Oh brilliant Cinds! I'd love to do mine if I had the time and money 

 

 

My cousins doing ours on her dad and my mums side, she's dug up loads of stuff that makes me go  in a good way. She even went to Liverpool last week to find out what ships one of our ancestors captained

I've prolly got thieves and vagabonds and allsorts in mine  

I started mine but couldn't afford to carry it on, i would love to find the answers to so many questions that i have 

I think that's why no-one seems to want to tell me anything about mine 

Awwww. One day it will come Aims 

i downloaded the free (pirated) version of ancestry for USA

no good to me

does anyone want it?

it'll save you a few quid if youve got your ancestors in America

(pm me your ad and i'll send it)

and cinds

i'd love to find out where i come from

i sorta know

but id like to know more

from my dads side

but theyre all a bit dead

Same here Aimee, the costs seem extortionate to me seeing as the records they keep have only to be accessed by them once.

 

 

I think we must all have some of them Pam 

Someone in my family traced my dad's name back to the Doomsday book (when records first began) Apparently  that side of the family came over with the Norman invasion. 

Oooo interesting Kimota 

My MIL did hubby's side ... it goes back to 1736. I got an artist to draw it up and had it framed for a Christmas pressie for hubby a few years ago.

 

There is an ominous entry for someone back in the 1800s - "went to Australia" ... I married into a family of criminals

   

I know nutty one ... that's probably why I get on so well with him

I started mine but it does look like it could get very expensive! I was just happy to find out where my dad was born & grew up and where his patents are buried.. If Aimee hurries up & wins the lottery though, she could pay someone to do all our family trees!

One branch of my tree I have got back to the 1000's, it's amazing.

 

Pirate, I only have my subscription for UK records, I would love your link.

Cinds!  You went and done a fred   Glad you got a breakthrough

 

I could bore for England on this subject - god help you all now!

 

I've got access to all records on the Ancestry sites plus some other sites that I use.

If anyone wants any look-ups, I'll willingly try and find the info.

 

Thought I was from a long line of Londoners.

More fool me:  Deportees to VDI (Tasmania), Mormons, Scots, Irish, Spanish and a few knights of the realm.  A direct connection to Walter Raleigh and some really early Frenchie's who came over like Kimota's rellies in the Norman invasion.

Mrs Jer's cousin did their side. My lot seem to pass it down through folklore. By accident I ended up in the same town that my grandfather left to seek his fortune in my hometown.

I started mine a few years ago .......very fascinating - unfortunately the further I GO BACK the more elusive and under the radar they go. This has relit my interest though - might pick it up and dabble a bit more!

Cinds, you just inspired me to go look at Genes Reunited.. and I think I've just found my long-lost cousin ( not seen him since we were kids, his mum cut off all contact with our lot when his dad , my uncle, remarried ) Just messaged him, took me ages to figure what to say ( then I typed a load of ole shite anyway! ) .

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww - family is good - I like to hear that stuff!

Slinki, I don't use GR but in my experience practically anyone who is on a family research site is really friendly.  They're all trying to trace their families in some way or another.

I bet he'll be pleased to hear from you.  Hope you get a reply

Ta folks! I don't even know if he checks the site - I signed up to it years ago and didn't go near for ages till tonight, so I won't be gutted or anything if I don;t hear from him.. would be nice though  

It would be lovely.

 

Do keep us posted ...........I love a happy ending 

Joe it's quite funny that way.  I found out that my mothers grandfather was born in the same village I grew up in.   I know that doesn't sound so odd.  But my Mother & Father were both born in Sunderland, as were their parents, the only reason my parents ended up in the village just outside of Durham they did was because my Dad got stationed there when he was in the Police force.

 

I meant to add, like cosmo said if anyone wants anything looked up, just ask.  

 

it's very expensive  i only want to find out my grandfathers siblings names  it wouldn't speak about them so my dad doesn't even know his uncle and aunts names 

So, I'm resurrecting this thread because I love this item that I have managed to get my hands on.  

 

The back story is, my mothers father was orphaned at 13 months old.  He was born 8 Jan 1894, and his mother died 31 Jan the same year. His father died 18 Feb 1895.  I've got my hands on the hand written letter that his father signed (with only a cross... on the letter it says HIS MARK next to the cross which is in the middle of his name) to give guardianship of my grandfather to his maternal aunt and her husband.

 

This is the letter.

Dammit it hasn't come out as well as I would have hoped on here.

Where ever did you find it cinds?! That's amazing Just a few weeks ago I went to find my grandparents grave; my dads patents died long before I was born and he died before I found out where they were buried. After searching on ancestry, I successfully located them and found their grave straight away- it felt really good to be there and lay fliers for them

Btw- how did your great grandparents die?

My great grandmother died, from the death certificate I have was due to liver disease caused by pregnancy (cholestatis). She died before my grandfather was 3 weeks old (Ggrandmother was 24).  His father died from (from the death certificate heart problems and nephritis (kidney disease), at 23 years old.

 

We went last week to the village they died in to try and find their graves but couldn't find them.

 

I emailed the village church and the Reverend has been brilliant.  She has located their burial details in the church records and is posting a copy to me, but she has also invited us to go to the church when she will be there to see everything.

This is the only picture we have of my Grandfather as a child.  He was adopted by his mothers sister and her husband.  My Grandfather is the boy on the right of the picture.

 

But, I can so see one of my nephews in him.

That's so sad they were so young! I wondered if it was due to the pregnancy, with it being so soon after the birth. It's awful to think that it could have been treated much easier had they had today's medicines I didn't know until I saw the headstone that my grandparents died 4 months apart, after having 14 children together! They each died of different kinds of cancer. You'll get an email back telling you exactly where the graves (s) are cinds, I got a map sent! I hope you get to visit too

That pic is lovely! Thank goodness his own family adopted him, poor little tyke How did he get on in life?

Sweet, I didn't answer where I found the letter.  

 

I remember my mother talking about this letter with the X on when I was a kid, but she never had it.  So in all of the years since her mother died (when I was 9) it was always forgotten.  But since I have been doing the ancestry, I've been pestering her for pics, certificates etc.  Anyway a couple of weeks ago her brother who she rarely sees as he lives in Surrey (and she has been talking to him to arrange to go visit for his 80th) said he thought he might have the letter.