I always thought my family was Yorkshire since Noah was a boy, but got my gg grandparents wedding certificate revealing he was born in Norfolk. I started rooting around in Norfolk genealogy sites and found a surname list. Send speculative e-mails to three or four of the people on the list and it turns out that John Carver, my gg grandfather was an unknown son of James and that descendants of John's siblings had managed to get back to John's own gg grandfather Thomas Carver born 1680. Both parties pleased - me to get back so far so easily, my sixth cousin (or so we estimate) because he picks up a complete branch of an unknown family member. Later got a mail from somebody who believes he is my fourth cousin once removed.
Also mentioned a while ago that I'd written to a few people by the name of Carver in Hull as I knew nothing of that side of the family. Got a reply this week from one of my dad's cousins with a picture of my ggrandparents and as he had passed the letter to yet another cousin in California, today got a letter from her filling in loads of detail on the later branches of the family.
Rootschat is a great forum for getting help and guidance and although I feel rather parasitical having had to ask for more information than I have been able to contribute, hopefully I can start to become a net contributor in the future. All I have to do now is save my pennies for the alarmingly long list of certificates I want to acquire. Ho hum, well it is Christmas soon. Thanks to all who have helped me with my various enquiries.
