Introducing your Family History research into everyday conversation

[StanleysChesterton]

I mark people who've disappeared as "DISAPPEARED" on the tree as a suffix to their surname; when I'm bored I can randomly pick one and have another look.

Today I looked and found an ANC tree had them on .... so I peeked.  The tree had a bit of incest with a brother and a son "Ello!" I thought, "bet that's wrong....".  While I appreciate it went on, I just didn't think this lot were right .... so I dug around and found that the ANC tree was entirely off the mark.  *sighs* ... shame as her brother's marked as "DISAPPEARED" on my tree too and this'd have tied them up nicely as to where to ... and a "why?" ....

I'd have slid that story in anywhere/everywhere if it were proven! 

[Primrose11]

Introduced your family history into everyday conversation? I have done so, when someone says they are from an area of the country where my ancestors came from. I say I have ancestors from there but they lose interest when I say they were living there in the nineteenth century. Unless you are into genealogy I don't think people know anything beyond their grandparents. But it's worth mentioning, for the conversation that might arise, and you never know, you might be talking to a distant cousin you didn't know about.

[StanleysChesterton]

... it's worth mentioning, for the conversation that might arise, and you never know, you might be talking to a distant cousin you didn't know about.

My aunt was gardening in her front garden one day when a couple walked past; they were on holiday and it was a "hello" nodding moment as they stopped to say how nice the garden looked ... which lead onto where they were from and their holiday "we're here for family history reasons...", my aunt's passion ... and it turned out they were related

[Primrose11]

You see what I mean! It hasn't happened to me btw.

[jbml]

Well, my discovery that my wife's family were my family's servants has provided me with an excellent conversation-piece; and if my interlocutor is not remotely interested in family history research then no worry, as that particular conversation can head off in no end of different directions ...

[coombs]

Finding a new ancestral line to me is like winning the jackpot, like they think that when their fave football team wins a game. Sometimes it can be hard to even feign interest.

Yesterday I found yet another Essex line that came from Suffolk, and it has given me a new bunch of ancestors to research.