Genealogy Chat

Judith It does get to you doesn't it? I have 3 siblings I need to find as my gg grandmother has them all with her on the 1841 but none are with her on the 1851 - I haven't found their deaths yet so not sure what happened to them. Tracy from Teeside - another branch of my family lost 2 children within weeks of each other and when I googled the year - there had been an outbreak of smallpox. Their death certificates are on my long list to check this out. Debby

Hello there, I often become emotionally involved with my genealogy. Found two of my relatives aged 12 and 8 in the workhouse. I kept worrying about them!! Couldn't rest until I found out they got out of the workhouse. I just think your reactions show you are a very human person with feelings and emotions. Nothing wrong with that. You're a human being not a robot. Carry on with your Family History and celebrate your compassionate feelings.

I came across my great grandmother living with her mother and brother and sister in 1861. I know they had all died except her by the time she was twelve so sad.

doing the family tree 'does' become obsessive, You wonder what kind of lives these people led, and was it difficult etc, I often think i was born in the wrong century! and would have loved to have lived in the 1800's, but in reality would have probably found it very tough

Happens to us all I think. I found out yesterday that 3 of my hubbys Grandmothers siblings all died within days of each other. Now all I can think of is why this happened. They were all under 10. It's such a shame when things like that happen.

I often get emotional about my family , wish I could have met them .

I've at long last found my gt gt grandmother in London on the 1841 census. Aged '20' (rounded down from her actual 22) she was a female servant in the household of Levi Cohen in Islington. No surprises there but I suddenly realised that I know something she probably didn't know on census night 6th June. In front of me I have the birth certificate of her daughter, Margaret Ann Manley, born 14 February 1842; so in the next 8 months or so she was to leave her job, move in with the baby's father John (who, as an apprentice watchmaker, was probably still living with his employer in 1841 though I've not yet found him) and give birth. But in June 1841 she was either just enjoying being courted by John without a care in the world, or possibly beginning to suspect that they hadn't been careful enough and worrying about how they would cope (both his and her parents were already dead by then so no help from that quarter.) Seeing her name on the census page I wanted to reach and out and tap her on the shoulder, tell her that everything was going to work out OK. Should I go for counselling now or just keep searching for John to make sure he was nearby for her?! Judith