Family history

[sp54]

I don't think I am the only one who researches their family history here.

I love it :lol:

A few years ago we had a big family get together with lots of aunts,uncles,cousins etc I hadn't seen for years and I made up a little book of our family tree to give to each of them. I included lots of photos I had got hold of, and a couple of pics of houses our ancestors used to live in etc and lots of info on certain more colourful characters we were all descended from ;):lol:

We are having another get together next summer and as I have continued my research over the last few years I have been asked to produce another book :rolleyes:

It took months of hard work putting the first one together so i shall get cracking on this one after Christmas. That gives me seven months :o

Anyone else research their family?

What interesting things have you found?

Any skeletons in the cupboard? :lol:

What is the furthest you have managed to research back to?

[Isis]

Well Sp as you know I found my Grandfathers family, and as I have said he was killed Gallipoli between 6 to 9th August 1915 and he has his memorial plaque at Lone Pine and uncovered a bit of scandal as well.

I have found that one my G G Grandfather in 1833 was in the Marines :o they came from Devon/Cornwall

Another G G Grandfather was in the navy :o

Another G G Grandfather was a Scottish Sea Captain and came from Quakers :o

And the best bit, another G G Grandfather and G G Grandmother were actually taken to court in the 1800s for neglect and manslaughter of their 2 year old daughter, she died of measles they belonged to a religious sect called the Perculiar People (my Hubby says that now explains everything about me, bl**dy cheek) and they believed in the healing hands of vicar/priest/minister whatever, well instead of calling a doctor they called their whatever to laying healing hands on her, well she died and they were taken to court but the Judge let them off.

Then of course there is the scandal around my Nanny, and she was a naughty girl in 1916 (woops)

So it turned out to be quite exciting, have given up now, as to go any further back means me travelling to Scotland, Devon, Cornwall, Wales, Berks, Harts and of course London to look up church records, and I just cannot be bothered anymore. Although one part of the family I am back to 1701.

[sp54]

:o Crikey, what a thing to find :( So amazing what you can turn up,eh?

I will carry on doing my research until my dying day :lol: I'm a woman on a mission, and can't get enough of it.

A lot of parish records are online now and S&E genealogy sella lot of cd's of thngs like parish records so you can still do some research without having to travel.

Lucky you having Devon & Cornwall heritage - I'd love to find that :)

[Beth]

think the furthest I got back to was 1745 so far

I had one relative who was an attendent for the insane, and another one who was actually an inmate at broadmoor lunictic assylum for the insane!!
termanology certainly has changed over the last 200 years :D

I do object to those large sites that charge a vast amount of money to check the records though :( think one of them is £80 for 3 months or something!

[Isis]

One very famous site is charging this year £85 per year, :olast year it was £65 and I did umm and ah about paying that much, when I saw the price for this year, it nearly "blew my socks off" so did not renew. But there is another site, connected with Friends something ;) that only charges £9 a year, but that is just to put your tree on there and if you want to do research you have to pay extra.