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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I find it fascinating how many of you have researched your family history/tree and have you discovered anything interesting.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i decided to do family tree but my mum hijacked it and beat me to it but its given her plenty to do now she is retired so i don't mind

its been very interesting

we had a pioneer in africa, a reverand and someone that was thought a sheep rustler and sent to australia but they then found him innocent and sent him home but he died on the journey back

there was a french fella that started off in service in london but ended up a well off business man

we had lots of farmers, publicans and lawyers

a running theme was they all had good lifes with big houses and staff to run them and they all died leaving small fortunes due to all seeming to of been business minded untill a couple of generations back n since then we have all been skint

it looks like there was a lot of business minded people through the familt tree i just wanna know how come that mind missed me i don't want anything handing to me on a plate i would just love to of been able to of been a sucess like they were

its been really interesting stuff, no one famous or infamous but definately interesting and has given my mum hours of fun researching it

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

My brother and I started this 6 years ago when our father died, and what we discovered was amazing.

Our family almost all hail from Stirling, or one or two villages, now suburbs of that town in Scotland.

Our Great Grandfather held the post of Minister of the Poor, in the Town Council around 1900. This was a forerunner of the Benefits system as we know today, and it was his job to issue emergency funds to the destitute, the poor and so on.

The usual post holders had always had bad reputations; they were d*unkards, they were abusive to those poor wretches who needed financial handouts, but our relative turned that appalling image on its head, and in contrast, he had a superb reputation and was highly looked up to and respected.

When he died, it is reported that the entire town closed down for the day as a mark of respect to him, and thousands lined the streets to watch his cortege pass through the town.

There is still a painting of him in the old Council chambers to commemorate his popularity.

His wife too, had a rare occupation; she was a gent's barber. That was a very rare occupation for a woman in those days, but her salon (to use today's phrasing) was a few doors away from the Council Chambers, and so she got all the Councillors plus the Mayor and other local dignitaries in to get their hair cut.

She too, was very popular and well known in the town; her funeral too was given the same treatment, with the town closing down as a mark of respect.

We haven't around to Mum's side of the family!

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By *iewMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

Read somewhere the one with June Brown ( Dot Cotton ) is a fantastic and very emotional episode

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull


"Read somewhere the one with June Brown ( Dot Cotton ) is a fantastic and very emotional episode"

It was on tonight; have recorded it to watch later!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have 1st world war VC winner in my family

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

am a decendant of John Wesley the founder of Methodism (poor guy would spin in his grave if he saw all the wine in my fridge!)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm scared to look too far back into my family's past. My mum is as nutty as a fruit cake....... she's the only person I know who managed to work her ticket and convince The Army she was not the full shilling.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've researched my family tree back to 1795, but nobody that interesting, unless you count my grandad's cousin, who murdered his wife...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i absolutely love the programme heirhunters which is on bbc1 in the mornings. some of the cases they go throw trying to marry money left without a will to its rightful owners are really touching.

one day (when I have more time) I will do mine. i googled my natural father last year and found pics of me as a baby that I hadn't seen before. he had gone back only a couple of generations on his side but interesting all the same.

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By *obbytupperMan
over a year ago

Menston near Ilkley

I found that I am directly linked to Adam and his wife Eve, they have a club in Eccles apparently.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

think im desended from the vikings.. cuz i love that film and im very blonde...natural

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My dad met a man who was looking into our family tree, unfortunately my dad passed away 3 yrs ago and I don't know who the gentleman was so no idea how far he got

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've researched my family tree back to 1795, but nobody that interesting, unless you count my grandad's cousin, who murdered his wife... "

I did once google my surname; found a young girl in an American prison for having a baby out of wedlock given that I have relatives in British Colombia, its a possibility that this girl was a very distant relative

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

winston churchill was a relation.we also owned stately homes and once loaned money to the then royal family.

we also found a relation who was a sea captain during slave trade and married one of the african slaves. that must have caused some much controvesy.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

hubby did his side he found out his family have never lived more then 20 miles from were we live now plus his great granfather was a wolds waggoner in the first world war and was one of the first to land in france

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It is very interesting - not gone too far back to discover that dads side descended from Irish stock and mums from French Jews.

I think the genes must be strong on the Irish side cos I'm the spit of my dad as he was of his.

Just wish the genes weren't so strong in the slaphead baldy department

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


" his great granfather was a wolds waggoner in the first world war and was one of the first to land in france"

Dad has some postcards sent by his grandad from the trenches (to his mother) in WW1. They're lovely and poignant. Not worth cock all monetarily, but the sentimental value from a family history perspective is priceless.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


" his great granfather was a wolds waggoner in the first world war and was one of the first to land in france

Dad has some postcards sent by his grandad from the trenches (to his mother) in WW1. They're lovely and poignant. Not worth cock all monetarily, but the sentimental value from a family history perspective is priceless."

i had similar to this

my grandmother left me her jewellery box and in the bottom of it was love letters my grandfather had sent her before they married, initially reading them felt like i was invading their privacy but it was so lovely to see in words just how much he loved my grandmother

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


" his great granfather was a wolds waggoner in the first world war and was one of the first to land in france

Dad has some postcards sent by his grandad from the trenches (to his mother) in WW1. They're lovely and poignant. Not worth cock all monetarily, but the sentimental value from a family history perspective is priceless.

i had similar to this

my grandmother left me her jewellery box and in the bottom of it was love letters my grandfather had sent her before they married, initially reading them felt like i was invading their privacy but it was so lovely to see in words just how much he loved my grandmother"

sad to think that this type of thing has had it's day (in any meaningful numbers anyway)

makes you realise how 'cold' and 'impersonal' emails and text messages are when compared to ink on paper

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By *emima_puddlefuckCouple
over a year ago

hexham


"I find it fascinating how many of you have researched your family history/tree and have you discovered anything interesting. "

i'm part german

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I find it fascinating how many of you have researched your family history/tree and have you discovered anything interesting.

i'm part german "

only as far as the jackboots tho

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