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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #423 on: Thursday 21 January 16 15:30 GMT (UK) »
That's true Coombs. FAMILY history can often be a solitary pastime. Ironic I feel.
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #424 on: Thursday 28 January 16 07:15 GMT (UK) »
I am not addicted to genealogy it is just part everyday life like eating, drinking and breathing.

Cheers
Guy

And don't tell me ... you can give it up any time you choose ... just like, um, eating, drinking and breathing ...  ;D
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #425 on: Thursday 28 January 16 08:37 GMT (UK) »
WHEN I look through all the new posts to see if I can find a post relating to someone in my family! Seen it happen a number of times on here, when a newbie pops up looking for info on her GG gfather  and gives names, and sometimes there are members that say things such as " oh Yes, he was my GG grandmother's brother, we must be related!  That would be like finding gold!
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #426 on: Thursday 28 January 16 08:41 GMT (UK) »
I do the same! And check the surname interests. Have found no gold in either yet.
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.


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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #427 on: Thursday 28 January 16 08:42 GMT (UK) »
Hey jbml,

Your alphabetical surname listing - very exacting. Impressive.  ;)

Salute,

Janelle

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #428 on: Wednesday 17 February 16 21:32 GMT (UK) »
You wonder on the chance if your Stewart line from Selkirk could go back to the Stewart clan.
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #429 on: Thursday 18 February 16 08:39 GMT (UK) »
When an old photograph appears on F*cebook and OH says he is 80% certain that man is my Grandfather (I don't remember my Grandfather, but OH does).  So you ask anyone, ANYONE, if they know if it is him then spend the next few hours on tenterhooks, waiting, waiting, for someone ANYONE to confirm it is him.  *Sighs*

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #430 on: Saturday 20 February 16 12:41 GMT (UK) »
uhm  ----  oh dear - I am all    'un-addicted'   and cant seem to get back to it.... oh dear........ 24hours on my own, and absolutely Nothing else to think about, may do it.... but the spark seems to have gone,  :( :( not happy - 
I attempted the Himsley tidy up
and got nowhere - they are a dodgy lot.

I SHOULD do the Pollard's maternal side, but there are zilllllions..

there must be something still worth researching...............

I blame Ancestry, cos it has created a problem, as I do NOT like having to re-learn things, my brain seems only to allow me to do things the same way I have always done them.......

So Back burner... till the sparks catch......

xin

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #431 on: Saturday 20 February 16 13:56 GMT (UK) »
You'll be back, firing on all cylinders before you know where you are - just get ONE tasty new bit of information, and it all flares up again.
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