The worst surnames to search for?

[Carra]

Its a pain isn't it? I get quite jealous when I read messages on here saying 'I googled .... and got all this information!  I'm sure there's lots of info out there we'd just have to search through millions of hits to find it!
Carra

[jericho]

I have been searching for a new line - try Googling for the name BOX!!

You get everybody's PO Box numbers!!
 

I'm searching for two branches of  STREET 'S   not connected, so imagine what that is like,  nearly as bad as all those PO Box numbers.



jericho

[CarolBurns]

You should try searching for Jones, Owen, Griffiths, Williams and Thomas among others in North Wales and Anglesey and then go across to Northumberland and Scotland and look for Burns and Turnbull

Oh such fun !!

Why couldn't we be Schwartz in Anglesey or something like that - so much easier to find!

But I suppose less of a challenge and not worth the excitement when you do fins them lol

Carol

[ozlady]

I know Carol. I've got Prices on both sides of the family who married other Prices, usually John's and Jane's.

[CarolBurns]

Here's my best one though

My Grandmother was Mary Elma Williams, daughter of Catherine Thomas who was the daughter of William Thomas.

Mary's husband was Hughie Thomas, son of William Richard Thomas who was the son of William Thomas.

Both William Thomas' were born within a few years of each other and both born in the same area.

Family names for BOTH sides were William, Hugh, Elizaneth, Mary, Jane, Margaret

Try searching for them and not getting a few headaches lol

Carol

[ozlady]

How's the snow?

[CarolBurns]

Luckily we don't get much here in Blackpool because of the sea. Thank goodness - never did like snow that much

Carol

[ozlady]

I was talking to the rellies in South Wales last night. It's been pretty bad down there. Here, we're having an absolute deluge! Yippee!

[OzKat]

My husband has gg and ggg grandfathers called David White. When I discovered this I thought immediately that this was going to be a dead end - how much more common could you get.  But gee - this has proven to be one of the most easy lines to research both here in NSW and where they came from in Devon.

(Hmm - I haven't looked at that line for a while but I might now go and see if I can push this back even further.)

Kath