lol, my grandmother was born on the day of her parents marriage. It always makes me giggle when I hear that "instant baby" ad for ancestry.

Hard to imagine how hard it was for my great grandmother though. Even though she married  my grandmothers father, they never lived together and she was a single mother her whole life. Couldnt have been easy for her...I believe she turned to the drink.

Wish I'd talked to my grandmother more before she passed, I only remember one converstaion with her about her upbringing and it wasnt great. My grandfather is no help, he is completely disinterested in historical stuff.

So this was the grave I visited yesterday and was happy to find a headstone but it's all so broken down and I want to get it fixed! He was my 1st cousin 2x removed he died in active service in WW1. I wish there was a war grant I could get to fix up the grave?

How many years have you been with ancestry? I'm into my second year now, I renewed my membership but I was sad to hear a very distant relative I linked up with on ancestry is not going to renew her membership so I will probably lose contact with her. Did any of you renew your membership? I've probably done more research this past few months as I've had the time.

But really I'm probably finding a lot of things in other places now like Trove

A bit over 2 years I've been with ancestry. I think I'll always keep it going. I'm still a member of find my past uk too, which I probably dont really need any more, but they do release new records from time to time so I might stay with that one too.

I am about to renew for the 6th year........I have Australian with the UK heritage pack............my children pay for it for me for Christmas each year..................it is a bit of a family joke about having to buy Mum dead people all the time.

I figure it only works out at about $5 per week.............and hubby spends more than that on smokes.

I probably use it more for searching for other people than myself...............I think I have jsut about found all I can for my family.............too many brickwalls.............mostly irish.

6th year lol I just really enjoy it, I'm a bit obsessed I think

Well the distant relative is happy to hook up on fb so that's nice 🙂

I have met some family members through ancestry.............soem it did not even know exisisted.

And photos...................I love getting a picture probably just as much as finding people.

But I love the thrill of the chase...............I love love love being able to solve something that has been difficult.

The most important thing for me though has been finding out where I came from.............being able to tell my children and grandchildren.................giving them a sense of family that I never had growing up because I lost my parents when I was rather young.

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But I love the thrill of the chase...............I love love love being able to solve something that has been difficult.

 

 

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Yep, thats me. I love to be able to solve the puzzle...and I dont care if its my family or someone elses, its just as satisfying to me.

If I could do this for a job I would be ecstatic!

Punch.........I have alway said a Heir Hunter would be my dream job.

I have another mystery in my tree

That photo of the grave above, I was a bit intrigued that on the headstone it say "my son" not "our son", and the In Memoriam notice I found on Trove the mother wrote "all I had was taken from me". I couldn't find much on the husband and all elcetoral records showed her living alone or living on a farm with other family members.

I told the lady in Perth the husband must've died or they were not together. She replied Yes, I think that they may have separated and she was with "Alfred" from 1909-1915. I don't have his surname sadly. 

Well Alfred could possibly be and most likely is the brother!

Another mystery

Edited to say the husband died a year after she did, so he did not die and she moved on, somthing else more sinister LOL :devil: