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

I do and recently I have found out a lot of interesting things, mostly from my mothers sides, as she is german and it is set during ww2.

Her father had to escape from germany with his family to sweden and few months later her grandfather was captured by the red army and was sent to siberia and was released 1945 when the war was finished.

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

Mine's pretty boring really, loads of generations seem to come from Sheffield.

My great grandma's (not sure if it was my grandma or my grandpa's side but it was my mum's side) brother was killed in the Battle Of Jutland in 1916. He was only 18 & my great grandma was 13.

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

My Mother was adopted and was tracing her parentage however she developed Alzheimer’s and dementia so all her work is lost and I can’t obtain the information from her now sadly.

My Dads side is pretty easy to research which he is doing as a little project. Love reading it.

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

My family have history....

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

"I do and recently I have found out a lot of interesting things, mostly from my mothers sides, as she is german and it is set during ww2.

How did you go about finding your family history shag?

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By *DreamOfGenieWoman
over a year ago

London

Found out I'm related to Spencer Perceval - the only British Prime Minister ever to be assassinated. Family win!

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

"Found out I'm related to Spencer Perceval - the only British Prime Minister ever to be assassinated. Family win!"

Wow , good shout! Still believe you been shot at more times than him. X

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By *he Mac LassWoman
over a year ago

Hefty Hideaway

My maternal family history is just normal working class. My paternal family history is absolutely fascinating but woven in secrecy and deception. The only people who knew the truth took everything to their graves. What we think we know has been the result of trying to put a jigsaw together without knowing what the pieces will make. We don’t even know if we’re close but the tale involves a foreign prince and an illegitimate baby. Very bloody murky and interesting.

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

"Found out I'm related to Spencer Perceval - the only British Prime Minister ever to be assassinated. Family win!

Wow , good shout! Still believe you been shot at more times than him. X"

Haha!!!

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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

I spent some time rooting through the national records in the 1990s.

It was possible to connect the official births, deaths and marriages back to the late 19th century.

Beyond that, it was the parish records collected by churches.

I traced the paternal line back to agricultural Perthshire. When the industrial revolution occurred, my ancestors moved to factory work.

Beyond that, it became increasingly difficult to join the dots.

What records did exist, coupled with anecdotal evidence, suggest my ancestors arrived from the Low Countries in the 17th century and settled at Inveresk near Edinburgh.

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By *inkyfun2013Couple
over a year ago

lewisham

We're doing ours and I've only gone back about 230 years on dad's side so far but Mr Kinky has gone back about 1800 years! Romans, Vikings and French kings on his so far.

You can call me Ma'am.

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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby

I always say often fate works hand in hand, in the fact that a post like this would not normally appear here, but has it has, I,ll mention that I,ve been looking up family history from the first world war of a uncle who died in action 100 years ago later this month in france only 19 and a signaller for the notts derby regiment, the church he attended has a open day tommorow after lottery fund backing for repair work, after research I found his name on a little memorial cross alongside the church he lived just down the road from here his mother was my great grandmother there home or part of the street where he lived has most likely gone but I,ll check tommorow to see there,s more to this story but I thought I,d like to share some of it here..

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

I’ve done lots on mine, the industrial revolution seems to have made migrants of all branches of my family and I also have a direct route back to one of Henry VIII beheaded wives! I love finding out how I came to be here.

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By *heManWithADuckMan
over a year ago

Hereford

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By *heManWithADuckMan
over a year ago

Hereford

"Found out I'm related to Spencer Perceval - the only British Prime Minister ever to be assassinated. Family win!"

Haha a relative of mine had a dream that the assassination was going to happen in some good detail

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By *roticGoddessXXWoman
over a year ago

Richmond

Both of my direct great great whatever grandfathers were the only two missing from the same town meeting three years after the Mayflower landed.

Family history now says they had their own meeting at the local pub, instead.

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By *rTouretteMan
over a year ago

Muswell Hill

My family history involves people migrating to South Wales from Sweden, Scotland, the Black Country and Somerset. That probably explains my taste for cider and pork scratchings

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

Yes i was dropped off on earth as a baby as my planet couldnt handle me moaning

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

I've gone back as far as about 1850 on my dad's side. My great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was a prolific horse thief in London at that time, found his arrest records. Other than that nothing interesting.

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By *parkle1974Woman
over a year ago

Leeds

Had to do a family tree a project when at school (many years ago) traced right back to Lord Nelson.

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By *oward1978Man
over a year ago

Rotherham

I had an ancestor who fell at Waterloo. Not sure which platform.

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By *gnitemybodyWoman
over a year ago

Onestepoutofthedoor

I haven't a clue,how easy is it to find out thing's?

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By *ast_And_CuriousMan
over a year ago

Sevenoaks

My paternal grandfather fought in The Battle of Dunkirk, that's all I know lol.

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By *ORDERMANMan
over a year ago

wrexham

Maternal side go back to ancient royal tribes of Wales..

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

Yes I’ve researched it fairly far back, to my great great great grandparents so far. There’s a few skeletons in the cupboard but I know those, you wouldn’t find those out from official documentation.

I’ve found it interesting though.

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

"We're doing ours and I've only gone back about 230 years on dad's side so far but Mr Kinky has gone back about 1800 years! Romans, Vikings and French kings on his so far.

You can call me Ma'am.

We have French aristocracy on hubbys side-maybe we're related

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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

"I haven't a clue,how easy is it to find out thing's?"

I believe a lot of the records are on line now.

When I did it, I went to the national records office and searched through rolls of microfiche, or whatever it was called.

It is easier, I think, if you have an uncommon surname.

Two things I discovered - concentrate on the trunk of the tree before being diverted to the branches.

The further back you go, the more likely the surname was noted down phonetically - your ancestors most likely could not read or write like us today - and the greater the risk of a family name being entered with a variant of the spelling.

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

My dads side go back to Irish royalty when my surname began with O’, the O was dropped at some point. My mother’s side traces back to Sicily, my great grandmother married and Italian soldier just after the First World War. I have fantasies of being in line to some kind of Sicilian mafia fortune.

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

My mum's family tree has been researched back to C14th. Titanic, American Navy, South Sea island discoveries... It's quite exciting!

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By *alking DisasterWoman
over a year ago

South Oxfordshire

We have managed to go back til about 1800 on my Dads side (both maternal and paternal). Nothing exciting there though.

Mums side about the same on the paternal side. I can only go as far as my great grandparents on the maternal side as they were Italian and I have no idea where in Italy they were from!

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

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

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

My paternal parentage is unknown.

It is suspected that my maternal side is descended from an affair between classes that was hushed up.

I have very delicate ankles for someone of common stock.

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

The only proffesion i ever thought of for my future was farming .

My mother did an extensive family tree dating back 300 years plus , turns out all my ancestors were agricultural labourers etc , uncanny me thinks !

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

"I had an ancestor who fell at Waterloo. Not sure which platform."

That made me laugh out loud

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

Did a lot of research in the 90s. Found it fascinating. Done more since and will pick up again one cold winter evening.

Very interesting to get a feel for the social and employment history of an area.

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By *lanPartridgeMan
over a year ago

nottingham

I'm related to music hall performer Bramsby Williams, who was mentioned on t'Morecambe and Wise show

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

We never did war and several hundred years, part of it in London, was uneventful, with relocations, emigration, religious movement. We assume, as everyone posting, those living before us lived through tough times.

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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby

My surname can be traced back to the 14th century under norman ancestry but also theres some link to Irish ancestry which may well go back much longer, thou this could have originated from when william the conqueror may have made trips or his barons or knights over to Ireland from england after 1066 I,d like to thing It was,nt that but true Irish blood not french or norman..

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

Yes - back to he very late 18th century

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

Some of it yes, my father's family have had some quite prominent individuals in Irish cultural life, thankfully I exist in blissful obscurity

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

My nan decided to delve into our past, discovering, even though my first name is Irish, my second name lies in Scottish roots with some form of royalty in the 1700s

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow

Only for what we have found out in last few years

My grandad brothers and sisters either before he was born or when he was a baby. His aunts died in the 60s. We have found a cousin that knows a bit and a distant cousin who had some photos. I have done a dna test that has linked me to a number of historical people

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over a year ago

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By *bwitchedWoman
over a year ago

Batley, West Yorkshire

My brother's done loads of research and found out some really interesting things.

Traced my mum's side of the family back to the battle of Hastings, and found ancestors who were closely associated with Oliver Cromwell and the regiment that became the coldstream guards. In fact my grandfather was born in the tower of the London while his father was on guard duty at Buckingham palace!

My dad's side he has traced back to the Johnstone clan who built the bridge at Johnstonebridge in southern Scotland. We've also got ties to the kennedy clan who built the cairn at the mull of Galloway (hence the pic next to it on my profile) and the castle at castle Kennedy. It's been very interesting.

One thing that has been fascinating, aside from the history, has been finding where certain personality traits come from. For example when dealing with people the 3 of us siblings are so patient and laid back. I will never be the one to start a fight. But start one with me and oooooohhhhhh boy will I finish it! Never knew where that came from until we found a book of border ballads in a charity shop in north Berwick and started reading the ballads of the Johnstones and then it all made sense. We've certainly bred true to the border reiver in us

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Funnily enough have spent the last couple of hours perusing a site that is free to access for this weekend only but has Births, Deaths, Marriages records as well as other interesting stuff - called FindMyPast - you have to register but if you have a few hours on your hands this weekend it might be worth a look.

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow

"Funnily enough have spent the last couple of hours perusing a site that is free to access for this weekend only but has Births, Deaths, Marriages records as well as other interesting stuff - called FindMyPast - you have to register but if you have a few hours on your hands this weekend it might be worth a look."

Agree also I would say dna tests now are done to about 60 quid which actually can help save money long term. Bmd records can about 12 quid each but a dna will tell you straight away if some one is related.

This was especially true for us. We had a cousin who by paper was related and we had been in contact. she knew her gran who was a cousin of my grandfather. We weren’t 100% sure as she didn’t know for certain. Anyway the dna records confirmed that she was a close relative.

Anyway in June my mum met this cousin and it was the first time since the 1960s if not earlier that the two sides of the family rejoined

Also be careful we found a nephew of my father last year by DNA Well the son of a half brother. I wrote to him to introduce myself and family. They contacted us and my fathers half brother was still alive. They decided to not take it any further as he had been lied to for over 80 years who his siblings were.

That upset my father a lot.

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By *eeBee67Man
over a year ago

Masked and Distant

Traced back through before 1841 on all branches of family tree.

A murderer, a vicar, quite a few ww1 deaths. A distant cousin who had an English wife and another in America during the American civil war.

A fishing boat captain in the mid 1800s.

Maternal side came from Ireland during potato famine.

Paternal side from farmers in Shropshire, to miners.

All workers, no landed gentry and no mega inheritance

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By *mm and HerCouple
over a year ago

Hertfordshire

My dad has and amongst the boring there are some gems. Like the only one in the family to *ever* leave Yorkshire out of 11 brothers (!) became a Prime Minister of ....Tonga. And he also became for being the last recorded case of cannibalism.... The King symbolically ate him after a dispute.

Moral: nowt worth seeing out ther, let stay int' ginnel lad

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By *elnkazCouple
over a year ago

cheshire

My maternal grandmothers father owned a crisp company called wonder crisis...... Sold out to another company. Yeah you guessed it. Golden crisps alas the fortune did not pass down the generations

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By *hoenixAdAstraWoman
over a year ago

Hiding in the shadows

I'm adopted so know nothing of my genetic family.

Due to one of my sons health issues, I had DAN screening done to check if I was a carrier... Showed I'm genetically Brazilian!

I attended a funeral yesterday, my uncle - mother's brother.

I met him once when I was 18,as he lived abroad for years, but he'd always sent me a birthday & Christmas card.

Yesterday we met a whole extended family I never knew about.

I heard so many family stories, about my mum, dad (they were next door neighbours) & uncle growing up during the war, about their teens & holidays together before my uncle enlisted & toured the world.

It was a pretty emotional day.

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By *lanPartridgeMan
over a year ago

nottingham

"I'm adopted so know nothing of my genetic family.

Due to one of my sons health issues, I had DAN screening done to check if I was a carrier... Showed I'm genetically Brazilian!

I attended a funeral yesterday, my uncle - mother's brother.

I met him once when I was 18,as he lived abroad for years, but he'd always sent me a birthday & Christmas card.

Yesterday we met a whole extended family I never knew about.

It was a pretty emotional day. "

I can imagine ... But I can also see you as Brazilian with that physique! X

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Both sets of grandparents were English but one of my great grandmothers was Irish and one of my great grandfathers was Welsh. We spread out a bit as time went on!

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over a year ago

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