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Topic: Average Age of Family History Enthusiasts (Read 2521 times)
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lizdb
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 9414
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Female 41-50 (sadly nearer the 50 than the 41)
Been doing Family History for ........well, ever!!! Thats what it seems like!
Dabbled as a teenager, just asking a few relly's.
Did some research on own and husband's line when first married in the 1980's.
Devoted next few years to producing and caring for the next line on the famiy tree.
Then spent about 15 years on my tree, now returning to husbands - and via Rootschat have come across someone who has done lots of the work already!!! Wondeful!!!
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carol8353
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 5811
My two gorgeous grandsons
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Thanks for the felicitations Paul.
May all my censuses be readable..........boy you don't know how I wish that SOooooo much for myself 
Mind you after a 'few' drinks celebrating YET another birthday last night I'm not sure I'd be able to read them if they were in inch high letters this morning.. LOL
Cheers 
Carol
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukRogers, Rapkin, Phillips - Hammersmith/Fulham/Paddington areas Worth Bailey, Heapy, Burgess. All Macclesfield Cheshire Mockridge,West Monkton Somerset Jenner,Clapham Surrey Kendrick,Liverpool Wensley,Somerset Coleman and Mc Namara from Ennis, Co Clare, Ireland Blake and Maloney from Kilbaha Co Clare, Ireland |
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genjunction
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 84
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I started with this infectious hobby when I was 31, but that was still too late to catch my aunt, grandma.
My aunt would not have been pleased had I started earlier as she always said that grandma married twice as she had one name and my dad another.
Aahhh she didn't, my aunt was born out of wedlock, grandma married when my aunt was 4 years old and went on to have 3 more children in wedlock.
So as you can imagine, my aunt either knew of this and wanted it kept shtum or really believed that her mum did marry twice. I'll never know which !!
Carol
www.wakefieldfhs.org.uk
Wakefield Family History Sharing
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Siddle, Officer, Hebden, Riach, Younie, Mitchell aka McKandie, Algar, Wilkinson, Haverson, Mucklow, www.wakefieldfhs.org.uk |
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Keith Sherwood
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 3512
One's native place is the shell of one's soul...
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I dabbled briefly when I was about 18 years old, but I suppose there were too many other more exciting distractions then...
Returned to family history when I was about 32, but again not for long...
However, when I retired from the treadmill of work at the age of 53, I really did get into all this big time - a total obsession for the last 4 years, I must admit...
Keith
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Tariana
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 32
Happy Mother's Day USA
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I'm 21. I'll be 22 in August.
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Bryan.
RootsChat Veteran
Posts: 934
1938 - 2006
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Born 1938....so that makes me .....er..... um.....never was much good at maths, thought about my ancestors about 25 yrs ago never followed it through, now wish I had.......nobody to ask questions.
 
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Brownell...Sheffield. Rodgers....Sheffield Harper...Great Barford,Beds. Hull...Roxton,Beds Wostenholme,Sheffield, Elliot, Baslow,Derbyshire Duke, Birmingham.....Sheffield Palmer, Nottingham....Holbeach Hall,Nottingham    Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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XPhile2868
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1011
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I started when i was 17 - around my 17th birthday in February 2003 - and i'm now 19. 
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Smith (Lancashire), McKenna (Ireland/Liverpool/Leyland), Maynard (Hertfordshire/London/Preston), Ricketts (Gloucestershire/Wigan/Preston), Scowcroft (Preston), Harling (N. Yorkshire/Lancashire), Willis (Preston), Clegg (Manchester/Preston), Dodd (Wigan/Cheshire), Alston (Lancashire), Hulks (Hertfordshire), Nicholson (Lancashire), Russell (Lancashire), Wilson (Kendal) Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Keith Sherwood
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 3512
One's native place is the shell of one's soul...
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That must make you the youngest guy on this site, according to the survey so far...
Keith
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Burrow Digger
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1235
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I'm in the 31-40 age. I was sort of interested during my teen years before I left home, after I found out that my mother was adopted. For some reason during my teen years, I was also given a few old family trees and letters from a great uncle who did most of the early research on my fathers family.
But I didnt become addicted until the internet arrived. I guess you can say I have been really addicted since 2000 when I finally went online and discovered rootsweb & ancestry dot com.
BD
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helenw
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 28
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My mum and I do the family searching together it all started when i was 16 after a school project about the second world war got my grandparents and there brothers and sisters telling stories about what they used to do (my project was about the Home front).
We've been doing it on and off ever since then. I'm now 24 and we are really getting into it again as i've finished studying and have the time to search properly. I really wanted to help my mum too as its my family too, but i really like tapping my grandparents memories for their stories of childhood. I'm in the process of trying to get my grandmother to write all her stories down so that i'm able to keep a real memory with all the formal certificates.
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Leics & Rutland-Marlow,Curson,Driver,Freer,Freestone,Bird
Lincs-Welby,Chappell,Hames,West,Michelson,Sellers
Hunts-Berridge,Palmer,Hutchcroft,Wright,Shelton,Slough,Harbour,Owen(s),Dunkley
Northants - Boyall,Dunkley,Williamson,Owen(s),Norman,Glover
Cambridgeshire-Norman
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