Trouble over Family History !!!

[7igerby7he7ail]

Some of the family are slightly interested, others not at all.
Some were upset when I found that their forebears came from the less attractive parts of of where they live.
Some were not happy when they looked at dates and found that their parents  almost had a 'shotgun marriage' [the bride being say six montha gone]

On the other hand, I have made contact with my father in law's long lost uncle's family.
I have reunited a brother and half sister.

One of my uncles, on hearing that I was doing a tree, said, that I might find what he had useful.
Wedding photos, photo's of the various family houses [dating back to 1890, 12 of them] a list of 'who did what, where' in WW2. and lots of other material which might prove useful at some future date.

Still it's good to listen to stories, theories, half baked rumours, speculation from various family members.

My mum always insisted that her lot ' were Irish'. It must have been passed down as a story. After some reserach, I discovered her great grandfather was born in Antrim, N.I.

[wheeldon]

My Mums is the only one that is interested, she gets genuinely upset if I discover that a lady had an illigitimate child.  She has allways been interested in social history so she understands how dramatic this would have been.

There has been a family feud going on for a few years, so far I'm the only researcher in our family but I often wait for the day when someone from the other side of the family decides to start researching.  I think I will then receive some very negative feed back   

Let's hope they like golf or train spotting 

[polidor]

My 2 daughters are interested in my 'finds', in fact my eldest daughter came with me to Wales recently for some searching.
 My son goes Baa,Baa,Baa every time i mention my Welsh side!!!
I think i'll buy him a sheep for Christmas, that'll do his garden a lot of good  . My husband, well, he is of the 'glazed eyes' variety. If i ever bring up the subject of family history whilst we're out with friends i get something along the lines of " o'h you're not going on about that again are you ?"
 But, Rootschatters, we've all got each other here to listen and be interested and that counts for a lot   Poli

[patrish]

I make no secret of the fact that I am interested nay addicted to family history, its my hobbie and I dont care who knows it or what others think.


Oops I am not usually that forthright, just goes to show how passionate I am about it.


Patrish.

[jax]

my parents are genuinely interested, although mum tends to look at me blankly sometimes when I talk about g g grandad's sister's daughter etc... 

Hubby rolls his eyes, smiles - and listens anyway when I find something which i cant contain and just have to tell somebody...

My eldest daughter always seems amazed at info I find, and she's offered to come gravestone checking this weekend 

My worse is also when somebody promises to send you something and nothing ever comes... - I too would rather not know... 


I have found many family contacts, and they all keep in touch for a while - then I don't hear from them again.. In a couple of cases I have tried to re-connect, but no response.. I think a lot of people get bored?

I get a little insane if I find a contact who I think may have more information in their head than they realize - I want to interrogate them, but stick to being polite and taking whatever they have to offer.. worse if they have a parent or grandparent still alive and I cant get to them 

recent scenario was a distant cousin who has possession of my grandad's brother's war medal...  I've been searching the internet for a trace of where it might be - maybe on sale on ebay? never know I could get lucky..

then out of the blue a contact with long lost cousin who confirms he has medal.. I wanted to get my hands on it so bad!!!  LOL - but he kindly sent me a picture of it - so next best thing and I know I am very lucky to even have that.. it could have been lost forever (but heaven knows I want that medal)   

[hcoldron]

I'm really lucky, my sig.other and his family are interested in their roots, as are my parents!

SOs parents went to visit family in France and came back with loads of information, but not very far back sadly - French researching online seems to be very difficult.

My parents are also a fountain of knowledge about local places and the like, which helps loads.

[KarenM]

My family all know and like to listen, and my friends will listen, they always seem interested and a few of them have then been curious about their own family and asked if I can find anything out for them. 

My husband, dosn't really care, but will go to places with me and does support my hobby.  I do remind him that his hobby (race cars) is alot more expensive than mine 

Here is a picture of my youngest that I took a few weeks ago while looking for a grave, it was getting close to her nap time, so when I looked back there she was having a rest.  I hope Mr. & Mrs. Clark didn't mind.

[kerryb]

Karen

What a lovely photo!  She looks like she's about to drop off - literally!!!!!

Kerry

[Helina]

Unfortunately my family have no interest at all. My sister never even spoke about our parents to her own children. They are now grown up and want  to know about their grandparents but I do not think they are interested going back. Lovely to talk about genealogy to rootschat and the BBC.  helina