Ancestry / Genealogy

[That Jekka Gal]

Not a very helpful comment but I have zero interest or care for my ancestors or history. They had their time; this is mine.

Well quite.

I've come across several people who have discovered they are e.g. 1/100 part Inuit and subsequently become insufferable.

I'm having a dinner party and I'm going to serve putrified whale blubba to celebrate my ancestry.... <shudder/>

 

[darkgen]

Well quite.

I've come across several people who have discovered they are e.g. 1/100 part Inuit and subsequently become insufferable.

I'm having a dinner party and I'm going to serve putrified whale blubba to celebrate my ancestry.... <shudder/>

I have genetic trauma. You pay me monies. *squeal*

 

[Hagar]

One side were shipbuilding in Maryport with a shipyard on the banks of the River Eden in mainly timber built sailing ships . Another were predominantly farmers in Nottinghamshire. There are a sprinkling of clerics, a soldier or two and some quite interesting individuals.

One cleric married the widowed wife of a fellow vicar and when she died he found another widowed wife of a religious sort. This one bore him two daughters. After her death he retired to Norfolk living in a home for retired clergy. He was my great grandfather.

I am not doing the DNA gig though.

 

[Diddums]

Well quite.

I've come across several people who have discovered they are e.g. 1/100 part Inuit and subsequently become insufferable.

I'm having a dinner party and I'm going to serve putrified whale blubba to celebrate my ancestry.... <shudder/>

You discovered that you're a bloke yet tho?

 

[Scuzi]

Why is it when this topic comes up that the claims of noble and royal blood come flying from all angles? Were all these royal men and women that promiscuous? What happened to the descendants of all the paupers?

I used the free trial of Ancestry.com and got back as far as the late 1700s into the early 1800s. Can’t find anything prior to that, but then a lot of records and history were put on a bonfire around that time.

 

[Derek W]

You discovered that you're a bloke yet tho?

Read the previous post, his mother's already done the legwork

 

[shifty_uk]

I signed up to Ancestry and found it really difficult to find records of close relatives, couldn't find the great grandfathers docs or service history for example. That was a few years ago, maybe it's came on a bit since then?