Genealogy Chat

Hey Merry, you also do a grand job helping others on here. Will definitely be picking your brains again in the future. (Just trying to think of ways of cheering you up). Luckily I love football and now have number 2 daughter back home (handbags and shoes galore). Plenty to keep busy. Chances are you've gone as far as possible on your tree....maybe you just have to accept. Chris x

So that last bit has happened to you then, Jay?? I could do with hearing a success story! Merry

That's not helping, Chrispy!!! LOL Merry

Sorry Merry, just being realistic. But sometimes you need a break and then you find something. And when you do, it's even more sweet. Just be glad you haven't got Clarks in London....stuck on that line and it is only grt grandparent level. Think I've got to spend fortune on certs that are no good....in fact I might never know. Oh well, sigh Chris

O dear, I think i qualify ......:~)) embedded in old middle England on one side bigtime.....gulp ...sweats profusely at the prospect of being adopted as a surrogate tree.....

Chrispy, I have Clarks in Bristol! Alter.....LOL! Merry

So glad to know that I'm not alone on the Clark front. (No disrepect to any Clarks out there). Anyway, tomorrow's another day, so I'm off to watch the rest of springwatch and imagine I'm in Devon. Keep smiling Merry!!! Chris

How far back have you gone Merry on direct line ancestors?.....ie have you got ,say all 32 or 64 stage? (ie ggg grandparents and gggg grandparents).....and if so what date does that go back to...? shudders in anticipation of being told 256

Merry, I refuse to have 'brick walls' (horrible phrase) Instead, I have problems because I just haven't looked in the right place yet! My other strategy is to say 'I have fully investigated this person - I can find nothing to disprove who I think they are (no death, no alternative marriage or offspring). I am open minded and willing to accept proof that I am wrong, please somebody produce evidence to show they are not mine. My problems are mainly missing marriages, 2 in Norfolk and 1 in Yorkshire, but hope springs eternal. Jay

Alter...... 1.....................me 2.....................parents 4.....................gparents 8.....................g-gpts 16...................2xg-gpts 23...................3xg-gpts 18...................4xg-gpts 16...................5xg-gpts 8.....................6xg-gpts 5.....................7xg-gpts 1.....................8xg-gpts Hubby's: 1.....................hubby 2.....................parents 4.....................gparents 6.....................g-gpts 11...................2xg-gpts 4.....................3xg-gpts 5.....................4xg-gpts 4.....................5xg-gpts 3.....................6xg-gpts 3.....................7xg-gpts Those don't include the ones where I have first name only. Merry

Rotten Norfolk, I reckon they wrote the marriages in code knowing wed all be looking through the what? 700 parishes for these damn people. Thing is, they must be out there somewhere so it does at least give me a bit of excitement knowing one day ..................... Clarks? - you try Dixons! Everyone of them is called William or John and live in 2 miles radius of my lot - how am I ever going to find the line before 1821?

What areas mostly- all south??..............i havent got one southern link whatsoever or one scottish link-all north england or ireland !!

It doesn't help when one of your gt-gt grandmothers had 2 grandma's, both called Mary Todd, and who both married in the same small village in the same year, but neither of them were born there! I've managed to sort out one of them, but there's about 10 possibilities for the other - another one for the pending tray. Jay

Alter......mine, all South of England. Hubby's Spain, Ireland. St Pancras! LOL Merry

The main problem with genealogy is where you set your target because its a never ending trail- and at what point do we stand back at look at what progress has been made....it seems to be a drug that has less and less effect the further the research goes,and so more is needed each step of the way......there is a huge anti-climax element to genealogy because the thrill is in the chase and capture,and then onto the next chase,etc.....

I agree with that 100%. Sometimes people ask if I've finished my tree yet?? LOL!! I don't see how you could ever say that? Yes, slow up, yes, go and do something else for a while, but ''finished''.....Nope! Merry

My targets are to go with the flow- some lines have gone smoothly-Im not going to break my neck hunting down some people if they arent close to the direct line....the Irish families are a real challenge and have put them all on the back burner- i will exhaust my middle England families and then think about 2 projects relating to 2 different families..... Project One : The Tudsbury Siblings in the Victorian era - how they all lived and worked together in the same house for over 50 years inventing things and producing all sorts of wood carvings,paintings,sculptures,furniture and exhibiting....a time when the Victorian Age was in full swing-railways,tourism,the great Exhibition,the changing world........have designs on a screenplay that could be used for a period drama (well we can dream lol) project Two: The Prince of India- how a bloke down the road aged 73 recalls tales of his father born in 1865 about a man who had a huge family of 21 kids over 42 years in one little house ,drinking in the local one day and being one of the local boys ,then setting off as a journeyman to lead a gang of 150 native workers in Lagos aged 23 being carried round like a King sporting a whip and a gun......again the 2 different worlds inspires the pen.

On success board the other day some lady had written 'I've been doing my tree for six months now and thanks to GR it's almost finished'????????? Anyone want to swop and have my hubby's ancestors? Smiths who married Smiths................. Or my rellies who appeared in .....St Pancras.....in 1841 but didn't exist before then?

Well Merry,if you want a new hobby i know Heather is talking of building some kennel for a new pet she is getting,she might need a hand housetraining and the like. Anyhow,you did find the direct line in the Middlesboro area for my lot,omly another 8 generations back from that and my tree will look balanced instead of hard pruned. Glen

I've flung mine in a box and left it there for the time being , getting on with doing things with real trees- like chopping them own, putting up fencing and mud shifting! 15 wheel barrows full today - you could all come and help!