Who Do You Think You Are?

[Puddy_Tat]

i sometimes think about doing a bit more research - mum-tat has gone back a few generations on her side, uncle (dad's brother) has done a bit on his side, although think he's taken the traditional approach of not going back very far on the women that married in to the family.

i am not sure how involved i can get with it all - i'm almost certainly the last of the family (i've never had kids and neither did uncle, and i've not got any brothers / sisters), and i never met dad's parents - his mother died when he was quite young and she was Not Talked About so I know next to nothing about her side of the family.

2x great grandfather on dad's side had left somerset to join the british army - he was and based in canada for a few years round the time of the american civil war, he met and married a woman whose parents were scottish / irish migrants to canada - i sometimes wonder about trying to find out a bit more about them.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

Mrs SI has done loads of ours on both sides and got one strand of mine back to the 1500s, too. Pretty much all Derbyshire/South Yorkshire, working class, lots of miners, though one relative was groundskeeper and portrait painter for an aristocrat!

As generation by generation moved a little bit nearer to Plymouth - there were a couple of quarry men, a servant to a posh family, and finally 3 generations of electricians, and me, an electrical engineer. There was a professional boxer in there too.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

i sometimes think about doing a bit more research - mum-tat has gone back a few generations on her side, uncle (dad's brother) has done a bit on his side, although think he's taken the traditional approach of not going back very far on the women that married in to the family.

i am not sure how involved i can get with it all - i'm almost certainly the last of the family (i've never had kids and neither did uncle, and i've not got any brothers / sisters), and i never met dad's parents - his mother died when he was quite young and she was Not Talked About so I know next to nothing about her side of the family.

2x great grandfather on dad's side had left somerset to join the british army - he was and based in canada for a few years round the time of the american civil war, he met and married a woman whose parents were scottish / irish migrants to canada - i sometimes wonder about trying to find out a bit more about them.

There are websites where you start with your parents and usually you find that others have already done the research past that and have a link to your parents. Might be worth trying that. Its a lot easier now than it was when i started 30 years ago. I had to trawl through 300 years of parish records, take trip out to local graveyards, etc.

And I found people I had never met who had stories of my ancestors - one family in the US who found me after I posted up my family tree.