What Country is your research ?

[drifter]

My farther has for year been banging on about how we are all Portland born "strong in the arm thick in the head" and he is very very proud of that fact, (for thouse of you who don't know Portland is all but an island stuck on the bottom of England, when i started my search a very old auntie gave me her findings from a previous tree search and it did indeed confirm that the family went back many generation on the Island and Royal Manor of Portland.
However when i started to receive wedding and birth certificates, from the department of national records something was clearly a miss,
Turns out my old auntie had changed the marrage dates, as she had found out that she was born out of wedlock, this meant that my G,G,G,G,Grandfarther could not be who she had on the tree and was in fact with a bit of searching, a descendant from a John Smith of Plymouth,
The shock almost did my dad in poor old B--------

Drifter
Keeeeep searching

[PaulaToo]

I can imagine, Drifter.
Tailoring runs in the Welsh side of my family, me, my Mum, my Grandfather and back as far as Adam and Eve ... well, that's what Mum thought...
Turns out Grandfather was the first...before that they were woodworkers(so that's where my uncle got his woodworking skills from) and farmers....
How these family legends can crumble.....

[matty01]

Thanks for the welcome. I find I am spending hours just looking around here. Some very interesting reading.
Chris

[PaulaToo]

You'll love it here, and soon get involved, Chris, I can guarentee that.

[pinefamily]

Hello fellow rootschatters,
As well as the usual areas of Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Cornwall & Suffolk to name a few (not to mention Scotland), I have the more unusual ones of Sweden & Germany.
And that's on top of Australia & New Zealand!

Darren (in Oz)

[PaulaToo]

Oh heck, Darren, you've got a mixed bunch there.
You've come to the right place, though.
Hope you have fun.

[Pilgarlic]

My ancestors are all from the south of England except one from Birmingham, Warwickshire.

I did however find out last year that my 3x G Grandmother was named Sarah MOUCHET born about 1825 Lambeth, London. Her father according to her marriage certificate was named Samuel MOUCHET. I have not found his birth yet.

So it would seem that i have a bit of French blood in me. But when did they come to England ?

Pilgarlic

[holmsie]

My father's side of the family never seem to set foot outside of Preston in Lancashire.
my mother's side a bit more adventurous they came from Shopshire, then moved to Lancashire.

Holmsie

[skimble]

It's the Wars of the Roses in my family.  Yorkshire and Lancashire.  I think Yorkshire won.