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Offline cristeen

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #558 on: Monday 16 October 17 15:23 BST (UK) »
You cry (with joy) when a distant rellie sends a photo of your 4xG grandfather  ;D You cry more (with frustration) when you still cannot find a record of his father's birth  :'(
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #559 on: Monday 16 October 17 15:42 BST (UK) »
You write todays date as 16/10/1881
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #560 on: Tuesday 17 October 17 01:40 BST (UK) »
 ;D ;D   ;D. Been there, done that Lensmeister!  Many times! 👍👍
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #561 on: Tuesday 17 October 17 02:26 BST (UK) »
Ehh...

When you can reel off the birth dates of ancestors & forget the dates of the living births  ::)  ;D

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Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #562 on: Tuesday 17 October 17 13:32 BST (UK) »
You are helping a large organisation  find dead footballers DOB and DODs while your family is on the backburner, but still look at ALL the other names in the Death Notices hoping to find a connection
Genealogy-Its a family thing

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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 #563 on: Wednesday 18 October 17 20:37 BST (UK) »
Been there myself Lizzie, usually with my father's ancestors. Still haven't confirmed the identity of my 2Xg grandfather's parents, only been at it 22 years now, and the funny thing is I got back to him in the first 3 months!
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #564 on: Wednesday 18 October 17 21:10 BST (UK) »
...After watching the Poldark series on TV you buy the first of the books in order to find out more about the history of the Poldark family. A fictitious family!  :o ;D
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #565 on: Wednesday 18 October 17 22:17 BST (UK) »
Been there done that Sharon with fictional characters ancestries. Esp if played by real people.

You even envisage the ancestors of characters in EastEnders and that many of them came from East Anglia due to there being huge migration in real life to London from East Anglia. Even the Branning family seems to have a Suffolk name. And Phil Mitchell once had an old map of Suffolk on his wall and I thought he must have Suffolk ancestors. God my genealogy hobby even extending to soaps, it shows how addicted I am.

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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 #566 on: Thursday 19 October 17 00:21 BST (UK) »
Quote from: sharonmx5 on Wednesday 18 October 17 21:10 BST (UK)
...After watching the Poldark series on TV you buy the first of the books in order to find out more about the history of the Poldark family. A fictitious family!  :o ;D
Even the name was made up. It was supposed to be Norman-French. And why did a family who had lived in Cornwall for hundreds of years call their son & heir after a Scottish county? Aunt Agatha was the family historian. She reeled off the Poldark pedigree to Demelza, accompanied by anecdotes on D's first visit to Trenwith. Agatha got her own age wrong though.
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