I have become adicted to Ancestry.com and am lucky enough that one side of my family can be researched way back into the dim times.
The other side has hit a brick wall and I have to wait until someone else in the world may have more information.
How is everyone else going?
The other side has hit a brick wall and I have to wait until someone else in the world may have more information.
How is everyone else going?
I worked with a woman many years ago who was, on one side of her family descended from the First Fleeters and on the other side from Queen Victoria... she even had a strong resemblance to the Queen.
What you do have to watch if you find any royals or earls or wotnot is the American's desire to change dates and people so they can claim royalty.
They don't seem to understand that kings etc. were of small counties and hamlets not huge countries.
I came across the King of Dublin (not one of mine) Well, as you can imagine Dublin is a city and nowadays it probably has a mayor ... same dif :^O
They tend to have eople migrating to the USA as early as 800 AD or little girls of 5 having babies or women in their 80s having babys... wrong wives or husbands...
I have found it very tricky, but am helped by the amount of historical records that are available.
I have not been able to get into the Morman site, can anyone help me there?
Would love to crack my father's family as I think they originated in Scotland too and could easily have been related to my mother's family right back then.
The State Library in Sydney was a great help to me many years ago... and if you have convict relatives then you will find them in their archives
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/using/search/
Oh, another thing I learned. Often and often the supposed 'crime' for sending someone out here was not really for the crime, but because they were young and strong and would be good breeding stock to build up the colony.
It makes more sense than the 'loaf of bread' stories.. Yes they might have stolen something, but the motive was, once in judicial hands, they could be sent out here to swell our numbers.
What you do have to watch if you find any royals or earls or wotnot is the American's desire to change dates and people so they can claim royalty.
They don't seem to understand that kings etc. were of small counties and hamlets not huge countries.
I came across the King of Dublin (not one of mine) Well, as you can imagine Dublin is a city and nowadays it probably has a mayor ... same dif :^O
They tend to have eople migrating to the USA as early as 800 AD or little girls of 5 having babies or women in their 80s having babys... wrong wives or husbands...
I have found it very tricky, but am helped by the amount of historical records that are available.
I have not been able to get into the Morman site, can anyone help me there?
Would love to crack my father's family as I think they originated in Scotland too and could easily have been related to my mother's family right back then.
The State Library in Sydney was a great help to me many years ago... and if you have convict relatives then you will find them in their archives
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/using/search/
Oh, another thing I learned. Often and often the supposed 'crime' for sending someone out here was not really for the crime, but because they were young and strong and would be good breeding stock to build up the colony.
It makes more sense than the 'loaf of bread' stories.. Yes they might have stolen something, but the motive was, once in judicial hands, they could be sent out here to swell our numbers.
