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?

[izabsmiling]

I just re-read some of it...Kaya, you said that your Father said that he had to call his Grand Father Mr Hird/Hurd .If so,to me that sounds as though he may have been  a Step Grand Father /partner of his Grand mother rather than his biological Grand Father ?

Did you manage to get certificates ?

[clair.de.lune]

Father's name:                     Chicken Robt

Okaaaay

[izabsmiling]

I'll google it 

[clair.de.lune]

I've never heard of a surname chicken but there is/was

[izabsmiling]

that's right..I hadn't ever heard of it as a surname before either Clair.

[flashie*]

Whose father is Robert Chicken?

[clair.de.lune]

Oh not my family flashie just came up in a search for one of mine

[clair.de.lune]

If you lose your tangent on what you were searching for - by getting sidetracked on the ebay boards - you have to start all over again ;/

[izabsmiling]

Hi Kaya, 

Do you know how to tag posts ? It may help you to tag the posts in this thread which relate to your ancestry ?

Also if you google search 

Lumb Family - Yorkshire (Stainland, Old Lindley)

and 

Yorkshire Lumb family

may bring up some results which may be of interest to you .

and perhaps also ?

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~hurleyhistory/Scholes_%26_Lumb_Families.html

Devout Methodists

The Scholes and Lumb Families 

of West Yorkshire

ancestors of Mary Elizabeth Hurley

[izabsmiling]

I came across this and though it isn't your family by the look of it Kaya, It does show how difficult things can be .

http://www.familytreeforum.com/archive/index.php/t-101771.html

Trying to find information for a relative on the children of elsie eugenie harding lumb, Lumb is her maiden name, she was born in Macclesfield and her parents were Sidney and Annie Eugenie and all children were born out of wedlock