irish side yet.

I wanted to say all the things that Bossy and Janet said, but can't for the life of me, work out how to make a longer thread.

There's little point in genealogy beyond showing who you are related to but family history is an entirely different matter.

I'd always wanted to find out how long ago my Fathers paternal side (Tocqueville) had been in England and ten years ago I began my quest.

I started out by going to the Family Records Centre in Islington and wading through their BMD indexes. Once I'd found my Grandfather's marriage I picked up that my Grandmother had an unusual name too (Horsup) Of course at this point I was still doing pure genealogy. The family history started once I'd tracked down various other records. I started to wonder what their lives were like, were they rich or poor, were they educated etc. From there it snowballed and I love it.

Now I find myself walking down the road, wondering who lived in such and such house, what adversities did they overcome.

It makes you realise how insignificant we all are but each and every one of us has a story to tell about those who made us who we are..

Hello All
Have been doing this family research for a couple of years, I started because my husband wanted to know about his grandfathers participation in WW1.

My husband & I have lived in a few different places in this world and one of them I enjoyed the most was living in the Essex/Kent area. I never really understood this because I was born in Northumberland and my husband is a Yorkshireman.

When I came to my family history it became obvious that both sides of my family came from Essex/Devon/London area, and I'm sure that there must be something in my genes that made me feel so at home in that area.

To this day is still fell an outsider in my home area.

Hello everyone,

I think why we do this is to discover who we are, and not just about our parents, what makes us have brown eyes fair skin dark hair tall , short, etc

Also why do we choose certain roles in life, why out of the blue do we have a genious who leaves us behind by the age of 5 or 6 and why are their siblings not th same.

Who do I look like, why did I want to be an actress but became a nurse, why do i want to live by the sea, what cultural life did our people have, how many were gamblers, hoarders, what made them tick.

Were they really more honest, devoted, god fearing etc..In my family it is definetly the case that some were married for many many years, others seemed to have mistresses all over the country, some didn,t bother to get married and were all christened on the same day!

Everything stays the same and everthing changes..that is the great conundrum,

Even now after about 7 years of doing this there are days when I am saying WOWEE and others when I cry, children born every 12 month and dead within weeks in Austrailia in the early day of emigration, where did those peole go who left never to be found again..and finally

What Makes me Tick differently to my two sisters, same parents, same uo bringing, very similar schooling but all OH SO Different.

Bridget

When I first started this hobby(obsession) there had always been a legend in Dads family, that we hail from the Plague victims from Eyam, but never thought much about it.

Then I got my gt grandads marriage cert, stating his wife as Hannah Blackwell from Eyam. Lights lit up in my head, and from then on, the search was easy, as the records for that event are well recorded.

I am indeed, descended from Francis Blackwell, brother of Margaret, who survived catching the Plague.

So, big wow, that one proved, but what I really want to know is, what if any were their daily lives like,any dreams, or did they just accept their lot, and get on with life/

Hi Annina, l started because l wanted to surprise my OH in the quest to find his mother, still haven't but have traced my Paternal side quite a way back but.................silly me didn't do my homework when l first started and did all my research on here at the cost of £240 +.. One day l will join Ancestry and maybe might find her.

Pure unadulterated nosiness, lolol!!

I love history to have personal meaning.... and it doesn't come any more personal than how our ancestors lived, who they were etc etc.

Oh, and I sooooo love the odd skeleton, lol...

I mean... every generation moans about the one before it... but when you look at our history, well, it sort of stabilises things, doesn't it?

Everything changes but people basically stay the same!

Very comforting, is that.

Love

Daff xxxx

Little bit like the child with his fingers in the cookie jar........one was nice, i'll have another one......

translated........once you find out one " skeleton," so to speak, you just HAVE to find another, and another.........

Bob

No arguments please, I am really interested. I only started this quest to find info on my mothers line, but have been sucked into trawling the recoeds for all my kin. Why do you think we are so interested ?????