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?

[flashie*]

And how many times have you got them out and looked at them?...:^O............it makes them more real (if that makes sense) if you can put a face to a name.

Up until a few years ago I had never seen a picture of my maternal grandfather.......he was long gone before I was born.............and I know it was a few weeks before I could put his picture away.

I have not seen a picture of my paternal grandfather yet...............as he also was long gone before I was born......but I hold out hope that one day someone in his homeland will contact me with a picture of him.

[clair.de.lune]

I know! I have looked at them lots and again this morning.

My uncle gets a couple of things wrong and I have a feeling, one lady which he says is my grt grandfathers wife, I think it's his mother, making her my 2nd grt grandmother?

And she's the one I put flowers on regularly when I go up Maryborough way. That would be awesome if I had a photo of the lady I leave flowers for.

One of the reasons I think it's actually his mother is because he & his wife moved to Perth, the photo says Charles Farr Maryborough (photographer), his mother remained in Maryborough. And the lady in this photo appears a bit plump whereas his wife was quite thin in her later years. I dunno I maybe wrong, I have asked. The other lady in Perth will know but she's OS

[green.fields]

Love old photo's. Hope lady turns out to be your 2 grt grandmother.

[womblewa]

If anyone's family is from the Salford, Manchester area, I have found and excellent website and forum. 

Seach for the Salford and Manchester Family History Forum or alternatively...

http://manchesterfamilyhist.proboards.com/

I posted my family tree on that board, drawn by my grandmother in 1978 and fairly vague.  People on that site have taken an interest in finding as much info as they can for me, just because they can.  I feel a sloth because I have learned so much about my ancestors, seen birth, death, marriage certificates, Census papers, baptism papers, and the shipping list for the Hororata from Southhampton to NZ in 1925 - two families of mine were on it, etc etc.  The info gleaned thus far, and its only been a week, follows my ancestors back being weavers in the  late 1700's/early 1800's; all from the endeavours of people on that board in the UK, and none of my own, apart from logging on. 

Happy delving. 

[green.fields]

Thanks Womblewa, I will go and look. A branch of hubby's family came from there.

[clair.de.lune]

Got this book written about my ancestors, the ones in Fremantle and it says my 2nd grt grandfather married a big woman LOL

You wouldn't really be able to say that now would you? Married a "big" woman?!

I've seen a photo she was big (not thin)

"married a young trainee teacher, a big woman called ......"

[flashie*]

Geepers...............you scared me for a sec then Clair.

World History

Monday, May 30, 1431. :   Joan of Arc is burned at the stake.

     Whilst the exact date of Joan of Arc's birth is not known, traditionally she is regarded to have been born on 6 January 1412, in Domrémy, France. As a teenager, Joan of Arc received visions urging her to organise French resistance against English domination. In 1429, despite being a woman, she led the charge which attacked the English and forced them to retreat from Orléans. As she led further charges, she helped turn the Hundred Years War unequivocally in France's favour.

In 1430, several months after her victory against the English, Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians and sold to the English. Her claims of receiving visions and divine inspiration resulted in her being accused of heresy and witchcraft. During her trial in March 1431, she retracted her claims of visions and was sentenced to life imprisonment. However, she recanted on her retraction, and as a heretic, was burned at the stake on 30 May 1431 in Rouen.

Twenty five years after her death, King Charles VII ordered a rehabilitation trial that annulled the proceedings of the original trial. Joan of Arc was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920.

[flashie*]

How Exciting.

My brother just bought me out some old pictures for me to see who they are.

This is the story.

My cousin runs a pub...........and one day this guy comes in and asks him is he from the "Flashie Family"..............and my cousin says yes he is.

So the guy says to my cousins I have a couple of pictures that are of your family I will drop them in here for you.

Which he did.

Now we thought they were going to be a couple of little pictures..............but they are huge portrait type pictures in beautiful tortoiseshell frames and convex glass.............they have 1890 written on the back of them.

Now.......................how do I go about figuring out who on earth it is.............I have an idea on who I think it is..............but I need to prove it.

If I can I will show a picture here over the weekend............it might be hard to get a good one without shine on it.

Now I just wonder if I can talk my brother into giving them to me......:^O

[clair.de.lune]

That is exciting flashie!

"Now.......................how do I go about figuring out who on earth it is.............I have an idea on who I think it is..............but I need to prove it."

I have the same thing happening here, ....... and just realised I posted about it up there ^ Charles Farr photographer in Maryborough. I googled and found he sold his business in 1904 so this photo just can't be the daughter, has to be the mother as the lady in the photo looks about 50, the daughter was only 32 in 1904. If it's the mother she's the one I'm getting the headstone done for.

[flashie*]

*does a little happy dance*.......I figured out who it is in my pictures........:-p