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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: daval57 on Friday 06 February 09 11:09 GMT (UK)
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This morning I downloaded an image from ScotlandsPeople of a registry record of an 1857 birth for another Rootschatter.
For those of you that haven't seen one of these images, each image has 3 unrelated births on it, only connection being that they were registered on the same day.
The record I obtained was for someone called McGillivery in Glasgow.
As I was looking at the record, the entry above it was for a William Forrest, his father being a miller by trade.
Forrest is my family name.
No, that's not the co-incidence.
The co-incidence is that I checked out his parents. Turns out he's related to my Forrests.
It doesn't end there.
My Forrests are millers from the Stirlingshire area.
What are the odds of me looking up an unrelated birth in Glasgow for another Chatter and finding one of my family whose parents came from another county.
I'm buying a Euromillions ticket tonight. (probably my neighbour will win!)
Dave
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I did that with the OPR baptisms a few months ago, Dave.
I found the baptism and flicked up the page and found the baptism of my 2 x grt granddad's nephew :D
I don't think I won anything that day :-\
Gadget
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got another one for you to
checking the 1901 census for branches of my dads side, turns out (let me get this right) my grandmas sister's father in law (on my dads side) lived next door to my gt grandma on my mums side.
After asking around ,know one had had any idea the families may have known each other before my parents married.
The kids thought I had lost the plot when I sarted talking to myself in disbelief lol
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That was a bit of luck Dave.
A couple of years ago I downloaded a death record for one of my father's uncles from the 1940's. On the same sheet directly above it was a record for one of my mother's cousins.
Two for the price of one.
(I once won the lottery two weeks running, unfortunately I only got £10 each time.)
leighton
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I have a really good coincidence in my tree:
My husband and I met in the RAF and at the same time made a very good friend (Ian). I come from Durham, my husband from Leeds and Ian from Middlesbrough. A little while ago while on a visit to us I got Ian interested in his family history and we spent some time on the computer tracking down some of his ancestors. One of his family names was Medd. The next day I received the marriage cert for my husband's Gt Gt Grandparents who were married near York and one of the witnesses was called Medd. We looked him up on the census and (after some research) he turned out to be Ian's Gt Gt Grandad! So their families knew each other 150 years ago!
You couldn't write it in a book. People would say it was too far fetched.
Family history - I love it!
Susan
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That was a bit of luck Dave.
A couple of years ago I downloaded a death record for one of my father's uncles from the 1940's. On the same sheet directly above it was a record for one of my mother's cousins.
Two for the price of one.
(I once won the lottery two weeks running, unfortunately I only got £10 each time.)
leighton
2 x tenners is almost a reasonable bottle of Malt! Would do me. ;D
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This morning I downloaded an image from ScotlandsPeople of a registry record of an 1857 birth for another Rootschatter.
I can't thank you enough Dave you have surpassed all our expectations
with Brian in assisting us with my friend's Scottish Links. :)
Sandy
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I discovered, some time ago, that my mother's grandfather was apprenticed to a member of my paternal grandmother's family, in London, as a mast and block maker!
When I found his name while researching that family, chills ran up and down my spine. Many decades before there was a connection by marriage, there was a connection!! ::)
MarieC