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[AiredalePete]

Hi Everyone

I stumbled upon this discussion board in the process of trying to trace a relative. A member here has the same surname. No, I'm not going to ask for help at this stage. It's very nice of you to ask but we have only just met! I'm a big believer in 'serving my apprenticeship' by helping with other posters' queries for a while first.

You will gather from my username that my name is Peter and I am in Airedale, just on the outskirts of Leeds more precisely. I have been researching my own and my wife Christine's family histories for several years and have made lots of friends around the world in the process. For me, this is one of the exciting things about genealogy: it isn't only about researching 'dead rellies'.

I was born in Nelson, Lancashire in 1951 but my father's family came from Thornton, Bradford and my mother's family came from the Halifax area around Heptonstall and Todmorden. There are a lot of farmers and weavers among my ancestors. Up to now I haven't discovered anyone famous and I haven't come across a stately home to which I can lay claim. It hasn't stopped me trying though. You never know what might turn up!

Thank you for accepting me as a member of your community and I wish you all a very Happy Christmas and a Peaceful and Prosperous New Year.

Peter

[mare]

Great introduction Peter

Welcome to Rootschat, you'll soon find it addictive 

Compliments of the season to you and yours

  mare  NZ

[GeoffP]

Hi Peter,

Welcome to RootsChat. I am sure that you will find many people here willing to help you.

A very Happy Christmas and peaceful New Year.
    
                                                                   Geoff

[kiwihalfpint]

Welcome to Rootschat Peter

Addictive     helpful Rootschatters    and of course making new friends.

Merry xmas and all the best for 2009

Cheers
KHP

[majm]

Welcome, WELL COME ON IN !!

Pete, I joined about three months ago, I promise you tis an addictive place - always open, always cheerful, always informative, and always full of people willing to help each other.

Cheers,

MA

[tarnee]

Hi Peter,

Welcome glad you stumbled in, we are really all very nice and you will find many  people just willing to help you, if you can help someone else thats a bonus for us. .

Merry Christmas

Jean
In Australia

[Tephra]

Welcome to RootsChat Peter........as has been said before, we're a very nice bunch.   And yes, RC is very addictive (it's also a trifle mad on the ToT boards.......pop over sometime and join in the madness, we're fun really.)


Barbara

[AiredalePete]

Thank you very much for your warm welcomes! I see there are members in Australia, where the WALMSLEYs in my wife's family now live and in New Zealand where the SHACKLETONs in my own family now live.

I envy them at this time of the year, when it's cold and damp in England. I don't blame them for turning their backs on the windwept hills of West Yorkshire and starting a new life on the sheep farms of New Zealand. Their descendants seem to be builders and chemists now though. Perhaps there isn't much call for woolly jumpers!

[newbe_nz]

Hi Peter, Welcome to Rootschat from me as well

Depending What part of NZ you are in we still need woolly Jumpers.

It can get very cold in Winter

Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2009

Cheers
Newbe