General Chat

I think it's the fact that there isn't any written history Cazzles .......only archaeological and stuff written by the Romans decades later. The way they fought so hard against the Roman invasion .....they must have been a real formidable force. Also I am fascinated by the druids and the seers....... I do wonder what would've happened had they succeeded in repelling the Romans though. xx

As long as I didn't catch some manky disease or burned to the stake I would go back to medieval times and see what the area I live in was really like.

Benjamin, i have ancestors who are similar, only one line were what would be considered comfortable, the suffering was unimaginable,


Kaz, your G grandad was one of the many brave, when we think of war we forget the animals suffered, God Bless your ancestor for caring,


caz xx

I've made daisy chains with our youngest today too.............they are floating in a saucer of water:)

I would go back to 1818 in Cork Ireland and find out who my brick walls father was and why he was in Ireland.

Lesley, i have some mysteries in mine too, like why my greta nan left her family and my nana had to bring her siblings up

Muffy, is it the discoveries in the iron age that fascinate you/?Im similar about the vikings as I read families with duprens contracture have vikings origin and all the older males in mine have it,


Caz xx

I would go back to the night of 20 Oct 1966 and set fire to Pantglas school, Aberfan - so on the morning of the 21st all the kids would've trooped back home and not been killed.

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Whitby in the mid 1700's to see my ancestors and the ship's they owned and the house's and cottages as they were when they lived in them..although most as still standing today. Of course I'd be armed with pen and paper to take notes and a camcorder lol

Thanks for your replies, i was just making daisy chains with my youngest, going to read them now,


Caz xx

I think I'd end up doing a tour to numerous places. I remember finding these distant ancestors of mine on the census in 1901 - dad is 27, mum is 31 and they have two little girls, one aged 2 and a half and one aged 2 months, and the family - according to the census - was living in a two room house in Stamford. I wonder how they coped living like that (or maybe they were happy and it was bigger than it sounds?) and what their house looked like.

I think I would quite like to be in the Regency period - wigs had gone out of fashion and enormous crinolines etc were not yet popular so surely it would be easier to get around without worrying your hair would fall off or your dress would get stuck if you walked through a narrow door. It would also be much easier in an empire line dress to pick something up off the floor if you dropped it.

I also do like the idea of men courting women - I keep thinking of, in Pride and Prejudice, the way that Mr. Bingley asking Jane for two separate dances at one ball equalled serious interest. I think nowadays, with women's lib and equality and all the Bridget Jones-style dating theories, nobody really knows where they are and there are no formal boundaries about social behaviour any more. (I had a really irritating acquaintance at uni who was always pestering me to go to things and places I didn't want to go - the idea of "cutting" someone by returning their call with a card or not enquiring if they were at home or whatever other polite, coded way people used to deal with irritating people sounds good to me).

deffo ww1, just to see my grt. grandad, i was born on his birthday, but he'd passed away just before i was born............ he was in the war on the horses that pulled the big guns......... and he won the victory medal for digging the horses out of the mud........ my oh makes me laugh, says sure he wasnt hiddin under them................ lol so i would go back to take pics to prove what he did....
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Hi Cumbrian Caz

Yes it was tough for them. They lived in the building from 1882 to 1889.

Whilst there, one of the daughters recieved £3 in stolen money and was taken to court, the mum died a tragic infectious illness which killed her in 1886 and the father was a poor soap boiler and shoeblack, also reliant on poor relief. The Charles Booth Poverty Map of 1889 marks the area as a Poor area. It was in Holborn.

A few weeks ago I'd have said Victorian or Edwardian London........however just lately I have become very interested in all things Iron age so I think I'd nip back there to see for myself how things were. No good for family history I know but very good for my curiousity lol xx

for me Caz, it's probably both, I'd go to the end of my main line in the late 1700s and just see how they lived and see if they could tell me more about their family.

It's hard to choose just one line and just one time. There are probably more mysteries in that line (& others) that i would like to unravel but I'd just like to see the beauty of the place where they lived and see if it would be a life that I would choose myself.

hello caz

I am fascinated by that era it was before grandparents - and all my great grandparents were secretive yet they all lived near one another lol. I just would like to see them grow up and whack them for the things I know they are going to do.

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Gill

Bet that was tough for them Benjamin,


Caz xx

I'd go to the 1880s the the Victorian London tenement block to see how my ancestors lived there.

For our ancestors id go to the mid 1800s to Where i live now, Chesham, Bucks , Workington and the Isle of Man,


Caz xx

The Scottish accent may come in useful too lol

Thanks Caz.

Hi Sqwirrel and Sue,


Sue that sounds a very sensible idea, SK, is that a part of your line you are stuck on or one you are fascinated with?


Caz xx

I agree Skwirrel, I'd go to the places my ancestors lived. I'd go to see the Scottish ones I think.