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Posted - 31/07/2009 : 14:01:12
has anyone seen the bbc show "who do you think you are?"
i was watching it the other night and i really wanted to find out about my own family. I know alot about my mother's mum's family. But nothing about my mother's father's family. After doing research i found out their names, how many children they had, where they lived, where they were born. Turns out my great gran was born in liverpool, although she states her nationality as welsh and spoke welsh. Really interested in finding out more about her, if her parents were english or welsh. So ive ordered her death certificate, marriage certificate and bith certificate to find out her parents names and go from there.
So i was just wondering is anyone else has done the same and what have you found out about your family? |
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| Tizzy |
Posted - 03/08/2009 : 11:30:52
My dad was adopted and there are no records available as it was all very hush hush at the time, mothers family is all done and pretty boring - think hubby wants to do his Dad family but has a major case of Round-to-it syndrome. |
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Posted - 02/08/2009 : 13:50:24
Better off not knowing about mine, if my father was anything to go by |
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Posted - 01/08/2009 : 16:51:15
thats really cool. did they find anything interesting? |
| Flatpack63 |
Posted - 01/08/2009 : 15:05:56
I was lucky. A distant cousin has been doing it for years. They even published it in a book, which has over 300 pages. He's gone back about 5 generations so far and is still researching. |
| Taz Devil |
Posted - 31/07/2009 : 23:37:37
I've not done it myself, but my eldest sister who lives in leicester has traced our family tree back to the late 1600's. |
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Posted - 31/07/2009 : 23:01:45
My bunch (on my fathers side) date back to a bunch of vikings who settled in wales and became silver miners then migrated north up through cheshire to manchester and salford! Its quite a long and protracted story spanning several hundred years.....all good fun |
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Posted - 31/07/2009 : 22:00:35
im glad someone else found it so interesting, as i kept searching it became more addictive like i needed to know more and more about them. I've only gone back as far as 1875 (thats when my great-gran was born) but can't wait to find out her parents and so on.
thats funny, as my great gran married a younger man lol only 3 years younger but still. He was 19 when they married and she 22 |
| inkiepixie |
Posted - 31/07/2009 : 15:02:40
I did this a couple of years ago; it's really really interesting. Being a good Lancashire lass (and not too far from Liverpool AND with a Welsh great-great-grandmother - hellooooo possible relative!) I was most pleased to find out that a lot of my family worked in the mills. Very traditional. I'm unbelievably British though; you have to go back to the seventeenth century to find an ancestor of mine not from the island of Britain - and he was from Ireland! Doh!
One thing I did find very sad was the amount of children that died so young; as you go through the census records you find a child aged one, or whatever, on one record who didn't make to to the next one :(
I do seem to be upholding a fine tradition of marrying toy boys though; my mother's side of the family seem to have made a habit of it :D |
