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Relatives! Who needs 'em!
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Twinkle | Report | 23 Jul 2004 12:18 |
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I know frustration isn't uncommon in this hobby, but I really fell like whacking my living relatives over the head with something heavy. One, the black sheep, ran away from home and only kept in contact with one of his sisters. After his father died and his sisters went to sort through the house they discovered the house had been stripped bare. Turned out black sheep had driven up in the night and loaded everything - photos, furniture, clothes, the Will - into a van and disappeared again. Second relative found out loads about our Irish ancestry before giving up but kept his findings in a drawer for two years and refused to let me look. I eventually got four A4 pages with the basics and a photo but he won't tell me where he found the information. Third relative has never managed to give the same details twice when I ask about her family. She managed to get my name wrong when I was born so I despair of ever getting useful info out of her. |
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Kim | Report | 23 Jul 2004 14:09 |
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but then if we didn't have any relatives we wouldn't have this hobby would we!!?:-)) |
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Twinkle | Report | 23 Jul 2004 19:11 |
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I prefer my relatives dead and correctly indexed :) |
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Pat | Report | 23 Jul 2004 19:35 |
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Kate, Me too...... lol. Pat x |
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Kelly | Report | 23 Jul 2004 21:56 |
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Hi All. Much the same problems here. Mine have been falling out that long they cant remeber what over. When you ask one about another all you get is oooh we dont talk about him/her. Gettng the basics even has been impossible!! We will be able to site back at a later day though and say we did it with or without them!!! Famiys love or hate em we all have one. Kelly |
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Ann | Report | 23 Jul 2004 22:06 |
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Families are strange though. I have an auntie who started to trace the family tree- getting her to share info with me is like pulling teeth, she almost never offers info, she will only tell you stuff if you ask direct questions. Eventually she gave me some sheets of A4 with a confusing lists of names back to 1600 but no liks between any of them, so I do not know how they fit in to the family . Funny thing is that she is interested enough to find out about these dead rellies, but has not spoken to her own son in years and is not sure exactly how many grand children she has. Strange priorities if you ask me.... |
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