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?

[chuk_77]

got it and replied flashie

[push_the_buttons]

Flashie I could use a hand, will msg now

[flashie*]

Received.......and after a quick look I have to say ....it is a hard one.:O

[darksideofthemoon]

I received an email from a very distant rellie in the USA. His mother found some interesting information while she was over in the UK dealing with sorting out family stuff.

Here is where it can get confusing. It seems my great grandfather, who moved over to London from Ireland decided that if his denistry practice was to do well in London it would be a good idea for all his family and himself to be English!

So he registered them all as having been born in London... how's that for confusing?

Mind you, given the lack of love between the Irish and the English you can imagine his practice going down the drain when the English didn't want to go to an irish dentist :^O

I did know he was Irish, but it can happen in any family so worth all of us remembering that.

[darksideofthemoon]

I opened Ancestry this morning and as I looked at them all I felt the urge to say

"Good morning everyone" 🙂

[izabsmiling]

Hi izzy, now here's an interesting thing, have you Googled 'Lyon family tree'?

They were a big name in Scotland.

Yes I have that Carter too 🙂

Hello Darki and Everyone,
Yes I did...now I'm more confused than ever.lol
There are Carters there too by the way.
Apparently we are related somehow to Gary Lyon the ex footballer.My heads not in the right place for this stuff at the moment but I look forward to getting back to it sometime soon

Have A good day everyone 🙂

[flashie*]

Darkie....that is common....up until 1911 it was most likely the enumerators actually filled out the census.

And as most people were illiterate at those times they would not have known what was written.

I haven't found anyone hugely known in my family tree....we have a few minor politicians but that is about it......mostly farmers.

[the_great_she_elephant]

My maiden name was Cornes, and my father always swore we were descended from the Cornovii - a tribe who lived on the Welsh borders in Roman times. I suspect it may well have been a bit of wishful thinking on his part - most experts seem to think Cornes is a variant of Cornish. Interestingly however, I can find no Cornish connections at all and his immediate antecedents certainly seem to have lived on the Welsh border (Hereford.)

[flashie*]

My father always said we were decended from Royalty.....but on the wrong side of the blanket.;-)......and that there was no such place as England.....it was Lower Scotland.

[the_great_she_elephant]

Do you have any Fitzroys on your family tree, Flashie? That's often a sign of royal hanky-panky. :^O