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I downloaded the Ancestry app a few days ago. It’s quite addictive!
Managed to trace one line back to the 15th century.
Managed to trace one line back to the 15th century.
Yup you have to be very thorough with birth dates . Often in older times if a child died the parents would reuse the name so you can get totally bamboozled. Also you get variations in spellings or people being given completely different names from their birth name by their family. I had a great aunt who everyone called Susan but whose actual name was Maude and a great grandfather called Amos who some of the family called Bill and others called Charlie!!My wife and I traced our ancestry a few years ago. The only problem with the internet resources is that you can get a tree going back centuries which is completely wrong. It takes a long time and a lot of effort to verify everything. I had a link to a "cousin" in the USA who had shown that we were descended from Edward III, on studying his tree he had english ancestors living in Pennsylvania before europeans had settled there!
One interesting thing was that although my origins are in Kent and my wife's London, her Grandfather's sister and my Grandfather's cousin were both nurses in the same hospital, if both names had not been on the same census page we would have missed that.
On the other hand it can work out to your benefit. My wife was contacted recently by a long lost cousin who’d found her through a DNA testing site. The cousin had a whole stack of family photos, including some of my wife and her parents, that my wife had never ever seen. She could also fill in some blanks on family history through the cousin.I've had alleged relatives contact me out of the blue wanting to meet etc. No thanks.
i thought the website was free!
I've been dipping in and out for years. So far no shipping to Australia, or staying at HM's pleasureI've had alleged relatives contact me out of the blue wanting to meet etc.
My eldest brother has been tracing our family tree for years.
Impossible on dad's side, since his father is officially a mystery (but unofficially well known).
I've had alleged relatives contact me out of the blue wanting to meet etc. No thanks.
CoolMy uncle has been tracing our ancestors. He has traced as far back as the 1600's at least. He was able to confirm that a painting of an Admiral in The National Maritime Museum with our surname was indeed an ancestor. Our ancestor has a monument and grave in Westminster Abbey.
An awful long time ago, I worked in Cardiff in the buiding that was the Registry of Shipping and Seamen, and it appears to still be in Cardiff, albeit in a different building. I never went back as far as you Carl, but I did get some paperwork on my Grandfather and the ships he had sailed on between the wars. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=registry+of+shipping+and+seamenI got hooked using Ancestry a few months back and managed to trace my family back to around 1790. My 4x great grandfather was a sailor with the East India company in the 1830's, and went to China on a ship called the Lowther Castle. I've tried to find detailed logs for the journey but I think I need to visit physical archives in London to get any deeper with it.
It's a bit of a rabbit hole and I think you can start off looking out of curiosity, and then end up with a life long obsession!
I read that very differently at first.An awful long time ago, I worked in Cardiff in the buiding that was the Registry of Shipping and Seamen, and it appears to still be in Cardiff, albeit in a different building. I never went back as far as you Carl, but I did get some paperwork on my Grandfather and the ships he had sailed on between the wars. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=registry+of+shipping+and+seamen