Genealogy Chat

Hi Heather,
Oh I have both sides of my parents family and branches going back to 1790 or so. It's just finding the time and money to go to the records offices, family history libraries etc and I know it will take years to do it all. I need to take early retirement! When I go to these places they are mostly full of senior citizens who have the time to do it....lol

Lynn, what have you got and what would you like to find?

I cannot beat 4 decades.
But have been doing it for 14 years now, before the internet was common. I love delving into the archives finding parish records, wills etc, great fun.
Have taken my paternal line back to 1630 with the use of parish records, marriage licences, wills etc.
Only problem is I cannot do that over here, have to wait until I am back in England.

Yes Glen, so far I have only looked at parish records on fiche but obviously I have much to do. To see it actually written down is more real. It's ok for these celebs on Who do you think you are to have it all done for them and travel round the world. Wish I had the funds to do that!

There is one person who used to be on GR who has been researching for over four decades.

One of the reasons that you can get as far as you fo reasonably quickly is the internet but it's only a tool to use at the end of the day.

Handy for locating bmd, census and some parish records, early wills and now some of the military stuff on ancestry as the internet is you can't beat getting "down and dirty" amongst the paper records in the archives and libraries.

Putting meat on the bones and adding life to the names in your tree sometimes means finding records in person that you won't get via the net

Don't know if I am on the right board. I have only been doing this a year and never dreamed I would find out so much. What is the longest anyone on here has been researching so far...just out of interest.