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I sketched out a rough tree based on family stories when I was at school but was about 22/23 before I started doing it properly and wished I had asked even more questions before it was too late. write down every story even if it sounds wrong or irrelevant just now. It may well be but you never know.
I totally agree, Pharma T. Not everyone was an officer in the army or navy, but if there's a story, then an ancestor probably was in the military. A lot of stories I was told starting out have proven wrong, but there is enough of the story in the truth.
I was told an ancestor helped invent a common pharmaceutical that we use today. The truth? An ancestor was a chemist, working for the Burroughs Wellcome Company. One of their claims to fame was developing Sudafed. How much he had to do with it, I don't know.
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.