Reseaching your family tree

[PaulaSB12]

Anyone else looking up their family tree? i am and have got 2 families back to 1700's. The reason I ask is that I am going down to the society of geneologists in december when I finish work for the christmas holiday (18th dec) and if anyone wants anyone looking up if you can give me what information you have I will try and find them. I find if I have someone else's relatives to look up for it helps me from getting bug eyed when looking for my own ancesters.

 

[jackie2]

I am also doing our family trees. At the moment I am doing four. Can you tell me where the Society Geneologists is please and if you have to make an appointment etc

 

[Queenie]

oooh indeed I have someone who is causing me no end of bother, he just doesn't seem to exist, which is off putting as I have several named and dated pictures of him! Will PM you later tonight. Thanks!

 

[scottishsue]

A few years ago my Uncle researched our family tree and took it way back a few centuries.

He found a photograph of a Princess and her likeness to me is uncanny.
It's like we are identical twins. It was very interesting though.

 

[kkymmy]

my uncle was also looking into our family tree and he tragically died in May, I really want to carry on but I don't know where to start. I have the information he left on Genes Reunited but I've no idea how to go about continuing the tree.

 

[Goofyish]

I keep having a go at tracing my family tree. Every now and then I get all my notes out and try and trace the family back a bit further

Have got back to around the 1800s, but the trouble I finding the correct relatives. Names and dobs seem to change from one census to another and I can never be sure I'm tracing the correct tree

 

[PaulaSB12]

I keep having a go at tracing my family tree. Every now and then I get all my notes out and try and trace the family back a bit further

Have got back to around the 1800s, but the trouble I finding the correct relatives. Names and dobs seem to change from one census to another and I can never be sure I'm tracing the correct tree

They do tend to be approximate on the census, also on the 1841 census they rounded ages up!!!!!!!!!!!! As for the society of geneologists here is there web page, should explain everything, it costs about 42 per yer but a day there costs 18 so its worth being a member. No you don't need to book just turn up

http://www.sog.org.uk/
kkymmy do you have the information that your uncle had? how far had he gone? If it is between 1837 and now you have the gro office for birth marriages and deaths, its not like who do you think for these records you can buy them online, the censuses are on ancestry but there may be spelling mistakes. When looking at censuses don't assume that the family members are all related, one of mine in 1841 was apparently living with father and mother, but having looked at his christening it turned out it was father and stepmother his own mother having died several years before.

 

[truedisneyfan]

I have been interested in it. I only had time to see how far back I can find. The furthest back that I have found so far is 1590 from England. I have been told that it dates back further than that, but have not had time to look through it all.

 

[Goofysmate]

I'm doing a family tree in pictures . i'm gathering up all photo's from everyone i can think of in the family both mine & DH.

 

[kkymmy]

Hi Paula
I think he had it back to the late 1700's, but obviously with sudden departure it's all up in the air and lots of loose ends. We have a fairly unique family name which helps, but I have been contacted on Genes Reunited by people who think they are related to the relatives I have on my Mum's side (and with slightly more common names) but they actually aren't.

I've tried contacting genes reunited to tell them that my uncle is no longer with us and trying to get access to his account but it doesn't seem to have evoked a response

 

[PaulaSB12]

Hi Paula
I think he had it back to the late 1700's, but obviously with sudden departure it's all up in the air and lots of loose ends. We have a fairly unique family name which helps, but I have been contacted on Genes Reunited by people who think they are related to the relatives I have on my Mum's side (and with slightly more common names) but they actually aren't.

I've tried contacting genes reunited to tell them that my uncle is no longer with us and trying to get access to his account but it doesn't seem to have evoked a response

Try here

http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=3

you might find someone looking for the same people, even if not they are usually helpful in giving hints on where to look. With an unusual name it will help, what kind of work where they doing? it might give a hint on where they went.

 

[kkymmy]

Unfortunately we don't have any occupations or trades on the tree, all I know is his name, his year of birth, and where in the country he was born and raised as well as his wife and (obviously) children. But i'll have a look, thanks

 

[wifey]

Hi there I've spent the last 18 months trying to work out our family tree and have also got back to the 1780s. It gets a bit more complex before then as records seem to be harder to locate unless you go the the regional GRO archives in person. I must admit I have had some help from my Mum's brother who keeps up the good work going to the archives and my Dad's cousin who gave me a heads up on a couple of people .We still have a few scallywags who we need to find out more about It can be very awe inspiring and sometimes heartbreaking but it's well worth doing. I have come to a halt for now so I can get Christmas and DS's birthday organised.
When I get back on the family tree I've got a lot of Irish and Scots, Canadian and Australian relatives to locate, both on my side and DH's. It's been a real journey of discovery especially when Mum and Dad shared some old family photos with me. We have found out that some of DH's relatives came from Lake Como but can't find out anything about them before they moved here in the late 1850s. He also had relatives from Stirlingshire who were descendants of a family from Ireland but we don't know where they were from but we do know about two of them and their WW1 army careers and WW1 medals. The key to it is don't get discouraged and ask older family members for info if you can. DMIL helped me with some of her side as some of them were from Scotland and a bit harder to find records here of the births and marriages etc it can be costly joining all the different sites to access their information.
I have found www.ancestry.co.uk very useful and in four months of membership I have found out tons of stuff about our relatives and why they moved or changed occupations, good luck

 

[BRobson]

Wow it all sounds very interesting. It is one of the things my mum and I always mean to do but never get round to it

 

[Booknut]

I've been doing DH's family tree for the last year or so, i've really enjoyed it! Have only gone back to the early 1800's as the info I need now requires me to go out 'into the field' and search county and church records etc.

I find it quite addictive, its a bit like being a detective and i've found some interesting discrepancies in a few cases too

 

[wifey]

There are a few cases of second marriages and illegitimate children on my side of the family tree too I guess there would have been few ways for women to earn a living back then so they would have remarried to try to secure a better future for themselves and any offspring. There used to be a lot of gossip and ill feeling towards folks who had kids before marriage too. My Mum's family suffered because of it, her great grandparents had a daughter almost 5 months before they married and then just after the wedding they had their daughter christened and within a year had a son my great grandad. He always told his kids never have that happen again it left a big impact on him I was fortunate enough to know him growing up and know he must have been gutted when one of his daughters repeated the whole situation. Things got nasty between them it seems (I still don't know much about the poor woman the family seemed to clam up about her) apart from being told how my grandfather intervened and got her out of the home. Oh how easy we take modern life for granted.