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Where your great great grandparents came from.
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Sue In Yorkshire. | Report | 7 Aug 2016 09:29 |
Do you ever feel you are being pushed into going to visit where your great great grandparents were born and lived and brought up children. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 7 Aug 2016 10:06 |
It's not necessarily a push from the grave. Once you get immersed in FH, there is often the desire to 'walk in the Ancestral footsteps'. |
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Phyll | Report | 7 Aug 2016 10:11 |
I have been to where my 3 x gt. Grandfather lived. I really felt as if I belonged there too. I want to go to Gorey, Co. Wexford to visit where my grandmother came from and yes I do feel as if I am being encouraged to go. |
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magpie | Report | 7 Aug 2016 11:18 |
I have visited the small town in Gloucestershire where my G.G. grandmother was brought up. I also visited the place where the farm she was born on used to be. It's just derelict buildings now, but you can still see the outline of the old house where she lived. I too have an Irish G.grandmother but so far haven't really felt the urge to visit where she was born and lived in County Cork. |
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Barbra | Report | 7 Aug 2016 11:39 |
Really interested to see this thread .My Grt Grt .Grandad came from the highlands of Scotland ,.while I still live in Southwest Scotland hoping for a trip up there .& My other side Grt Grt Granddad came from Tipperary .Maybe Sue there is a pull to go & look .Barbra |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 7 Aug 2016 12:18 |
hmmm... my great great grandfather was a sea captain from Gothenburg and his wife from Ystad. Am I drawn to rush down to the ferry e4very time I heere the dulcet tones of "Wallendar". No, but I do use Wallendar's smart phone called tones. |
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'Emma' | Report | 7 Aug 2016 12:22 |
I have given up on trying to find where my grt grandfather on my mother's side |
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Sharron | Report | 7 Aug 2016 12:54 |
I was born in the same room as my grandfather was. |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 7 Aug 2016 13:29 |
I always had a yen to go to eastern Europe, even from a young age. Partly it was hearing people talk about the 'iron curtain', in my child's imagination it sounded strange and scary but fascinating to imagine what was 'behind' it. I also had a strong pull to London, especially the East End and the social history of the place. At this time I had no idea that, on my mother's side, I had ancestors from East Prussia and Bethnal Green! |
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Janet | Report | 7 Aug 2016 13:57 |
I firmly believe that our dna contains memories. When I was 15 I went on a school trip, to Malham in Yorkshire but I was hooked on the place. I even started buying the Dalesman which wasn't exactly reading for a teenager. Over the years I have been all over the UK but nowhere else has had the same feeling. My Gtx2 grandmother came from there to Huddersfield to marry in 1817 and she is described as of the Parish Giggleswick. Why she came or what feelings she had, leaving the place of her birth to start a completely new life in the outlying districts of this part of Yorkshire I still haven't found out. |
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JemimaFawr | Report | 7 Aug 2016 14:42 |
I believe the same as you Janet- Genetic memory. A predisposition to being drawn to places where our ancestors come from. |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 8 Aug 2016 01:48 |
I don't have to go far for my Mum's side of the family as they were from Norfolk and I know this area well. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 8 Aug 2016 07:28 |
When I moved to Winchester, I thought I was the first family member to live here. |
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Solrosen | Report | 8 Aug 2016 10:54 |
According to the 1851 census my 3x Gt Grandmother (together with 5 of her children) lived at the bottom of the hill - I moved to the fairly newbuilt houses |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 8 Aug 2016 11:15 |
I live in the area where my forebears originated - walk in their footsteps most days - it's a good feeling |
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Graham | Report | 8 Aug 2016 11:28 |
Me too Ann. My ancestors were all from Somerset and Gloucestershire (the adjacent county to the north). |
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Solrosen | Report | 8 Aug 2016 11:28 |
Hi Ann |
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Von | Report | 8 Aug 2016 12:22 |
I'm going to take my grandchildren on holiday to see where their ancestors lived. |
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JemimaFawr | Report | 8 Aug 2016 13:24 |
Me too Von :-D |