Tracing your Ancestry

[said]

Has anyone attempted to trace their ancestry? How far back have you managed to trace? Did you find anything interesting?

[Lamparilla]

My grandmother did it years ago and found we were connected to the Pendle witches

[said]

My grandmother did it years ago and found we were connected to the Pendle witches

Ha!Ha! Did you not continue, or did you give up then? Do you hide on bonfire night?

[said]

My grandmother did it years ago and found we were connected to the Pendle witches

I have now managed to trace mine back to the 12th century - but it was not easy as the families were very large. It meant scanning hundreds of Birth, Death and Marriage certificates. I have also discovered a cousin I did not know I had, who was living in a neighbouring county.

[SeaCopRimmer]

I am a Marshside Rimmer and it is almost impossible to trace back beyond 1760 because there are so many Rimmer folk about; I know there are several differing Rimmer families (DNA confirms this) but with them using the same forenames it's not easy - nay, it is impossible! I am a genealogist with 25+ years experience and run a family history help desk in the Atkinson Library every Friday morning 10-12noon - pop in and say 'Hello' some time?

[said]

I am a Marshside Rimmer and it is almost impossible to trace back beyond 1760 because there are so many Rimmer folk about; I know there are several differing Rimmer families (DNA confirms this) but with them using the same forenames it's not easy - nay, it is impossible! I am a genealogist with 25+ years experience and run a family history help desk in the Atkinson Library every Friday morning 10-12noon - pop in and say 'Hello' some time?

Did you seek out Birth, Death and Marriage certificates? Luckily - I did not have your problem. Anyone having my Surname is related somewhere along the ancestry line. Several family members had also been tracing the ancestry, which helped enormously. I did have problems with the Christian names because these were repeated all the time.

[whiplash]

Got my granddads birth certificate,he was born in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace.

[gsgsgs]

Ha!Ha! Did you not continue, or did you give up then? Do you hide on bonfire night?

Snap, my many times great relative was Old Demdike.

[Lamparilla]

Ha!Ha! Did you not continue, or did you give up then? Do you hide on bonfire night?

It became very confusing because there were a lot of people with the same surname, but who weren't related to each other, a bit like the Rimmers in Southport area.

In more recent times, she did find that a cousin went down with the Titanic.

[said]

Snap, my many times great relative was Old Demdike.

That is very interesting! Have you read "The Lancashire Witch Conspiracy"? Type this into the address bar -

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...page&q&f=false

[said]

Got my granddads birth certificate,he was born in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace.

There is many an explanation for that - just can't think of any for now!

[Alikado]

Got my granddads birth certificate,he was born in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace.

What you really need to know is where he was concieved, you might be Royalty!

[whiplash]

There is many an explanation for that - just can't think of any for now!

Well they are dead now.So can't ask.

[said]

Well they are dead now.So can't ask.

OK! What was his Mum doing in Buck's kitchen? Apart from giving birth that is.

[seivad]

Did you seek out Birth, Death and Marriage certificates? Luckily - I did not have your problem. Anyone having my Surname is related somewhere along the ancestry line. Several family members had also been tracing the ancestry, which helped enormously. I did have problems with the Christian names because these were repeated all the time.

SeaCopRimmer is saying that: "it is almost impossible to trace back beyond 1760 because there are so many Rimmer folk about"
Civil registration wasn't introduced until 1837, so prior to 1760 there were no birth/death/marriage certificates.