Ancestors who were genealogists ?

[drodgers34]

Just intererted generally about RC-ers experiences finding out that ancestors were genealogists themselves.

Particularly if you didnt know prior to taking it up yourself - although interested in the subject generally

Dale

[angelfish58]

OH's great grandad did some research into his fathers line back in the 1940s and so far I'm no further back than he was but I really wish he'd done his mothers line as that's quite tricky 

[janan]

Hi

My Dad's grandfather clearly had an interest as he copied entries from two bibles (his own and his wife's families) in the early 1900's. Dad's father then did further research from 1920's onwards. It was photocopies of their efforts which started me off.

Jan

[stonechat]

Not in my direct line

Ihad a women who wrote a book entitled
Records of a Quaker family : the Richardsons of Cleveland

This is not my  family unfortunately

Bob

[eadaoin]

my uncle did a bit of research into the Lynhams and Everards of Co Meath in the 1940s - this was quite a help - his sisters had kept the few pages he wrote then.

eadaoin

[aghadowey]

When my grandmother's grandparents celebrated their golden (50th) anniversary in 1905 a relative gave them notes on all the various ancestral lines going back to 1500s in some cases- so far I haven't found many mistakes 

[Phil Goater]

My 3 x great grandmother Elizabeth Howard had a great nephew John Richards Howard who became a Mormon and is reputed to have played a prominent part in setting up their family history records.
It was some while before I discovered this. John had a dramatic rescue when his Dad went down with the HMS Birkenhead off South Africa. He clearly benefited from the institution of the 'Birkenhead drill' where the troops were ordered to wait and let the women and children off first - as Rudyard Kipling wrote:'  But to stand an' be still to the Birken'ead drill is a damn tough bullet to chew,'
His interest helped me before I realised it because I was able to trace Elizabeth's line back a bit through the LDS site.

Phil

[Annie65115]

Not as such - but on National Archives I did find a handwritten family tree, dated 1911, for one of my branches. It was put together when a will was being contested.

[mosiefish]

My Grandmother born 1889 was a bit of a genealogist although I didn`t know it when she was living.  When her house was being sold in 1980 nobody wanted the box of photos and papers, so I took them.  Oh! what a lot of information was in that box when I started taking an interest in the family history some ten years later.  Not only had she drawn up a family tree, but in the 1920s and onwards had taken photos of family graves when on her travels.