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?

[kitty-kat1234]

Dont know if anyone has seen this site"curious fox"
has info on villages etc.
Have not gone right through it,just found it & thought i would let you know.

Flasie i had a quick look for you but i keep getting unrelated things!

[matega3]

Your on the money Flashie with the saint. One of them started a benadictine nunnery at Nivelles and then joined herself after the death of her husband. (Saint Itta) Her daughter then took over and she became Saint Beggue.
All the royals are from France, belgium, germany etc no USA so Im pretty sure we are on the right track. I just love some of the names Charles Karl "The Hammer" Martel Mayor of the palace Austrasia, (He sounds like a thug), Regnier III "Long neck" Count of Hainault, (he sounds like a turtle.) Its so interesting but so addictive Ive done nothing today but play with dead people.

[izabsmiling]

Hi Flashie,
Nevermind I worked out that the surname was Winrite not Minrite.
Thankyou for your help 🙂

[the_great_she_elephant]

Your on the money Flashie with the saint. One of them started a benadictine nunnery at Nivelles and then joined herself after the death of her husband. (Saint Itta) Her daughter then took over and she became Saint Beggue.
All the royals are from France, belgium, germany etc no USA so Im pretty sure we are on the right track. I just love some of the names Charles Karl "The Hammer" Martel Mayor of the palace Austrasia, (He sounds like a thug), Regnier III "Long neck" Count of Hainault, (he sounds like a turtle.) Its so interesting but so addictive Ive done nothing today but play with dead people.

Martel (hammer) was the family name of the Counts of Anjou. I'm pretty sure Geoffrey Plantagenet, the father of HenryII of England was a Martel.

And if youn think Norman French nicknames were funny you should try Viking ones. Nothing to do with my family tree, but Ivar inn Beinlausi (the boneless) one of the Norse Kings of Dublin, was the son of Ragnar Lodbrok (hairy breeks) and the brother of Sigurd Ormr í auga (snake-in-the-eye)

[matega3]

Those names are hilarious. I love it.

[lyndal1838]

Just a comment on the American preoccupation with Royalty. Some of you here will know that I am married to a Canadian and there are also a number cousins in the US. Our surname is hyphenated....Middleton-xxxxxx, although we mostly use just the last part. My husband's parents were born in England.
I recently heard from an American cousin who informed me that Middleton was the maiden name of their great great grandmother, who brought the name into the family surname.
This cousin and our nephew are now busily trying to establish a link between the American Middleton-xxxxxx family and the newest British Princess (their terminology, not mine).

[bryanjoh0260]

Some years bach i tried to trace my fathers side of the family but i could only go back to my grandfather who jumped on a ship in Sweden when he was 14 and joined the Australian Army.
It is believed he may have killed someone in Sweden and jumped on the first boat he saw,assumed a surname,which is similar to Smith over there,and started life here.
He was decorated heavily in the 1st WW as i followed his service via the Australian war memorial however,no sign of him leaving the Army.
I continued searching and at the age of 53 he re inlisted for ww2!
But apart from that he ceased to exist according to all journals

[flashie*]

Just quickly Bryanjoh......try looking up his name on Mapping our Anzacs or National Archives of Australia.......or if you want to wait until later in the week and then I can have a little lokk for you.....I am busy until then.

A lot of WW1 records are now online....and often give you Next of kin...which will give you something to go on.

[bryanjoh0260]

OK thank i would appreciate that but from memory i think i did...not sure but
Thanks BJ

[flashie*]

If you meant you think you contacted me you had best send it again.

I have been doing a lot of researchfor boardies lately and I may have lost your request.....or have I already done it?