My sister doesn`t want me to do the family history.

[johngirl]

Oh great,

             So there may be some hope to get my husband interested in finding bodys with me.

         Johngirl.

[forthefamily]

Johngirl.....

A little blood and gore and battles and maps...lots and lots of maps...army stuff....it was way too easy. He has an elderly uncle who lives in England ....80ish....who he hasn't been in contact with for years and now he's involved.....poor old man    I'm saying nothing 

mab 

[johngirl]

Well Mab'
              I will have to find all the gruseome bits in our family tree to start to get him interested. We have a few convicts in his side of the tree so will check to see if they done a murder or two. The trouble is his side of the family never done anything very interesting in their life. Will have to get him more interested in my side. There we have a murder in the family and my Isaac ancestors were fighting the Normandys in the 1520`s. They were warriors or something like that. Have been finding a bit about them lately on the net. A few were also in the first and second world war. Might get him interested in something like that.

  Johngirl

[forthefamily]

Well I have nothing as interesting as a murder but communication is everything  ....I don't think you need to find the gruesome bits..... sit him down and show him what you have been doing and how you found the info and the process....because those of us that do genealogical research do...as far as I'm concerned....have special skills. I have given access to my youngest son to my tree on Ancestry....he seems fascinated by the fact that I found all the information on the internet  Well I guess I'm in this century after all.... 

mab

[stonechat]

As soon as my wife learnt that her grandma might be jewish, she did not want further research done, she think anti-Jewish  feelings could be a danger.

The same grandma was a bit of a conundrum, I thought she might be adopted

Bob

[IgorStrav]

Bob that's a real shame, as it could be fascinating to find out about Jewish history/customs etc just as it is about anything you don't know a lot about.

My mother was fairly dismissive about the Catholic religion, and I have discovered that her grandparents were evidently Catholic, and married in a Catholic church - I'm sure she would have been fascinated. 

[Aulus]

In 2011 another in depth census will take place. Why don't we photocopy our contribution and place it in our research notes for posterity?

What a brilliant idea!

[vowlest]

Definately carry on with your research.  My Dad didn't want me to research our family tree, I knew he didn't have a happy childhood and I think he didn't want me to find out a few porkies he had told.  However by researching I found the address he was born in, in Wales, and about a month before he died after a long illness and he longed to visit his youthful home he wasn't able to travel nor was he able to remember the address.

I had it and was able to bring it up on google maps and show him.  To see his face, you'd have thought I'd transported him there.

The lies I have found out make not a jot of difference to my memories of him and my feelings, but helped me cope with a difficult time and helped me really understand the circle of life and how we can keep these people alive.  If we don't tell their stories then they truly die.  Research keeps them alive.

Your sister may one day be happy about your research, or maybe her children will want a sense of where they came from when the get older.

Enjoy your hobby for you and others that will come after you.
Tracey

[Willow 4873]

Well put Tracey

Thats one of the reasons my tree is online. My uncle who didn't reply has grandchildren who will be in their late teen/early twenties now and one day they might get interested in where they came from .....

Willow x