Genealogy Chat

TO HELEN SMITH. Having all those commonly-held names must be a nightmare - must take ages!! Good luck with them all. I have the opposite problem. My natural father's name is fairly uncommon, but HIS mother's maiden name is VERY unusal. I daren't put it on the site because my half sister who doesn't know about me (YET) would almost certainly recognise it if she were to access this site and I can take the risk. Trouble is, that's the branch I REALLY want to find more about, as I learned from someone else of that name that we're all related, somewhere down the line, and he'd traced the name back to pre-Norman Conquest. He hadn't got my grandmother on his tree though and admitted there was some branches he hadn't got. Sadly, I failed to follow this up over a period of about 10 years and when I phoned a couple of years ago, I was told he'd died, so I no longer have access to all that info. It wouldn't be a problem if the name was already featured somewhere on the site, but it isn't and I can't take the responsibility of being the first one!