Anyone researched their family tree?

No use, my mother's side is Russian/Estonian, and my dad's side is multi-generational South African (so effectively Dutch), UK records won't have much on my bloodline.
 
My aunt did a check a few years back. Pretty muddy waters but it seems my mum's side go back to the Border Reivers, on the Scottish side. My dad's side links from Scotland to Ireland and back to Scotland and it looks like we date back to the Picts. Family name is linked to an ancient Pictish village in the Perthshire hills.
 
not tried, but we have various trees in the family bible thing, and there's a book from one of my ancestors that has a sht-load of tree stuff in, some of it's fascinating - had a guy who died on HMS Hood, has some noted entries of people going back to the 1500s etc. interesting to see stuff like how big families were, how many died at unsettlingly young ages etc. the family coat of arms stuff is interesting too.
 
I got my wife a 3 month account with ancestry or myheritage, she went back a couple of hundred years, her dad then started and went back about 400 years.

They do have access to other countries as well but it costs more.

My wife was more interested in the last couple of hundred years and then researching them more, where they lived, what it looks like now etc.
 
eddiemcgarrigle said:
My aunt did a check a few years back. Pretty muddy waters but it seems my mum's side go back to the Border Reivers, on the Scottish side. My dad's side links from Scotland to Ireland and back to Scotland and it looks like we date back to the Picts. Family name is linked to an ancient Pictish village in the Perthshire hills.
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Did it several years ago , trying to see if we where related to the Reiver Elliots of Hermitage castle as my great gran parents lived near there, got as far back as 1787 and found we came from Liverpool .
 
Semple said:
How did you come across it?

I suppose i could see the boring side if my great grandparents, great uncles, great-great grandparents and so on were just normal mundane people. But you'd be interested to hear if anyone was famous, heroic, or even infamous.
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Think it was my Dad's cousin who mentioned it and invited me into it. It's pretty interesting to be fair :).

I don't seem to have anyone too exciting in my direct tree though :(
 
My Dad has been doing it for a few years and have gone back a few hundred years. He uses Ancestry mainly as well as other sources and has been in contact with various distant relatives we didn't know we had.
 
We have gone back to 1540s on a few lines, but you can't do it all online, you will have to visit local record offices to where your ancestor show up, get ready to spend lots of hours looking at old registers, books, films and fiches
 
My cousin did something like this a while back and it turned out that if we searched our surname on Facebook, a lot of the people on there of similar ages in the same area of the country were in fact related to us. We probably shared the same great, great, great, great, great, great granddad or something equally as distant. Felt sort of weird really, knowing that I'll never see or speak to these people and they'll never know of me or my family. In some cases we were even at the same school at the same time!
 
Related to a Nordic king, and some distant king from this 'ere isle. Couple of people in the family are super in to family lineage and history, local and globally.
 
Have found similar in the Irish side of the family lineage, especially with the coat of arms. Green shield, gold lion rampant, heraldic crown, greyhound on chain, portcullis, feathers. All seems to point to some influence in Irish Royalty.
 
My dad gave me a book with our family tree in it.

My dads side of the family originated in Scotland, they then migrated to New Zealand, where my great great grandfather married a Maori elder's daughter. Since he was the only white man in the village, he was named "Snowy"!!! From there the Maori genes were definitely stayed on.. My dad has size 17 UK feet which is always funny to see him try and drive.

My mothers side of the family originated in Spain and migrated to the Welsh valleys during the industrial revolution.
 
My dads side is impossible relating to my granddad

My mums side, my Nans sister has traced records back to the 1600's where there was a record of a great x ? Grandfather who had to pay a fine as he was seen working on a Sunday. She knows things up to late 1800's herself due to speaking to her dad and granddad. My current granddad isn't and hasn't bothered. There could however be links to titles on his side he reckons.

My dad did some research and he thinks there is a chance my step Mum is a distant relation from a common ancestor in the 1800's.
 
I did mine a few years back. My mother's side is the most interesting being Lithuanian Jews. I traced it back to the town of Kaunas in Lithuania and then back forwards to 1939 where it all ends apart from my mother's direct ancestors who had gone to the US in around 1903 and then to the UK in 1908 and 1912.

What was fascinating is that I found out that both my farther's side and my mother's side had men who died in WW1. Nothing shocking about that apart from them being in the same regiment and both dying at The Somme. They are buried in the same graveyard in France and the chances are that they knew each other.
 
My grandfather traced our family back to 1066, where we first came over... from France :(

Maternal side, around 1700s, related to Welsh ( :( ) royalty
 
Rilot said:
I did mine a few years back. My mother's side is the most interesting being Lithuanian Jews. I traced it back to the town of Kaunas in Lithuania and then back forwards to 1939 where it all ends apart from my mother's direct ancestors who had gone to the US in around 1903 and then to the UK in 1908 and 1912.

What was fascinating is that I found out that both my farther's side and my mother's side had men who died in WW1. Nothing shocking about that apart from them being in the same regiment and both dying at The Somme. They are buried in the same graveyard in France and the chances are that they knew each other.
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See, this is what makes researching a family tree very interesting.

You just have no idea how two non-blood related families have entwined over hundreds of years.
 
What's the best site (paid or unpaid) to do a bit of ancestry research?

I especially want to know more about my Nan and Grandad on my Dad's side. Interested to know what my Grandad did in the 2nd WW.
 
My Uncle managed to go as far back as 1600s, to Aughnacloy Northern Ireland. Before that we reckon our ancesters were from scotland. Fortunately our name isn't a common one which made this easier.
 
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