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Soundspar for the course really. Once you get into it it becomes really addictive. Just wait till you hit something with a bit of mystery or a story behind it. If your anything like me it will drive you mad till you sort it. Unfortunately my mystery ancestor was based in Brighton so not so easy to work on up here.

I got as far as me Mam and Dad. Then I lost the plot.

Hi

Yep get in touch, thats fine.

History

Rudebox

was Dorothy from Wales? Did she have a middle name? same with Frederick. I can find no birth for either in Wirral!
Also do you know any siblings?

History

I'm decended from a well documented Cheshire family and can see a partial family tree online going back to the 12th century.

My Uncle did the family tree and we are decended from one of the two brothers resident in the family seat at that time.

thanks history-ill pm you later-only here on a flying visit atm

1500s with one family branch, 1600s with another, the others are about 1700s and one family is only the 1800s - they are of Irish descent and it is virtually impossible to trace back any further!

If anyone needs any help or advice on researching I wouldn't say I was an expert but I may be able to help having done so much of my own family tree!

I am lucky in having an unusual name so I have got back to 1390. The first person in my tree was described as a "stranger" and lived in Canterbury before buying a piece of land on the outskirts of the city. Two years ago, I went back to Kent and traced all the villages where my ancestors had lived in for over 500 years which was a wonderful experience. Eventually my great great grandfather moved to Liverpool in the 19th Century before the family moved over to Birkenhead in the early 20th Century.

On my mum's side I have got back to late 18th Century with ancestors from Wales and Cumbria who moved to the Wirral in the middle of the 19th Century

my tree goes back to 1100 scotland they used to own large part of it till one of them gambled it all away

I got back to the early 1700 and found them to be smugglers, some very interesting stuff.

Rude, there is a free trial on Ancestry.co.uk at the moment. Give it a bash and see how you get on, be prepared to get hooked though.

My dad's family goes back several generations to early 1700s, based in the Wirral, Heswall mainly. This is what led me to this site!
If you share my surname and come from Heswall then you will be related!

Hi maybe if we posted some of the surnames we are all interested in, we might be able to help each other!! Here's a few of ours I am looking at at the moment,HIGGINSON< SHERLOCK< TARBUCK< DODD<JONES<HILL<EVANS<BARNES<WRIGHT<MIDGLEY phew!! that's enough for this week (lol). What are you looking into at the moment? Jess

my john thomas

(waiting on wedding certificate 1880's)

I am doing my research with my mum. She lives in Oz, and we often sit on our computers together and on the phone!! She is the one up late not me!! Jess