Genealogy

[morqthana]

Anybody here into it?

 

[Mottie]

There’s more than a few on this forum that have the exact same genes. Amazing coincidence!

On a serious note, I’m not but my mum was. She passed away last year and has a whole drawer full of notes and stuff about relatives of ours that we have all over the world. It’s one of the things my sister and I have not disposed of but it’s going to be saved in case our children or grandchildren ever want to take it up.

 

[blup]

The best starting point is family knowledge. Plus there is always (usually) someone in the extended family who has done a lot of research. I got back to Oliver Cromwell that way but bear in mind there are dozens of potential lines when you are that far back.

 

[Justin Passing]

My late wife was. Qualified in everything going, ran conferences on DNA in genealogy, etc.
She had thousands of books I'll now be pitching into a skip.
Hundreds of detailed old maps, too.
She paid to have her tree drawn out on vellum by a calligrapher.
Then a few years later worked out that one of the ancestors wasn't married. Ooops.
He family feigns interest untill I tell them to come and get the big vellum tree.

I can't see the point - I mean they're all dead... Now she is too and nobody cares a jot about her ancestors.

 

[Koolpc]

I traced mine all the way back to Noah. 2 of my relatives were on the Ark.