General Chat

My mum died when I was a child, so it is a way of connecting with her, I guess.

Helen in Kent and everyone else.


If anyone has started to do the books as noted on my message on here and would like to give advice or if anyone would llike to join me in my plan, perhaps do the same for their relatives please let me know and we could support and help each other.


Bridget

Bridget, my family branches include Lancashire mill workers and Hampshire and Kent naval tailors: it would be fascinating to find out more about the lives of these people.

I hadn't thought about the book idea before you mentioned it, but it is a really good idea - however it will have to wait until after Christmas when I've got my life into some order!

Would love to be part of some sort of support group.

Helen

All we need is the will to do it and we can start our own thread. Maybe I will do this today..Yes I will do this today. This is a wonderful site for support and hlep for so many topics and I for one would never leave it. Any idea what we should call the thread???


Bye the way please look at My Culinary Delights and ytou will find something that was a thought one day and blossomed the next


bridget

Hi all, I offered to help Mummo find info on her Mother in Law, but admit that I am out of my depth. I have found her m cert but that is all. Is there anyone more experienced who would be willing to help?

I know how fast some of you kind people are at this, and hate to let her down.

Thanks in advance, pm either Mummo or me. Nina from dull Sheffield

Bridget, name it something like "What they were really up to!" or "The so-called good old days" or "Ancestor Antics". I'm sure lots of people could come up with suggestions! "Antique antics?" "History mysteries?"

Is My culinary delights another thread?

Yes Culinary Delights is another thread because ......well best to have a look. Let me know what you think about it.

and Old recipies Required !!!!
Bridget

I started because my father n law had a family Bible with a lot of names, but very little else. He had pieced together some of the tree and had written up the family history using stories and memories of the older members. Trouble was after I started looking and the skeltons came tumbling out of the cupboard, he had to rewrite it all again!

Andy

I'm not sure how I started - when I did, I just knew back to my paternal great grandparents on one side until my gran's wake when my dad's cousin passed on a copy of the tree he'd done. Up until then (I was nearly 16!) it hadn't occurred to me that my dad had cousins. But that was nearly three years after I started.

On my mum's side I knew my grandma was one of eight (although I only had the names of seven - turned out that "Liz" was Charlotte and there was an Eliza Annie nobody had mentioned because she died before my grandma was born) and that my grandad was an only child with parents who ran a hotel.

But I think I have probably delved further back than anybody else in the family who is interested - some have a passing interest but they're not as addicted as me! (But I would be able to tell them which records offices to go to for documents and church records if they asked.)

Annina has asked for help for Mummo and i have PM,d Mummo to see if i can help

I started because my Sister in law wanted to find out where dads family came from as he was in a childrens home somewhere in Birmingham in the early 1900,s i know dad was bitter that he was the only child that was put in a home as he knew he had a sister.
We got dads Birth cert born July 1901 and the 1901 census had just come online so as i had Internet i searched for his mum and found her and TWO sisters on the 1901 one died just days before dad was born in JUly 1901 so he didnt know about her .Well we did loads of research on dads maternal side .his dad managed to evade EVERY census, Did eventually find in fact his parents weren't married cos HE was already married, BUT I had then got the bug and decided to research MY family and some 8 years later am still on the case although now back into Parish records of the 1700,s

Something else I just thought of, with Shirley mentioning parish records, that I always like to do is read interesting bits from the records - the Georgian ones seem to be really straightforward, saying things like "his supposed father" on an illegitimate baby's baptism, or side notes like "has been lying in bed for 28 years" on a burial record!

I am proud to say I have a great-great-great uncle who was sold as a servant during the Nottinghamshire Goose Fair - bits like that stick in the mind.