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Cas (stallc)
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Interesting thread....
I think, I have enjoyed my hobbie, loved my research...so far with what I have found, as FH is always ongoing....where do you stop, when you hit parish records, which besides a few brick walls, I have done.
I have enjoyed the experience, knowledge of my folks, finding out in all aspects I could...and if after me, none of my family is interested, I have gained, gleened, and enjoyed my time with them....so be it!
I would love for mine to take over my thorough and costly research , but if they don't....I am sure in the future it will be looked apoun...by someone with interest maybe? In disc or paper form. Please look kin......
Basically, this has been done by me for me....but I do hope, wishfully, in the future mine will be bitten by the 'roots' bug. Do you think it is an age thing? when we get to age we are ready to take up the genealogy bug? I do hope so....
Who knows, but hoping... 
Cas
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Census information is Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk Davies, Roderick - Myddfai Carms Lloyd, Jones - Denbigh/Salop Bray - Cornwall Gibbons, Mordecai/Mort, Squire, Thomas, David/Davies, Joseph, Bowen, Lewis, Rees, Williams, Jones, Llewellyn, Morgan - Glam Gibbons, Timbrell, Beale, Ludlow - Glos/Wilts Shoemac, Squire, Keirle, Small - Somerset Berry, Baggot, Lee, Clayton - Lancs Baggot, Flynn -Ireland |
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LoneyBones
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I must say that I too enjoy doing research and find family history an enjoyable and satisfying hobby in and of itself. But I would like to think what I'm doing will last for a while. I like the story idea, I have a couple of very interesting ancestors I'd love to write about. One in particular, I have her photo sitting up in front of me, her whole life except...... no birth & no death!?! She just pops up fully growed, gets herself into the newspapers, travels all over, gets divorced, then disapears. Very frustrating. I look up at her photo and ask, "Dont you want to be imortalised?" But she never answers.
Do you think all this research makes us potty?
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Leonie.
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ENNIS-Yeatman-Cooper-Papps.
ENNIS-Thomas-Bonnin-Aldridge.
ENNIS-Davis.
JONES-Walton-Instant
JONES-Goodwin-Parker
LOST: Elizabeth Anne Balfour DAVIS. First seen aboard ship STATELY, 1851, heading for New Zealand.
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Cas (stallc)
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Hi Leonie (lovely name)
Write it down let it flow...your research, thoughts, facts, findings, then go back and correct or add, even embelish within reason, to a degree... in what you have found, think, feel...... I love the written word, and enjoy it very much, along and imagination, but am crap at maths although I teach.... 
I also will do this one day...give a narrative of my findings, possibly for future generations for them to understand my emotions of how I felt at this time, my research, including connections, facts, stories, my/our ancestors history, as it was, or as I viewed it...maybe with mine this with envoke/spark future interest
We live in hope
Cas 
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Census information is Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk Davies, Roderick - Myddfai Carms Lloyd, Jones - Denbigh/Salop Bray - Cornwall Gibbons, Mordecai/Mort, Squire, Thomas, David/Davies, Joseph, Bowen, Lewis, Rees, Williams, Jones, Llewellyn, Morgan - Glam Gibbons, Timbrell, Beale, Ludlow - Glos/Wilts Shoemac, Squire, Keirle, Small - Somerset Berry, Baggot, Lee, Clayton - Lancs Baggot, Flynn -Ireland |
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Lynn H
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A funny thing happened to me yesterday  I started this thread because i was worried about who was going to carry on my family tree.
My daughter turned up and asked if she could go through the old photo box. She said she wanted photos for her Facebook friends. She started going through the box and all of a sudden she said "you need to write on these photos so that we know who they are " Shock hit me!! she actually showed some interest in what she had found in the box. She never knew that i had Wedding Invitations printed out, or that i once owned my own business or loads of other things like that.
It put my mind a ease to think that she really does care, and even though she hasn't said as much, i think that my history will be in safe hands.
Lynn, 
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Ann Baker
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Hi Lynn
Does the heart good to hear that! I'm trying, with a small amount of success, to get my 11 and half year old daughter interested. She's the only one. I told her I'd do the hard bit and get the records and she just needs to keep it up to date.
She is starting to ask lots of questions so maybe just maybe she'll do that!
Fingers crossed
Ann
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Connolly, Fulton, Stirling, Cameron, McKellar, Robertson, McGovern, Torrance, Bisland, Fraser, Hamilton, O'Hara, McAusland, McTaggart , Lambie, Twedale, Hart, Clark(Paisley/Barrhead/Glasgow)
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Wonderful news your family's past looks as if it will have a future and be in safe hands after all
Trees
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Trees
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Welcome to Roots Chat Jake I hope you have as much fun here as we do and get a lot of help with your research let us know how we can help
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Lynn H
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Welcome Jake.
When i left Canada to come and live here, that is exactly what i did with 38 of my diary's. I regret it now though.
Lynn.
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JustKia
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Don't worry much over who will be the one to take over your research - they just might not be born yet!
My grandfather's brother started our tree, spent years on it and even had paid help from a professional.
I managed to trace everything he had (without the benefit of his research) in a matter of a couple of weeks online - I haven't actually left my desk in the name of research yet
I've taken it much further than he had - siblings/sibs spouses/spouses ascendants/etc and even gone a generation further on the direct lineage much to my surprise.
So, it could well be that one day one of your siblings grandchildren picks up the research and gets the genealogy bug!
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RichardK
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The way I see it, FH is like a jigsaw puzzle. Someone else can look at what you've done and say "ooh that's nice", but the person who derives most benefit from it is the one whose done the research, wrestled with the tricky bits and got the satisfaction of solving each bit. Therefore look after the irreplacable and the original with the utmost care, but vast volumes of notes you've acquired in the course of your research probably increase the likelihood that someone will simply decide to discard the whole lot. Make it clear which bits couldn't be replaced from official repositories. It's not always clear what those are - my parents interviewed my late great grandmother about the family shortly before she died in 1982, and the notes they took from that don't look much but are invaluable!
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little meg
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I think we all have this concern.
I had a break through the other day, one of my distant cousins (5th or something) who does the family history with me, has a daughter the same age as my daughter. Even thought neither are into family history they chat to each other on the net all the time.
I may not have someone to carry on the tree but I have linked the next generation together, hopefully these distant cousins, from across the oceans, will become mates for life, and their children etc.
A different concept, but still carrying on the tree in one form or another
Margaret
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Please scan all pics at 300-600 DPI for restoration purposes, thankyou.
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A couple of years ago I found some very good archival quality journal type books each in it's own box. They were on sale so I bought them all. (5) One day when I'm sure I have my facts all correct I'm going to start writing my family history into them. (soon) I already have two large hard cover note books with family history, unfortunately they don't lend themselves to photos but I've already started putting my photos into archival albums. These are almost impossible to buy now so I've had to make some up myself. Not a very difficult job, getting acid free tissue is much easier these days too. No way would I trust my photos to plastic sleeve type albums.
cheers,
Leonie.
Hi Leonie,
Just browsing this topic, and wondered if you know about the 'My History' site:
http://www.my-history.co.uk/acatalog/Genealogical_Storage.html
I've found them very helpful, with a nice personal touch. I emailed them recently about 100 sheets of A3 archive quality paper, which they were advertising in 25-sheet packs, and they actually added a 100-sheet pack to their list that same day! 
Mike.
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This theme has been raised several times in the few years that I have been a member of Rootschat......and each time...I scratch my head!
Doing my family tree has given me great pleasure....especially in finding connections that I never imagined...e.g. The American Revolution.....A hanging in Wiltshire.....7 British Home Children shipped to Canada.
But....if my kids throw it all in the rubbish that is OK.....because I will be dead.
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nudge67
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Quite honestly, I had little interest in family history until the death of my last surviving grandparent within months of the arrival of my firstborn, shortly before turning 40. Suddenly, it all became very important to do, while my daughters 3 remaing grandparents remained in good mental health.
Talk about a missed opportunity! My grandmother, Jeannie Rees, worked for the South Australian Archives - imagine what we could have talked about!
It is to honour her memory that I dedicate my research.
I don't care if anyone follows it on - but I do care that I have done my best to make it available for them if they wish to build on it.
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19th century South Australian pioneers:
Bowyer, Cassidy, Chesson, Davey, Degenhardt, Edwards,
Floate, Hornsby, Jones, Ladner, Markey, McFeat,
Messenger, Mills, Pike, Rees, Rhodes, Shaw,
Sibley, Tyler, Vivian, Wallis, Waye, Willoughby.
Other antipodean immigrants.
New Zealand: Bailey, Hadland, Pickett
Queensland: Gummow, Kleine, Urmson
Victoria: Caudwell
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