General Chat

Hi Hoff,

Done quite well on my tree thanks to help and links on GR, have got in contact with relatives i never knew i had. desparately need to start updating my tree now.

Hiya Hoff, xxx
Seems to me Running Bears been watching too much LIFE OF BRIAN!!!! pmsl
He does have Italian ancestry though that is true.
Tricia xx

Well, found the usual crowd of illegitimates, have two (maybe three) trollopes of gr grandmothers, have a suicide and a bigamist. All I want now is a murderer.

Agree with Foggy's comment, and I do my best to document everything as I go - or at least backtrack and document it then! Also find it fascinating to work out how they lived - and do a lot of background reading. One branch were East End gunsmiths so reading lots about the East End and lots about gunsmiths - all gives me an idea of what their lives were like.

I would love to be able to link into a well documented tree somewhere along the line on at least one of the branches though - that would be fun. My ex-husband was a Clinton but I think that his family had Irish roots ...

Furthest back is 1640 on my partner's tree - all seems very well documented but I still need to track down the evidence for the earlier parts.

My tree and my research is like a patchwork quilt!

Jill in Tinsel Town.

you'll be surprised at what you find out i have a bonafied lunatic, also a couple of suicides and illegitimacy, but don't you find it makes it more interesting jill

That's the best bit for me Bambino. I love finding out about all of them but a bit of scandal ... the icing on the cake for me. You can keep the mega-huge trees - just give me the detail on those I do have.

And a lunatic! I will add that to my list - maybe I'll find one of those too!

life would be boring without a bit of scandal

lunatic! where ? who ?

LOL - don't tempt me Hoff!

tell

hi hoff,

one of my ancestors on dads side in 1881 census as lunatic, and i thought i was mentally deranged lol

It's Bambino who has a lunatic - but I want one now!

well now we know where you get it from lol

Hi Jill in East Kent

Your ex-husband is probably a very distant cousin of mine. The Clintons in Ireland were descendants of the same family.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wynkoop/webdocs/clinton.htm

President Bill Clinton shouldn't have been one because that was his step father's name.

Sue
x

omg

you know wot they say don't tell anyone cause they'll all want one - quiet proud of it actually,

i do have some normal people in my tree but i'm certainly not one of them. Any interesting characters in your tree then hoff

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there is a lunatic -

hold on thats me lol

my elusive aunt Bessie (not sure where she fits in just that she existed) was 'sectioned' by her husband who was apparently a nasty piece of work, she wasn't mad but found the mental home such a nice change from living with him that she opted to stay and became a nurse there lol.

Maybe we should just start a lunatic thread lol