What Country is your research ?

[robraw]

So far my research has led me to
Australia
England (Sussex, Huntingdonshire, Surrey)
Ireland (Cork and Clare and lots of dead ends)
South Africa
India
NewZealand
USA
Germany (Lots of Dead ends)
Sweden.
Now if I can find a rel in South America we have all the continents covered (no hope for Antarctica but who knows what the future holds, Although I would have thought the temperature was a good birth control)
Robyn

[BrendaP]

Mostly England and some from Ireland.

My Dad's side of the family are nearly all from Kent - both Kentish Men and Men of Kent with a couple of strays in from Hayes Middlesex and Winchester Hants. 

My maternal Grandad's folk were from Somerset and Worcs and Granny was from Sligo, Ireland though they moved to Belfast early 20th century prior to her move to England.

BrendaP

[Keith Sherwood]

My great-grandfather, who was Italian, was brought from Genoa by a Catholic priest at the age of 10 to attend a boys' Catholic school in Ramsgate in 1882.  Why he came, and who his parents were - apart from the name of his father on his marriage certificate - I have been quite unable to discover.  Trying to unravel Italian genealogy has been a total frustration so far. I've pored over innumerable microfilms of Genoa-area BMD's at my local LDS History Centre.  It doesn't help that my grandmother was born illegitimately to another woman before he got respectably married, so lines of family communication are rather muted in most areas.
Answer to the initial thread question: Italy.
Keith (wanting proudly to wave the Italian flag)

[Amy K]

Hi Keith,
My boyfriends ancestors come from the Genoa region of Italy too. I have had a bit of a go at doing his tree, but it is so difficult to find out any info on the family in Italy. I don't envy your task at all.

Best Wishes of the Season.

Amy Kitcher

[Biker]

I concur on the difficulties of researching continental relatives.  A few of mine are from Germany and Sweden.  I have recently found a lead on the German lot, so will see how that pans out, but the Swedish lot are impossible due to the naming conventions (i.e. Xson, Yson, Zson for the males and Xdotter, Ydotter etc for the females) which make it a complete maze.

Best of luck in the coming year!   

Happy holidays
Jonathan

[landvaettir]

Right now, i'm working on my English ancestors.. i know so little about my Welsh line, that one is coming along slowly.. 

[Steve Ley]

Mine are from England and Scotland with the possibility one of my Nottingham lace makers went to France to join other Nottingham lace makers which makes my research a bit more exciting.

Steve.

[lindagene]

Almost exclusively English,  Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire,Shropshire,Staffordshire, Essex.

But, the Essex lot possibly originally came from Scotland, will never know 'cause my GGGGfather who ran away from home was said to have a Scottish accent..hardly concrete evidence of anything, but,strangely enough, I have just discovered that the one of his descendants who went to Australia married a Scottish lass,  returning to his origins maybe?
Lindy

[ndedross]

Most of my research is in England. But there are important lines in USA, Switzerland and France. All of which, including the USA, are difficult to research unaided.

In 1985, I hired a researcher in France - she was making progress when she had a heart attack.
Two years ago I hired a researcher in Switzerland, who just got started when he had to have an emergency operation on his leg.
Last year I hired a researcher in Chicago, who also fell ill. I daren't hire anymore researchers for fear of killing them!

Nigel