Heir raising moment -spooky or what ?!?

[coombs]

Showing an interest in the Kray Twins for over 10 years, then finding out, and verifying for myself that we share ancestors in Shoreditch in the 1780s. Also we may be related through a Sussex line.

Finding out I am distantly related to a lifelong family friend who was a dinenr lady and who is mums best friend, and I went to school with her children.

[pinefamily]

....maybe she knew a bit more that she didn't want you you to find out?.?

I think that was after I had also discovered that my father-in-law's grandparents were first cousins. 

[pinefamily]

I always like to think with stories like that Dorrie, that maybe we do get help from our loved ones that have passed. 

claire

I like to believe that as well.   I had a relative who was into genealogy and had been for years, and after she had died, all of a sudden I was finding people that we had both been searching for but could never find before.

Cheers
KHP

Do you think she was getting inside information? 

[kiwihalfpint]

Do you think she was getting inside information? 

  Perhaps she was continuing her research?


Cheers
KHP

[pinefamily]

Another sort of spooky coincidence comes to mind. After finding some collateral ancestors in the census records, I went to look up the corresponding births and marriages in the BDM indexes. I knew I had to find a Henry Hogard Pine's birth in 1894. Imagine my surprise when I found his birth in the March quarter, right next to a Henry Hogarth Pine! It turns out they were second cousins, but for a second I thought I was seeing double!

[Gibel]

In 1970 I was at college in Lancashire, I was desperately unhappy and went out for a walk up the lanes near the college wishing that in life you you could go back to the beginning and begin again and oerhaps things would be better. After a bit I came to a village sign, gave myself a big shake, realising that perhaps life moving forward would be OK.

In 2000 researching my paternal family I tracked the family back and their we where in the 1600s and 1700s in the very village I had got to on that day in 1970.

[C_W]

These things make you believe that life is all planned out for you, and many things are "meant to be".
I also think that those of us who have traced their family history are 'lucky'. I don't find these things spooky but in a funny sort of way reassuring.

[..claire..]

That's a lovely way of putting it C_W 

Pinefamily: Some of my research is done relaxing with glass of wine in hand, if I had found that, I would have been convinced I were seeing double 

Gibel: that is a lovely story, to think you walked where your ancestors walked, it's a funny old life sometimes. 

claire

[jaybelnz]

Sometimes I have a little lightbulb moment about something that I've been unable to locate for a long time, or a niggling thought that I might have got some particular thing wrong!

When the lightbulb goes on, I shout "Woohoo Henry" (or whatever name or place etc, the lightbulb has flashed), and pat my shoulder - well - someone's gotta be looking over my shoulder - don't they??   

Claire, when I visited Ayrshire, I walked up Glen Afton in New Cumnock several times!  This is where my great grandfather spent his childhood playing, and he wrote several poems about it, and the area in general.  It was pretty special to realise he had been there picking "brambles" and taking them "hame tae his mither in her wee but and ben" - which was a miner's row cottage!