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Offline loo

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I never thought I'd get to 100!
« on: Thursday 24 May 07 19:30 BST (UK) »
I am so proud of myself!
No, I didn't just celebrate my 100th birthday.

But I did just tip over the edge of having 100 identified direct ancestors.  I now have 102 of them, going back to a gggggggggrandfather born in 1650, who is the most recent one I have learned about. 

I can't prove all of them absolutely, but I can prove most of them, and I have reasons to believe they are all correct.  I'm expecting to receive 2 or 3 more names in the next couple of weeks.

It has taken 2 years, 2 months and several days, of fairly steady work.  And, to think it all started in part because I didn't think I had much family!!

Yippee!

Edited to amend:  I'm now up to 105, and probably will have a couple more next week!
ARMSTRONG - Castleton Scot; NB; Westminstr Twp
BARFIELD - Nailsea
BRAKE - Nailsea
BURIATTE
CANDY - M'sex, Deptford
CLIFFORD - Maidstone
DURE(E) - France, Devon, Canada
HALLS - Chigwell
KREIN, Peter/Adam - Germany
LEOPOLD - Hanover, London
LATTIMER, MAXWELL - Ldn lightermen
MEYER - Lauenstein
MURRAY - Scot borders
STEWART - Chelsea; Reach
SWANICK - Mayo & Roscommon; Ontario
WEST - Rochester & Maidstone
WILLIS - Wilts, Berks, Hants, London
WOODHOUSE - Bristol tobacconist, London
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Re: I never thought I'd get to 100!
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 24 May 07 19:35 BST (UK) »
Wow! Not only 100 ancestors, but an 8xgreat gandfather! Well done!

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Re: I never thought I'd get to 100!
« Reply #2 on: Friday 25 May 07 08:54 BST (UK) »
What a sense of achievement, loo!!  :)

You can't ever stop, of course.  You have to keep on looking - and looking - and looking - for the rest of your life!

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Re: I never thought I'd get to 100!
« Reply #3 on: Friday 25 May 07 09:03 BST (UK) »
That's amazing, loo  :o :o

I've been going for ages and I can only definitely confirm 32  :(  Why oh why didn't at least one of my ancestors marry someone who wasn't an agricultural labourer.....  ::)

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And most especially the origins of William Cannings,  a Baptist, born abt 1791 in Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire

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Re: I never thought I'd get to 100!
« Reply #4 on: Friday 25 May 07 09:38 BST (UK) »
You'll all hate me for this... but I have 275 :o

Probably partly because the number will double each generation and I'm 19.

Andrew

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Re: I never thought I'd get to 100!
« Reply #5 on: Friday 25 May 07 10:21 BST (UK) »
Andrew

No, good luck to you!!  Just think how much you will have found by your old age!!  :o :o :o :o :o :o

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Re: I never thought I'd get to 100!
« Reply #6 on: Friday 25 May 07 15:27 BST (UK) »
Congratulations loo. Glad you shared with us. It's a great feeling reaching those milestones.

And Andrew, no hating here. Thrilled for you and you give us hope. I do wish I had started at an earlier age, when I would have had more older relatives to question. Although, then I might have ended up with all those family "stories."

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Wexford and Staffordshire: Hayes, McClean
Galway and Staffordshire: Scott
Coventry: Wells, Collins, Palmer, Moody, Beck, Mickelwright, Husbands
Ireland: McNulty (Sligo), Kealy, Murphy (Carlow) Connolly, Gillen, Powell, Ryan, Moore, Martin
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Re: I never thought I'd get to 100!
« Reply #7 on: Friday 25 May 07 16:25 BST (UK) »
I must acknowledge a definite shortage of ag labs, and villages full of people with identical names in my tree, which is a big bonus.  They were mostly English tradesmen + Canadian settlers, many of whose roots in the "Old Country" are known, but it took me a while to find the people who knew.  I think it helps that they moved around, so that they are easier to identify in the new place as there are not so many of them there.

I have so many surnames now that I can't fit them all onto my profile! 
(Bad girl, such bragging!)

I must admit Andrew is the age of my grandson, and i have no hope of ever hitting 200!!  But I do think I can get a few more as there is some research I haven't done yet.  Congrats, Andrew!

My thanks to everyone here who has helped.  JustinL probably didn't know it at the time, but he was absolutely instrumental in my being able to verify the last 14 ancestors, as he led me through a foreign-language site that I couldn't get anywhere with;  I'm expecting a few more from that line! ;D

ARMSTRONG - Castleton Scot; NB; Westminstr Twp
BARFIELD - Nailsea
BRAKE - Nailsea
BURIATTE
CANDY - M'sex, Deptford
CLIFFORD - Maidstone
DURE(E) - France, Devon, Canada
HALLS - Chigwell
KREIN, Peter/Adam - Germany
LEOPOLD - Hanover, London
LATTIMER, MAXWELL - Ldn lightermen
MEYER - Lauenstein
MURRAY - Scot borders
STEWART - Chelsea; Reach
SWANICK - Mayo & Roscommon; Ontario
WEST - Rochester & Maidstone
WILLIS - Wilts, Berks, Hants, London
WOODHOUSE - Bristol tobacconist, London
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Re: I never thought I'd get to 100!
« Reply #8 on: Friday 25 May 07 21:59 BST (UK) »
Congratulation! By direct ancestors do you mean just on one surname - or do you mean all the ancestors which are genetically yours?

If its the latter then iv got 100 too...well ok 98...

Alison
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