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Topic: How far sideways do you go? (Read 2243 times)
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Ann Baker
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1300
They're hiding there somewhere!
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Hi all
As far sideways as I need to to get info I need. I've found loads from going sideways that I wouldn;t have found just sticking with the direct line - such as the fact some of them moved around a bit which I found out from researching siblings. Aklso sometimes the 'one' isn;t there but the siblings are for some strange reason - maybe the 'one' knows is their turn.
I have also found as well as reasearching the family a wealth of social history which makes it well worth the effort of going sideways!
Sideways always!
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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angelfish58
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 419
Benjamin Stockton Watson
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Sometimes I get carried away and go too far sideways but then I think that while they may be only distantly related to me they would be people my ancestors would've known.
It's also interesting when you trace the marriages for the sisters of those in the direct line and then look at the censuses and see how many families on a page are related or that people listed with a family as lodgers or even servants turn out to be nieces or nephews.
(not very eloquent but it's the best I can manage before coffee  )
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Watson, Snowball, Pyburn, Heppell, Ferry, Holmes, Clennett, Co.Duham & Northumberland
Stockton, Watson N. Yorks
Brown & Anstey, Devon
Challnor/Challoner, Moore, Mansell, Shropshire
Davies or David, Glamorgan
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annieoburns
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Posts: 277
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.natio
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I have had great results with going sideways and finding distant cousins even half cousins. After all, these people shared some common forebear. My 'new' contacts have given me some great information on my gr gr's etc in the form of biographies, personal stories and artifacts. It can be pure luck how a family bible or christening robe is handed down. I think it has been mutual sharing of information as the person who is 'minder' of the family the bible or whatever may well be the person with similar interest.
Nowadays with ease of copying material such as photos, it encourages people to share.
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Wiffen, Utton, Clark, Spires, Frisby, Raybould, Charlton, Green, (England)
Flood, Daly, Doran, Mc Kercher, Gardiner, (Ireland/England)
Reid, Burns (Ireland)
McGourty, Daly (Ireland/America)
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Lydart
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Posts: 3801
Granny Florence
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I just had one of those odd moments ... saw the avatar, and thought I'd written what you had !
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Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge, Williams, Sturney, Prince, Foyle, Fripp, Triggle ... and more C'wall/Devon/CANADA (The Cariboo, B.C.): Pomeroy Som'set: Clark(e) Durham: Law(e) London: Poplett Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (Kelowna, B.C.): Stubbs, Walmesley WRITE LETTERS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO TREASURE ... EMAILS DISAPPEAR FOREVER ! Census information Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Lydart
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Posts: 3801
Granny Florence
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You have to get used to assuming anything and everything on transcriptions might be (and often is !) wrong !
Lots of lateral thinking needed !
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Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge, Williams, Sturney, Prince, Foyle, Fripp, Triggle ... and more C'wall/Devon/CANADA (The Cariboo, B.C.): Pomeroy Som'set: Clark(e) Durham: Law(e) London: Poplett Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (Kelowna, B.C.): Stubbs, Walmesley WRITE LETTERS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO TREASURE ... EMAILS DISAPPEAR FOREVER ! Census information Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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eadaoin
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I've done the same as AngelaR - since all my direct lines are in Ireland, most of them stick at 1820 - 1850ish. (try looking for Patrick Murphy!!)
So, I've gone back as far as possible, and traced down from there to my 3rd, 4th cousins. I've managed to get in touch with some of OH's distant relatives, but not mine yet.
( I want to find William Edward Gray and his off-spring - they might have g-grandparents pictures, willed to them by great-aunt Mary)
eadaoin
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Begg - Dublin, Limerick, Cardiff
Brady - Dublin
Breslin - Wexford, Dublin
Byrne - Wicklow
O'Hara - Wexford, Kingstown
McLoghlin - Roscommon
Lawlor - Meath, Dublin
Lynam - Meath and Renovo, Pennsylvania
Everard - Meath
Fagan - Dublin
Meyler/Myler - Wicklow
Gray - Derry, Waterford
Kavanagh - Limerick
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geniecolgan
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Yep! I've gone sideways a bit.
I started with my paternal side, they stemmed from Ireland, so I got stuck at about 1800. I figured that wasn't a tree, more like a shrub, so I came forward which meant going sideways.
Now I span the world with cousins 
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Ann Baker
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1300
They're hiding there somewhere!
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Sidweays is great!
I found folks all over world by going sideways and the great thing is they have been able to put namjes to photos I have but had no idea who they were - except they were related somehow because they came from my granny's house.
Ireland is hard - that was what really pushed me into going sideways and so glad I did. I have met cousins in Oz who gave me a whole load of info. Found folks in Canada and US just by going a roundabout way to go forwards.
Love it - sideways is good!
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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