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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: JillJ on Tuesday 12 October 04 17:14 BST (UK)
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Just as a point of interest do you just climb up the trunk of your tree or do you go along the branches as well?
Jill
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I definitley go along the branches as well - it makes it more interesting and hopefully I might meet some long lost cousins someday ;D
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If I'd only gone up the main trunk I would still be stuck in 1812
One branch goes back to 1042(not my research but real anyway) so my tree is very lopsided.
I like to find out about their lives and the history of the times
Sylviaann
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I think I would have to put myself in the crawl along the branches camp ...... I have found it fascinating to find out how far travelled some of my relatives were and have through tracing the tree come into contact with cousins (3rd or 4th) in Canada and Australia that I never knew existed.
Unfortunately I have also found out that I've came from the poor side of the family as the rest made their fortunes in various ways (which many then left to their local churches) ::) :'(
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I,m a brancher too. Infact, it's so wide now i,m thinking of attaching another couple of monitors to my PC just to view it in full! lol
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This is so strange, last night before I went to bed I was going to do this exact same thread...... :o
But was too tired....
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But what was your answer Amy?
Jill
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I am a brancher, initially not by choice as the plan was to get as far back as possible on the maternal and paternal lines, but then loads of "cousins" kept contacting me with information, my tree then exploded like a giant firework.
Adrian
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You can pile me in with the branch variety, I guess I am just nosey, I want to know ALL about ALL of them. Lindy
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I'm a brancher. Only because if I get stuck on my trunk, I get irritated and start looking elsewhere. It always leads me back to my trunk though, which makes me know I'm on the right track - some would call it going round in circles!- ::) ::) ::)
Kimi
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Definitely a brancher.... ;D
I'm after photos - the more the merrier. Someone has to have them!
Pam
;D
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But what was your answer Amy?
Jill
ooooh, I'd love the title 'family historian', but my lot just refer to me as 'her who's obsessed with dead people'...
::)
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I'm a family historian, It is much more interesting to find out how our ancestors lived, where they went to school, where they worked and how they met the spouses etc. I want to have as full a picture as i can about there lives and it makes it much more interesting when i am talking to my children about there GG Grandparents.
Steve.
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You have to be a historian otherwise who is going to remember all the little bits for future generations like......
The fact that my Great Aunt Beth drowned in the dolly tub when she was 3 and my grandad found her
That my Great Uncle William lived with his "housekeeper" (a scandal in the 1920s)
That my grandmother dressed my father as a girl until he was 3 because his twin sister died at birth
That my uncle Arthur built model sized trains that he rode round a track in his garden
Just think - all that social history lost!
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I was a trunker but now a brancher. When finding a name on the census I tend to follow that person and their family. I recently followed my Grt Grt Uncle's wife and daughters from 1841 to 1901. I mentioned this in a letter to my Dad's cousin who is now 85 and she said oh I knew the Edith you mention very well, and so gleened more information on Edith's family, sending me down the branch to a twig. My friend now has over 18,000 names in his tree, so he's definitely branched out.
Su
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When I started this all I wanted to know was about my direct line but that changed when i got stuck. I started to trace other people just to see where they were and what they did and got hooked on expanding out as far as I can. I have found it is more interesting to follow as many of the siblings as I can for as far as I can ..... and now I may have found a cousin (the name is right anyway) who was an inventor. Goes to show you never know what you might find and it was a change from labourers and miners.
Jaki
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I guess I am afraid of heights! ;D More of a brancher horizontally than height! A bit of a phobia on my part that make take a doctor to help me. Anyone know a counselor for family historians??- kristin
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I'm definitely a Brancher, or would be, if my tree wasn't more like a juniper bush! Out of the ground, and off in how many directions?
For example, my father had 50 1st cousins; my mother had 35. And that's just one generation!
Anna
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So far 23 people have voted here and only one of them is a genealogist! If I were a statistician I suppose I would be able to make something of that other than the fact that most of us are family historians!
I will leave this open a while longer to see if the numbers change!
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I asked a statistician how his wife was. He replied "Compared to whose"?
I asked a genealogist how her husband was. She replied "Alright I suppose".
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Ask a dead rellie hunter and they will say, "Who?"
Kazza. ;D
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That probably says it all!!
Jill
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I only recently started going along the branches and it has paid off big time. Found others researching same famiies but different lines who were able to fill in some of my blanks. Now I know "branching out" is a must if one really wants to find info.
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Ask a dead rellie hunter and they will say, "Who?"
Kazza. ;D
I was at the FHS today and one of the staff asked me my last name. I had to mentally come down 5 generations to remember it!
Anna
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And I thought I was going mad??!!?? ;D
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Yeah, well, after 5 hours on a fiching expedition, I was lucky to remember my own first name!
Anna
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I am a family or should I say our family historian...and enjoying thoroughly the fact that there are others out there with this obsession(says she with her eyes watering)..I chat excitedly to my partner only to see the blank "oh yes" expression on his face, as he tries to take in all my wafflings...thank you for companion family historians and their tireless unselfish help on this great site. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Andrea