How many years have you been searching for any one person?

[bradburyd]

More than 30 years trying to find my paternal grandfather Louis Wallace, silversmith!

[bennett]

Can't believe it's 8 years ago,when I added to this post.
My word, time flies,I did get there in the end,found who I was looking for.
Also found a half brother,who is brilliant, and looks just like me.(spooky)
Found also all my long lost family from Liverpool,
Rootschat is a brilliant site,so many many helpful people, and so supportive.
 

Bennett

[Lisajb]

10 years looking for Ann Woodman, whose illegitimate son George was baptised in 1785 in Little Sodbury, Gloucestershire, but with nothing to go on but a name, I'm probably not going to find her.

George went on to marry and have at least 2 sons (there's possibly a third, and others), George and James Martin. When George junior marries he gives his name as George Martin Woodman, son of George Martin Woodman. I did wonder if that might have been a clue to the elder George's father, but so far no sign of a marriage between Ann and a Mr Martin.

And about the same length of time looking for James' wife Eliza (nee Mathews). Fathers name left blank on the marriage certificate (James fathers details were also missing for some reason). Birthplace given on the census variously as Purton Wiltshire (possibly Porton, Wilts), Not Known and Wapley and Codrington, Glos. The 1841 census was taken after James and Eliza married, so she's not the one with father Isaac in Purton. I'm probably more likely to track down Eliza than Ann, but they are a struggle.

Thanks for listening!

[bykerlads]

Still trying to find out who my grtgrtgranfather was.
There is no named father on the birth cert or the baptism record of my grtgran Annie Green Taylor born Holmfirth West Yorks. 19/05/1867 to Hannah Taylor ( Green was Hannah's late mother's name)
Annie seems to have been a woman of great strength who transcended the many difficulties of her situation and raised so huge family who all did well for themselves.
Also, I suspect that she, via her unknown father, imported what we call the " swarthy gene" into our otherwise typically local fair haired, light skinned family.
Am still looking for our "tall, dark stranger"!!

[sami]

I've easily spent 30 years looking for for my gt. granmother - Mary Anne / probably 'Sedgwick' / but could be a 'Blower' / or maybe even a 'Nixon'.

I'll find her one day 

[healyjfch]

Inmates of Workhouse and Jails were not named on census forms
Recorded by initials only.
For those who are trying to find ancestors, try their known initials.

Poor people got jailed for very minor offences, such as stealing a loaf of bread.

[carol8353]

Inmates of Workhouse and Jails were not named on census forms
Recorded by initials only.
For those who are trying to find ancestors, try their known initials.

Some were,it all depended on how many names the governor had to write out and if he actually even KNEW all their names!

[patrish]

I cant remember how long I have been trying to find out where and what happened to my paternal great grandmother................ feels like a liftime 

[bykerlads]

I had tried for a long time to find out when, if at all, my Oh's grtgrtgranmother had remarried. Or even if her first husband had in fact died.
No trace of any marriage in London where, going by the censuses, they had lived.
Only by chance after a long wait did I find that she remarried in Dublin- between censuses, as it were.
I deduce that her first husband, a coachman in London, was employed by an Anglo- Irish family and he and his family went to Ireland to work. He died there and she wed another servant in the household before returning to London.
Quite a revelation.