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?
I don;t have a family skeleton as much as an error.
I decided to research my family.......the Only information I ahd was my grandfathers name and my grandmothers christian name as my parent died when I was young.
After thinking I must come from aliens because I couldn't;t find ANYTHING, I finally started making headway.
I was very excited when I found our original ancestor was a convict and came from a small village in England......population about 240.....and about 2/3 of those were of this surname.
There were two people born in the same village within months of each other with exactly the same name.
I took one look at one of the parents and decided then that particular one was not mine.
I spend the next 12 months tracking that family and had managed to put about 300 people in my tree....and I was quite pleased with myself.
and then one day this person off ancestry contacted mea nd said he was sorry but I had made a mistake in my tree.
I was so darn sure I was right....and kind of hinted to this person that the error was not mine.
well many emails later.....and copies of his family bible.....yep he was right...I was so wrong.
I was so devastated that I nearly gave it all away.....I just couldn't face all that time and effort were for nothing.
My husband and children knew how I felt about all the work I had put into this and paid for a professional researcher to look into my family for my birthday.
And yep....the other guy who I has decided in a second was not mine was mine...........and a cousin of the other one who I had claimed first.....so all my work was not for nothing.
And my lesson was.......pride....I had decided because the other guy was illegitimate that he was not mine.
And I can say now I have investigated all his life I am proud he is mine.....he face horrible starvation that made him steal....which was something very much against his nature.......he never saw his country....wife and twin daughters again....he wife lost the child she was carrying when he was arrested.
Yet he never lost faith...he became a lay preacher here.....and had 16 children......and ironically all his sons became Policemen here.
Gee that is a bit of waffle isn;t it.
Not a waffle at all flashie, that is a wonderful story and yes, we do tend to trip over what we consider 'not quite nice' :^O I have a brother and sister who seem to have had a child that is related to me... I can't find any denial of this, so maybe the family just went with it and accepted the child.
I have so often looked at a whole line of rellies and then suddenly realised there was something badly wrong and the only way I can cope with losing them all and the hard work is to delete immediately :_|
BUT I have discovered we can (in ancestry) go the 'edit this person' and then 'relationships' and you can just take the person out of that tree but still keep them in case they are connected somewhere else.
Just for those that don't know this ๐
when I was about 20 I had ordered my ggg/fathers death certificate..and went into the city to collect it..
i had a fair bit of family background stories on him, so he was someone I had thought about a LOT..
I couldnt wait to look at the certificate so went over to one of the chairs in the waiting room & sat down to read ..
and I will never forget how I was utterly shocked as the words 'died from a self-inflicted wound to the throat' jumped out at me
:O
:-(
i was so SO sad
:_|
You know cat, sadly had he not died of the wound he would have been imprisoned? Back then attempted suicide was a crime and may people were jailed for it ๐
The convict was a woman, so I imagine she had a wonderful time at each of the ports ๐
The death of the baby, I have great sympathy for the mother. Like one of you said, we have no idea what went through her mind. I did view the court records and she claims the baby was stillborn, yet the Coroner said otherwise.
Toon my great grandfather was known as Jack, yet his name was Abraham...go figure!
They didn't wait for the ports happyroo, in fact they were locked below if the ship had to pull in, but the sailors and officers were all too willing when it came to the female convict ships :^O
Flashie did you get my email regarding one of my rellies?
Now I can't find the email to send again ๐
Not a good day for me I fear.
Now I can't find the email to send again ๐
Not a good day for me I fear.
Yes and without any support either because of his 'heinous crime' ... gawd they were awful back then cat, so cruel.
Well I had a nail biting day as I deleted a whole line of people when it turned out it was 'the other sister who....' and not the one with the interesting background.
Thankfully, the line joined up with someone else, so I got them all back in the end but gee it can get hard ๐
Happy hunting all ๐
Well I had a nail biting day as I deleted a whole line of people when it turned out it was 'the other sister who....' and not the one with the interesting background.
Thankfully, the line joined up with someone else, so I got them all back in the end but gee it can get hard ๐
Happy hunting all ๐
