Keefaz Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Anyone ever done theirs? Started my family's a few weeks back and am slowly turning up some interesting things. Anyone have any (in)famous ancestors? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 My Dads started doing this - are you over 40? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keefaz Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 My Dads started doing this - are you over 40? No, but my folks asked me to do it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 My Dads started doing this - are you over 40? No, but my folks asked me to do it. Ah. I'll try and find out the sites my Dad uses and let you know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Anyone ever done there's? Started my family's a few weeks back and am slowly turning up some interesting things. Anyone have any (in)famous ancestors? Such as? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakie Doke Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 it turns out I am actually a direct descendant of God. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keefaz Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Anyone ever done there's? Started my family's a few weeks back and am slowly turning up some interesting things. Anyone have any (in)famous ancestors? Such as? Well, nowt amazing so far, but just little stories. Never knew I had a great-grandfather from Liverpool, or that I have family in Ireland, or my great-great-grandmother probably ended her days in a workhouse. Plus seeing generations (200+ years) of my father's family working in the same pits in Cumbria only for a bunch (my grandfather) to suddenly up sticks and arrive in the Durham mines after one of them was injured in a mining accident: there's more to this story, but I've still to research. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Cool. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 How do you go about finding out stuff like that Keefaz? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnypd Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 my uncle did some research a few years ago, most my ancestors emigrated from ireland at some point, donegal area specifically. had one interesting great-grandad who emigrated to the US, landed in philadelphia, slowly worked his way over to san francisco, lived there for a bit until the 1906 earthquake half destroyed the city. after that he went to mine gold in the Klondike gold rush but had little success, so became a Mountie. in 1914 he volunteered in the patrician regiment for world war one and was amongst the first victims of chemical warfare, being gassed at Ypres. He was sent back to Tyneside (where his relatives now lived) to recuperate and married his nurse, 20 years his junior, who was my great grandmother. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Only about 7 or 8 million Irish people here, must be about a billion world wide of Irish descent Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidAK Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Only about 7 or 8 million Irish people here, must be about a billion world wide of Irish descent http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yDSe45mWL._SL500.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gash Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Would be very interesting to do one, wouldnt know where to start like Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Only about 7 or 8 million Irish people here, must be about a billion world wide of Irish descent yip, for thousands of years people have been desperate to get out of ireland. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Only about 7 or 8 million Irish people here, must be about a billion world wide of Irish descent yip, for thousands of years people have been desperate to get out of ireland. I blame the English for 800 of those years Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Only about 7 or 8 million Irish people here, must be about a billion world wide of Irish descent yip, for thousands of years people have been desperate to get out of ireland. I blame the English for 800 of those years Do you have any plans to ever move to Ireland, Decky? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Only about 7 or 8 million Irish people here, must be about a billion world wide of Irish descent yip, for thousands of years people have been desperate to get out of ireland. I blame the English for 800 of those years english ? surely you mean the normans ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keefaz Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 How do you go about finding out stuff like that Keefaz? Got as much infos as I could from my folks and relatives, then went to Ancestry.co.uk which will give you a free trial for a fortnight: you can check English census records from 1841-1901, some Scottish and Irish census records too. Also births and deaths databases. For Scottish relatives, I had to use www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk which costs, and I also used the 1911 census which also costs: 1911census.co.uk. Your public library might let you use these services for free (some of them, at least): Newcastle library does, but only for two a hours a day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowen Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 My granda (Newcastle side) went back to the 1650s I think. Not been something I've felt compelled to work on yet but I'm sure I'll dig it out one day when I decide I need a project. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 I did this a few years ago, but didn't get very fair. Signed up for the free trial on Ancestry.co.uk but got back to around great-grandparents before I lost interest a bit. I was paying the subscription fee for fucking ages once the trial had expired, but eventually cancelled it. Should really get back into it, but apparently a relative did one a while ago and still has all the info, so will probably just pinch hers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Heneage Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 An ancestor on my Dad's side Sir Thomas Heneage, was something to the stool, which meant he got to wipe the Kings Arse. Apparently quite the prestige job back then. Further back than that I think one of our lot was a Knight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gash Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 An ancestor on my Dad's side Sir Thomas Heneage, was something to the stool, which meant he got to wipe the Kings Arse. Apparently quite the prestige job back then. Further back than that I think one of our lot was a Knight. All went downhill from there aye Nix Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Heneage Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Aye the mothers sides abit more violent, one of them was a Gangster, I think he was Dutch but he died by being shot 13 times. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Only about 7 or 8 million Irish people here, must be about a billion world wide of Irish descent yip, for thousands of years people have been desperate to get out of ireland. I blame the English for 800 of those years Do you have any plans to ever move to Ireland, Decky? Fuck off man Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 How do you go about finding out stuff like that Keefaz? Got as much infos as I could from my folks and relatives, then went to Ancestry.co.uk which will give you a free trial for a fortnight: you can check English census records from 1841-1901, some Scottish and Irish census records too. Also births and deaths databases. For Scottish relatives, I had to use www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk which costs, and I also used the 1911 census which also costs: 1911census.co.uk. Your public library might let you use these services for free (some of them, at least): Newcastle library does, but only for two a hours a day. Cheers man, would love to research this kind of thing some day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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