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By *ittle Miss Tinkerbell OP Woman
45 weeks ago

your head

Have you ever traced your family tree? How far back were you able to go? How did you do it, did you use Ancestry or somewhere else?

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By *ookie46Woman
45 weeks ago

Deepest darkest Peru

I used Ancestry to trace my biological dad and siblings. I got the information then never did anything with it

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By *J the bullMan
45 weeks ago

Washington

Back to 1320 started by my father done the old fashioned way via parish records wills census and lots and lots of tedious old English documents.. luckily had a very unusual surname to follow on his side..

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By (user no longer on site)
45 weeks ago

I had my dogs DNA done just because I was curious about her health and now I know more about her relatives than mine!

I’ve never bothered with myself. I love history but I quite like not knowing much about my own family history because then I can feel equal to anyone, not better or worse, and I like and feel that my future isn’t limited by my past

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By *alandNitaCouple
45 weeks ago

Scunthorpe

"Have you ever traced your family tree? How far back were you able to go? How did you do it, did you use Ancestry or somewhere else? "

Both of my parents have traced their trees Back as far as possible, so I can just add me to that

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By *amsungdelilaMan
45 weeks ago

planet earth

1470 I use find my past it’s took 10 years to do and def not easy. It’s about having breaks from it and visiting church graveyards . War records and stuff

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By *eliWoman
45 weeks ago

Not personally. My mother has. On one side back to where in Africa my great (x a lot) grandmother came from and where she became an erm... well what's the term for a woman who caught the eye of a plantation owner? Yeah that. Fun. My mother is rather proud of that. The beauty that runs through the generations. Tad problematic.

The other side, back to the 1700s.

I'm very much a fusion of a myriad of heritage.

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By *ittle Miss Tinkerbell OP Woman
45 weeks ago

your head

"1470 I use find my past it’s took 10 years to do and def not easy. It’s about having breaks from it and visiting church graveyards . War records and stuff "

That sounds really interesting but 10 years, wow! I suppose I better settle in for a long road then.

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By (user no longer on site)
45 weeks ago

I need to do this.- I've a photo of my great grandparents from probably early 1900s

From what I gather I'll probably have ties to the indian subcontinent & russia...but I suspect even wider.

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By *naswingdressWoman
45 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)

Ancestry. Ranged from early 20th century to 14th century. The Irish and Carribbean parts tend to come to a hard stop pre transportation, due to colonialism and the owning of people.

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By *xfordjohnMan
45 weeks ago

Oxford

I traced my mother's line back to the mid-1700's but then decided it was taking up too much time so gave up. I used Ancestry.

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By *eavenNhellCouple
45 weeks ago

carrbrook stalybridge

Helped my dad trace our family back to 1640 in Dundee before his dementia stopped him .my niece is carrying on the work looking further back .found a lot of interesting stuff helps there are only 22k of us world wide .

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By *exyScientistsCouple
45 weeks ago

Castlebar

My mum traced hers back to the 1500s using ancestry mainly but it took a lot of work. I'm glad I have it though. I love all that stuff.

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By *mizhereMan
45 weeks ago

chinnor area

Got back to the 1600s lots of interesting things and family tales proven and uncovered

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
45 weeks ago

North West

"Have you ever traced your family tree? How far back were you able to go? How did you do it, did you use Ancestry or somewhere else? "

Yeah. I got back to 1600-something but it's mainly been done via the splendid digitised records in the Netherlands and some in person research.

I use Geni to build the tree. I have used Ancestry for some of the UK family but I think it's very expensive. The Netherlands manages to supply way more stuff for free.

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By *ild_oatsMan
45 weeks ago

the land of saints & sinners

Traced my parts of my family back to just after the Norman conquest at 1097 is as far back we have managed to get.

Some interesting characters pop up along the way…

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By (user no longer on site)
45 weeks ago

My dad traced his side of the family back to the 1700s and strangely back to the town I'm now living in (it's not the town my dad lived in or came from)....

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By *rAitchMan
45 weeks ago

Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe

My dad's grandfather got his side of the family tree drawn up in 1910. This was compiled by a local vicar from various records, and includes transcripts of wills, the earliest entey dated 1541. One guy was a Viscount of Portugal and a Knight of the Crown of Italy.

For my mother's side of the family, I have a large, framed copy of the family tree. There's quite a lot of Knights in that lot, and the earliest entry dates back to 1188.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
45 weeks ago

Central

To about 1620 and used original records.

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By *cflirtyMan
45 weeks ago

Hampshire

"I used Ancestry to trace my biological dad and siblings. I got the information then never did anything with it "

How come Cookie?

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By (user no longer on site)
45 weeks ago

That's awesome that some of you guys have managed to go back the best part of a thousand years.

..I'd like to be Jamaican & Scottish in equal measure..

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By *atgirl and RobinCouple
45 weeks ago

Durham

"Have you ever traced your family tree? How far back were you able to go? How did you do it, did you use Ancestry or somewhere else? "

My brother spent a couple of years painstakingly researching our family tree on bothe my mother and father's sides of the family. He used Ancestry, National Archives and dozens of registrar's archives to put it all together. He got as far back as the 1700s on one side of the family and the 1600s on the other side before both trails went cold because of a lack of any more records.

Reading through it all was absolutely fascinating after he'd put it all together. Turns out I'm the distant descendant of some good people, but also some proper rogues too.

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By *TG3Man
45 weeks ago

Dorchester

"Have you ever traced your family tree? How far back were you able to go? How did you do it, did you use Ancestry or somewhere else? "
Nope I'm not for dragging up the past and I'm sure their would be a pretty murky past in my family my mum was related to a wealthy Scottish family in fact Scottish royalty

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By *mileyculturebelfastMan
45 weeks ago

belfast

Only so far you can get here because of the easter rising. They burnt a lot of the records.

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By (user no longer on site)
45 weeks ago

I got as far as my nan and grandad, just about. I know nothing past them!

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By *iftywaysMan
43 weeks ago

wigan

My wife has her father's tree all the way back to 1066! Her great relations actually produced a book for the family there's two large fold out sheets with the tree. Mothers side currently researching we have archive cards. My own family proving more difficult as my mother was adopted and no father named on the birth certificate.

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43 weeks ago

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By *rixie_BlondeWoman
43 weeks ago

London (She/Her)

There’s a family belief that we’re closely related to a VC winning WWI fighter-pilot ace and that means we are strong people who stand up for ourselves and others. So an uncle researched it.

Turns out that’s not true at all, no connection to the pilot and our family is mostly workhouse or chimney sweeps, with one poor lady locked away because she believed she was a dog. The family was not happy to learn all this

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By *ivemealadybonerWoman
43 weeks ago

somewhere

I've gone back to 1500 something, my dad's side has a surname that is very unusual so easier to trace, I did my ex husbands before we split, that was fascinating for me, I've done parts of Doughnuts but he has a surname that is quite common and his family is VERY complicated!

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