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?
Well they were the salt of the earth flashie ๐ but yes, have to agree they do read as boring, pity you can't find out more about their personalities, I bet more went on in their lives than is recorded about them.
Chappies yes, the ancestry I have is fascinating.. I am thankful tho that I am not responsible for some of them... my word they were a wicket lot sometimes.
William Wallace is also a gggg grandfather and of course he ended up in the tower and then hanged, drawn and quartered... Oh yerk!
They are spread all over Europe as well as the UK and I am really very lucky they all have good records (i.e. the records are good even when they aren't :^O)
I didn't believe it all for a while and thought it was some sort of scam that ancestry was working, but I have learned to accept it... I just thought I came from good solid English stock, now I find I am mostly Scots and irish with a fair bit of Europe thrown in.. along with Middle East and Muslims and Crusaders... so in effect my own genes are fighting eachother :^O
So often I have found a grandfather fighting on each side of a war... wouldn't they be annoyed to realise their descendants 'got together' :^O
Fun stuff I have to admit.
Chappies yes, the ancestry I have is fascinating.. I am thankful tho that I am not responsible for some of them... my word they were a wicket lot sometimes.
William Wallace is also a gggg grandfather and of course he ended up in the tower and then hanged, drawn and quartered... Oh yerk!
They are spread all over Europe as well as the UK and I am really very lucky they all have good records (i.e. the records are good even when they aren't :^O)
I didn't believe it all for a while and thought it was some sort of scam that ancestry was working, but I have learned to accept it... I just thought I came from good solid English stock, now I find I am mostly Scots and irish with a fair bit of Europe thrown in.. along with Middle East and Muslims and Crusaders... so in effect my own genes are fighting eachother :^O
So often I have found a grandfather fighting on each side of a war... wouldn't they be annoyed to realise their descendants 'got together' :^O
Fun stuff I have to admit.
Of course the thing is flashie, all your rellies no doubt did have huge histories, but first you have to get them out of Australia and back to wherever they arrived from... as for your own people... well, their history is enormous too if only your could find out more.
Think of it, the aboriginal people arrived in Tasmania by walking down here from Australia... having, some 60,000 years ago arrived from southern Asia by island hopping and building boats to get here.
The chances they even knew about the great island south Jarva across the Timor Sea are not high, but they understood enough to know there was something worth trying for.
Then the long and slow moving south until they crossed from what is now Victoria into what is now Tasmania long before the Straights were flooded with water... imagine what they thought when the realised there was no return!
All those small islands in the Straight were mountain tops when they came here.
Some of them made it to Bruny Island from Oyster Cove, and it wasn't unusual for them to swim back and forth across the Channel, the women carrying their babies on their backs... some swim ๐ฎ
The dreadful advent of the white people and the resulting disasters and cruelty, the moving the indigengous people up to Flinders - those that survived and didn't vanish into the wilderness... then the belief that the whites had actually killed off all the blacks....
It's a HUGE history of only you could access it...
Then your other family...they sound dull when you read they are farmers, but if you could just go further back, you would find adventure and wickedness (:^O) and goodness knows what else...
Somewhere there will be records of how and when the farmers arrived here, if you could only find them... which you should be able to, as it is for certain they arrived by ship and all those records are somewhere.
Take the main male surname, and comb through the shipping records - after all, you only have to cover some 200 years, it isn't that long... this way you would be starting from the back and trying to work forwards. I have found that just sometimes this works.
Hope you find something really interesting - it's there, you only have to find it ๐
Think of it, the aboriginal people arrived in Tasmania by walking down here from Australia... having, some 60,000 years ago arrived from southern Asia by island hopping and building boats to get here.
The chances they even knew about the great island south Jarva across the Timor Sea are not high, but they understood enough to know there was something worth trying for.
Then the long and slow moving south until they crossed from what is now Victoria into what is now Tasmania long before the Straights were flooded with water... imagine what they thought when the realised there was no return!
All those small islands in the Straight were mountain tops when they came here.
Some of them made it to Bruny Island from Oyster Cove, and it wasn't unusual for them to swim back and forth across the Channel, the women carrying their babies on their backs... some swim ๐ฎ
The dreadful advent of the white people and the resulting disasters and cruelty, the moving the indigengous people up to Flinders - those that survived and didn't vanish into the wilderness... then the belief that the whites had actually killed off all the blacks....
It's a HUGE history of only you could access it...
Then your other family...they sound dull when you read they are farmers, but if you could just go further back, you would find adventure and wickedness (:^O) and goodness knows what else...
Somewhere there will be records of how and when the farmers arrived here, if you could only find them... which you should be able to, as it is for certain they arrived by ship and all those records are somewhere.
Take the main male surname, and comb through the shipping records - after all, you only have to cover some 200 years, it isn't that long... this way you would be starting from the back and trying to work forwards. I have found that just sometimes this works.
Hope you find something really interesting - it's there, you only have to find it ๐
Chappies, that is an incredible list, thank you for posting it ๐
I know someone who would really love going through them all as, indeed I will .
I know someone who would really love going through them all as, indeed I will .
