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Tracing your Ancestry
Has anyone attempted to trace their ancestry? How far back have you managed to trace? Did you find anything interesting?
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My grandmother did it years ago and found we were connected to the Pendle witches
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Originally Posted by
Lamparilla
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?
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Originally Posted by
Lamparilla
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.
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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?
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Originally Posted by
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?
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.
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Got my granddads birth certificate,he was born in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace.
Devil in disguise,
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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.
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Originally Posted by
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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.
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Originally Posted by
gsgsgs
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
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Originally Posted by
whiplash
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!
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Originally Posted by
said
Well they are dead now.So can't ask.
Devil in disguise,
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Originally Posted by
whiplash
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.
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Originally Posted by
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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.
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