Ancestors who were genealogists ?

[newburychap]

Not an ancestor, by one of my great great uncles (John McLaren) did research his paternal line.  He was obviously serious, taking trips to Scotland (he lived in Leeds) to pursue this hobby.

It was his fault that I got interested. While entering his results into a FH prorgamme so I could print out a tree for my mother I began to fill in a few gaps ...

[Kevinshouse]

I think that my ancestors were quite te opposite to me tracing the family history, they seemed to have had so many secrets and untruths they didn't want anyone to know anything
Kind regards Susan

[clayton bradley]

My great great grandfather, John Broadley, was a postmaster, newsagent, stationer, printer, insurance agent, photographer etc and one of the penny sheets he printed in the 1850s was for peop1e to record their family tree. Unfortunately he doesn't seem to have followed his own advice or my job would have been a lot easier, claytonbradley

[Patricia jackson]

  Oh it would be nice to have some ancestors who liked a bit of genealogy in their spare time. To my knowledge I have none.

[stonechat]

In addition to the lady who wrote the book my grandfather and his brother who was wealthy and lived in South Africa did some investigation

There was one error though

Bob

[Braindead]

My grandfather.

Amongst other things, he sketched out the first family tree - it wasn't perfect but it was a huge start.

He also sketched out what he knew about his grandfather but best of all, he kept all 13 original birth certificates of his aunts and uncles.

[g eli]

My aunt had done quite a lot of research.When I first started 20 odd  years ago (I was interested in names and not much else) she was very helpful with anecdotes about her grandparents.Unfortunately she passed away before I became really involved and realized that it is the minutia that make a family tree really interesting.However I got lucky in that my father had kept a lot of her notes.
On the other side of the family I am the lucky possessor of The Fletcher House of Lace which a very distant cousin compiled with a detailed family tree and personal stories from all the branches.
Liz

[Flora1966]

My nan had old photo's and documents and had written on the back of them who they were...
Nobody in the family is interested in family history except me!! They think I'm boring and should concentrate on the living and not the dead!!

Jules x

[stonechat]

They think I'm boring and should concentrate on the living and not the dead!!

Jules x

That's what my wife says

You keep on Flora

Someone will thank you for preserving your families heritage

Bob