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Post by Lou78W on Aug 16, 2011 16:50:21 GMT
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Post by Lou78W on Aug 16, 2011 16:52:59 GMT
I'm doing mine but it's very boring and I can't get back any further than 1860 so it's a waste of time  Thats good I cannot get past early 1900s  my dad will not openly talk about his family as it upsets him, and i don't know past my grandma rotherham on my mothers side . It's strange how some generations are very reticent about talking of their family...suppose we must respect their feelings....but it ain't 'arf irritating  |
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Post by esther on Aug 16, 2011 18:14:33 GMT
I find it all very interesting and would love to hear about your families ;D If anyone ever wanted me to look anything up for them I have access to Ancestry.co.uk and Genes Reunited ;D I wish I had asked more questions when my Nan and Granddad were still with us John- the man I am in touch with- is going to contact his friend and hopefully we can then get in contact ;D It is so much easier doing family history when you have unusual names to research. |
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Post by SueA on Aug 16, 2011 19:22:44 GMT
Your family history sounds interesting Esther as do some of the others mentioned! I'd like to research more about my family & have done a bit of hunting on my mum's family. Similar to Floydie people in our family were reluctant to let you know anything (lots of illegitimate children etc.) & my mum & dad used to compete with each other by making up respectable family members who didn't actually exist! My grandma on my mum's side was brought up by an aunt as her mum died & my grandad appears to have been brought up by his grandparents, there seems to have been a lot of that going on around the 19th/early 20th centuries. My half sister has researched our dad's family back to the mills & workhouses of the Midlands, an auntie of ours once said her husband was related to Napolean III's wife - total wrong line according to my half sis.! ;D
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Post by Cherry on Aug 16, 2011 20:32:44 GMT
I have Jewish in me too Grindle. I am visiting a Jewish friend tomorrow who said it comes down through the female line, so he says I am a Jew. My Jewish family were Prussian and I do remember them. They had the fine name of Sauerburg.
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Post by floydie on Aug 16, 2011 21:45:45 GMT
Thats good I cannot get past early 1900s my dad will not openly talk about his family as it upsets him, and i don't know past my grandma rotherham on my mothers side . It's strange how some generations are very reticent about talking of their family...suppose we must respect their feelings....but it ain't 'arf irritating My dads dad was a solider and made prisoner in the 2nd world war, then when he returned he worked down the mines, he was never of fit state of mind or health (my dad and his siblings didn't really know him), i think his name was John but not 100% sure as my dad doesn't talk about him. (my uncle wrote a song about him voyage around my farther very moving when you listen to the lyrics). My dad has all his army papers etc so i could find them out but i don't what to go rooting through his things (plus he'll know they've been moved). My Nan died in tragic circumstances and so he will not talk about her either (I don't know her first name or her maiden name). |
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Post by grindle on Aug 17, 2011 5:11:06 GMT
Lou I think we missed out somewhere along the line, I keep getting dead ends, so possibly the wrong side of the family ;D Cherry our line comes down through my dad, so that's an end to that one ;D ;D it is fascinating though I actually found photos of my great grands on the internet which I'd never seen before, most photos had been thrown out by one of my aunts when my grandmother died.
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Post by Lou78W on Aug 17, 2011 6:54:22 GMT
Its a shame when photos are thrown out as they often the only link or hint that someone ever existed |
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Post by grindle on Aug 17, 2011 6:58:56 GMT
I guess we've only just realised the importance of them, it seems quite a common thing
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Post by Lou78W on Aug 17, 2011 7:00:25 GMT
Yes it is unfortunately |
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Post by Rosie on Aug 17, 2011 8:17:55 GMT
Its a shame when photos are thrown out as they often the only link or hint that someone ever existed When Grahams Dad died, his mum was so angry that he's 'left' her that she ripped up all his photo's. He had a great and varied life, he was in the SAS and worked for a sheik out in Oman. |
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Post by esther on Aug 17, 2011 8:46:41 GMT
Grief can make people do things they might not otherwise do I have been interested in your snippets ;D Barry's Dad would never talk about his experiences in the war - he was badly wounded at one time and was at Dunkirk where he probably saw things no-one should see  |
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Post by sweetpea on Aug 17, 2011 13:29:55 GMT
I do know we were French Jews on dad's side, and somewhere in that family were something to do with the White Star shipping line, but I've yet to unravel it Wasn't that the Titanic's shipping line? Its a sinking feeling I had. |
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Post by grindle on Aug 17, 2011 13:33:27 GMT
;Dstory of my life SP
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Post by Cherry on Aug 17, 2011 15:37:31 GMT
Its a shame when photos are thrown out as they often the only link or hint that someone ever existed I saw my mother in the woodshed with a tomahawk chopping up the framed photographs of my father when he was a toddler. There was another beautiful wedding photograph. Well, this was just before they divorced. |
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