Family Genealogy.....

[Kath/Gaz]

Just curious to know if anyone else does this.....I have been working on my own family and helping people with their family genealogy for the last 20 or so years.....

[BudgiesBuddy]

One of our cousins is very interested to know and does so for over 100 years back. Though he has come up with a few different results to date

[Hezz]

Not me, myself, Kath, but my father's family have been traced back to the English/Scottish border area - Northumberland - as freehold farmers, with the name originating from the Normans. Unfortunatley I don't have the information that the original researcher did into the clan, but only really detailed his book from the times of the original settler in Australia's early life. He does give names of known Hall clan members who were known for better or worse, funnily enough, back to the times of St Cuthbert ( . I find the old part of history facinating, the newer just gets a bit boring.

[nev90]

I'm a genealogist like you Kath. I've been doing genealogy research for about 20 years. I have a family tree programme with over 10,000 names on it, all connected to me or my wife. I often do research for other people as well.

One of the most interesting things I've found is a probable connection to a condemned witch in the 1600s. I'm still working on it to try and find some definite proof

[BudgiesBuddy]

Oh that's great Nev. With such poor records here, it will be difficult to find 1000 names

[Moogie]

Wow i would so LOVE to do this but was adopted at 6months old...I have a few details ie birth mothers name her mum and dads surname also my birth fathers name and his cousins name but no dates of births ect ect so i have NO IDEA how i would find out anything which saddens me as i would love to know

[milliej]

Feb 28, 2012 1:05:37 GMT Hezz said:

Not me, myself, Kath, but my father's family have been traced back to the English/Scottish border area - Northumberland - as freehold farmers, with the name originating from the Normans. Unfortunatley I don't have the information that the original researcher did into the clan, but only really detailed his book from the times of the original settler in Australia's early life. He does give names of known Hall clan members who were known for better or worse, funnily enough, back to the times of St Cuthbert ( . I find the old part of history facinating, the newer just gets a bit boring.

Ah you've got some good old Geordie blood then Hezz . I'm originally from Newcastle - Northumberland.
I also find ancient history fascinating but like you say, modern stuff gets a bit boring

[milliej]

I know heaps about my family because I'm the youngest and my elder siblings knew a lot which they've passed on to me. I can go back hundreds of years on all sides except my mam's grandfather who was a Scot called MacLardie, born in Glasgow. He is believed to have been a bigamist, emigrating to the U.S. sometime about 1880- ish I think.
My parents were both Geordies, but my mothers family Scottish and Cumbrian. My dads' Manx (from the Isle of Man) Cumbrian. I think with one name in the family tree being Kelly, it's quite likely there's Irish too.
My husband never knew his dad and to disprove a theory of his brothers! He went into his quite thoroughly, fairly recently. Although he was born in India he found out that he's more English than I am ;D. His dad's family were all Londoner's and his mam's from Exeter and the deep south
It's a fascinating hobby but can become an obsession so I'm glad my name's not Smith ;D.

Phew, what a long post!!

[milliej]

Moogie, depending on what the surnames are of your biological parents, you may be able to start somewhere, like Kew. You could work back from your date of birth and try tying it in with the names you have? Find your mam's name on the records, then your dad's, tie them together to make sure you have the right couple and work back from there? Thats if they're both British of course!
I'm sure somebody could get you started if you asked but doing it on-line can work out to be quite expensive and addictive! Kew I think is free unless you buy a certificate, if you can get there.

[Hezz]

Feb 28, 2012 19:27:43 GMT milliej said:

Feb 28, 2012 1:05:37 GMT Hezz said:

Not me, myself, Kath, but my father's family have been traced back to the English/Scottish border area - Northumberland - as freehold farmers, with the name originating from the Normans. Unfortunatley I don't have the information that the original researcher did into the clan, but only really detailed his book from the times of the original settler in Australia's early life. He does give names of known Hall clan members who were known for better or worse, funnily enough, back to the times of St Cuthbert ( . I find the old part of history facinating, the newer just gets a bit boring.

Ah you've got some good old Geordie blood then Hezz . I'm originally from Newcastle - Northumberland.
I also find ancient history fascinating but like you say, modern stuff gets a bit boring

I have at that, Jean, My mother's side has been tracked as well, but not as well documented, I only know Grandma's family were from England "somewhere".

[stace]

I spent a couple of days on Ancestry.co.uk a while back. Tracing back from my English mother on her mother's side (Southport, Liverpool) , I went back to the 1700s in Penzance, Cornwall.

I can't trace anything on my father's side, as there are no records.

I did find my great grandfather's war grave in Gallipoli through his South Lancashire Regiment records. There was even a photo online in the War Commission records which I sent to my mother. She'd never seen it or even knew where he was buried.

[Kath/Gaz]

Feb 29, 2012 1:21:32 GMT Hezz said:

Feb 28, 2012 19:27:43 GMT milliej said:

Ah you've got some good old Geordie blood then Hezz . I'm originally from Newcastle - Northumberland.
I also find ancient history fascinating but like you say, modern stuff gets a bit boring

I have at that, Jean, My mother's side has been tracked as well, but not as well documented, I only know Grandma's family were from England "somewhere".

My favorite english accent is Geordie.....but don't tell Gaz..... ;D
My passport claims I am an American....however some people in England claim I am Irish due to my accent.....but with the help of other family members we have traced our roots back to Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and England.....and on Gaz's side we have mainly had to deal with the area in which we lived as they did not wander to far away....but he does have Irish on his mother's side....

I am sure we can help Moogie if she would like....could start with Ancestry or the birth, marriage, death records website for her area....but adoption records are just abit different here then in the states and I would have to look into it just abit more....my mother was adopted at the age of 2....however in her case it was my grandfather who married my grandmother and adopted her....but I had family members that gave me the name of her father and I was able to piece together the Swedish side of the family....

[lupin]

I am Scottish and have an ancestor who was married to Princess Likelike of the Sandwich Islands - my only claim to fame.

[Hezz]

I am sure it isn't, Lupin! Me thinks you may well be one of those quiet achievers, . The ones I most admire.

[milliej]

There is also the theory that we are all related, of course, way back when!!