Upsetting genealogy?

[carrielovesfanta]

I was thinking about seeing the celebs getting a bit tearful on WDYTYA, and was wondering if anyone had found something out in their tree that had moved them to tears? Especially if it was far back - obviously when it it things about people you know then it's a bit different! (i.e. Colin Jackson's grandmother)

I've found things sad but it's never made me want to cry... am I just hard hearted??!! 

[kena]

Hi, can't say I've ever actually cryed over anything familytree related. Sometimes surprised, sometimes sad but never cryed.

Anna

[kerryb]

Something that did move me to tears was finding my 5 x great grandmother's grave at a local churchyard.  I didn't find her husband and I don't know why I felt so sad when I found the grave.  I have found several other graves but they haven't given me the same reaction.

Kerry

[Gadget]

I've been very sad and angry over some of my finds:

Sad, especially, when I find something that I know my Mum or Dad would have loved to know.

Sad when I found that one of my 2 x great grandmothers probably committed suicide on her wedding anniversary because she'd found out that her husband was having an affair.

Angry at the way my great grandmother and my grandfather were treated by her parents.............. how ancestors were killed because of poor safety regs in the coal mines, were evicted from their lands, etc.

Lots of sadnesses but tears only about my Mum and Dad not knowing all this.

Gadget

[indiapaleale]

Have been very sad over a number of finds....especially my 7 British Home Children...sons and daughters of my Grandad's brother. I have their notes from the Middlemore Home where they were placed...and these children had an awful life.  And...for several of them...it was not much better after they got to Canada

But my saddest is little Agnes....My Grandma's illegitimate half-sister who died of malnutrition at age 2. My Grandma would have been 7 when Agnes died....I often wonder if she remembered her.....but my Grandma has been gone since 1959....so there is no way to know. Agnes bought me close to tears.

[Bill749]

I've found things sad but it's never made me want to cry... am I just hard hearted??!! 

I'm sure you're not Caroline - its only sentimental old fools like me that are moved to tears, not young girls like you.   

[kena]

Hi, today I found out that my 2 times greatgrandmother who had a sister who died at the age of 13 was apparently devestated by her death and for about the next sixty odd years up to her own death visited her sister's grave regularly and burst into tears every time she came back home from there, every time I read it, it makes me feel a bit for her even though my 2 times greatgrandmother died 34 years before I was born. So must admit familytree findings do make me feel sad from time to time.

Anna

[Nutty1966]

When I found out that my late dad's grandma was placed in the workhouse listed as a pauper, that got to me and my mum who remembers her grandma in law well, she is the lady on my profile, only good thing is that she did go on to have a good life with her husband and her numerous children and grandchildren, she died the year before I was born but I was the fourth great grandchild so she knew a few of us

But they all seemed to have hard times and not a life like we do.  I feel quite ashamed now as I have moaned today because I have had to buy a new washing machine, I would think they would have been pleased with a twin tub in there time.

Jane

[panda40]

I met up with a second cousin and we were sharing family photos and history. I showed him a picture of his father and his two brothers and one sister. My cousins father had never told him that he had a sister he only new about the brothers (one my grandfather). She died of meningitis at nine years of age. As far as I know I have the only two photos in existence of poor Florence.  It was very moving to see someone take in the information that he had an aunt he knew nothing about.

Regards Nicola