Have you researched your genealogy?

[Albion]

I've researched some of it but haven't got too far yet. I might just pay a researcher.

[Osweo]

THe main fun is the doing it yourself. And I wouldn't trust somebody else. They'd just toss a coin when it got iffy, and the like.

I've done a lot of mine, and paid hardly anything for it, except nine quid twice, for some marriage certificates. I can get back to the 1780s for a lot of lines, so it's well doable if they weren't incomers from Ireland or Scotland.

[Damião de Góis]

I once asked my mother where her's and my father's grandparents where from. That was it.

[Beorn]

Soten helped start me off. HE didn't quite 'toss a coin', but he did get it right.

I'm off to photograph my great-grandparents gravestones this weekend.

We are such a fun, life go getting bunch.

[Albion]

THe main fun is the doing it yourself. And I wouldn't trust somebody else. They'd just toss a coin when it got iffy, and the like.

I've done a lot of mine, and paid hardly anything for it, except nine quid twice, for some marriage certificates. I can get back to the 1780s for a lot of lines, so it's well doable if they weren't incomers from Ireland or Scotland.

I know, I'm unsure about trusting someone else too.

I don't find it fun though, I find it time consuming and boring. I find the results interesting but the research laborious.
How did you research yours? Internet or local records?


I keep turning up more and more bloody Irish though, I'm going to have to rethink my ethnicity soon.
The newest Irish person I found was from Wexford but I also found out she and her husband owned a local shop too up. No maiden name listed though, I'll have to try and find it.

I've found a reputable researcher though who I've already spoken to about it. They seem decent enough.

[Logan]

A bit from far away. I'm not too concerned with the many branches.


Fremington 1500s

[Osweo]

I know, I'm unsure about trusting someone else too.

Well, I should have said, Soten helped me out too, AND Peasant did! And the old feller who is my neighbour (he gave me his router and a mounted saw too!)... Recently, I got help off a total stranger I emailed, too! She had her name listed on a Lincolnshire genealogy website, indicating she was interested in Gardiners, so I wrote to her about mine, and she did LOADS of searching for me!

I tell you, some people get so into it, they WANT to do other people's trees! I've more or less exhausted what i can do with mine now, and even I miss the detective aspect of it all.

There were various scams available, when I did most of mine though, and I fear the loopholes have since been plugged up...

I don't find it fun though, I find it time consuming and boring. I find the results interesting but the research laborious.
How did you research yours? Internet or local records?

All on the net. Except for the two marriage certificates I mentioned, that gave me leads to continue on the net. There's LOADS of resources now. The Mormons, message boards, parish record societies... free birth, marriage and death stuff....

I keep turning up more and more bloody Irish though, I'm going to have to rethink my ethnicity soon.
The newest Irish person I found was from Wexford but I also found out she and her husband owned a local shop too up. No maiden name listed though, I'll have to try and find it.

Ooh! Posh Paddies, with a SHOP!

I've found a reputable researcher though who I've already spoken to about it. They seem decent enough.

It's your money to throw away.

Most local libraries have subscriptions to 'Find my Past' and Ancestry.com now, you know. The Manchester one even let you do it from HOME with a password!

[Albion]

Cool, thanks for the info Os. So far I've been using what I've been told by family, Free Cen, Free BMD and a few other records I found.
There's some guy who left a will in a village nearby 500 years ago with my surname and I'm wondering if we're related.

I'm also wondering whether my paternal side is a offshoot of a family of the same surname in Staffordshire. If it is then I can save some money by not going to 23andme because I know the result from one of the descendants in Staffordshire.
On a negative note it is a haplogroup I wouldn't want to be at all. Most of the other bearers of my surname in the country belong to R1b (the common type) and I1 to proportions which basically mirror those of the whole English population.
Just two of the carriers of the surname have been found to have other less desirable types, and no, they're rare but not in a good way.
So I'm actually on a quest to prove mine is a different, unrelated branch.

I suppose I should stop being so cheap and just pay the money.

[Supreme American]

My aunt and I did some email correspondence, she knew far more than I, obviously. She paid a researcher got a small treasure trove of stuff. I have more names, I have details, and best, I have pictures!

I found out my great-grandmother's brother died in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

I have a photograph that my great-great-grandfather took, as he was partly a photographer by trade. I also have a picture of him with a big mustache. He was born in England, came to America, and worked for the Union Army as a civilian map maker. I wonder if I get my drawing talent from him.

I seriously need to scan and upload some of this stuff.

[Osweo]

I found out my great-grandmother's brother died in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

LoL, I think mine did too! Let me work it out...


me, dad, nana, mama, Jim Gleeson, Johanna Leahy, aha!

My great GREAT gran's brother! I don't know his name, though, other than that he was a Leahy.

Fuck, imagine YOURS was a Leahy! Go on, surprise me, Cousin!