Down the Lane

I don't know if this is going to turn into a hobby or not but I have recently started putting down my family tree.
I just got some free software and looking up info on births, marriages, deaths online.
I'm a complete newbie at this so would be interesting to know if any of you guys know about this!
I have traced one branch back to the stage they came to Aus, and found four people born around the mid 1800's in London, Wiltshire, Lancashire and Birmingham!
Interesting to at least know what parts of UK they came from.
Lots more research to do.

I've heard it can be really interesting and people get enthralled finding out about all of their ancestors!

I've never done like that before though - let us know if you dig up any more interesting facts!!

Oh you can really get hooked.
I went back on my fathers side to 1735. On his mothers side I met cousins and went to see the house she was born and brought up in.
I have to work on my mothers side but with a father called John Davis it is very difficult and I haven't the time to devote to it recently.
I did mine through Genes Reuntied and met a number of family through their site. I have long lost cousin in New Zealand.
Good Luck.
PS That is Genes reunited ...Sorry

oh that sounds great!
I also have a long lost branch of the family in NZ - apparently the family moved there and one daughter stayed in Aus to marry.
I know what you mean about the names! I have such 'unusual' names as White, Jones, Douglas and Evans!!!!
And it seems there wasnt a lot of imagination in the first name department once you go back a few generations so half the guys are called William ......
I don't know how I managed to avoid the surname Smith!!!

Absolutely TassieDev Nearly all the males were William or Phillip.
Very confusing.
I have edited my previous post. It was Genes reunited, madness of the fingers again I am afraid.
Wendy

My Grandad did our family tree some years ago and found our embem (it's on the link under my sig)One side of our family come from Cork in Ireland, another from Market Drayton, Italy and Austria....and we all lived happily ever after in Kent. My great great grandad was the coach driver for Queen Victoria, useless piece of infomation for you there.

hehee wendy i didnt even notice - 'genes untied' sounds like a genetic engineering laboratory!
ill check them out some time (united not untied)

hey Emma I see there's even an Aussie Buckley mentioned on your website
Yes I'm still waiting to find an interesting relative - eg coach driver for a queen!
So far I really only have names and some dates so who knows what they might have done!

genetic engineering Ha ha ha

No such glorious story from my lot. All farm labourers. Perhaps that's where my love of chickens and cows comes from.

Wendy

I started a website on my genealogy, but haven't touched it for three years!!

It is fascinating. In the early 800's my family were posh with a capital P !!

I've only really done the photo pages.......

http://www.richardcannon.dsl.pipex.com (it's my ISP free hosting)

Strangely tassie, I have only one relation, a second cousin, in Oz !

I did find out my other second cousin lives only three miles away and I hadn't seen her since I was about five.
She has much memorabilia, more than I.

wendy i'd be excited if i found out my ancestors worked on a farm!
(i'd hope i might discover some latent talent in that area)
but i guess in all likelihood they DID in those days! (not like now)

Richard that website looks fascinating - having a look now
You're so productive!!!!

and the family - re-productive !!

I'll tell you something spooky.

My daughter and family moved to Netley, near Southampton. Their house is next to the site of the Royal Military Hospital which was pulled down in the 60's.
It was by far the largest Hospital of it's time, built in 1860.

Anyways, when I started going there, I had that strange attraction to it. I brought a book about it, researched it a lot. I often spend time going around the graveyard there reading the tombstones. It's nice that 'enemy' and 'friends' are buried with each other and not segregated.
I shared the strange experience many times with family.
Always that 'think I've been here before'

Only last week, I received an email from my brother who had found out that my Grandfather was actually injured during WW1 and didn't fight for one year before being sent back into action in Gallipoli (lots' of Aussies there).
Anyway, it turns out that he was in that Hospital recovering !

Footnote. The British Museum told me (they have some of my gggg's clothes there, that if he were alive today, he'd be worth over 60 million !
I had £8 in my bank this morning!!

oh that's weird isn't it!
gee the poor thing being injured, recovering, then being sent to Gallipoli. i can't even begin to imagine what it must have been like there.
and the family fortune eh? that's amazing! my family talk of certain ancestors apparently having been very well off - but it never seems to survive down the generations!! makes me wonder who was responsible for squandering it all.

You never know tassie, one day we may get that letter starting.....

'Our records show you are the last remaining person in the Bloggs line and are pleased to tell you that......'.

If so, I want it now whilst I've still got time and reasonable health to spend it!

ooooooooh
'however you must spend one night in a haunted house to receive the inheritance!'

I'll go with that. Can't be any worse than the Dressing Rooms at Kent CCC !!