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Julia333	Ever researched your family tree?	Lead	[-]
Posts: 77823 (29 Jan, 2007 12:08 AM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Have you ever researched any part of your family tree? If so, how did you go about it and have you any interesting stories to tell? Edit to fix posticon
Julia333	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#1	[-]
Posts: 77823 (29 Jan, 2007 12:22 AM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	My mother was Italian so Ive never bothered to go down that line because of the additional challenges Id face distance wise and being unable to speak Italian. However, I followed my paternal side which was interesting because I found out things about my paternal grandfather I never knew as he died at a very young age (in his early 30s of Haemophilia). He was a professional musician (clarinet and sax) and met my grandmother at Manchesters Opera House where he used to work. I managed to trace back to his grandparents but came to a halt as they were from Ireland and apparently, Irish census records were burned during the Irish Civil War. One day when I have all the time in the world I will revisit this and have lots of fun filling in the gaps.
lindsey027	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#2	[-]
Posts: 1499 (29 Jan, 2007 8:53 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	This is a photo of a painting done of my great, great, great grandfather. I will try and find out more from my cousin who gave the photo to me when I visited England in the early 1990's.
Julia333	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#3	[-]
Posts: 77823 (29 Jan, 2007 1:18 PM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	WOW! That's wonderful Lindsey. You're so lucky to have that! I'm confused about the hairstyle. My great, great, great grandfather was born 1849 and the male hairstyles during the time he was an adult was quite short so I recon this painting was taken much earlier. But even during Dickensian times male hairstyles were much shorter than in this painting. I'd be very interested to know when it was painted.
lindsey027	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#4	[-]
Posts: 1499 (30 Jan, 2007 9:51 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I have sent off a message to my cousin, and hopefully he will know more than I can remember from our meeting. When I went back to England in 1992, it was the first time since I left as a child. I have been back twice since, but in 1992 we toured for 56 days! I loved every minute of it
Julia333	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#5	[-]
Posts: 77823 (31 Jan, 2007 10:14 PM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'll look forward to hearing what he says, Lindsey. Wow, 56 days is a long holiday! I recon you could have covered every square mile in that time! Did you see Manchester?
poeticpiers	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#6	[-]
Registered Member Posts: 2039 (21 Feb, 2007 11:05 PM) Registered Member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	My nephew has done pretty comprehensive research which he sent me on a disc.Knowing I had done some research. Only problem is I cant acess the disc. But I can claim James Hogg the ettrick shepherd amongs my ancestors and the family throws uo poets in most generations
Julia333	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#7	[-]
Posts: 77823 (23 Feb, 2007 2:06 AM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I found THIS on James Hogg, Ivor. *Quote:* James Hogg (1770-1835), also known as 'The Ettrick Shepherd' lived and worked for most of his life in Ettrick Forest in the Scottish Borders. He is best known for his innovative novel, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824). Maybe your nephew could send you another disc that works?
lindsey027	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#8	[-]
Posts: 1499 ( 1 Mar, 2007 10:58 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Interesting link, Julia ~ and I found this link which gives access to The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner by James Hogg.
Julia333	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#9	[-]
Posts: 77823 ( 1 Mar, 2007 3:33 PM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ooooh, that will be a treat for Ivor, especially, if he hasn't already seen it! Ivor, where are you?
lindsey027	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#10	[-]
Posts: 1499 ( 2 Mar, 2007 3:03 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Presenting James Hogg ~
Julia333	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#11	[-]
Posts: 77823 ( 3 Mar, 2007 2:34 AM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	That's splendid, Lindsey. Just wait till Ivor sees it! I think I will PM him 'cos I think he may have forgotten about this thread.
LyndseyKK	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#12	[-]
Registered Member Posts: 1542 (20 Mar, 2007 12:47 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I have researched my family tree. I'd like to keep researching, but too many things have been keeping me from it in the last couple of years. I first got interested in the family tree when my dad showed me what he got from his father and his aunt - the tree all the way back to 1790 which seemed pretty impressive to me when I was just 9. I still think it's pretty impressive. I only managed to get that tree one generation farther back than he had it, but I did fill in a lot if missing people and their bios in the middle of it. There's nobody famous in my family tree so far.
lindsey027	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#13	[-]
Posts: 1499 (20 Mar, 2007 6:51 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Good work, Lyndsey ~ the tree has grown thanks to you
Julia333	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#14	[-]
Posts: 77823 (20 Mar, 2007 1:15 PM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Yes indeed! That is a wonderful contribution to make for your future generations, Lyndsey!
LyndseyKK	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#15	[-]
Registered Member Posts: 1542 (20 Mar, 2007 8:48 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Lindsey, that's such a very cool painting of your ggg grandfather! You're so lucky to have that! Do you know much about him?
Julia333	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#16	[-]
Posts: 77823 ( 4 Apr, 2007 11:26 AM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Lyndsey! The picture is one of Poeticpiers (Ivor) ancestors that Lindsey found for him on the net. It looks like they have both forgotten about this thread. Now Ive seen all your wonderful family history pictures at Chatterbox and read about your amazing collection of artifacts I can see just how passionate you are about your family history! You are so very lucky to have so much! If its okay with you, could you possibly post some of those wonderful photos on our Your old nostalgic photos thread in the Photo forum and/or a thread of your own in this forum? It would be wonderful to share such priceless pics and info!
LyndseyKK	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#17	[-]
Registered Member Posts: 1542 ( 5 Apr, 2007 4:11 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Will do! I just found a photo in my dad's closet, an 8 x 10 framed picture of a man I can't identify. I snapped a pic of it with the digial camera and emailed it to my dad's sister to see if she knows who it is. I sure hope she knows. If it's framed, you'd think it would be someone important, but it's definitely not my dad's dad, and it's not either of his grandfathers either. And it's not old enough to be a great grand.
Julia333	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#18	[-]
Posts: 77823 ( 5 Apr, 2007 4:17 PM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Thank you, Lyndsey! I'll so look forward to seeing some of your priceless photos at Ditto! How very exciting for you to have found a mysterious photo. I agree if it's framed it must be someone special ! Ooooh, I'm getting as excited as you about knowing who is is. Please let us know as soon as you find out.
LyndseyKK	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#19	[-]
Registered Member Posts: 1542 ( 5 Apr, 2007 6:51 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Dang, my aunt doesn't know! So that rules out any of my dad's uncles.
Julia333	Re: Ever researched your family tree?	#20	[-]
Posts: 77823 ( 5 Apr, 2007 7:00 PM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Aww, that's very frustrating, Lyndsey! $:\$ No one else that might know?