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 have a couple of Mary Ann's in my tree that were sometimes spelt Marianne. It really came down to the person that wrote the actual record. Spelling was simply not important back then.
There's a pretty good chance they are the same person. Is Mariannes father Daniel?
I actually thought I found it somewhere different, but not sure where that was. In fact, I think I found it on Ancestry, but it said Thomas I Hitchman on there.
Thanks punchy ๐ That's the man.
I have been trying (yet again) to find my Henry Gibson. This time I applied to the LDS family research and went up to view their film, hoping he would be there, but of course, because he was born before Census came in, he was not.
He is a very difficult fellow and I just wish I had a male relative that descended from him so I could try by DNA, but sadly by the time my father and his brother both had daughters, the line ran out and both of those men are dead.
Ah well, I'll keep trying - ya never know.
No wonder family history is so difficult to do. X-(
My MIL lies about everything.
OH's paternal grandmother died in May this year - just two months ago. OH's father is dead. OH's mother phoned to tell OH about the death of his Grandmother and catagorically stated, over and over, that there would be no notice in the newspaper and no funeral service whatsoever. Grandmother had already been cremated and that was that.
However, something I read online last night made me suspicious so I went googling...
OH's grandmother's death was in the newspaper and a service was held. OH's brothers even went to the service. I suspect his mother did too. OH is the youngest child of his parents. They all kept it a great big secret.
I managed to get a screenshot of the cached death notice and funeral notice and have attached it to OH's Grandmother's record on my ancestry.com.au account.
Any ideas about why the great conspiracy to keep this stuff secretive? Should we be looking for a probate notice? Something smells fishy to me. I dont understand the lies and the secrecy.
No, neither do I buzz, families are strange creatures and I have learned you cannot trust them, they have more reason to lie than strangers do.
Yes it is fishy... see if you can find a copy of her Will or probate notice and put your mind at rest ๐
You are not alone - my daughter didn't tell me when my mother died.
She was hoping to get away free and clear with my mother's estate that had been left to her.
I put stop to that and made sure my son got a fair share - didn't want it for myself, but by golly, I was not going to allow that sort of behaviour from her. X-(
Thanks chappies.. yes it was a hard time. I think families always come as a shock when things go wrong - they are not meant to - we are told.
Still, thankfully in my case my son and his family are close to me, so I haven't lost out all together ๐
