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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #378 on: Friday 21 August 15 15:37 BST (UK) »
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3) Write your own computer programme to store your records
or write database applications for a well-known forum, so that others can find names more easily :)

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #379 on: Saturday 22 August 15 13:31 BST (UK) »
Does anyone else do this when you are introduced to a new person eg this is Mr Jones and you reply which branch are you from?  Even when it's not your in your research ?                                              Sue

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #380 on: Sunday 23 August 15 06:35 BST (UK) »
Does anyone else do this when you are introduced to a new person eg this is Mr Jones and you reply which branch are you from?  Even when it's not your in your research ?                                              Sue
More like this - ''Hmm Jones hey , you know your ancestors more than likely were Welsh - have you done your tree yet? ''

''No - umm ok ''  :-[
Genealogy-Its a family thing

Paternal: Gibbins,McNamara, Jenkins, Schumann,  Inwood, Sheehan, Quinlan, Tierney, Cole

Maternal: Munn, Simpson , Brighton, Clayfield, Westmacott, Corbell, Hatherell, Blacksell/Blackstone, Boothey , Muirhead

Son: Bull, Kneebone, Lehmann, Cronin, Fowler, Yates, Biglands, Rix, Carpenter, Pethick, Carrick, Male, London, Jacka, Tilbrook, Scott, Hampshire, Buckley

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #381 on: Sunday 23 August 15 07:18 BST (UK) »
For more unusual names, it's more like

"Mr Glasspool? I have a bunch of second cousins three times removed called Glasspool, we may be related."
Middlesex: KING,  MUMFORD, COOK, ROUSE, GOODALL, BROWN
Oxford: MATTHEWS, MOSS
Kent: SPOONER, THOMAS, KILLICK, COLLINS
Cambs: PRIGG, LEACH
Hants: FOSTER
Montgomery: BREES
Surrey: REEVE


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« Reply #382 on: Monday 12 October 15 09:35 BST (UK) »
You spend a lot of time trying to narrow down the location of a cottage in a village your ancestor lived at, using census records and electoral rolls.

You spend all day touring villages your ancestors lived at, and looking at every name on every headstone, even the more weathered ones.
Researching:

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 #383 on: Monday 12 October 15 11:19 BST (UK) »
You spend all day touring villages your ancestors lived at, and looking at every name on every headstone, even the more weathered ones.

It's even worse when you start talking about these people as if you'd known them :)

I remember my cousin getting annoyed with me when she asked if I knew who lived in a nearby house and I proceeded to tell her the entire history of both the house and the family who used to live there along with their local connections, where in the churchyard they were buried, etc. but I couldn't tell her the name of the present occupants  ;D
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« Reply #384 on: Monday 12 October 15 21:15 BST (UK) »
You spend all day touring villages your ancestors lived at, and looking at every name on every headstone, even the more weathered ones.

It's even worse when you start talking about these people as if you'd known them :)

I remember my cousin getting annoyed with me when she asked if I knew who lived in a nearby house and I proceeded to tell her the entire history of both the house and the family who used to live there along with their local connections, where in the churchyard they were buried, etc. but I couldn't tell her the name of the present occupants  ;D

Yesterday I went round Bletchingdon and Wootton in Oxfordshire, very hilly and picturesque and has totally changed my vision of how they lived and the location now I have been there. Oxfordshire is like a southern Lake District. In the 2 aforementioned villages I looked at every name on every headstone and when I got in the car there was grass and mud all over the mat.

Yes it is like we knew them, and 2 of them died in 1854 and 1858 respectively. Also the one who died in 1854 had a daughter in 1842, my 3xgreat grandmother.
Researching:

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 #385 on: Monday 12 October 15 21:44 BST (UK) »
Plumstead for me next week followed by Slough the month after.

Not expecting to use the word "picturesque" in the near future...
Middlesex: KING,  MUMFORD, COOK, ROUSE, GOODALL, BROWN
Oxford: MATTHEWS, MOSS
Kent: SPOONER, THOMAS, KILLICK, COLLINS
Cambs: PRIGG, LEACH
Hants: FOSTER
Montgomery: BREES
Surrey: REEVE

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« Reply #386 on: Monday 12 October 15 23:47 BST (UK) »
Ah, Plumstead... never been there but did research an Aghadowey family who lived there...

Sorry, can't help myself looking for connections  ;D  ;D  ;D
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