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?

[clair.de.lune]

Thanks fashie

I just found amongst my mothers belongings three photos of my great grandparents from England and a grand Aunt taken in approx. 1918, so excited! I never knew what this grandfather looked like!

[punch*drunk]

Just found my great grandmother on the Williamstown cemetery database.

Weird becuase her body was donated to the anatomy dept of a university. I wasnt even looking for her, found it quite by accident.

I'm pretty sure its her because she has an unusual name, the burial year is 5 years after she died.

[punch*drunk]

Hmmm, I have found someone else with the same name, but she lived in NSW. What a mystery, will have to ask my grandfather if he knows anything about it.

I'd never really given much thought to what they do with bodies after they have no more use for them in the science lab.

[acacia_pycnantha]

I lost interest when I found out that they were ginger people, carrying clubs and raping human females.

[clair.de.lune]

Interesting punch! I dont know?

[flashie*]

Punch............the way I thought it worked was........after they have finished with the donated bodies they pay for a basic cremation...........and the family was notified.

I seem to have come to a bit of a stand still in my familiy tree....................too many brick walls............and no easy way to work past it.

Or is it I have jsut found about as much as I am going to.

[clair.de.lune]

Brick walls for me. At least I worked out a couple of places I went wrong and was able to delete

Although what do you think of this? I had to manually change a birth date because the child definately died at 7 months in 1887 then how could the birth registration year be 1888?

[flashie*]

Clair..............could there be two seperate children............it is not uncommon to name the next child after one who has perviously died.......especially a boy.

[clair.de.lune]

All a mystery..

*runs back to look*

[clair.de.lune]

Another baby would fit in as the next baby is not until 1889, so I've shifted records around and added another baby but still not found any new records. But I did realise two babies were born in 1886, one girl & one boy so twins perhaps? They both died in any case.