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?
lol, my grandmother was born on the day of her parents marriage. It always makes me giggle when I hear that "instant baby" ad for ancestry.
Hard to imagine how hard it was for my great grandmother though. Even though she married my grandmothers father, they never lived together and she was a single mother her whole life. Couldnt have been easy for her...I believe she turned to the drink.
Wish I'd talked to my grandmother more before she passed, I only remember one converstaion with her about her upbringing and it wasnt great. My grandfather is no help, he is completely disinterested in historical stuff.
So this was the grave I visited yesterday and was happy to find a headstone but it's all so broken down and I want to get it fixed! He was my 1st cousin 2x removed he died in active service in WW1. I wish there was a war grant I could get to fix up the grave?
A bit over 2 years I've been with ancestry. I think I'll always keep it going. I'm still a member of find my past uk too, which I probably dont really need any more, but they do release new records from time to time so I might stay with that one too.
I am about to renew for the 6th year........I have Australian with the UK heritage pack............my children pay for it for me for Christmas each year..................it is a bit of a family joke about having to buy Mum dead people all the time.
I figure it only works out at about $5 per week.............and hubby spends more than that on smokes.
I probably use it more for searching for other people than myself...............I think I have jsut about found all I can for my family.............too many brickwalls.............mostly irish.
6th year lol I just really enjoy it, I'm a bit obsessed I think 
Well the distant relative is happy to hook up on fb so that's nice 🙂
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But I love the thrill of the chase...............I love love love being able to solve something that has been difficult.
Yep, thats me. I love to be able to solve the puzzle...and I dont care if its my family or someone elses, its just as satisfying to me.
If I could do this for a job I would be ecstatic!
I have another mystery in my tree 
That photo of the grave above, I was a bit intrigued that on the headstone it say "my son" not "our son", and the In Memoriam notice I found on Trove the mother wrote "all I had was taken from me". I couldn't find much on the husband and all elcetoral records showed her living alone or living on a farm with other family members.
I told the lady in Perth the husband must've died or they were not together. She replied Yes, I think that they may have separated and she was with "Alfred" from 1909-1915. I don't have his surname sadly.
Well Alfred could possibly be and most likely is the brother!
Another mystery
Edited to say the husband died a year after she did, so he did not die and she moved on, somthing else more sinister LOL :devil:
