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Madmeg | Report | 16 Mar 2009 02:14 |
Just started the family tree of my daughter's husband to be, and it has become blatantly obvious that mistakes can be made if you don't have family back-up re the last 100 years. |
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Lynne From Up North !! | Report | 16 Mar 2009 07:51 |
Unfortunately I just have a couple of eldery aunts and my dad left now, however one aunt who lives close to me keeps giving me little snippets every now and then. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 16 Mar 2009 10:13 |
Good advice but also remember that the information you glean from the family might not always be correct, so be sure to check it out carefully. |
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Julia | Report | 16 Mar 2009 12:17 |
Hi all - I,and I am sure many more of you, come from a long line of tight lipped, must keep it to ourselves, family. Even down to my own mother, who I am sure, thought it was some kind of taboo, to talk about family members that had gone before. Indeed,my own grandmother and her sisters always said that their own mother had died when they were young, leaving the eldest sister to bring them up. NOT TRUE. She walked out on the family, and years later, died in the workhouse, with eldest daughter 'seeing to her affairs'. Years after that,when the father died and was cremated, the mother's ashes were reburied with him, and all the daughters went to the service. |
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Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) | Report | 16 Mar 2009 13:11 |
Also - talk to your cousins. Sometimes they have different stories, but quite often they have the same stories but with different snippets of info. |
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Treehunter | Report | 16 Mar 2009 13:32 |
On my ex husbands father side there isnt anyone to ask. |
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Chrissie2394 | Report | 16 Mar 2009 15:06 |
Hi all, |
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SJR | Report | 16 Mar 2009 16:07 |
I did get quite abit of information from my family. Unfortunately they are all gone now and I would love to tell them what I have found in my searches. |
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Hayley | Report | 16 Mar 2009 16:45 |
Good advice from all, especially agree that older relatives will not - or cannot - answer a direct question "Nan, what were your aunts & uncles called", yet once you start finding information & saying "I think your father had a sister called Dorice", all of a sudden they do remember her, she never got married & lived in Scotland for a time. I actually work the opposite way to what some of you mention, using living relatives to confirm facts I have found out. |
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:) still smiling :) | Report | 16 Mar 2009 18:32 |
i am lucky as i have started the family tree quite young so there is still a few people i can ask. my grandpa and his sister always give different answers though and ofcourse if i mentioned to them i have found their mother had a sister named jane they say oh no there wasn't a jane but there was a ginnie etc |
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jean,300171 | Report | 16 Mar 2009 19:46 |
yes been there done all that !!grew up thinking my father was born in Cork Ireland and that his mother was born there too were they Heck she was born in Bermonsey and my father in East london just a few streets away from where my sister's and I all grew up lol and to put the cat among the pigeons the only living rellie of my father's {his neice} told me Grannies maiden name was Finnigan .........nope it was Flynn !! not a lot of differance eh??and ooh the irish bit did come into it old Grandfather came from Cork Ireland.my motto is dont listen to most of your rellies follow your gut feeling.Jean. |
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Madmeg | Report | 17 Mar 2009 01:28 |
Just discovered from a granny that the family were related to Fred Pickup of Manchester, who invented Tizer! |
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Sally | Report | 17 Mar 2009 13:32 |
Don't forget to ask about those 'boring' relatives you were taken to see as a child. One of those turned out to be my great great aunt and was the key to finding my great grandmother. My father had died by the time I remembered 'Aunt Doll' but luckily my stepmother knew someone who was able to help me. I do however remember visiting other people, whose names I have forgotten. With nobody to ask now, I may never know who they were. |