Common themes in your bloodline?

[jinks]

I have a few common themes ........ one line of my family seem to have rather large families 16 or 18 much larger than the normal - really difficult to manage on a standard family tree another line of the family have a tendency to have women that are a lot older than the men folk (toyboys and cougars is not a new thing  ). i also have a lot of farmer's sons marrying publican's daughters lol

[Meezer]

Now this is another topic altogether - that of what genes do you think you have inherited through your bloodlines...?

I've always been petrified of canal locks - looking down into them at the sheer sides and thinking how horrible it would be to fall in and not be able to get to the point where there was a ladder to get out. Never had a bad experience myself or been warned to be wary of them, just a deep seated fear in me. When I started researching the family I discovered that I come from a great dynasty of watermen on my grandmother's side - men who worked "flats" around Runcorn and Widnes. One of the wives slipped, fell in a dock and was drowned taking her husband a meal one night, her son fell in the canal and drowned as a adult and my great great grandfather was knocked overboard in an accident and lucky to survive. Have I inherited a wariness of the locks in my genes?

[snooziflooze]

Now this is very interesting...and yes, it could explain your irrational fear of canal locks.  Well, how else can you explain it???

 

[stormtroop]

AAHH now Meezer , that is a valid topic!!.

You see , you get this reincarnation "thing", but there is some basis for the belief  that it could be genetic "memory" , now where do you get that ability, talent, fear, knowledge you could not have, but l-and I am addressing everyone here; why do we weep at a war which in one year will commemorate the centenary of??, 1914-18 ,  do we hold deep  within ourselves the memory of loss, grief and burden which it imposed upon our families at the time . And then think  further back in time.

The possibilities are endless and truly amazing  -get searching!

[lisalucie]

I find myself thinking this sort of thing a lot to be honest and have to stop myself saying "oh that's where that comes from then".
For example I can see in one line a "pattern" of good mom, bad mom, good mom, bad mom etc but these moms had several daughters and for every "bad mom" I find, there's four other daughters who were good!

(And obviously it's now run it's course because I am a fab mom - even though I am ignoring my daughter right now so I can post this haha) x

[Ronbucks]

Illegitimacy in particular on the paternal side of the family. Perhaps I should  amend my surname to be triple barrelled to suit?? .

[KentishChris]

Workers!
Whether they worked hard is another question altogether, but I've been very proud of the roles my ancestors have played by the jobs they used to do.
One female ancestor in particular, worked from home, supporting 4 young children after her husband had passed away. There is someone still alive today that remembers her, and told me that she was always working long hours!

Marriages
2nd, 3rd marriages! Confuses the hell out of me!

Not being part of a will. My ancestors always seem to miss out in the will. Although I suppose that doesn't mean they didn't get anything!

Probably common themes among all families, but these are what I have found in mine! 

Chris

[IgorStrav]

I come from long lines of Ag Labs and Gen Labs, but my paternal greatx2 grandfather joined the police, and then his son and my grandfather did the same - and lots of the family turned out to be policemen when I researched them.  Kept popping up all over the place.

I think the point of doing this was that - unlike most other jobs at the time - being a policeman meant you GOT A PENSION.  And that was immensely valuable. 

No, the occupation's not passed down to me....

[Graham47]

Found more a few of mine worked on the railways and for the same reason I suppose, a good pension. The railway companies were among the first to provide one to their employees and although for many it was a dangerous job (one great grandfather was a shunter on the NE mineral railway) it must have ben a pretty top notch job in it's day.