Poll

How often do you research family history

1 hour per week
1 (1.4%)
1 hour per day
1 (1.4%)
More than 5 hours per week
14 (19.7%)
More than 5 hours per day
10 (14.1%)
More than 10 hours per day
1 (1.4%)
More than 10 hours per week
44 (62%)

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Offline 1000xlch

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Re: Hours spent researching family history!
« Reply #27 on: Thursday 12 May 05 15:14 BST (UK) »
It is nice to know that it is not just me with the obsession for finding ancestors and that I spent a lot of time digging!  The poll has only been up a few days and the results speak for themselves!  :o

We are addicted!!!!! :D :) ::) :o ;D
DUNN - Cambuslang, LKS
FORSYTH - Shotts, LKS
FRAME - Hamilton, LKS
HODGSON - Hamsterley, DUR
HUMPHREY - Easingwold, NRY
HUNT - Frimley, Surrey
MCKECHNIE - Argyll - Shotts
NETHERCLIFF(T)/ DRAYCOTT Sandhurst, BKS
PEPPERCORN - Lolworth, Cambs
PRATT - Thirsk, NYK
REDSHAW - Hamsterley, DUR
REYNOLDS - Fritton,Stratton,NFK
ROWLEY - STS to DUR
TALLACK - St Agnes Padstow,CON
WALMSLEY - NRY,Brum
WILSON - Hamsterley, Co Durham
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Re: Hours spent researching family history!
« Reply #28 on: Thursday 12 May 05 15:52 BST (UK) »
Me addicted no, not me, I can quit anytime I want.... honest I can ..... I just need to look at this one last census  ;D
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Re: Hours spent researching family history!
« Reply #29 on: Thursday 12 May 05 17:39 BST (UK) »
Oh lordy!!!  Cant say!!!  Half my waking hours I guess!!  Just cant put it down!!

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Hoppity  :)
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Sutton - Kent
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Re: Hours spent researching family history!
« Reply #30 on: Thursday 12 May 05 21:43 BST (UK) »
Noticeably, no one has been brave enough to admit to '10 hours a day or more' ...

Come on ... "My name is 'X' and I'm a family historian" - its the first step to abstaining!

Paul :)

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Re: Hours spent researching family history!
« Reply #31 on: Thursday 12 May 05 22:59 BST (UK) »
My name is X and I'm a family historian.   I need a drink!
Jowett & Broadbent in Leeds.
Perry, Hartshorn/e & Wilkes in Birmingham & Dudley. Walker and Dabill in Sheffield & Notts.
Farrar in Darlington & Leeds.
Kidd & Taylor in Hartlepool & Teesside
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Re: Hours spent researching family history!
« Reply #32 on: Thursday 12 May 05 23:11 BST (UK) »
I hadn't realised so many other people find it as compulsive as I do, particularly with so much available on line

Ellen
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Re: Hours spent researching family history!
« Reply #33 on: Thursday 12 May 05 23:20 BST (UK) »
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I hadn't realised so many other people find it as compulsive as I do, particularly with so much available on line

Isnt that why its so addictive??  Because results are relatively easy to obtain especially now online - at least at the beginning.

Then when you start hitting those brick walls, you keep telling yourself, I just gotta find the 1871 census, to get over the brick wall.

Now I just need the 1861 census to find him,  the 1851, the 1841.... no more census records? Now what do I do?? I just gotta find him.

Hearth tax records, poll tax records, historical directories, BMD, militia lists, anywhere I can find records, I just GOT to find this person....

Sound familiar???  :D

BD
BURROW, BICKHAM, EVANS, SULLEY, STONE - Devon
STEPHENS, MALLET, ADAMS - Cornwall
HANCOCK , BUSSON - Somerset
MCCALLUM, MCDIARMID, MCNEILL - Argyle, Scotland
WALLS, SUTHERLAND, SIMPSON - Orkney, Scotland
FAIRBAIRN - Fife, Scotland
THOMPSON - Aberdeen, Scotland

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Re: Hours spent researching family history!
« Reply #34 on: Friday 13 May 05 11:05 BST (UK) »
I blame rootschat for my addiction :( .All those messages to read and links to follow ;D ;D

Mick
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PRIOR-N.Ireland,WOODS-N.Ieland,
DAWKES-Warks,DAVIS-Warkes'Wales,
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Re: Hours spent researching family history!
« Reply #35 on: Friday 13 May 05 11:30 BST (UK) »
Well that's the washing up done and the hoovering - housework done!!!   Now back to what I enjoy most!!

Hoppity.
Mardell - Hertfordshire
Sales - Kent and Hertfordshire
Daniels - Hertfordshire
Sutton - Kent
Stagg - Hertfordshire
Pilcher - Kent
Goldsmith - Kent
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