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Posted: 16 Jan 2008, 16:19
by Mo
I vaguely remember that a detective story (D.L. Sayers?) had a plot that hinged on a change in the law so that, if no will was made, distant relatives would not inherit anything; if there were no close relatives the State would get it all. (So the distant relative was mur.dered before the law changed!)
If this really came in, and hasn't been repealed, you may be out of luck, Richard.

Posted: 16 Jan 2008, 19:16
by Richard
Drat !

Thought there was a bit of Onassis in me!

Posted: 19 Jan 2008, 14:47
by heebiejeebie
I think my mum did a bit of research and found that we come from a long line of farmhands and dairymaids. And our ancestors didn't all have dads on their birth certificates, which she found embarrassing! (I guess the local landowner was busy...)

Posted: 19 Jan 2008, 15:26
by wendy
Ha ha.
My brother is really snotty with my son Because he and his partner didn't marry and had a couple of children [they have since broke up] but I think he was quite nasty.
Anyway I had great pleasure in telling him our G Grand father was illigitimate.
Glass house and stones ???
Wendy

Posted: 18 Feb 2008, 19:36
by maderedundant
I've been researching my family history for nearly ten years and up to now have found no skeletons in the cupboard. Most of my ancestors were from Nottingham although a few did venture as far as London and Leeds but soon came back.
I'm thinking now of starting to do payed research for other people, mostly abroad who can't get to archives etc in this country and just concentrating on Nottinghamshire but am unsure if it will be viable.
I know a lot of people in the States and Australia are researching their ancestors but it's getting them to find out about my services.
I have a web site but it takes time to get the hits.
Just on a coincidence note. I used to work at a Civic Amenity Site in Nottingham. Lenton to be precise. It's now a huge industrial estate near to the University Hospital.
On researching my paternal grandmothers family I discovered that they were farmers. They didn't own the farm they were tennant farmers. The point is on the 1881 census they lived on exactly the same spot, to a few meters, that I was working on 100 years later.
Spooky yike*

Posted: 19 Feb 2008, 17:26
by lancashire lass
maderedundant wrote:The point is on the 1881 census they lived on exactly the same spot, to a few meters, that I was working on 100 years later.
Spooky yike*


...and just think what may be in 100 years from now )old( )olm(