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ali607
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Hi, not sure if this is the right place but I was just wondering if there's any fellow researchers nearby! Im a young researcher (in my early 20s) and people always look at you odd when you say you're into family history! So it can sometimes get a bit lonely and sometimes i get a bit depsondent- just wondered if there were any other younger family researchers in my area thats all..
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Alison
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Surname interests:
Salter, Fulford, Woodcock, Finney, Tissington, Driscoll, Shea, Maxfield, Collier, Hughes, Williams, Petty, Pearson, Prescott, Baldwin,
Area interests:
West Riding Yorkshire: Rotherham, Hemsworth, Darfield, Sheffield
Worcestershire/Staffordshire: Oldbury, West Bromwich, Halesowen, White Heath
Lancashire: Wigan, Aspull,
Nottinghamshire: Worksop
erbyshire:alfreton, ironville, codnor
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poppysmum
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hi, i'm in my 20s too and i don't really tell many people that i am tracing my family tree or that i like it so much! I am in galashiels so unfortunately am not near you though!
caroline
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Whytes, Durness; Bulloch, lanarkshire; Wilson, lanarkshire; Wilson, peebleshire; Rickelton, Glasgow; Harris, ayrshire and glasgow ; Steele, ayrshire; Duffy, leith Smith, Leith; Stewart, ayrshire and Glasgow
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ali607
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hi nice to hear from you!
Everyone thinks your a saddo - but i find the whole thing really interesting - im so into it in a big way. But i dont tell many people. people can be really ignorant i find.
Even my parents think im a bit weird i think.
Alison
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Surname interests:
Salter, Fulford, Woodcock, Finney, Tissington, Driscoll, Shea, Maxfield, Collier, Hughes, Williams, Petty, Pearson, Prescott, Baldwin,
Area interests:
West Riding Yorkshire: Rotherham, Hemsworth, Darfield, Sheffield
Worcestershire/Staffordshire: Oldbury, West Bromwich, Halesowen, White Heath
Lancashire: Wigan, Aspull,
Nottinghamshire: Worksop
erbyshire:alfreton, ironville, codnor
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UglyDuckling
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Hi Alison
From your other posts, I reckon we're near neighbours - I'm just outside Tarves - but I'm probably the wrong side of 40 to be considered a 'young researcher'!
There's nothing sad, or weird, about being interested in the past.
What fascinates me is the seismic shift in living and working conditions over the last few generations, and the expectations we now have for our own lives, given the opportunities we enjoy that were denied to our, even relatively recent, ancestors.
For instance, I'm still astonished that my GG Grandmother died in the Poorhouse in 1923 (still within living memory) - my modest lifestyle would have been beyond her wildest imagination.
For me, my interest in Family History began when my Grandparent's generation started to slip away and we realised that our link to the past was disappearing too. We left it too late really and there will now forever be faces in photographs that we can't put a name to, and only half remembered stories.
Keep at it and if you're lucky you'll experience those wonderful times when a bit of the jigsaw falls into place, or even those heart stopping moments when you read something startling, or heart breaking, about one of your ancestors. It makes all the hours, and expense, worthwhile - and makes you all the more grateful for the life you have.
Best Wishes
Gary
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kickbuttgirlie
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Hi Alison,
I wouldnt call myself a young researcher but at 33 not past it either. I get some very odd looks when I tell people that I am a Mum of 3, Martial Arts Instructor who knits, sews and is into family history.
Where abouts in Aberdeen are you? I am in Alford.
KBG 
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Aberdeen: Coulthard, Chilcott, Bartie, Wallace, Clark, Robertson, Warrander, Hunter, Brown
Lincolnshire: Chilcott, Barratt, Robinson, Twidale, Beacock
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hume24
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Hi Alison,
I'm under 20, so I'm beating all of you.  It's true, I don't tell anyone about my hobby (read: obsession), simply because not a lot of people my age are interested. My family, of course, hear all about it. 
hume24
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Grothenwell
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Hi Alison,
In my 40's so not young, but don't be despondent about a lack of fellow youngsters, this game is all about finding out about "old" folk, and some of the people I've met/corresponded with age doesn't come into it.
However on a practical level, there are quite often younger people in the ANESFHS in King Street, perhaps you should drop a note into the journal. From your posts I can see that you are enthusiastic about helping people. Have you considered volunteering to help there, if you can spare the time. The regular fact gatherings to local graveyards always looks popular, and I've been to a few of the monthly meetings and they always seem well attended. The best place to talk to fellow genealogical enthusiasts is here at Rootschat especially the Common Room/Lighter side topics.
KBG & Hume24, you should put your family name interests at the foot of your posts, it might lead on to finding or helping distant relatives you didn't know you had.
Good luck,
Grothenwell
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Aberdeenshire; Brechin, Robb, Clark, Hardie, Johnston, Watt, Elmslie, Milne, Harper, Adam, Edmond, Laing, Gibson, Aedie, Jameson, Tosche, Measonne, Anderson, Moir, Nicol, Burnet, Donaldson, Guthrie, Argo & Doverty.
Booth, Watson, Grothenwell, Ewen, Mackie, Simpson, Taylor, Davidson, Willox, Chalmers & Gordon
Still, Fraser, Robertson & Lumsden
Banffshire; Cruickshank, West
Caithness; Sutherland
Herefordshire & Worcester & Monmouthshire; Wagstaff, Jones &
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hume24
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Thanks for the reminder, Grothenwell. I'll do that now.
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Windsor87
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I started doing my family history last year aged 18.
Given that I had just started a degree course in history, perhaps it made sense for me to be into that sort of thing.
People are generally interested, or appear to be, when I tell them of my findings.
A big favourite of many of my friend's is my greatx3 grandfather William Connon from Monquhitter. Between 1862 and 1906 he had fathered 26 children. Given that he lived to 1915, this number could increase.
Less than a month ago I made a connection to Christian Watt which was fairly exciting. The fact that there is a book published about some of my ancestors adds character to what would otherise be names and dates. If Christian Watt is right, I can boast of being the half 14th cousin 4 times removed of Queen Elizabeth II. 
So it's not all boring.
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Aberdeenshire/Banffshire:
Strachan, Connon, Watt, Beattie, Noble, Watt, Sinclair, Garden, Birnie, Wilson, Christie, Gatt, Watson, Sim, Ross, McWilliam, Middleton, Burr, Johnston, Munro, West, Porter, Trail, Bruce, Peddie, Kemp, Smith, Ewen, Kerr, Grieve, Whyte, Ritchie, Mackie, Jamieson, Barron, Grant, Robertson, McKay, Hadden, Forbes, Walls, Shepherd, McDonald, Duncan, Gray, Will, Thomson, Lascelles, Brown, Anderson, Doherty...
Dumfriesshire:
Bryson, Harkness, Scott, Roddick, Armstrong
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Kin-getter
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All too often this activity is left until one 'has the time'. That usually seems to suggest Retirement.
The biggest problem with that is that by the time one retires, a good number of the folk who perhaps hold the answers to the questions you never got round to asking, are gone, and with them their information.
I'm very happy to know that there are youngsters who are getting started on their 'Trees' for it is something that grows, just as they do. I salute them for making the choice to do it. I hope they in turn will try to encourage other younger folk to take up this activity.
Also, as one 'harvests the crop', one is adding to one's heritage which needs to be passed on to the following generation.
Lastly, its said that we are the sum total of those that went before. That being the case, why should we not care about our Ancestry?
James.
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FRASERBURGH:
MASSIE, MAITLAND, GERRIE, IRONSIDE, MACKIE, MACLEOD;
BAIN, BARRON, BISSET, BOWMAN, CARDNO, CATTO, CHEYNE, CLARK, COWIE, DICKIE, FINLAYSON,
GALL\GALT\GANT, GRAY, HENDERSON, HENDRY, KELLY,
MILLER, MILNE, MITCHELL, NEILSON, PEARSON, RENNIE, RIDDLE, ROSIE, SCOTT, SKENE, STEPHEN, SUMMERS, THIRD, TRAIL, WALLACE;
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kickbuttgirlie
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I have to admit it was when both mygrandmothers died last year that I decided to get started with the family history mainly because I kept meeting the same people at funerals and really had no idea who they were. I have since met lots of new family members that i didnt know I had.
Since starting and charting up my finds my 10 year old son is getting quite into it too which is great - means i can give him all the info to carry forward.
KBG
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Aberdeen: Coulthard, Chilcott, Bartie, Wallace, Clark, Robertson, Warrander, Hunter, Brown
Lincolnshire: Chilcott, Barratt, Robinson, Twidale, Beacock
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Gritter
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I'm only 33 (and dont consider that old!!) - I get loads of stick for being so obsessed with genealogy too, but if you dont start young then you'll lose out on so much information, as the older generation start to disappear!
I left it too late with my great aunt and lost a wealth of family information, that she took to the grave with her. I wish I had started this when I was 20, not 28!
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Ann Baker
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Hi
I'm on my late 40s now but Oh how I wish I'd started this when my grandparents who were still around til I was in my 20s and my great grandparents who on one side lived til I was a teenager, were still here.
I am absolutely fascinated by how my family lived and how they evolved to what we are now! Warts an all!
It's never too young to start.
My 11 year old has now joined me and dad has also been quietly doing his tree so we're all doing it now!
great stuff I say!
Ann
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Torrens, Thompson - Tyrone & Fermanagh,Connolly, Campbell - Monaghan & Cavan, McGovern, Carroll, Orr - Ireland
Connolly, Fulton, Stirling, Cameron, McKellar, Robertson, McGovern, Torrance, Bisland, Fraser, Hamilton, O'Hara, McAusland, McTaggart , Lambie, Twedale, Hart, Clark(Paisley/Barrhead/Glasgow)
McGovern, Liddell - Falkirk
Mair, Muir, Carroll, Stewart, Law, Orr - Lanarkshire
Torrance - Brisbane
Connolly , Robertson- NSW
McGovan(?), Robertson , Agnew-
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tn17
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I might be on the complete other side of the world - but there are young researchers in Australia too!
I'm 21 and have been interested since a "do a family tree back to your grandparents exercise" for school when I was 13. Which I thought was pretty young until I read about the 10 and 11 year olds above!
These days when I'm at a library looking at old newspapers I'm usually the only one there under 50. For a while there I thought I was the only member of my generation who was a whizz at the Microfilm machine...
TN
PS: I wondered whether this thread was about the YOUNG family, or family researchers who are young, or people researching young families. The English language, huh?
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