Genealogy Chat

Thats a difficult question. In some ways I prefer my mums side because they lived mostly in villages in the countryside. So I like going back to my ancestral villages. Thats what I did for a holiday this year, we had a week in Alston. Then again I like my dads side because nobody else has researched that side, while my g uncle did my mums side. George

I started out with a wish to know all the history behind my maiden name which originates from Kerry in Ireland, but it is like hitting a brick wall and very difficult to research and i have only got back to 1876, and since my husband is taking me on a trip there next February i must really get a move on, but i seeem to have been waylaid by all of my precious relatives and my need to know where they all came from, how they lived there lives, i often sit and wonder how they met and fell in love, cos without them i wouldn't be me, but i have managed to trace some of my family back to around 1822, no famous ones yet, but i'm not finished yet and with a maiden name of Brosnan who knows there could be a 007 connection.

i am most interested in my great grandmothers side, i have a bible that was past down from her mother,which is very interesting, upto now i have traced back to great grans grandmother and father 1811, and have found who her brothers and sisters married and the children they had, great gran married a churchill, and there is supposed to be a connection to winston churchill somewere along the line,but i hav'nt found it yet!!

The one i am most interested in is my father's line. This is because its the one in which I have found people i never knew existed. I am researching the other 3 lines also but still to find living relatives from them. Fi

I love all the branches of my tree. Until I started doing this I did not realise how little I knew about my family, even just my grandparents! It doesn't help that my parents divorced when I was only eight. Now this whole world has opened up. No famous people, just a lot of hardworking souls but I am proud to have all of them in my tree. I think learning about my grandfathers family has been most satisfiying purely because they came from just down the road from where I live now. I can actually visit where they are buried which has brought it all close to me. I mean you walk down the road and think, hey this is where great grandad John walked etc its very exciting.

hi i am tracing my grandmothers maiden name at the moment as they are the only family i have known,also on the track of granddads family and my husbands parents, i never really knew my father he ran off with my godmother when i was about 8 so at the moment not really interested in his side ,still you never know when all this is in the bag maybe marcie x

I think the branch which has most interested me is my mother's father's side. I knew nothing at all about them, and have traced them back through several generations, following the families of the different sons, watching how they moved from Bexley Heath where they originated to Plumstead to work at Woolwich Arsenal, and then further into the East End of London. And without knowing it, they were moving closer to where my grandmother's side of the family had settled, until she was living at 97 Blackthorne Street, and he was working in his brother's shop at 100 Blackthorne Street. I can just imagine this young girl in the late 1800s, catching the eye of the baker's young brother. My grandparents. Jan

I know my favorite is the branch where my surname stems from and it is also the branch where I have had the less success in tracing, which it makes it all the more interesting, cos I am really having to try and do everything to trace these roots. I suppose most people are interested in that branch of their tree as everybody is interested in where there name originally came from. I haven't traced back very far yet on this side, but would be interested to know how far back other people have got with their trees and if they have discovered any interesting ancestors, which have then made them move onto interests in another branch of their tree.