Have you ever traced your family tree?

witchy · May 27, 2007

A few years ago i registered with Genes Reunited and added some basic stuff about my family, I received an email from a cousin of mine and found out he was doing the same thing, I kinda got bored of it all and stopped logging on etc, however, the other day i logged in and discovered that my cousin had been very busy, he has traced my fathers (and his mothers) parents right back to 1783!!

I always though I was a traditional scottish descendant but it turns out that my family is actually Irish and they came to scotland jsut after the potato famine, well I never!

Anyone else found out stuff they didn't know?

Dallowspicer · May 28, 2007

Yup,

I found a geneology website ran by a guy with the same surname as me (no relation though). His hobby was researching our surname and alternitive spellings of the same name.
I emailed him asking about my tree and he sent me a nice word doc showing my family right back to the late 1700s.
Apparently we're originally from Cork.

trickdick · May 28, 2007

i found a german great great great grandfather, although with my mums maiden name of hitler i should of twigged

allroad · May 28, 2007

i would love to do it as a lot of my family went to the USA but I have not got a clue where to start LOL

Rat · May 28, 2007

something Ive always wanted to do but never done anything about
may look into it more now though

pinkhelmets · May 28, 2007

I spent lots of time on mine and have a website about it too. I have been very lucky because I discovered the very start of our name dating back to London 1770 and I have a masive collection leading to all current people with the name.

More recently I discovered something that I was really pleased to find. An ancestor of mine was convicted for petty crime in 1842, and as they did back then he was ordered to Australia. (Any major crime was punished by death) His ship left London with 200 criminals on board but sank in a storm when it reached Cape Town, south Africa. He drowned, as did most of the passengers & crew, and it is a documented part of british history. The amazing thing for me was to discover that his first name has since been passed on 6 generations (including me) and lasting over 150 years.
So it is amazing what you can discover.

allroad · May 28, 2007

pinkhelmets said:
I spent lots of time on mine and have a website about it too. I have been very lucky because I discovered the very start of our name dating back to London 1770 and I have a masive collection leading to all current people with the name.

More recently I discovered something that I was really pleased to find. An ancestor of mine was convicted for petty crime in 1842, and as they did back then he was ordered to Australia. (Any major crime was punished by death) His ship left London with 200 criminals on board but sank in a storm when it reached Cape Town, south Africa. He drowned, as did most of the passengers & crew, and it is a documented part of british history. The amazing thing for me was to discover that his first name has since been passed on 6 generations (including me) and lasting over 150 years.
So it is amazing what you can discover.

at is very interesting

trickdick · May 28, 2007

a very very good place to have a mess around is the mormon site, has all kinds on it. i found quite a bit on it without getting off my arse
http://www.familysearch.org/

Rat · May 28, 2007

great story Pink makes me want to look into mine more m8

thanks

nara · May 28, 2007

One of my brothers is into this. He's traced my dad's family back to Ireland in the late 1700's, but Irish records are pretty sketchy before this so he's planning to go over there and do some research on gravestones in churchyards.

cyclonedude · May 29, 2007

My wife thought she was the youngest of three girls, just been contacted by her baby brother, aged 51 who has been looking for his sisters for 20 years, she never had a clue. he answered a genes reunited pop-up ten days ago.

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