All 3 chickens stopped laying today

[kitbag]

Hi everyone,

This is just a thought.................................

 

Has any one wondered or found out that they are connected to an other Omleteer?

 

 

Oooooohhh this could get interesting...

 

[Lisa]

I've been tracing mine for the past couple of years on and off. I have found the freecen and freebmd websites useful as well as genes reunited and have traced two brances back to the 1500's. I will look at the BBC forum, thanks Kannie, and see if they can help further. I am at the point of becoming a member of the ancestry.co.uk site - has anyone done this yet?! It is just under £110 for a years membership at the second level. I would be interested how others have found this service.

 

I have found that the daughter of the Russian Royal families bodyguard is a relative. She and her brother were told to flee Russia but her dad stayed and was killed with the Royals. Unfortunately her brother did not survive the escape. I am also directly related to Sir Henry Bessemer who invented the process of changing pig iron into steel. I am still struglling with my fathers family and would love to find out more.

[Yorkshire Pudding]

My Dad's family have an old copy of a tree that was researched and drawn out for an ancestor in the 19th century - it's about a metre square and rolls up like a big scroll, it goes back to 15something. The root of the tree is an Earl of Angus, known as 'Red Angus' (apparently there are two Angus clans, the other being the black Angus clan).

 

My Dad's family has several names that repeat through the years, Angus being one of them, and a lot of red haired people, which has passed to YS. Perhaps Red Angus the source.

 

That tree stopped several generations before my Dad though, and recently he started filling in the gap. He found all sorts about his mother's branch of the family and some very sad stories including a great-uncle who lied about his age to fight in the first world war and was killed more or less the minute he went anywhere near a battlefield. It's fascinating.

 

OH's uncle did a lot of tracing of their family tree a few years ago. Their family name is quite unusual and has only two main branches in the UK - the west Midlands and Knottingley in Yorkshire. OH has moved from Birmingham to just a few miles from Knottingley, without knowing the other branch of the name was there.

 

The family name is originally French, but was changed from something that wouldn't stand out as very French to a variant that looks definitely French - people who haven't seen it before often pronounce it with a French accent. I've heard of people Anglicising names when they move to the UK but not often the other way round.

[Snowy]

I've been tracing mine for the past couple of years on and off. I have found the freecen and freebmd websites useful as well as genes reunited and have traced two brances back to the 1500's. I will look at the BBC forum, thanks Kannie, and see if they can help further. I am at the point of becoming a member of the ancestry.co.uk site - has anyone done this yet?! It is just under £110 for a years membership at the second level. I would be interested how others have found this service.

 

I have found that the daughter of the Russian Royal families bodyguard is a relative. She and her brother were told to flee Russia but her dad stayed and was killed with the Royals. Unfortunately her brother did not survive the escape. I am also directly related to Sir Henry Bessemer who invented the process of changing pig iron into steel. I am still struglling with my fathers family and would love to find out more.

I joined ancestry.co.uk on the free 90 day trial. It was fabulous - you just have to remember to cancel at the right time, and spend the next 90 days doing intensive research!

[Valkyrie]

I have posted messages on this site - a couple of replies, one very interesting.

 

http://genforum.genealogy.com

 

It is an American site, but useful anyway. It does take ages at first when you plod through as there are so many postings. Another thing is that if you search for a surname it may not show up, but it can often be included in those with slightly different spellings, as I found out with a couple of my family names.

[Janty]

My husband's family have done a lot of work on their family tree. Hubby's grandad is known as Grandad Bob AKA Grandad Slapper!

 

He fathered five children, abandoned them into a children's home when his marriage ended. Then he swanned off to someone else who I think he married. He fathered five more (lucky number, I presume) then that ended and he lived with someone else, fathering more. Then he set up house with someone else...don't know about these children. These are just the families that they can trace.

 

It seems that he is single-handedly responsible for populating Norfolk...poor county.

 

Hubby and I like to think that we are balancing things up a bit. We have one child.

[Snowy]

I think my great great great great grandfather singlehandedly populated derbyshire in the 1700s!

He had 10 children, 7 of those had 50 children between them (imagine - 50 grandchildren! ). One of them, my gt gt gt grandfather, had 9 children. Two of his sons (my gt gt grandfather and a brother) had 8 children each. My gt grandfather had 7 children. Sadly his daughter (my grandma) broke the mould and had only 2 children. There are still siblings that I have not followed up yet, so there are bound to be more, these are just the ones I've found so far. They were all from Mellor in Derbyshire. No wonder I have a 'common' face - there's a lot of us about!

[Janty]

I think my great great great great grandfather singlehandedly populated derbyshire in the 1700s!

He had 10 children, 7 of those had 50 children between them (imagine - 50 grandchildren! ). One of them, my gt gt gt grandfather, had 9 children. Two of his sons (my gt gt grandfather and a brother) had 8 children each. My gt grandfather had 7 children. Sadly his daughter (my grandma) broke the mould and had only 2 children. There are still siblings that I have not followed up yet, so there are bound to be more, these are just the ones I've found so far. They were all from Mellor in Derbyshire. No wonder I have a 'common' face - there's a lot of us about!

 

His name wasn't Aldridge was it?

 

[Joojoo]

Hubby's grandad is known as Grandad Bob AKA Grandad Slapper!

 

ROFLMAO :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

I've been researching my family tree for about 5 years now (on and off). I joined Ancestry early on when it was about £60 for 12 months. Even then I thought it was expensive for what you could get from it. The problem is you can get so far back then you come up against a brick wall. I personally tend to leave it for 6 months or so and then when I start again there is a lot more information to be discovered. It is so very addictive though. I've started work on it at say 7 or 8pm at night then looked at the clock and it's been 2am . I don't know where the time goes.

 

I think I'm probably at the stage now where I need to start visiting parish churches etc to get further information. I've managed to get back to 1832 on my Dad's side of the family but I'm completely stuck with my Gran on my Mum's side. My Great Grandmother was widowed at a very young age and then remarried, but I can't find her under her maiden name or either of her married ones or her husbands it's very frustrating.

[Snowy]

His name wasn't Aldridge was it?

 

No, Stafford.

People keep contacting me as they have an ancestor who was a Stafford from Mellor. There are hundreds of them! Sometimes we find a link, sometimes not, but I'm sure if I can trace it back a bit further, they are all linked! After all, Mellor isn't that big a place!

[Tiggy]

my dads family name is French & they came here in 1066, as a result one lot became very rich & powerful, big house & land - sorry Dad we are not related to them, ours were Irish labourers who left their homes during the potatoe famine & worked on the canals transporting goods & coal from Liverpool to the mills & Birmingam mines - one distant relative is Rex Harrison!!!!

[Flo]

I haven't done much research into my family tree, my grandfatehr is taking care of that, but I have researched lots of other peoples.

 

A few years ago my mum and I heard the Julie Myerson book Home on the radio and it inspired us to find out about all the people who have lived in our house (althought I don't live there anymore, mum and dad still do)

 

It was built in the 1850's and we have found the names of so many people and gone on to find out where they came from and where they ended up.

 

There have been a lady in the 1880's who went on to be a missonary in China, lots of widows and a mother who lost her son in the first world war. One man who was born in the house went on to sail on the Titanic and unfortuneatly did not survive the sinking.

 

4 years on we are completley obsessed!

[The Dogmother]

I was delving into mine before I had Rosie, and intend to ressurect it sometime when I have more time and the inclination.

 

I got as far as I could with the Italian side without going over there; the main family name was Degli'Innocenti and was pretty well known over near Florence where they came from. My great grandfather who came over here with his family was an industrial chemist and did a lot of work with the millinery industry in Luton, and in fact took over a few factories up there.

 

The English part was (strangely) not easy as my Dad knows very little about it and his parents' generation all died young. I do know that one side was Jewish/Scottish and latterly from London, the others were farmers from the area where my folks have lived all their lives; they owned lots of land locally and a couple of pubs too.

 

It really is fascinating

[TAJ]

I have the family tree maker software - it is great and the platinum edition came with 6 months free on Ancestry - I think Ancestry is too expensive to have an ongoing membership, but for 6 months free it is good for making headway.

 

I have traced the Cornish/Devon line back to the 1400s and visited 3 churches down there where the fonts date back to the 1500s and it is amazing when I think that my direct ancestors were being christened in those same fonts back in the 1600s. We even found some gravestones. We still have no trace of my granmother since she disappered in 1939, so still working hard on that one.

 

Tracy

[Valkyrie]

My grandmother's name is unusual and it has a rare particular way of spelling it. Most of these come from Dorset - there are lots buried in Wimborne Minster. The problem is making the connection because her grandfather was French. Definitely Huguenot's. My brother says that one of Napoleon's top men shared this name. That would be a nice hand down to the grandchildren (which I hope I won't have for quite a while yet!).

[Ardene5]

The Family tree we are doing has some odd name or wrongly spelt names as in surname.

We have:- Hampshire or Hampshaw or Hamshawe.

Jackson

Campbell

Cocking

Whittaker or Whitaker

CharlesWorth or Carlesworthe

 

has anyone else got name problems?

 

Best regards

 

 

Ian & Valerie

William & Harry

Missy & Millie dogs

9 lovely hens

Inside the Henian Castle which also has a inside

[Seagazer]

We have problems with the names of one of the families so far

 

Dimond

Diamond

Dimon

 

It all adds to the fun and intrigue

[kannie]

I am at the point of becoming a member of the ancestry.co.uk site - has anyone done this yet?! It is just under £110 for a years membership at the second level. I would be interested how others have found this service.

I joined ancestry.co.uk on the free 90 day trial. It was fabulous - you just have to remember to cancel at the right time, and spend the next 90 days doing intensive research!

I did a short membership too! I think it was a fortnight free, and then I paid for one or two months, but that was enough. It gave me access to loads of info. It was really good and I'd definitely recommend it. They were very helpful too.

 

I still have my tree there, and you can download a copy, so I did this and then uploaded it onto Genes Reunited too.

 

I'm no longer paying for anything, but once your tree is up there then new searchers still contact you!

[Guest]

I pay an annual subscription to ancestry. The number of resources on there just gets better and better. However I haven't used it for a couple of months because I just haven't had time.

 

I have a troublesome name in Warwickshire. It is Arnall, but seems to transmute to Arnold within one lifetime.

DD1 has a friend from Coventry called Arnall though, so I wonder if the original survived. It's pre-certificates time, so it's all down to enumerators and priests.

 

My big name from this area is Canning. They were farmers (Stratford, Alcester and villages around) but went on to found W Canning & Co in Birmingham. The company was sold in 1984 and the name no longer used.

[Mutrix Farmers]

Much to my mother's disgust most of her maternal ancestors were publicans or licensed victuallers and her paternal ancestors were all agricultural labourers. We did discover someone who was one of the original non-convict settlers in Australia when the colony was no longer used as a penal colony and they encouraged farmers to move there. I also made contact with a cousin I had never met but knew of, we are now in regular correspondence.

[Seagazer]

I've paid for membership to Ancestry for the last couple of years. This year's seems very expensive - I've hardly used it so far - been on here too much!!

[miffy]

I have been researching my family tree for around 6 years on and off. I was lucky that my cousin had done a lot of work on my mothers London side, my G G grandparents came from Guernsey!! Traced them back to around 1710 1720. Sadly I have my London GF in 1901 living in 2 rooms in Deptford with his parents and 6 siblings

 

I am Cornish but moved away when I was 4, we now live just a couple of miles from where I was born. I have found that my cornish grandfathers birth does not appear to have been registered, I have checked with local registrar and GRO, now need to find time to check baptismal records, for methodists. Family have always said that my fathers parents were first cousins (both had same surname before marriage ) cant prove that until I find some proof of his parentage!! When GF died GM remarried........yes I can prove it........another first cousin!!!!! I have traced cornish side to 1790s in this immediate area, mainly Miners and Blacksmiths.

 

I have found Ancestry very useful but having just looked at their current pricing I doubt I will renew it next feb when it runs out. Most libraries subscribe to a library edition of Ancestry World and I often make use of this, as its free.

 

A word of warning about using data from on line sources, not everyone checks their facts thoroughly, a friend of mine went a long way off track when she didnt check something on Genes Reunited, many hours wasted and money.

Happy researching...

[Valkyrie]

This is a new site opened up so some of it is still under construction. Interesting that my maiden name is rather unusual and most of them can be found in New Zealand - I knew there were some in Oz. Some in US and Canada and surprise - apparently a few in Argentina too! One gt gt gt grandmother's name is only found in Ireland - no wonder we couldn't trace where she came from, thought she was from Gloucester.

 

http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/

[Seagazer]

There are more people in Australia with my married name, but I knew that already as there is a town with that name.

[Valkyrie]