General Chat

Have you many in your tree?

I have over 2,000 people in my tree, and only have 4 Smith's & 4 Jones, and they married into the family.

Do most people have lots, or is my tree unusual in it's lack of Smiths and Jones"?

I have 3773 people on my tree at present.

Despite being Welsh, I have only 15 Jones' through marriage and over half of these are not Welsh, but from the Kent area.

I have 26 Smiths. Again, the name coming into my tree through marriage.

So ALAS, not so many SMITH and JONES! :-D

I'm Welsh too, but not one Jones and no Smith's either

I have 2455 people in my tree

8 smiths and 8 jones

my most common names are Halls(224)

So perhaps the names Smith and Jones aren't as common as we are led to believe then?

Poor Muffy
has Smiths married to Smiths

That must be a really hard tree to follow :-(

I have 2500 people in my my tree ...... 10 Jones and 11 Smith ......... all are only marriages to very distant cousins etc.... Except one who was my Great grandmother for whom I have the certificate as the mother of my paternal grandmother. <3

I thought I had a Smith (picked the wrong bride) and only one family of Jones's (through marriage) who went off to Utah in the 1860's and became Mormons, so not bothered any more with them

I do another 9 trees, wiith an average of a couple of hundred names in each tree, not one of them has Smith or Jones in them :-0

By the way, hi Jo, long time no speak :-D

No Smith or Jones either for me not even into the family with over 1500 names that are direct links and not inter-married, I dont know if some in a long chain in Manchester/Cheshire went into Smith or Jones,,,,,,but stopped doing twigs of more twigs as the genetic line gets to thin then to be --------


BLUE BLOOD, ;-) :-D :-D

6 Jones and 63 Smiths out of 3187.

7 Smiths 4 women who married into the family and one of my 1st cousins married a smith and they now have two children. 6 Jones one of my second cousins once removed married a Jones and went on to have two children and now has three grandchildren.

I have Smiths, Smyths and Smythes - all the censuses show they spelt their names differently (same family.) They give me a bloomin' headache, the lot of them :-| :-P

My maternal Grandmother was a Smith so yes have Smiths generations of them.

Strangely it is another branch of her family, the Simmonds, who were the village (black)smiths for several generations

Nearest SMITH relations are spouse of a 2nd cousin and also that of a 2nd cousin once removed.

JONES......far too many of them. They crop up wherever I have relatives.

GG grandfather on paternal side was JONES.....a labourer in Southampton. I haven't managed to track back beyond his father, also a labourer.

Maternal GGG grandmother was a JONES from Herefordshire.
One of her daughters also married a JONES, no relative as far as I can make out. Several people in these lines moved to the South Wales valleys ( weren't there enough Jones there already?)
Once in Wales many married DAVIES......oh joy !

Gwyn

I wonder how many people get put off making a family tree because they have so many relations called Smith or Jones.

My maternal grandmother was a Smith.

Her grandparents had 11 children, two of the daughters married Smiths, who were brothers. All 11 children got married and named their children after their parents etc......... and they all lived in the same small town. I wonder how many John Smiths lived there :-S

Not sure how many Smiths on my tree (my own tree, not the GR tree) ..... probably a couple of thousand!