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Offline pharmaT

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Re: What are you really looking for in your family history search?
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 21 April 18 17:02 BST (UK) »
I initially started as I wanted to know if I belonged anywhere as I had spent my childhood being called interlouper and constantly reminded I wasn't welcome in society, and shouldn't exist. Then I  became addicted and now I just want to find out as much as possible about as many of my ancestors as possible.  I the actual searching and get a buzz each time I find out each piece of information.
Campbell, Dunn, Dickson, Fell, Forest, Norie, Pratt, Somerville, Thompson, Tyler among others

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Re: What are you really looking for in your family history search?
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 21 April 18 23:15 BST (UK) »
That's true, Pharma. As much as we all set out to find our ancestors for whatever reasons, it is the addictive nature of research that keeps us at it. There are only a very few that start, and then stop, satisfied with what they have found. Most of us keep searching, looking for that next piece of information to satiate our addiction.
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.
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