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« on: Thursday 16 January 25 23:01 GMT (UK) »
I started investigating my father’s family in the mid 1990s all I had was a tatty family tree I’d drawn with my father in the early 1960s. It showed my grandfather’s siblings. I’d heard of two of them. My father and his brother both died in 1993 but on a Christmas card to my aunt the following year she told me I needed to contact Cousin J and gave me an address in Southport.
I wrote to Cousin J and it was wonderful. He and his wife were full of stories of my father’s family and had loads of photographs. With their help I’ve met or communicated with many different family members, from the USA, Canada, Australia, the U.K. mainly Lancashire. I even moved over the Pennines to Southport to be near the area were my family were from.
Of all the people I’ve met or communicated with only one of them I really didn’t like! I even had an Familymeet up. It turned out we have the same shaped ears!
As my surname is not that common I think that helped me in the beginning. I’ve done quite a bit on my paternal grandmother’s family. I really need to make an effort on my mother’s family and to update bits of my father’s family.
Breast Cancer and developing a rare side effect from the treatment and being extremely vulnerable during Covid somehow put me off family history. However I’ve decided that once I’ve tidied up my study it’s back to family history! I might meet some relatives on my mother’s side. Or more on my paternal side.
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