How did you start down this road? .....

[momat]

The Birth of my Grandson 3 1/2 years ago prompted me to put a Family tree together so hopefully sometime in the future he will know who he is
rather than ask, Where did my Family come from ?

Having very little data on my own Family, prior to my GrandParents who all came from Europe and still no wiser there, I decided to trace my Husbands Family as he always joked that he is related to the "Kings of Scotland" as he has two kingly names ,Malcolm & James

I have not related him to Royalty but have found a lot of people and places that are fascinating and make me wish I could have begun this many years ago .

I have become so addicted to Genealogy that I check Talking Scots before I check my E Mail!!!!

I think we need a" Genealogy Annonymus Society"

Happy hunting all,
Cheers.

[joette]

Oh Nelly what a breath of fresh Tassie air-I have found rellies there so
what a place hey?
I was saddened by your Great-Grandparents attitude & as the World is now it is more common than not that children belong to blended families.
I know a friend of mine who was adopted was missed out of the family tree & was totallty devastated & it took several years before she was back in touch with her family.Now she says she is the luckiest person as she has 1An Adoptive family-her "real family" as she sees it warts & all.With whom she grew up with & learnt her values from.
2-Her Birth Family including Birth Parents & Step-Parents & Grandparents of both varieties.She laughs when she sees something identical to her in them especially of the negative variety!
3-Her own children-her step,biological& adopted-in fact she often cannot remember which are which"accusing" one of her adopted children of causing the damage to her pelvic-floor because of her difficult birth"Oh no that was the year before wasn't it?"
I have brother-in-laws & a sister-in-law who are just like my blood.Where somebody came from doesn't matter it is their place in a family that counts & even some of my brothers friends call my Mum "Mum" because she just is a "Mum" has been all of her life.
So whether we grew on the tree or were grafted there we are all branches on the tree!
Say hi to the chooks!

[DavidWW]

.....snipped .........
My mother, the almost illegitimate twin, then grew up and - horrors - married a man of the Protestant faith whose entire family belonged to the Orange Order! Now my grandfather had managed, by that time, to get excommunicated from the chapel for kicking the priest out of the house. The reasons for this are an entire other story.

I'm sure that I echo the response of many other members in terms of great interest in hearing that other story

.....snipped ...........I know, I'm going on a bit, but I started to look for family I might have the chance to reconnect with and ended up discovering a history that has become a compulsion. There is so much more out there to find yet so I'll keep on looking.

"Going on" ?!, - not in the least, as everything you've written has been of great interest, not just to me, but I'm sure, to others !

.....The Lord only knows how I'm going to follow my late husbands family back - his (known) heritage reads like the United Nations!!!

Pray tell

David

[DavidWW]

Thankfully I think on the whole Scotland is now a lot more tolerant.

It has improved a lot. My two kids were both born in the early 70's and raised in England and didn't have to answer the fabled question "Are you a Billy or a Tim?" when moving to a new area. As I understand it, this question is still asked of newcomers in some parts, but certainly a lot less often the it used to be.

And then there was the infamous situation in N Lanarkshire only a decade or so ago, when applicants for council jobs were supplied with different coloured application forms depending on their religious affilliation - Go on!!, have a guess at the colours involved (honestly, this did really happen , and I'm uncertain how those of the Jewish and Moslem faiths were handled [-X )

David

[DavidWW]

i was interested as a child i remember at my parents wedding in 1984 that dads family was very funny. My mums family were always fighting with each other butsome families do have em.

I remember at the age of 7 or 8 (1984) that my grandfather came to visit us and he brought along my Great Great Grandfather William and my Great Great Grandmother Annie and they gave my father a family tree that was drawn up and i looked on it to my horror i wasnt on the tree but my youngest sister was. It turned out that cause i was not biologically my dads child i was not on there but he was my DADDY and so why wasnt i on there. Well i wasnt an Elliott but from 4 years old i was and thats what counted right NOT the case in my GGGgrandmothers eye i was not an Elliott. so i held a bit of grudge against her and we moved to Victoria from Convict Tasmania and settled there and met so many of dads side and spent a few years there when we returned to Tasmania and only to get teh phone call that GGgrandparents had passed away dad went to the funeral. Then i met my husband and we married after 12 years together doing everything backwards 2 roosters and a hen come along and we got married. In this time my mother inlaw haddone 20 years searching on her family and hubby an i sat down and i said to him wouldnt it be funny if we were related.

I got the old drawn up family tree i knew all the info was right i just wanted to make sure and lone and behold i find old rellosof hubbyson there and well i have been hooked for 7 years but for the last 3 years i call it my full time job as well as being a mum of a chook shed.

Most of our rellos are Tasmanian so i hope one day to have my Early Tasmanian all listed. Some of us are convict some are not.

Then i find out hubbys family camefromscotlandso im now herehopingtofindsome more info seeing as i live on the other side of the world.

Nellie

In a word "Wow!!"

David

[DavidWW]

How did I get started with the genealogy obsession.

My nephew was asking a lot of questions, and I knew I was becoming the oldest to ask !!

And my husband was watching a lot of football on TV.

Now I'm hooked.

Kathy

Hi "Paisley Buddy"

The things that football on TV is responsible for

Now that the Socceroos are eliminated, who is your husband supporting

David

[emanday]

.....snipped .........
My mother, the almost illegitimate twin, then grew up and - horrors - married a man of the Protestant faith whose entire family belonged to the Orange Order! Now my grandfather had managed, by that time, to get excommunicated from the chapel for kicking the priest out of the house. The reasons for this are an entire other story.

I'm sure that I echo the response of many other members in terms of great interest in hearing that other story

Well, he was a cabinetmaker by trade and a work accident where he lost his thumb meant that they went "on the Parish" for several months. Bearing in mind that there were five kids by that time, money was very tight so Granda couldn't pay the chapel "tithe". When the priest came to berate him about this, one of the comments he made was "Better to feed their souls than their bellies!". Suffice it to say that this not an advisable thing to say to a man who, to the day he died, worshipped his kids!! The priest was unfortunate enough to be at the top of a short flight of stairs at the time. Nuff said.

.....snipped ...........I know, I'm going on a bit, but I started to look for family I might have the chance to reconnect with and ended up discovering a history that has become a compulsion. There is so much more out there to find yet so I'll keep on looking.

"Going on" ?!, - not in the least, as everything you've written has been of great interest, not just to me, but I'm sure, to others !

Do you know the great thing about having TS to come to - no-one's eyes glaze over!! (I think)

.....The Lord only knows how I'm going to follow my late husbands family back - his (known) heritage reads like the United Nations!!!

Pray tell David

His father, birth certificate says he was born in Ankara, but he had always claimed he was born in England of immigrants from Malta. Since he worked in the British Consulate as a "Cultural Attache", had always held a British passport, we have decided he must have been a spy for our side and this was all a cover . His (my late husband's) mother had an Italian father and a Greek mother, spoke several languages, but preferred French (her English was in direct translation from French, which proved to be more often amusing than understandable). My husband by the way, was also born in Ankara, Turkey. I've found my husband's and his sister's births listed on GRO consulate records, but not the older brother's. No sign of their parents marriage yet.

I'll keep looking - they are out there somewhere

You did ask

[Kymbo]

I have just uploaded some more UNKNOWN photos, Anyone have any clues, times. eras etc

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... p?pos=-634
http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... p?pos=-635
http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... p?pos=-636

More family lines include

Anderson, Aitken, Bassett, Berrie, Black, Bryson, Caulfield, Eaton, Elborn, Garner, Mc Farlane, Nisbet all around Glasgow.


Thanks in advance

Kym

Gallery URLs added - AndrewP

[Jack]

Hi Kym,
According to the booklet "Photographers in Lanarkshire" by D. Richard Torrance.

Andrew Bowman, 74 Jamaica Street, Glasgow, 1868 to 1884.

So quite a large gap for your photies to have been taken, but the style of clothes worn may help narrow down the years.
Fashion expert needed!
Jack

[Anne H]

Hi Kym,

Great photo's...wish I had a few. Have you had a look at this site for dating old photo's. http://www.cartes.freeuk.com/time/date.htm

Regards,
Anne H