Average Age of Family History Enthusiasts

[lizdb]

Female 41-50 (sadly nearer the 50 than the 41)

Been doing Family History for ........well, ever!!! Thats what it seems like!
Dabbled as a teenager, just asking a few relly's.
Did some research on own and husband's line when first married in the 1980's.
Devoted next few years to producing and caring for the next line on the famiy tree.
Then spent about 15 years on my tree, now returning to husbands - and via Rootschat have come across someone who has done lots of the work already!!! Wondeful!!!

[carol8353]

Thanks for the felicitations Paul.

May all my censuses be readable..........boy you don't know how I wish that SOooooo much for myself

Mind you after a 'few' drinks celebrating YET another birthday last night I'm not sure I'd be able to read them if they were in inch high letters this morning.. LOL

Cheers 

Carol

[jinks]

I realise you are polling people that are interested
in tracing Family History Now, but would it also be
interesting to find out when they started, I was ten


Jinks

[genjunction]

I started with this infectious hobby when I was 31, but that was still too late to catch my aunt, grandma.

My aunt would not have been pleased had I started earlier as she always said that grandma married twice as she had one name and my dad another.

Aahhh she didn't, my aunt was born out of wedlock, grandma married when my aunt was 4 years old and went on to have 3 more children in wedlock.

So as you can imagine, my aunt either knew of this and wanted it kept shtum or really believed that her mum did marry twice.  I'll never know which !!

Carol
www.wakefieldfhs.org.uk
Wakefield Family History Sharing

[Keith Sherwood]

I dabbled briefly when I was about 18 years old, but I suppose there were too many other more exciting distractions then...
Returned to family history when I was about 32, but again not for long...
However, when I retired from the treadmill of work at the age of 53, I really did get into all this big time - a total obsession for the last 4 years, I must admit...
Keith

[Tariana]

I'm 21. I'll be 22 in August. 

[Bryan.]

Born 1938....so that makes me .....er..... um.....never was much good at maths, thought about my ancestors about 25 yrs ago never followed it through, now wish I had.......nobody to ask questions.

  

[Willow 4873]

I thought about doing it for years and my dad had always expressed an interest so I brought him a book to start filling in in 1987 for his birthday. He only filled a bit in.

When he died in 1998 I picked my mums brains a bit and went up the archive office a couple of times but never really set to it

When she died last year I really started in ernest. Now I'm 41 i'm doing it so my nephew (whos 18 months old) knows all about his family

Willow x

[XPhile2868]

I started when i was 17 - around my 17th birthday in February 2003 - and i'm now 19.