Genealogy Chat

I have only been researching my family tree for about a year and I am totally addicted!

I did manage to get back far with a couple of branches straight away. For example, my dad is only 49, but he is the last but 1 youngest (of 8 children), of a youngest son (7 children), so my dad’s granddad was born in 1876 and his Grandmother in 1877! I was able to find them straight away on the 1881 census and traced there families back through all the census’ and in a few cases, much further back to the 1500s.

On the other side of my dad’s family, I found his Granddad who was born in 1886 and found descendant’s of his sibling’s through genes reunited. One of whom sent me a photo of my gt gt grandparents who where born in 1851! I also sent them pictures, hoping to identify really old family photographs that nobody knew who they were and one of them turned out to be my contacts mother, and another turned out to my gt Granddad’s twin sister plus between us we identified a photo of every surviving sibling he had!

I haven’t got much further with the above family yet, but the fact that I have collected so much info about them, including photos and certificates make it so much better!

Good luck and happy hunting with your family tree,

Vicky X

Never mind Jones's in Wales, I can't find Jones's in Shoreditch!

See I shot off too quickly now I have found my facts where wrong I have had to re-change my tree, I have to realise that everything has to be double checked, even tripled checked,

I think I am getting obsessed with this lol , Still I am 36, and still wish I had started this tree earlier, when my Great Nan was alive, oh well never mind.

Regards all
Susanna J

Hi

I have got back to about 1600 on one side of my dads line but I am lucky in that they all lived in the same village up to 1900 but on his other side I cannot get back further than 1856 as they came over from somewhere in Ireland with their surname of Rooney.

My sister is researching my mums side and she has exactly the same situation even nearly down to the same year but her problem is with 1879 and incorrect facts for both the bride and groom on a marriage certificate.

Oh well if it was easy it would be boring.........