What Country is your research ?

[gardenqueen33]

My research is England and Wales. I'm really trying to concentrate on Wales at the moment. I'm now past the censuses. So it is getting harder to trace especially the maiden names hence that is why I am only researching one name. The area my family are from is Llanely Breconshire, and Bridgend Glamorgan. Besides finding more information on these boards, I hope to make some friends.

[PaulaToo]

Hi gardenqueen and welcome to RootsChat.
Good board this, you'll never regrett joining.
Nice people, nice set up.
I have ancestors in Pembrokeshire and they have been a pain the the bottom I can tell you.
Luckily so far I have not come across any double names... I haven't got a John John or a Thomas Thomas... they tell me those are REALLY fun

[gardenqueen33]

Thank you so much for the warm welcome. Actually, I have quite a bit of English blood on my mother's and father's side. So far, it is Cheshire, Lancashire. and Devon so far.  I haven't came across any double names either so far. That is all I need. Oh yeah also Scot and Irish. So I'll probably will be using these boards alot.

[East London]

northern rhodesia god bless where have they all gone

[LizzieW]

I always considered myself to be a Lancastrian, parents born and bred in Manchester and I was born there.  Turns out they were 1st generation Mancunians and my dad's side of the family originated in Suffolk and Lancashire (in what is now Cumbria).  On my mum's side, it was Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and Cheshire.  What started me off on my research was someone else doing a family tree and finding my 4xg.grandfather was Scottish, so you live and learn.

Lizzie

[PaulaToo]

elda, you've come to a good place to find help in tracing them...

[tristiw]

I've been scrolling through the posts on this thread and I think I win the 'mongrel dog' award ("bitsa dog" in some countries):

Australia
Ireland
England
Palestine
Germany
New Zealand???

[Shamana]

Hi,
I would have liked England and Wales to be seperate in the poll but anyway I am researching Wales - Glamorgan, Brecon, Ceredigion,Meirioneth, Montgomery so far I have only one ancestor out of Wales and he came from Scotland. I'll be happy when I've gone back to the Celtic Tribes !!

[IgorStrav]

My tale is more parochial.

My father was very proud of being a Londoner from North of the Thames, having been born in Walthamstow (E17) and brought up in Leyton (E10).  Indeed, he lived there all his life.

Only Londoners will understand his story of an occasion during the war when a colleague introduced a stranger to him saying "here's a friend for you, someone else from London", only for my father to discover the stranger hailed from Croydon.  (definitely not the same)

However, I wish he had known that on both sides of his family, they came from South of the River.

His mother's family, both sides, moved from out of London to Newington, Surrey (near Elephant and Castle), and his father's family from Kent and then the closest bit of London, Greenwich.

I am still a North Londoner, born and brought up in Leytonstone (home locality of David Beckham AND Alfred Hitchcock - now there's a pairing), and I still feel the same way about South London as my dad did, trained, no doubt, by him:  it's not that I look down on the people from there, it's just not my home town.