What Country is your research ?

[KathMc]

I posted on this thread in January and have since found out, working on my dad's side, that he has a whole English line (not hte 100% Irish we thought). Through BMD, Ancestry, and the LDS site, I have been able to get that branch back to the late 1500s, and have made contact with a 5th cousin once removed's husband, who has given me loads of background info to go with names. It turns out we have some semi-famous people in the family, a link to Prince Charles through a marriage (and a marriage). And, although my 5th and 6th great grandfathers were architects, and there are a load of doctors down the line, my 4th great grandfather was a shoe smith. Ah well, such is life, as my father-i-law used to say.

Kathleen

[PaulaToo]

What country is my research, um, North Marston.

That's not a country!

Yes, I know, but I've said it before, and I'll probably say it a few more times, my tree starts in the mid 1500s in North Marston, and just goes on and on and....
At first I was putting in every sister cousin and aunt, thinking it was so good. After I had a 32 page family tree that was as big as a beadspread, I decided to prune off the twigs and put them in cuttings boxes, where they have been content to steadily grow and blossom. I now have a direct line tree from parents to relevent offspring which is only 18 pages large, table cloth size. That's just father's mother's lot.

Father's father has a grand 1 page, mother's father, from Pembroke in Wales has 1 page, and mother's mother has Eliza Ann...that's it, Eliza Ann. Waaaah!

[Cal241]

Dads side London, Dorset, France, Scotland, Canada, US, Oz

Mums side North Wales, Lancashire (Warrington/Wigan), Cheshire, Liverpool Northern Ireland and Scotland 

So can I tick more than one box

My dads side as PrueM will confirm have been a pain moving all over the show

Cal 

[GordonD]

Mainly Scotland with quite a few sides from Ireland and a couple of English connections(Cumberland and Northumberland.

My paternal grandmother's sides lead back to Ireland from Scotland and got a couple of Irish branches on others sides to. The last of my Irish to move to Scotland was in the 1870s.
Other than that got a couple of ancestors who moved to Scotland from Cumberland and Northumberland by the 1830s.

[Burrow Digger]

Well I'm from New Zealand, although now living in Canada. We thought the Burrow family were from Devonshire, until we discovered that some of them were born in Somerset. Now I find the descendents moving to places like Cornwall, Birkenhead, and Oxfordshire.

My scottish ancestors were from Aberdeen and Fifeshire - and theres also a strange link to Orkney that I just cannot find any proof for. She was christened in Orkney, married in Edinburgh, and died in New Zealand. Trouble is - I simply cannot find her parents anywhere.
BD

Updating a year later 

I have now discovered my Stephens family in Cornwall, my McDermid & McCallum families from Argyll and  some of my Burrows even moved to Wales.

And I still haven't found that Orkney link either.


BD

[PamH]

Hi Everyone

How did I miss this thread??

Mine is mainly England, many counties, with Wales and Ireland coming in the early 1800's.  The Irish side becoming harder to trace back if at all!!    My Grandfather's, father, unable to trace his line back as not on the birth cert. so sadly no family there. 

My husbands side, we think started in Cornwall, then, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Staffordshire, then up to Lancashire and a few family members going to the U.S.A.  " being as Mormons and a town was named after them, Heneferville, now just Henefer.  Very interesting and addictive to say the least.  On this side also now found Irish decendents, but alas, not able to ascertain the place of birth etc.  maybe one day a family member with the same line may show, I live in hope!

Pam

[Blunny]

Hello everyone,
Just found and read this thread from the start. WOW, I think most of us should be on the "travellers Site". my fathers side back to 1820 are London. My mother always said they were gypsies, in the travelling sense of the word. Surrey, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Bedfordshire, Anglsea, Kent, and now Co. Tyrone, and Donegal via the wife.
Crazy mixed up lot arn't we.
Good hunting all
Peter

[Cal241]

Blunney (aka Peter)
You don't have any Ingrams in there do you Mine where definately unable toremain static fromone year to the next ! ::)When you thought this was going to be easy you find that the families 'starbursted' all over the place .............. 
Cal 

[Blunny]

Hi Cal,
Sorry I have no bana---- sorry wrong thread.
No Ingrams, only Arnold, Baker, Battle, Bradshaws, Curteys, Davies, Kearns, Kefford, Mitchell, & Richardson. These are the main ones. Hav'nt enough fingers left to type the rest os the tribe in. One problem I've got is that they pop up out of nowhere. They must come from somewhere that is not recognised by enumerators, they never put it down. Mustn't grumble to much, getting on well on the perifery, but the main line (trains) are not coming forth.
good hunting
Peter