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Family History

Pandoren

One of my interests is researching my family tree. I've done fairly well with it (I'm back past UK registration on all sides bar illegitimates where the parent isn't known). I have a few interesting or frustrating ancestors here and there.

One sort of sad thing is that I only seem to like my relatives when they are long dead...

Anyone else like doing their family trees?

 

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  • Hi -

    Family history is one of my interests. I've been doing serious research for about eight years and now have a lot of files full of 'people' from the past.  

    About a year ago I began looking further back than the censuses - pre registration - into the parish records. This is more difficult in that people move parishes and it is sometimes difficult to trace where they've gone. I started with the familysearch.org site and then moved onto some of the parish records that have been photographed and put online.  Some can be purchased on cd.

    I am constantly finding surprises - one of the best things about family history research - along with the relatives/branches of the family you find, who you never realised were there. 

     

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  • Hi -

    Family history is one of my interests. I've been doing serious research for about eight years and now have a lot of files full of 'people' from the past.  

    About a year ago I began looking further back than the censuses - pre registration - into the parish records. This is more difficult in that people move parishes and it is sometimes difficult to trace where they've gone. I started with the familysearch.org site and then moved onto some of the parish records that have been photographed and put online.  Some can be purchased on cd.

    I am constantly finding surprises - one of the best things about family history research - along with the relatives/branches of the family you find, who you never realised were there. 

     

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