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Topic: Average Age of Family History Enthusiasts (Read 2523 times)
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kerryb
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 11972
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Hi everyone
I have just added my age to the Poll. I am under 40 - but only for another year, 1 month and 17 days! Have been finding my family history since early this year. My brother bought my Grandparents house after Grandad's death and in the attic we found an old family bible with inside some names, dates of birth and death and it got me interested in finding out who these people were. So here I am 9 months later, totally addicted with a family tree of about 900 and growing all the time. 
kerryb
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukSearching for my family - Baldwin - Sussex, Middlesex, Cork, Pilbeam - Sussex, Harmer - Sussex, Terry - Surrey, Kent, Rhoades - Lincs, Roffey - Surrey, Traies - Devon & Middlesex & many many more to be found on my website .... www.kerrysfamilyhistory.co.uk |
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booger
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 86
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36 yrs and rising 
It's a 30s and 40s thing. We're all middle aged and getting measured up for our coffins. We have to leave a record now to show that we actually existed.
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Keith Sherwood
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 3513
One's native place is the shell of one's soul...
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I wonder what would fit the description of "middle-aged" these days. In Shakespeare's time a lot of people would have been quite glad to have got as far as 36 years old!
For years and years I used to look in the mirror in the morning and still think of myself as 18 years old. Now, at 57, I'm much more realistic about the aging process (lines, thinning hair, etc. etc.) and my own mortality...
Keith
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Berlin-Bob
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RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 5697
by: My Daughter. Chatting to find her Roots !
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Young, Middle-aged, Old, ... ??
Judging by various reasons given in other threads, it is more likely a function of
"when my XXXXXX died, I started ...... "
Where XXXXXXX is the relative who died and made you start thinking about family, and where did we come from, etc.
I am 58, and I started about a year ago, when I went throught the various papers and photos from and about my Grandfather, which my Grandmother left me, when she died.
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Searching for Coleman, Moore, Kallnung in London; Margulies, Remenyi in E. Europe; Ancestors of Hessie Stevenson-Coleman-Baxter (Ireland, 1861) and, of course, any other ancestors for my web-site. All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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minime
RootsChat Member
Posts: 138
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Again I am the youngin' in the group...but like Arabella, I came to realize that there's not many left to answer the questions pertaining to my Birchall side. ( Preciselly 1 person, and she's not sure of much at all.) Pretty funny too that one of the name's of the Birchall's on my side was Arabella. LOL!!!
Anyway, I've been doing this for almost a year and love every minute of it. Good hunting to all.
Minime
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Birchall, Cooper, Kearns, Hope, Desmarias
Scotland, England, Ireland, Canada?, France?
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bel_jon68
RootsChat Member
Posts: 156
I've not edited my PROFILE yet
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I got into family history quite by accident earlier this year. Having suspected for 20 years or so that one of my parents was adopted, a remark by someone unrelated to me that partially confirmed my suspicions led me to wonder how I'd go about finding out whether this was true...
I was a bit baffled at first by all the information available on the internet, but then I made my best find ever - ROOTSCHAT!!! 
Now I am totally hooked - right now I'm supposed to be finishing a report for work that the client wants tomorrow...just need to find the birth of my gggggrandfather first... 
I think the younger you are when you get into family history, the better. My adoptive grandmother (can I call her that?) lived to the ripe old age of 92 but died several years ago, before I got into all this. I don't have any elderly living relatives I can glean info from apart from one who I sadly rarely see...come to think of it, I haven't many immediate relatives at all (no aunts, uncles, cousins), only lots of ancestors!!! That's one of the reasons I'd like to trace my biological grandparents - I could have a whole host of living relatives out there, just waiting to be fallen out with over Christmas!!!!!
I'm under 40 but officially a sporting veteran too...
Bel
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Researching
ARTHUR, ROBERTS, LEWIS and WILLIAMS in Denbighshire/Merionethshire/Glamorgan
EVANS and JONES in Montgomeryshire
FALLOW(E)S, JONES, PREECE and GITTON in Shropshire
and the list keeps growing...
(March 2006) Now looking for HINKS, SPARKES, INGRAM from West Midlands area
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c w
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 319
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Apparently I am 42, but I was unaware of the fact!
But I have recently seen a few friends from school - to find quite a few of the 'boys' to be bald or severely grey, and a lot of the 'girls' to be quite, (to be frank) -"WRINKLY".
So I am no longer worried about how old I am - but I am still worried about how much weight Ihave put on!
But, I suppose having two children after I was37 and also an inexplainable love of chocolate may have something to do with it? ! ?
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Chidgey (west Somerset) Morgan(Radnorshire & Tredegar, Mon.) Griffiths (Tredegar, Mon.) Morgan (Monmouthshire) Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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graygen
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Hi there
Became very aware of my age reading these postings -I am 47!!!but still feel 17. I am waiting to feel"grown up" - when does it happen.
I did the first part of my tree when I was in my twenties and used to spend hours chatting with my "wee"granny in Scotland I treasure a letter she sent with BMDs in answer to my questions...
With the demands of work and family and the time need to travel and search through records I confess I did little for several years.Enthusiasm was rekindledwith the advent of two golden weddings in the family and the vague notion that a "family tree" would be a nice present...now I am hooked,becoming obsessive!!
Love browsing through rootschat and finding others that share the same excitement of finding an elusive scrap of information!
All I want for Christmas is info on the parents of George MORRISON b New Cummnock 20 Jul 1813 - hope Santa obliges.
Margaret
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SUSSEX - Burton, Gray, Kennard, Sheppard, Breach, Grayling SURREY - King
ABERDEEN(Cairnie, Gartly, Old Machad- Pirie, Morrison, Ogg, Munro,Alexander, LANARK - Meharry, Lundey MIDLOTHIAN - Lockhart, Archibald, Higgins DUNBARTON - Mc Culloch, Morrison, McLellan, Semple, Brown, Hutchings,
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kevan
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 329
My beautiful grandmother - Ethel Litlechild
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Hi,
I am 45 approx. I went to my twin sister-in-law's 40th Birthday a couple of years ago, and saw an amazing family tree by my mother-in-law which had been carefully hand drawn and went back forever, much on the female line.
So, I spent the first six months trying to find my grand father in the census for 1891, even though I had his birth certificate (born 1889). Then miraculously, I discovered the Ancestry 1891 on-line index and bought loads of resources, and a couple of years down the line, I have three web sites on the subject, covering just about everything you would want to know about Essex & Suffolk.
Some call this hobby mad, I call it censusology, or is it cenlusology; perhaps we all want to be private detectives, as I do not care whose family I am researching. I just enjoy finding useful snippets of info that are often obvious, but need a few extra bits of the puzzle to get there.
Best
Kevan
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buttercup
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 289
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I feel so young when i read your notices!! But then im helping my father find info on his family
So im 24 and got hooked when my father showed me a labor certificate belonging to my ggrandmother and then the photos my father "rescued" from my grandfather who passed away just under 2 yrs ago.
The silly thing about the photos was they had names but no last names or dates so we were forever asking "who's this?" Shame on those who never write dates on photos!
Anyway to all a very merry christmas, and happy hunting!
BC
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HURST, RUDD, BANKS, APPLETON, BRYAN, RIGBY, ORMSHAW, PICKERING - Lancashire
BRYAN, PICKERING - Cheshire
BROWN, TURK - East Sussex
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