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What Country is your main research centred on ?

England and Wales
1831 (49.8%)
Ireland
758 (20.6%)
Scotland
694 (18.9%)
Emmigrants
245 (6.7%)
Immigrants
152 (4.1%)

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Offline MartinBruce

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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #612 on: Wednesday 19 December 12 17:05 GMT (UK) »
Just come across this.  I, like everyone else, seem to have relatives scattered to the 4 corners of the earth (strange, that, since the earth is round...).  However, the biggest mystery is in Hungary (although nowadays it would be the Czech Republic) which ended in murder in Clinton, New Jersey, USA.  Makes my peripatetic lifestyle seem quite tame by comparison!

lydiaann

That is so true.  So many of our relatives are far and wide.

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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #613 on: Wednesday 06 February 13 18:19 GMT (UK) »
...... England, possibly now venturing into Scotland, but further afield now as I have a South African husband and a Polish daughter-in-Law ...... both being a little less easy to follow-up.

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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #614 on: Wednesday 06 February 13 19:03 GMT (UK) »
Most of my research is Scotland, some is England, and a fair amount is South Africa.  I married a South African and that's where I now live.  My husband's forebears came from Scotland mainly, plus one from Ireland, and 2 came from Europe (Prussia and Belgium).  My family is a fair mixture of Scottish and English.  My grandfather, however, worked for Lloyds Register and lived in France for about 18 years.  So the families are fairly widespread and so far I've done no French research.

Rose.

Me:  Stuart/Stewart, Marsden, Russell, Young, Smethurst, Hodson,
Husband:  McArthur, Fitzpatrick, Waters, Marnewicke (+ variants), Mommen, Twigg, Quinn

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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #615 on: Tuesday 12 February 13 18:37 GMT (UK) »
While some of my research is in the UK, I also research my ancestors from the Middle East, Norway and Canada.  I also do loads in the US since since some of my relatives came here centuries ago.

I've gotten the furthest back researching in the UK however since I always run into a language barrier with my other lines of ancestry! :)


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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #616 on: Thursday 14 February 13 01:17 GMT (UK) »
By the way Happy Vanentine's Day to al.l   which country ? mainly Scotland but search engines cannot understand that they did not go to America All but 3 ended up in Australia and one in South Africa and 2 stayed at home. The husbands side is unbelievable but this keeps me on my toes
Burt Hannon Droney Smith Collis Berry

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Re: What Country is your research ? Scotland
« Reply #617 on: Sunday 24 March 13 13:21 GMT (UK) »
I am looking for the name of Coyle in Kilsyth and Croy in Scotland!

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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #618 on: Monday 25 March 13 11:39 GMT (UK) »


Research centres mainly on England and Wales, but there is a branch from Russia, which I think is going to be somewhat of a challenge ???
Paylet, Pallatt, Morris (Russia, UK) Burke, Hillery, Page, Rumsey, Stevens, Tyne/Thynne(UK)  Landman, van Rooyen, Tyne, Stevens, Rumsey, Visagie, Nell (South Africa)

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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #619 on: Saturday 13 April 13 16:30 BST (UK) »
Hi everyone - GOSH -     Mine is UK and France and now Belguim to boot!!!!    I am concentrating on France right now and have found some wicked sites on my travels..

I am SO glad i Found a forum where everyone can talk to one another and help out..

I have joined a few now -  French is NOT my forte..  and trying to communicate with the french is extremely hard..   :o

Thankyou rootschat for this forum wish I had joined months ago..........

sj  ;)

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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #620 on: Saturday 13 April 13 17:00 BST (UK) »
For me its almost equally divided between England and Italy. All I know of my Italian side is what my Dad and his brother told me - and they even argued about how to spell their grandfather's name.  ;D
England:  Archer, Bailey, Bates, Blower, Bosworth, Court, Hicklin, Orton, Palmer, Robbins, Sedgwick, Smith, Stevenson, Stone, Varnam, Wakelin, Walker
Canada:  Archer, Walker, Spencer, Shepherd
Australia:  Taplin
South Africa:  Risley