Genealogy Chat

Wow Looby and Looby - TWINS!!!!!!! Didn't know you could have two people with the same name on here - could cause hilarity for people thinking they were speaking to one but really it was the other!

Ooh Ang! Just the same thing as i mean,weird sometimes isn't it? Glen

I know what you mean. I think its great when our dead rellies try to help or guide us. I was visiting a cemetary with my daughter, checking for headstones etc. As we left, towards the pathway opposite is a farm track leading to Home Farm. My daughter says Mum there is a man over there watching us, I could see nothing & we just joked about dead rellies spying on us. Two weeks later on the census checks guess which farm my rellies worked on? Yes Home Farm opposite the church. Spooky !

Hi Jean, I am the world's biggest sceptic. However, it's not that I don't believe it's just that until it happens to me I refuse to believe. Just call me 'Doubting Thomas'. However, if you are certain that something odd has happened who am I to say it hasn't. It may be worth having a word with the neighbours to see if you can gleam the history of the house or information about previous owners. Bye Paul

Hiya Looby Spooky!!!!! I haven't been about much over the summer, but have just come back to the boards and some of the first things I reply to, you do too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Take care Looby

Jean I’ve always said things happen for a reason – about a year ago I was completely stuck on several parts of my tree – I am the eldest living rellie on my Dad’s side of one part of the family and only have my childhood/teenage memories an d a box of photos to go on. Anyway, I moved into my current property about 12 years ago. There is a cupboard under my bed that hadn’t been cleared out for about 9 years, so one Saturday morning I decided to have a go at it. I would add at this point that when I moved my mum had already been dead for 9 years and my dad for four, so it’s not something I would have acquired after that. I totally emptied it out and there, hiding in the bottom corner was a little cardboard box, that I would swear on my husband’s life I had never seen before. I was puzzled by it and carefully took it out, brushed off the dust and opened it – there were all the present tags, cards and a sample invitation for my parents wedding – I burst into tears there and then!! I spoke to my younger sister, described the box and the contents and she was as convinced as me that she had never seen it before either – so the question is who arranged for me to find it that morning? Once I had examined all the contents, it lead me to the surnames of people that I only had nicknames for, and whole new addresses to try and fit people into. Needless to say, it gave my search a new lease of life and through it I have managed to find a second cousin I knew of but had no idea of his surname, that I now correspond with. So, do I believe in the paranormal – you bet I do!! Looby

Jean, I don't think you're mad at all, I've had too many things happen to me and my family to think anything other than there is life (of whatever sort) beyond death. It's not that I want to believe in it - I've just had too many things happen to prove that it does exist. Snowdrops

I think that there are a lot of spooky things that seem to happen when you really look into family history. I moved a long way across country shortly before starting my tree,without knowing it i had moved to within 10 miles of where my 2xg g/f lived and worked,and where a whole generation of my family where born. I often feel like i am being watched from a certain window in the town and subsequently found out that the building in question is an old residence for my family. I also know someone who used a clairvoyant to help solve a mystery from her families past,don't ask me how it happened,but i got mentioned by her long departed ancestor!! Glen

Just a question, I am not sure what I believe but since starting my tree about 6 months ago I have had so many strange things happen, some I won't go into for fear of sounding totally insane! But on several instances taking photos for my tree of the people I am still lucky enough to having living, there have been orb like things on the photos. These were taken on digital cameras, taking 3 pictures at a time or each person, the orbs are on 1 picture but not the other 2. Pics of my children have never had such a thing on them but pics of myself and my dad do have them. Upon spotting this, and as we had all the pictures taken on the stairs in my parents home, I took random pics of the stairs, and on 1 picture there is 4 orbs going up (or coming down) the stairs. I know there are many explanations for this but we really did check every possibility, light, glare, dust on camera and nothing explained them. Another picture has the faint image of a man sitting on the stairs behind me (I took the picture with the stairs behind me at my mums shelves covered in family pictures, she has a mirror in the middle and the reflection was in that mirror, could have been smears on the mirror, yet it was crystal clear, so I am looking for other possible explanations or am i mad? :) Thanks