What Country is your research ?

[liz-bris]

Out of 8 Great grandparents 6 were Irish born.

Dads Mum & Dad Irish - and don't our family act like it!!! So that's been a challenge.  Kildare, Queens County, Londonderry and Kildare. 

My Gran (Mums mum) was Scots born of Irish parents!!!  The rest came from England and they emigrated to good old Aussie!

Liz

[GAYNOR WILKINSON]

Why doesn't Wales have a vote of it's own?

Bemused
Gaynor

[Lyons22]

Gorry I got troubles ,I seem to have relatives in Wales,Scotland and england And the Border scots seemed to love going on to Ulster.
But as Caswell,Lyons,Douglasand Mcclellan the bulk of the family seems to come from scotland Where exactly is anyones guess.Couple that with the ignorance of youth and the cornerstone of ancestral knowledge.I.e my Grandmother is faaaaaar away from me.I'm in other words Doomed!

[aghadowey]

Don't give up when you've just started, Lyons22. I started tracing my grandfather's family (letters written by another relative for me to blind great-aunt miles away in pre-internet days) and was told the family came from somewhere in Ireland/Ulster/Northern Ireland/Co.Londonderry and there were green hills and a river but she couldn't remember the name of the place! My grandfather, on the other hand, had written down details in 1920s which I discovered a few years afterwards- had his mother's name wrong, swapped months and days of parents' birthday, father's year of birth wrong and gave mother's birthplace for his father and wrong place for his mother. Luckily they were both uncommon surnames, he had the right general area and it wasn't that far back.

[PaulaToo]

Hi Lyons and welcome.
You're far from doomed on this board.

Having said that, I am still looking my mother's Uncle Harry, the merchant marine who had his photy taken in Chile... The problem we soon found out was... there was no Uncle Harry and he's a Petty Officer 2nd class in the RN... but I'll get the little  darling  one day, and I'm sure you will sort out your Scottish reatives.

[Lenagh]

Hi,
Out of 16 great grandparents, 12 originated from Ireland to Scotland at least 150 years ago, and like most people, having problems getting further back with records in Ireland. 

Four great grandparents on my mother's side are from bonnie Scotland from way back.

Also at least a couple of different families ended up in the USA.

 

[PaulaToo]

Hi Lenagh, welcome to RootsChat.
You'll get lots of help here, so never give up hope.

[Lenagh]

Hi Paula,

Thanks for the welcome.

"Give up hope"...NEVER!   I'll just keep plodding along.  Someone or some wee hint is bound to show up at some point...although I may have to visit Ireland at some point.

[HollyMM]

I selected England and Wales, which is where a lot of my ancestors come from. However, I extend to Holland as well, as a few of my ancestors were Dutch. I just ignore Germany completely, unless it's on my mother's side; but on my father's side it's all pureblood (to take a phrase from Harry Potter), and so, for me, it's kind of boring for me to research. (So what would I be now? Mudblood?) However, there are some interesting stories, but that's as far as I go with the paternal side.

But the maternal side is very diverse: French, German (my grandfather was part German; as was one of my great-grandfathers), English, Welsh, Indian (apparently, but I have suspicions about that), and Dutch. I'm hoping that one day I might just find some Scottish or Irish in there somewhere, even if I have to go right back to my great-great-great-great-great grandparents.