whats your reason?

[josey]

Sorry a bit long winded but it might help someone. 
regards Reyz

Great to read your brickwall story & its resolution. Tenacity is so important in family history research. I might make a list of my brickwalls so that whoever takes up the 'baton' after I have died can know where they are & hopefully be as tenacious.

[Andy_T]

My reason is same as mentioned by many others on Roots. It was "Curiosity" that kick-started my research.
Most of my direct line back to 16th century were just ordinary folks who probably had hard lives.
There are some mysteries and some sad things in my direct line.

There is always more to find out especially when you look at the other branches of ancestors cousins and uncles. Doing this I discovered a "Gentleman" landowner and a Nottinghamshire Lace Manufacturer.

Other possible distant relatives I am trying to uncover include a merchant sailor who was Shanghaied onto Cooks HMB Endeavour. This explorer ship discovered Australia and mapped coastlines of New Zealand north and south islands. It sailed for almost 3 years from 1768 and 38 of the 95 crew died on the journey.

A murder at Ambergate, Derbyshire in 1875 over the repayment of a 3/- debt.

Then there was an unwanted child who was brought up in a workhouse and at age 25 was convicted of rioting and setting fire to a silk mill and was sentenced to death. At the eleventh hour there was a reprieve of sorts and he received the "King's Mercy" and in 1833 was deported on the prisoner ship Jupiter with a life sentence on Van Diemen's Land.

Our research is never ending.

Andy_T       

[kooky]

I began this never ending journey after my father died.  My mother gave me lots of papers including BMD certificates for his family.
After thanking her I asked where hers were. She replied that she did not have any.
I decided to find out what I could.
Kooky

[Essnell]

My reason is also to find answers to questions. Those come from information that had no real background and seemed awfully unlikely. I too am curious and I wanted to know and to find those answers.  History and Geography were my favourite subjects at school and I followed the history through to UNI. There I also discovered the distinction between types of history.

My family became so small following the death of my Dad, I hardly knew any relatives, especially on my Dad's side. My grandmother was English, there were stories of Irish members and people I did not know. Eventually my grandmother died and this began niggling at me.  It all came tumbling in when I realised that I was pretty much the last of my era. I decided then that this needed to be done for all. I got kick started by receiving a 22 page compilation of my husband's family on his paternal line from a relative in England. I am so grateful for this.

I decided about 15 yrs ago to start.  Yes many brick walls and in most cases little information.  My Aunt was responsible for everything following my grandmother's death but a box full of correspondence from England unfortunately lost it's contents in the sorting.  What that may have told me I shall never know. I just wish I had sat and read all those years ago.
Now I follow every family group as they add to the family history. It is an amazing journey and ...  yes addicted is the buzz word.

Essnell
 

[Andrew Tarr]

.... tracing a "Jones" in Wiltshire is quite a challenge to say the least.  Still, I am making progress.   

just try chasing one in Wales .... 

[Steve G]

My mum saying " Kacker the mort adoi. " to my aunt 

[Rena]

.... tracing a "Jones" in Wiltshire is quite a challenge to say the least.  Still, I am making progress.   

just try chasing one in Wales .... 

ditto for chasing Thomas in Wales and McCarthy in Ireland 

[macwil]

.... tracing a "Jones" in Wiltshire is quite a challenge to say the least.  Still, I am making progress.   

just try chasing one in Wales .... 

ditto for chasing Thomas in Wales and McCarthy in Ireland 

Or James Wilson and Ann Weir in Scotland!

[pinefamily]

Watching Alex Haley's Roots mini series many years ago. I started asking questions with my mother, who in turn directed me to my grandmother and paternal aunt.  And so it began......