What Country is your research ?

[RootsChat]

Hello RootsChatters,

It has been 6 months tonight since we launched RootsChat to the world and we have watched it grow faster than we have ever imagined !!

We would love to find out more about the people who use the site and the areas that you are researching.

Please let us know which the main area of research for you.

We love your input !

RootsChat

[MrsLizzy]

Also France.  One branch of my family cherished the fond illusion that they were descended from "some bigwig in Hamburg", but I made myself deeply unpopular by revealing that they were really descended from an unmarried woman servant from Norfolk!

Oops!   

 

[Annahannah]

Ah, but what of the other half of that equation? She didn't do it by herself.

[Kazza]

Annahanna,

You took the words out of my mouth. 

Kazza.   

[Bee]

Upto now everyone is English or to be more precise everyone (both mine & my husbands side) seems to originate in Norfolk or Suffolk, so can anyone tell me why East Yorkshire became so popular.

Love the choice of poll options but SCOLTLAND! 

[indiapaleale]

Hi Rootschatters,
I have always been told that I was "Brummie" through and through but I have learned that we have ancestors in Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire and Lancashire. The one common theme that seems to run through my Mom's family is brewers, maltsters and publicans! I'm having a great deal of fun tracking down pubs!
India in California

[Darcy]

I always believed all my people to be from Lancashire but only my grandmother and her siblings were born there.

I have chased the rest of them through Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.

Just to confuse matters the Lancashire family moved to Northern Ireland around 1909 - it's unbelievable how they travelled.

My parents topped the lot by sailing for Australia -
What a lot of vagabonds we are......
Aaron

[Sylviaann]

Apart from Jersey mine are all English.  I have Norfolk, Suffolk, Lancashire, Surrey, Kent, Sussex and Hampshire so far.  You may have guessed they all ended up in East London.

Sylvia

[janham]

Hi all at RootsChat,

My research at the moment is in Ireland, Waterford to be precise.  Oh how I envy anyone searching England !!!.

There are a lot of lookup offers for England but I have not seen any for the Waterford area.  I know all my ancestors lived there and they must be buried there also.  As a lot of the records were destroyed I think the only way I am going to find out anything is to search all the graveyards in Waterford.  As there is no way I can get there I'm stumped.

Jan