How far back?

[Lisajb]

As far as you can, definitely agree!

My children are starting to get interested, they're 26 and 24.  What started it for my son was finding a couple of chaps who had died in WW1. Now he's asking questions like "How do you do it?" and "how do you know you've found the right person?"

My mum is very interested, except she's convinced we have Irish blood, even though I've found not a drop.

My husband never was, until (he's a cabby) he picked up a chap who'd come from the same town in Ireland that his family were from.

[alan66]

Interesting replies. Thank you.

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[Seoras]

Absolutely, if I hadn't gone further back I wouldn't have found that my family were not always miners, fishermen, weavers etc and that way back some were fairly well off and were property/land owners. Or that my first name stemmed not only from my grandfather and great grandfather but had in fact been in every generation of one family from at least the late 1600's.

Also I wouldn't have been able to find out about and locate gravestones of my 3xG, 4xG and 5xG grandparents.