What Country is your research ?

[Wiggy]

Hi all,

I've only been doing family research for a few months but have found out much with help from other family members far removed.  Most of our family originated in UK - Devon, Warwickshire, Yorkshire and Dumfriesshire.  Luckily most have been here for generations - true blue Aussies now!  Can even trace some to the first fleet - both convicts and marines. 
This is a wonderful resource.  Thanks!   

[PaulaToo]

Welcome to Roots, Wiggy.
Yes, you are right there, I don't think you will find a better site anywhere.
Good friendly bunch, always ready to help.

[joolsk]

mine came from all over the place -Bedforshire -Shropshire -Essex -Norfolk Manchester -Middlesex and Instanbul with a bit of Dublin and Belfast  throen in for good measure .
have joined today it looks good just hope it helps abit
Joolsk

[PaulaToo]

Hi Joolsk and welcome to RootsChat.
Great site, great people, there isn't much more to say, except...ENJOY.

[MacShuibhne]

Almost all of my research to date has been restricted to Scotland though not by design or choice, just because thats where my direct ancestry lies.  The two areas that I know will change as I fill out some the side branches will be south into England and across the pond to Boston (USA).

I'm also working on my wife's family and that will take me to Italy, Venezuela and Argentina

[kiwikarin]

forlorn voice from the bottom of the world   
My relatives all came to NZ very early in our history - The Watsons from England in 1842, The Morgans from Wales in 1863 and the Reynolds from Cornwall in 1872.

 "The Treaty" was only signed between some of the Maori tribes and the representative of Queen Victoria in 1840.

[Maggie1895]

My family just had itchy feet.
Brought up on the family legend that we are descended from an illegitimate daughter of the Bruce himself, I can't say I've got anywhere near back that far!   (though with the number of illegits he acknowledged, the smaller population and the centuries of local marriager since, the chances are everyone in the south west of Scotland is linked to him in some way after all these years)
Part of my father's family are rock solid Dumfriesshire and Lanarkshire for yonks, another part I thought was also West of Scotland for ever, turn out to be from Ireland, along with so many others, in the 1850s {but as Ulster Protestants probably got there from Scotland originally.} 
My mother's side always seemed to be Kent, (and one part is) but the rest turns out to be mainly Lancashire and Shropshire, which was a surprise.
Of the one Scottish strand that were settled for centuries, my grandmother married my Glasgow grandfather and they headed off to Africa as missionaries in the 1890s.   Having got the travel bug, he then went to Canada as a Ship's Doctor, they moved to New Zealand, came back in the 1st World War, and shifted to England...
Building my husband's tree was always going to be easier, because he is Lancashire 'and nowt else' - erm, no.    He's been stunned to find he has a lot of Cheshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire roots, and even more so to find his great grandmother was born in Hungary and HER mother was French!
It's not so much where is my research as where isn't it..
Can I say that since finding this board I think it's ace, everyone is just so helpful - and knowledgeable.
Maggie

[caroldawn]

well I find that we have ancestors in most countries,My mothers descendants came from scotland Kinrosses, Collace, Dundee, Glasgowand Canada.. my fathers parents come from cumberland, and Antrim northern Ireland and Canada.my husbands mother came from Kippax,tadcaster,Leeds areas, and his fathers parents were from Cambridge, wicken,St ives,Houghton. and we live in new zealand, also have relatives in australia.
                       caroldawn

carr,Millar,Imrie,Morton,johnston
rothery,Mclaughlin,Black,Taggart
Farrar,Johnston,cawthra,
Bailey,Kiddle         

[Lei]

Hi Everyone,

My research? Very much in the south of England.
Now there is the lot from the south east who moved west (just a little) and the lot in the south west who moved east, where they all eventually met in London (SE would you believe!!).

Then there was a wild card who married a South African, travelled a bit & settled back in... southern England!

Oh and I almost forgot.. the Italian connection, who settled in the south east!!

What more can I say except for 'what a great site'.

Lei