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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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  • Hello Daisy - I had to smile when you said about people still speaking to you.
    My own relatives only approach me and speak to me, when they want family history information.  I used to feel flattered and think that perhaps at last a family member would stick around because of this interest we had in common. But no, without exception they contact me, are very 'official' and cool towards me, ask for the info they want, take it and then disappear again.  

    It has taken me a long while to learn, but now I don't hand my research out and instead give them pointers on how they can find it out for themselves.  If you are doing a lot of research yourself, you will understand the work and resources it entails, and will probably understand why I now do that.

    Offending people seems to be an easy thing to do when you have an AS - not our fault though. I think the behaviour of people who just use you for your research is much worse.

    You asked about researching Scottish records. I have Scottish ancestors on one side of my family.  I have used the Scottish censuses on Ancestry for those and the reliable records on the IGI. I haven't used scotlandspeople though.

    On Canadian records - I have some family who emigrated to Canada (British Columbia) one hundred years ago and found a lot of records for them online. You have to search for the various district records for those.  Some districts have nothing at all online, some are really good.

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  • Hello Daisy - I had to smile when you said about people still speaking to you.
    My own relatives only approach me and speak to me, when they want family history information.  I used to feel flattered and think that perhaps at last a family member would stick around because of this interest we had in common. But no, without exception they contact me, are very 'official' and cool towards me, ask for the info they want, take it and then disappear again.  

    It has taken me a long while to learn, but now I don't hand my research out and instead give them pointers on how they can find it out for themselves.  If you are doing a lot of research yourself, you will understand the work and resources it entails, and will probably understand why I now do that.

    Offending people seems to be an easy thing to do when you have an AS - not our fault though. I think the behaviour of people who just use you for your research is much worse.

    You asked about researching Scottish records. I have Scottish ancestors on one side of my family.  I have used the Scottish censuses on Ancestry for those and the reliable records on the IGI. I haven't used scotlandspeople though.

    On Canadian records - I have some family who emigrated to Canada (British Columbia) one hundred years ago and found a lot of records for them online. You have to search for the various district records for those.  Some districts have nothing at all online, some are really good.

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