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Whats in your genes??
Having become hooked on BBCs Who do you think you are? series, which shows various celebrities tracing their family tree, I’ve become very interested in the subject. Has anyone here traced their family back and unearthed any exciting facts?
Dawn
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in something like 1840 John lambie was beheaded or hung for poaching one the of the kings dear to feed his family.
The name Lambie orginated in france as Lambert.
there was much more but i dont remember the rest, we had it traced years ago…
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yep…………im traced back to the mcintosh’s who sat on a glen all day and got pi$$ed on whiskey……….. :lol1: :lol1:
im kidding…..im in the middle of it now actually, but with work commitments…takes a bit of time, but im enjoying it so far 😀 (not found much mind you) 😕
nik
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you sure no skeletons Nik 🙄 I daren’t look at mine I may need to be hung drawn and quartered 😀
Lynn
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quote Nicola Rowlands:yep…………im traced back to the mcintosh’s who sat on a glen all day and got pi$$ed on whiskey……….. :lol1: :lol1:im kidding…..[i]im in the middle of it now actually[/i],
nik
In the middle of the glen pi$$ed or in the middle of your research??
TV series made it look so simple but I”m sure it’s not that easy in real life. My family has a few divisions (like most) so I don’t have a lot of info to start off with. What’s the best place to start?
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proberly with your birth certificate then go back from there, never done it but that seems logical
Lynn
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I researched my family tree… and apparently I don’t exist!
Peter
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quote Peter Normington:I researched my family tree… and apparently I don’t exist!
Peter
Are you a figment of our imagination then?
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quote Peter Normington:I researched my family tree… and apparently I don’t exist!Peter
Should make your tax returns interesting
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I am only a figment of my own imagination, so you must be a figment of mine, Complex aint it?
Peter 😀 😉 -
I discovered I am 1/64th Vulcan 😕
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This would have been excellent as a Friday night topic, can we bump it next Friday?
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I’ve been researching my ancestors since I was about 13.
Let’s see…on Mom’s side I have some Mennonites, a Civil War soldier who was imprisoned at Andersonville, a rum-runner, a policeman, a house painter, someone the census lists say was "insane", a mercy-killer, several tailors, two blacksmiths, a butcher, some Palatine Germans, a man who sired 17 children, and 2 great-grandmas (1 was a great-great-great-great) born in Ireland. They were all from central Pennsylvania. I can trace that side back to about 1780.
On Daddy’s side I’m not as well-versed. I have 1 great-great grandpa born in Ireland, his wife born in England. I have a grandfather who worked on the riverboats who married a Creek Indian from Mississippi. She smoked a pipe! I also have an artist, an engineer, a nun, and a carpenter on that side, and a man who sired 17 children.
I can only trace that side back to 1876.We are supposedly related to an Irishman named John Barry, who was famous in the US Navy during the Revolutionary War. But seeing as he had no children, I think that is a rumor. My dad was a magistrate for many many years, and my brother, at the age of 21, was the youngest magistrate ever elected.
Bored yet?
Love….Jill -
Who’s going to be first to admit that all their ancestors have the same surname and have lived in the same village for the last 300 years 😳
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Wow that’s some history Jill Marie Welsh from Ireland
Did you dig that out yourself or has it been family knowledge?
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Not bored Jill, tell us more. I always knew you were one mixed up person!
😀xx
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quote Phill:Who’s going to be first to admit that all their ancestors have the same surname and have lived in the same village for the last 300 years 😳
Surely not you Phill
How do you explain the vulcan bit then?
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That was a very distant cousin :lol1:
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I stopped looking into my past when I found my great great grandfather was a jewel thief, and my great grandmother was an SP bookie into anything illegal.
I suppose all us aussies are from convict stock, so it stands to reason. I don’t worry about it anymore.
I am happy in the knowlege that I don’t want my kids to play with people of my ancestral background….. :lol1:
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Hmmm….let’s see.
Though both sides of my family tree had families with 17 kids, only one of those families was Catholic.That was my dad’s. He was one of 17 (one surprise set of twins, one slept in a dresser drawer till Grandad made another cradle), and we did bring the Welsh name from Galway.
The Welshes originally lived in Ohio, and when I was a kid we’d all make the journey to the family reunion in the summer. I had one old great-uncle with only one eye! He had been in an accident years ago, and all us kids were afraid of him.
I had an uncle on that side who played the bass fiddle in a band, too, I forgot about him. He was Grandma Welsh’s brother. She and I had babies on the same days, not year of course. I look like her, poor thing.
All the stuff on my dad’s side I learned from him.
Some of the stuff on my mom’s side I learned from my grandma. (the rum runner) The rest was all researched through county historical societies and now the Internet.I also have 99 first cousins.
Bored yet?
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quote Nicola Rowlands:yep…………im traced back to the mcintosh’s who sat on a glen all day and got pi$$ed on whiskey……….. :lol1: :lol1:nik
I see you’re keeping the family tradition going then ………
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I started researching my tree through http://www.genesreunited.com when I was quiet for a while, haven’t been able to get back to it for months, it IS very time-consuming (and expensive). I have Irish & Scots family, researching the Scot side is easy-ish, the Irish side nigh on impossible.
I have an ancestor called Elizabeth Taylor!
I also have had contact from several people who have my relatives in their tree’s, so I’m finding rels I never knew existed.
God only knows when I’ll have the time to get back to it!
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Well you carnt choose your family or what they are, you can your friends 😕
i keep asking my old fella to PLEASE take his old black n white photos down he has all over his house, Reggie n Ronnie Kray 🙄 mmmm old fella used to work for them and run 1 of his clubs, i dont even ask what he got up to. (:) -
I did a bit of research a few months ago. There’s a resource in Scotland where you can look online into birth, marriage and death certificates, http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk . I could only find info on my grandfathers (dads side) family as they were all scottish. But my granny was a Shanley from Ireland. I also was unable to get any info on my mums family (she was an orphan which makes it more difficult) which I suspect may have Irish connections too. The name Marcella (mums name too) is very common in parts of Ireland I believe, even though it’s an Italian name.
But as expected the majority of my family were irish tattie pickers!!! 😀 the scottish side of the family were farming hands and maids, poor folk!
I’d love to trace the irish relatives but it’s very difficult to get that info as I know a lot of the records were lost in a fire a the turn of the century in Dublin.It’s very interseting stuff though.
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My wife is fanatical about this sort of stuff and has been tracing her family tree and my family tree for 2 or 3 years now got back a long way most of my side of the family were cobblers 😮 😮 says it all really 😀
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I’d love to go very far back but its hard as most of our records over here were burnt & destroyed in 1916 🙄
Plus my Grandfather was quite vague on the topic for some reason. I do know we have relatives in Australia, Canada (Toronto) and North America.
It also seems our surname originated in Huntingdon in England but was first used as a surname in Scotland around 15th-16th century.
Some other research would suggest that it came from Ramisis (the Pharoh guy) or a Pirate from waaaaaaay back. Apparently it also means "land of wild Garlic" 😕 :lol1:
Someday I’ll pay somebody to get the info I need I think.
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My father was Greek Cypriot and my mother is London born, I only found that out about 10 years ago, Its quite a shock to find out you’re half greek when you never knew any of your history at all!
I wouldnt know where to start tracing my Greek side of the family, would be very interesting, I know his surname was Aristedes, thats all 😀 -
http://www.myheritage.com has a family tree thing and another thingy that matches your face to a celeb’s…. apparently I’m 75% Vince Vaughn…
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