How long have you been researching your family tree?

[crystalight]

Just thought I would add my post here,    I have been researching almost solidly for over three years now, I realise that is not all that long compared to some.

I have at times been amazed, frustrated, confused, delighted, disheartened ......and so on.
But, I have found out so much........ and still have so much to find out 
I have researched World Wars, India and the British in the Indian Army, Cheshire salt mines, Photography, Bakeries, Tea Dealing, Ag Labs.......the list is endless.
I have roots in Scotland, Ireland, Cheshire, Surrey, Sussex, Essex, London and Middlesex to name a few.

I have filled my spare time very easily and met (or 'spoken to') some lovely people on the journey, so I will be continuing my search - I wonder if anyone ever finishes 

Crystal 

[MarieC]

I wonder if anyone ever finishes 

Crystal 

Crystal

Only when you leave this earthly realm and go to where you can ask all those unanswered questions of the people concerned!! 

I suppose you get to a stage where you can write a book, but you are still going to keep finding out things which will make the book to some extent incomplete!

Unless you draw a line in the sand and say - that's it, I know enough, I am satisfied with what I have!

MarieC

[crystalight]

Only when you leave this earthly realm and go to where you can ask all those unanswered questions of the people concerned!! 

I suppose you get to a stage where you can write a book, but you are still going to keep finding out things which will make the book to some extent incomplete!

Unless you draw a line in the sand and say - that's it, I know enough, I am satisfied with what I have!

MarieC

Marie,

I wonder,  when we reach that place and are able to ask all the questions of the people concerned.............How much of the tree we will have missed out  and if we will be satisfied with the explanation of some of the more complicated issues 
As you say even if you were to write a book, new facts come to light - then you would have to start all over again to correct it 

I don't think I would be able to say that's it, I know enough.

Crystal 

[MarieC]

I don't think I would be able to say that's it, I know enough.

Crystal 

No, not me either, Crystal.  I'll be searching till I die - and then watch out, a couple of ancestors, you are in real trouble when I catch up with you! 

MarieC

[kerryb]

Can I take a printed questionnaire with me when I go to that place?? 

Kerry

[MarieC]

Aren't all the questions burned into your brain, Kerry?? 

They are in mine!   

MarieC

[kerryb]

I'm going to have to start practicing Marie so that I remember them ALL better than my pin numbers 

But there are so many.

Kerry 

[soulsister]

I started when I was 14 with my nana,  so almost 12 years now!

Emma

[NadT]

dabbled on and off for about 18 months, but seriously looking fro about 2 years so nearly 4 so far.  I think i've got about another 20 years worth opf research at least to do with my family and my hubby's.  There's always something to send you off in another direction!!