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Im finding it difficult to get info about family from 1736. Someone said to look for wills maybe, but i dont know how!
Do you know arch?

think my nan was born out of wed lock as i can only find her registered in her mothers name my family know alot more than they let on but dont like too keep askin it is obviously something they dont wont to talk about.... but did find sumert that really interested me... fount out me nan was married to a bigamist that took 2wks to look up..xx

Really? That sounds interesting skeggy girl! So even though its hard work, its not boring!

I think my dad's mum lied about her father's name on her marriage certificate because she was born out of a marriage. She put charles bailey- deceased, and i cant find him anywhere. It looks as though charles was her mothers dad so she put him to save embarrassment.
Understandable in those days.

all i use is the censuses the IGI and google, parish records to check now and then, but you find loads of errors in all

Yeah i think i've come across some errors.

i got loads of info from head stones most of my family are buried in a small cemetry in Lambley notts there isnt many other families in there (think they all bought their plots) i know it must be hard for some of me family if there are skeletons in the cupboard as you said it was different in them days and i suppose they never even imagined something like this site happening...x

spelling errors really do throw you of course, my great gran was pycroft,could not find them on any census by luck i was looking at the census index only to find them miss spelt as bycroft

Really? i suppose you do have to check lots of areas and spellings.

Skeggy Girl, i know what you mean about family not wanting to know the past but as long as you dont publish it, its still between the family!

and name changes, i have one family whitelambe that went to whitelamb then to whitelam

So have any of you found any interesting stories/people? famous people even?

I keep hoping im going to come across a lord or a sir lol somehow i dont think its going to happen, so far they're all miners, farmers and labourers.

yes many, about a year ago i found Knight as my gggggggggggggranddad 1530, i was over the moon, only to find he was beheaded in tower of london when he was 52

i keep trying to explain that no matter what happened in the past is just that the past and it couldnt change how i feel about them all i love them all dearly....was so facinated when uncle copied me the news paper clippins of my nans bigamist hubby.... she sent the info to the papers she obviously wasnt a women to be messed with just wish she had lived long enough for me too have really known her think she would have told me an awful lot!!!

mine are all miners or labourers knowin my luck rather than finding a lord i am more likely too find a highwayman!!! lol

Wow a knight!! thats cool. I think they beheaded people all the time back then though, he could have been innocent! Even if he wasn't, thats still a cool story.

i have the Queen in my tree

Lol same here skeggy girl!! there was an old story in my town about a man who killed a woman and ate her.......and my grandad informed me that we are related to him down the line some way! lol

Hi suzz

Are you kiddin' now arch?

Hi suz! nice to meet ya! We're talking about if we've found any one interesting/famous in our trees, have you?

wow, you've really done well with your tree then.