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I have been 'doing the family tree' for over 6 months now and am totally addicted. I've only got back to 1830 so far, and really love to hear of other genealogists stories, So how long have you all been doing family history and how far back have you got?
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Hi Kat !
With a couple of my families, I've got back to the 1500's, some back to the 1700's, and others the 1800's, but I'm still working on all of them. You can have a look at the results on my website if you wish, (see signature below)
Happy hunting and good luck with your searches !!
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Wow! How do you know your definately on the right ancestral line? My surnames are so common (Hill, Miller, Roberts), it seems to be trial and error sometimes!
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One line in my tree fairlet easy got back to 1780s ;D
But rhe rest are a bit harder !! :-[
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Don't worry Kat,
If you do your research thoroughly enough, you'll always find the correct ancestors. Take it slowly at first and double check everything, and after a while it becomes easier.
Anything you wish to know, you can find on this site - just post a query in the specific place and someone will come to your aid.
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until monday this week i was at 1845 - on my direct line and thinking about getting the siblings sorted etc.
then i found a 4th cousin, who lives in east grinstead, and has been researching the family tree for a while, so now have info going back to 1711 -
im really pleased, but a tiny bit of me wanted to dig about :)
so now will compare notes with him, and start on my payne line aswell and see where that goes.
good luck
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My 2 problem lines are Williams' - both going back only to the late 1800s, otherwise I've got 12 lines going back in to the 1700s, and 2 others going into the 1650s, the best one though is a registered death in 1451. Working back from my daughter, thats 20 generations.
With that one though I must admit it wasn't my work, but notes that a great aunty of a newly found cousin had put together (they were gentry, and had everything written down in a family bible, which has since been confirmed with parish records etc.) - so we swapped. What he had in depth, going back, I had in width coming up to the present day. We met about 1820 ish.
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The Only One i have got far back on is My Dyson Family of Liverpool..which is James Dyson m Phobe Westhead in St Nicholas Church Liverpool 1818..This Family was Quite Easy to do because the Familys Stayed in One Area of Liverpool Up to the late 1930's.. The Hardest one i That am doing is my Grandfathers.The Slater Family .Only Now After 8-9 Years Searching got back to 1851 Liverpool ..But after all the Searching it all worth while..
And Plus when i get stuck i like helping others find there familys..Even though i don't know them it gives me a lift when i find them for someone
Regards
Iria
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My problem is that my lot have moved around so much, but in a way that makes it even more interesting because I've learned so much about history and every day life in different generations, for example some Miller's emmigrated to the USA in 1925, it would have took 10 days! And my Hill side worked and lived at Tyne Dock in the 1870, what a place that must have been.
I also get waylaid into finding out as much as possible about each new ancestor, I keep pestering older members of my family (some of whom I didnt even know existed until I started the research) for all their photographs and memories, its amazing how you begin to build a picture up in your mind of what they were like.
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have been doing my family name for about ten yrs off & on. I've got as far as 1750ish with the tree.been stuck for a couple of yrs now. I've got names as far back as 1500 again can not connent the to my tree.hopeing someone will leave me a family tree with every thing in place lol
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I can go back as far as Adam and Eve!
Adam was created on October 13th 4004 BC according to Archbishop Usher - a noted 17th centaury genealogist. So thats 6000 years 3 months three weeks and 1 day - although as Adam was created as an adult it might be longer ???
This isn't as difficult to do as it might sound - I only traced one branch of my family back to 1720 where I found that I was descended from a farmer who was the youngest son of a "noble" family who is included in genealogies of the great and the good. (All down-hill from there :'( )
All Welsh noble families are inter-related and there is a document in Jesus Collage Oxford which shows how one of them, the Tudors of Penmynydd AGY (Henry VIII, Elizabeth I etc), are descended, through a common ancestor, from Adam!
On the other hand I am stuck in 1833 with my paternal grandfather's maternal line and in 1926 with my wife's mother's family - so even those of us who can boast that we have gone all the way, still have the same brick walls that frustrate the vast majority of family historians.
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I am just working on my paternal grandmother's family, as other family members are working on other parts of the family. (Lots of us bitten by the bug!)
With two lots, I am back to about 1800 and there are an assortment of problems about going further back. With one branch I got lucky - found something on the Net that takes them back to the thirteenth century! Nothing to do with my good research.
You never know - might get clues about the others one day!
MarieC
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A cousin of my Dad's has got our BLANKS line back to the mid 1500s in Cambridgeshire. I haven't yet put it all onto my tree until I've checked it out, got copy certificates yet, etc. :)
I've got back to the late 1700s on a couple of lines. :)
So why is it the one branch I really want to sort out as I am one of the few descendants is causing me the biggest headaches ? :'( :'(
And my Dad's family is a dead end in the Isle of Wight? >:(
Grrrrrrr...........
Helen
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Dolgellau,
looks like you are one up these family historians then:
1st Historian: "I can trace our lineage back to Alexander the Great, but the records were lost when the Library of Alexandria was burnt down"
2nd. Historian: "How unfortunate ! Our family records were lost in the Deluge"
Seriously though,
We do have a family tree printed in the Jewish Encyclopedia from 1905, that goes back to 1550, but I can't claim that I, personally had anything to do with that research, so I feel shy about claiming it.
My own personal efforts have only got back to the early 19th century.
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About forty years ago a great-aunt of mine handed me a rolled up tree showing the pedigree of the Gurney family, which went back through the name variants to Gourney, Gournay, de Gournay, to about the year 800 in Normandy.
For some reason she imagined there might, somewhere, be a mutation of the name, perhaps in the 15th Century, to my mother's family name of Gournard/Gurnard/Gourner/ and finally Gurner, today.
The Gurner family are quite straightforward to trace as between at least 1560 and 1897 they stayed in the same small village in Ickleton, Cambridgeshire as tenant farmers.
I am sure the link, if there is indeed one, must be wishful thinking. One little puzzling detail, though.
The man who was Lord Mayor of London, Sir Richard Gurney, who was a Royalist and died in the Tower as a prisoner in 1647 was born as Richard Gurnard in 1577 in Croydon, Surrey. For some reason, when he was knighted by King Charles he changed his surname from Gurnard to Gurney.
Finally, one of the helms on the Gurney coat of arms in the 15th C. is a downward-pointing gurnard fish.
Just wishful thinking, of course, imagining one can trace one's family back to 800... but I still have an occasional poke about amongst 15th Wills from time to time...
Keith