Me too! The Frasers of Lovat! We'll have to compare family trees.
oh dear
hey sis!
yes - when i have all my cr@p together - i'll give you a holler!
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Me too! The Frasers of Lovat! We'll have to compare family trees.
that one is run by the Mormon church - it is really good if you have US relatives and can trace back through to Europe that way - but it is lousy for trying to track ancestry where there has been no US connection...
Thanks, ani. Fortunately I only have one Irish ancestor, so far back that I'm about 1/32 Irish. As you probably know, Irish ancestry is one of the most difficult to trace, due to all the pre-1901 Census records having been destroyed (many by a fire in 1922, the rest by government order for mysterious reasons).And for those tracing Irish ancestors the full 1911 census is now online
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie:80/search/
due to all the pre-1901 Census records having been destroyed (many by a fire in 1922, the rest by government order for mysterious reasons).
Yes, it's fascinating. There's also an Australian version that I think aired on ABC. Cathy Freeman's was really interesting. Her Mum is Aboriginal and was married to a white man. As recently as 1962 (I think it was 1962), she had to write to the Aboriginal Protectorate in order to get permission to visit her family during her Christmas holidays!If you're interested in genealogy in general and not just your own, the series Who do You Think You Are is a must see. A British series featuring British celebs but interesting all the same watching them trace their family trees. The most recent series has just finished but the BBC Knowledge channel is showing the previous one at the moment.
Actually, not really. People think that if only, say, 1 in a million people were noteworthy 300 years ago, then only 1 in a million people today should have a noteworthy ancestor, but this simply isn't true.I sometimes have a smile when people always seem to find that they are from the nobility, or descended from someone famous, or from convict stock.
There must have been a lot of extraordinary folk around back then .
I take your point.You just never hear that "Oh, I am descended from a bog standard tooth puller" and a "horse rug maker" .
Hey good one UC.I wouldn't cope with that - ever since Geoff posted the initial thread - i have been up stupidly late most nights tracking down family members (i'd do it in the day, but too busy working )...
must...get...sleep...
damned addictions! hehe
I am loving it all though - found some really interesting stuff and have managed to quell/confirm several family legends!! Now just starting to hit brick walls with pre-census data and incomplete records!!
I remember seeing that series and the Cathy Freemans episode. Of course 1962 may seem like eons ago to some but to those of us who were alive at that time hearing about what aborigines were treated like back then seems quite shocking, although I don't remember any hooha about aborigines being treated badly back then. Maybe it was a 'given' so not something worth talking about(?)Yes, it's fascinating. There's also an Australian version that I think aired on ABC. Cathy Freeman's was really interesting. Her Mum is Aboriginal and was married to a white man. As recently as 1962 (I think it was 1962), she had to write to the Aboriginal Protectorate in order to get permission to visit her family during her Christmas holidays!
And if that's not insulting enough, permission was denied, with no reason given.
Hey good one UC.
I actually tried to search for your family war records. Well, the complete National Archive records (www.naa.gov.au) where I had found a few matches for some members of my family.
So I did a search on "Urban Cowboy". There were two matches.
Not knowing your history I didn't know if there were any matches.
Even a search on the surname "Cowboy" gave 61 matches.
I hope that helps. ;-)