Genealogy Chat

Try me, try me

Thanks for the offers guys, but I am talking Berlin walls here, there doesnt seem to be any leads at all, without travelling the country and looking at parish records and then I am not sure whether I could sort these lot out without fathers names. There is nothing left to look up on ancestry, Ive done that to death, even collecting similar names born same area just in case there is a connection.

There are some good Norfolk websites, and of course there is the rootsweb Norfolk mailing list........... :-)

there you are your hours on here are 24/7 as a help any question answered manager, wage to be arranged. lol lorraine

Hi, Heather - I should think that all your 'mystery' people are out there looking for mine - and that they are all having a good laugh at us both!! Please don't give up - give us some names and we will see what we can do. All you need is a flash of inspiration.

Well, I am looking through your tree.............and..................I cannot see the wood for the tree(s)....!! Am not offering my services (lol) at the mo, because hubby is DUSTING round me, having invited an Indian relation over for ''Tea'' because he is related to Mahatma Ghandi. Flippin' heck, as if I can get my head round all the English, Welsh and Scots rellies, without these really tricky ones from India!! Have just been practicing my Italian looking up Guiseppe Creci for someone! LOL - Now practising my Gujarti ....LOL (never even passed my French O level!) Back later.........(can't see the screen for flying dust!) Merry xx

Heather, Do not despair - you are not alone. I've had 3 for 18 years! One (Irish family) has been partially solved since I joined GR last September and managed to make contact with a fellow member - we worked on this together and managed to unearth a few more pieces of the puzzle. Another, I think, may be solved by searching Non-conformist records - tried everything else. The third one is a strange, non-existant place name in 1851 census. For years I have chased up every reference in the county for this surname, and every single one leads back to my man - not a single sniff of a sibling or parent or cousin. They are NOT brickwalls, merely intellectual challenges, which must be solved by looking outside the box! I know loads about some of my other families, and I'm sure you do about yours, too. Jay

Ive tried Georgina, they are all pre 1837 registration and I dont know where to look now. Ive put a few queries on records board but people just find the stuff I already have (kind of them but ..) I gave tons of stuff before christmas to a guy on one line on here and he promised some certs and stuff which would have given me a distraction, even if not the people I really am interested in, but despite two emails to him, I have had nothing (though I noticed he had added all my hard work to his tree). Im waiting for 3 certs, but not on lines Im particularly interested in (hubbys). Ive had his GGF Guards record come last week. So that bit of excitement is used up. I need a fix and there isnt one around.

Oh dear Heather you do sound fed up. Post some of the names and dates that would give you a break through and I will have a search for you. Georgina.

heather - i got to that, put it all to one side for quite some time and thought ''Stuff you!'' i've been loking thru it , dad now wants a copy ( yes dad...) and have actually found , with the help of others on here a bit more info, which i am not convinced was there before. it has renewed my enthusiasm for a bit dont give up jess x

Im really totally miserably fed up. I have brick walls (not garden fences) all round and I cant find anything to go on any more. All the dead ends have marriages prior to 1837 so no go there. My Norfolk lot are lying in their graves larfing at me trying to find them prior to their first kiddie and my London lot cant decide whether to spell Dixon with an s a ck or just an x. How am I ever going to find them? I might even have to do some proper paid work or, god forbid, housework at this rate.