Anyone else into seeking their ancestors?

[darksideofthemoon]

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?

[darksideofthemoon]

:^O oh dear, the number of people who don't believe that ordinary people are related to kings and queens.

He will be right kitty, but you have to remember several things.

1) Kings and Queens in all of Europe, including England, Ireland and Scotland were rulers of small counties and not whole countries. Nowadays they are called Lord Mayors or somesuch.

2) it is very likely most of us are related to royalty, they were very keen on having lots of children and those children had lots of children.

Now if you consider you have:

2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great grandparents
16 gg g/parents
32 ggg g/parents
64 gggg g/parents

Then you can see how a vast majority of us nowadays are related to ancient royal lines. So your Dad will be right :^O

[darksideofthemoon]

I've traced mine back to a waterdwelling, unicellular blob.

Well piratepete, with a name like that your distant and ancient ancestors were probably amoebas :^O

[darksideofthemoon]

I have alittle info on:
Alice Jane Pyrah
Alfred Limbert
Walter Neal
Robert Stokes

I also have some info from Wiltshire Friendly Society Records for the surnames Stewart - Syms.

happy hunting,kat

Have a look at these kitty

http://www.google.com.au/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=family+tree:+Pyrah&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=cjbcTd2bH4HYuAPskqCnDw

http://www.google.com.au/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=family+tree:+Limbert&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=rDbcTa6PAYvIuAPmw4WfDw

http://www.google.com.au/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=family+tree:+Neal&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=1zbcTanbAYaavAOGzN2yDw

http://www.google.com.au/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=family+tree:Stokes&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=8TbcTa_bE5D8vQOAqpG5Dw

NEVER FORGET GOOGLE.. there is so much information in there now and once you have found a family tree then try googling the name of your rellies and their dates... so often you will find them in other family trees and be able to trace them to your own.

Google Stewart, but be warned there are hundred of them because of the Royal Stewart clan in Scotland from which, nowadays there are thousands of us 🙂

Happy hunting kitty

[darksideofthemoon]

I am constantly amazed at how family trees grow as we make the connection with other lines... I have over 4,000 in mine and I think it will be a full time job keeping them all in line :^O

[izabsmiling]

I think a lot of us are told by some relo that we are related to Royalty.Looking back through history, I don't know that that is necessarily a good thing.:^O

[flashie*]

I keep two family trees.....one tree I am 100% sure of all the people in it....they have been confirmed by certificates and other sources.....it has about 700 people in it and goes back to 1747 on Mums side.....and 1800 on Dads side.

I also have another tree which has about 1100 people in it....all of whom are most likely mine.

I like to knwo about the people I put in my trees ....so I have spent a lot of time researching about the places they lived.....but that is also because I have a passion for History........and I especially love the convict stories

[kitty-kat1234]

Cheers Darkside,have been in touch with some-one over east already.

Izabsmiling,how right you are,looking through today some were quite brutal.

So in the future i will only mention all the kings & queens in the family,LOL!

Flashie,wow 700,they were good breeders LOL.
I would love to find a real juicey convict story,have to go onto my mans side for that.
We believe he is related to Mad Dog Morgan?

My eyes were going cross eyed today following the links Darkside kindly put in for me,they need a rest & i betta feed my hungrey tribe.

[flashie*]

Kitty-kat.....my orginal convict was an illegitmate child.....but he made up for it by having 16 children......and quite a few of those married and had 11/12 children.....so it didn't take long for the numbers to add up.

My convicts story is a common one.

He was married with twin daughters....and his wife was pregnant with their third.

He lived in a small village in England which was mainly farming people.

He and his wife had been receiving funds from the parish to survive.

But in desperation he stole a cow................and sold it in the next village......and was caught....the cow was worth 8 pound.

He recived a life sentence for that cow and was never to see his wife and two daughters again....his third child was still born while he was in prison awaiting transportation.

After being in Tasmania for a few years he applied for his wife and two daughters to come out and join him...but permission was denied.

He later married a fellow convict here and had 13 children with her before she died leaving him to bring them up.

He married for a third time (his housekeeper) and brought up her two daughters from her first marriage.

His wife back in England remarried but had no other children.

[ambercat16]

An Aunt of mine had always told me when I was a kid that we were related to royalty on her Dad's side - apparently he was descended from the Duchess of Argyle.

It actually turned out that the Duchess of Argyle was the name of the ship that the immigrants travelled from Glasgow to New Zealand on :^O

[darksideofthemoon]

I think a lot of us are told by some relo that we are related to Royalty.Looking back through history, I don't know that that is necessarily a good thing.:^O

No izzy I don't think it is... they were a roaring, whoring, wild pack of people determined to get to the top of the pack no matter what and that meant they road rough shod over everyone else that they considered didn't count.

It eventually became 'class distinction' and even today those same people can be pretty above themselve, living in an isolation that keeps them from what real life is all about.

That was the main problem with Princess Diana, she was too outgoing to the common people and the Royals learned a huge lesson upon her death when they discovered just how much she was loved by their people.

I see Wil and Kate are following Diana's example and reach out and connect which is so good to see.