thistle
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Yes I am a geek it's true. Tracing my family tree has become not so much a hobby as an obsession with me (as subby will confirm)
Apparently you are doing well if you can name all 8 of your gt grandparents.......I went one better I can now name all 16 of my gt gt grandparents plus a few gt gt gt grandparents and one or two gt gt gt gt grandparents.
Now I thought I was doing really well considering I have only been researching my mother's side for approx 2 years........I recently emailed my Aunt because I know she has been doing my dad's side for a few years and decided to ask her for the info she had. Now I thought that if I was lucky she would have info going back to the 1600's? no !....she has only bloomin well managed to get my gran's family back to the 1100's !!!!!!!!!!!! I mean seriously !!! 1000 years !!!!!! holy £$%^
I'm waiting for her to send the complete file to me so I can start adding it to my own tree but it's gonna take me MONTHS to transcribe all that info lol.
So some of the interesting facts found so far...
An eyewitness account to my gt uncle's plane being shot down over France during WW2 (unfortunately my grandfather died without ever knowing that his brother had a grave, he always thought he was buried in an unmarked grave or worse just plain lost)
An ancestor who fought in William Wallace's army against England.
A connection to the Royal bloodlines of Scotland !!! indeed I am a real princess!!!! (somewhat diluted)
Irish tinkers.
Family feuds
Illegitimacy.
Adoption.
Family fortunes!!!!! ...darnit! I need to find out what branch of the family got that !!
There is stil however one thing I would love to find in my family ... a WITCH !! oh how I would love to find someone who was burned at the stake, how cool would that be? My father is waiting for me to prove a link between my mother's family and Vlad the Impaler :s ....... I told him that would have to wait.......we'd have to go through Genghis Khan first
So anyone else do this? anyone? anywhere?
Apparently you are doing well if you can name all 8 of your gt grandparents.......I went one better I can now name all 16 of my gt gt grandparents plus a few gt gt gt grandparents and one or two gt gt gt gt grandparents.
Now I thought I was doing really well considering I have only been researching my mother's side for approx 2 years........I recently emailed my Aunt because I know she has been doing my dad's side for a few years and decided to ask her for the info she had. Now I thought that if I was lucky she would have info going back to the 1600's? no !....she has only bloomin well managed to get my gran's family back to the 1100's !!!!!!!!!!!! I mean seriously !!! 1000 years !!!!!! holy £$%^
I'm waiting for her to send the complete file to me so I can start adding it to my own tree but it's gonna take me MONTHS to transcribe all that info lol.
So some of the interesting facts found so far...
An eyewitness account to my gt uncle's plane being shot down over France during WW2 (unfortunately my grandfather died without ever knowing that his brother had a grave, he always thought he was buried in an unmarked grave or worse just plain lost)
An ancestor who fought in William Wallace's army against England.
A connection to the Royal bloodlines of Scotland !!! indeed I am a real princess!!!! (somewhat diluted)
Irish tinkers.
Family feuds
Illegitimacy.
Adoption.
Family fortunes!!!!! ...darnit! I need to find out what branch of the family got that !!
There is stil however one thing I would love to find in my family ... a WITCH !! oh how I would love to find someone who was burned at the stake, how cool would that be? My father is waiting for me to prove a link between my mother's family and Vlad the Impaler :s ....... I told him that would have to wait.......we'd have to go through Genghis Khan first
So anyone else do this? anyone? anywhere?