Have you visited the Family Home ?

[Wendi]

For those like Sue (sparrett) I came across another site that may allow you to "visit" your ancestors area, as it looks today

http://www.geograph.co.uk/

and have posted it on "useful links"

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=60019.new#new

Wendi

[duckcharm]

My dear Wendi

Thank you so much for the links! I have goose-bumps & the shivers! Even in my winter-time Internet-clicking, I have never seen the wonders that your links are showing to me!

Donna

[Paul E]

Hi Wendi

I thought the photo site was great - but I got carried away and clicked on a link for 'geocaching' - and that's where I got frightened!

Apparently, there are a whole bunch of people out there who use Global Positioning Systems to locate things that other people have deliberately hidden, using co-ordinates and clues.  http://stats.guk2.com/

And people say looking for old gravestones is 'wierd'.

(However, maybe we should embrace the technology, and compile a list of GPS positions for gravestones!)

cheers

Paul

[Keziahemm]

I have an Aunt who still lives in the cottage where my mother was born and going back through the generations to ggggrandparents.

I was also born at the cottage my mother was visiting at the time and I decided to arrive early 

It has grown over the years.  The outside privy is still there complete with wooden seat!  Right upto the late 1950's the cottage was still lit with oil lamps and it was a tin bath in front of the range.  The good old days - or were they?

Susan   

[alllegs]

I'm off to Yorkshire on June 7th to go looking for old family houses and gravestones, I've even managed to bribe my god-father with the promise of a couple of pints to escort me so i don't get too lost!
The only house I've found so far is 131 Bradford Road, Huddersfield where my great grandma and granddad, Minnie and Ernest Bradley lived.  Unfortunatly its not quite the family house it used to be and apparently is around the corner from a brothel - I'm glad my parents moved us all down to Sussex...!

I tried to add a photo of 131 Bradford Road but I can't work out how!!  Anyway it is now a newsagents run by Asian people - don't things change!

[MaryA]

A couple of years ago I took my mum on a trip to London where she was born.  She took me on the bus, remembered where to get off, a stop early so that we could walk along a bit.  She showed me Kingsland Road in Dalston, with "The Waste" opposite where the market is held.  She took me around a corner to a Primary School which used to be Dalston County Secondary School and showed me the bagel shop still there.

Mum will be 88 this year and she was talking about the time she was about 6 years old - and she says the place hasn't changed a bit!

[Jane Eden]

I have only just caught up on this link. Most of my family are local and I have only been doing my history for 1 year. I have now got to the stage of "filling in". My main 4 families, my grandparents, are all local so I can easily go and find the locations of where they lived.

John Walter Comery, my Greatgrandfather, his house is now a pub!
Burrows, Sheratons Row, Hyson Green, under ASDA
Burrows, Ilkeston,  under a one way system
Foster, I think it may still be there, or at least the village is, I must go and have a look

Jane

[Jane Eden]

If anyone is out of Nottingham and needs a photo, (I do work fulll time), but if I can I will take a photo in Nottingham, But not North Notts eg.Mansfield,, if you can be specific about the location.

Jane

[flossy]

  We recently had our lunch in a pub my family lived in for 50 years or more.
I have found them living there on the 1861 census and they were still there in 1901.
  The pub is The Black Bull in great  smeaton, yorkshire. I believe it is listed in the doomday book but as yet have not been able to find out anything more.
  I desperatly wanted to ask the landlord if I could search the attic but didnt have the courage.