What Country is your research ?

[Rabbit B]

Hi Dave192

Welcome to rootchat, I hope that you have a long and happy association with this brilliant site.

I am sure that you will have a lot of fun hunting the family down.  Everyone is more than willing to help you too.

Good luck with your research.

Rabbit B 

[dave192]

Thanks I will be glad of some help becouse my family are a pain at times

[coombs]

This site is really good.

[Guidingspirit]

I have always been under the illusion that I was Brixham, Devon born and bred and all my ancestors before me which is certainly the case on my mothers side of the family.
Now I am doing my family tree and find out that my great grandfather, on my fathers side of the family, Edward Stephen Tomney was born on Spike Island, Cork in 1849 and that his parents, my great great grandparents were Irish.
I can't tell you what a thrill this revelation has been and am trying to find out more about why the family were living on Spike Island in 1849.
I am presuming that they were not felons so am hoping to uncover some military connection and as I understand that only high ranking officers were allowed to have their families living on the Island due to cramped conditions I am ever hopeful that my great great grandfather John Tomney 1821 was maybe an officer in the British Army at the time.

[peteroot]

My interest is emigrants, in a very general way. That is to say I don't do specific research about my own relatives, but am involved in a project to create guides for Swedish researchers. As might be suspected these guides would be used if and when someones research cross a border, in this case to Ireland or England. I have been working on this for a couple of months now, using the net to find archives, forums and other poi about several European countries.
Of course my documentation must be limited to entry points to
research in your countries, perhaps adding some general ideas about how to continue.
This became a long story about a small thing, but, since you have read this far maybe I may ask for the favor of some general hints on how to begin searching for emigrants; more specific - people leaving England/Ireland for Sweden.
I think I am beginning to catch some of the archives system, but there may be other aspects on the above.

Anyway, this seem to be an interesting forum !
/Peter

[IgorStrav]

Hi Peter, welcome to Rootschat.

You may get more response to your question if you post it as a separate thread in a specific forum

what about trying, under Research in Other Countries, the Immigrants/Emigrants General Board?

Good luck! 

[Lellylou]

Hi Everyone,My main area is England.Shropshire is where my Grans family came from but with a surname like Groom there are litterally hundreds!!!!!My Grandads line  are in Staffordshire and yet again his surname Pye,Hundreds!!!!!!My fathers, Hartlepool area,Sanderson,yet again loads of them.Found out grandads sister went to Australia,so got work to do there and grans brother went to Canada,but sadly died before his wife got over.I love it when you find something or someone you never knew existed it gives me a buzz.....

[Rabbit B]

Hi Everyone,My main area is England.Shropshire is where my Grans family came from but with a surname like Groom there are litterally hundreds!!!!!My Grandads line  are in Staffordshire and yet again his surname Pye,Hundreds!!!!!!My fathers, Hartlepool area,Sanderson,yet again loads of them.Found out grandads sister went to Australia,so got work to do there and grans brother went to Canada,but sadly died before his wife got over.I love it when you find something or someone you never knew existed it gives me a buzz.....

Hi Lellylou,

That buzz is what FH is all about really.  Welcome to Rootschat may you have many happy hours with the rest of us!  I have family in Staffordshire, thousands of those as well.  It makes looking for them hard, but interesting.

Rabbit B 

[Lellylou]

Many thanks for the welcome.Being nosey now,where abouts in Staffordshire do your family come from if you don't mind me asking??? Also one of mine has the wonderful name of John (no offence to people called John )!!!!!!!