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Back in the late 80s a friend & I decided we would spend the winter doing a nightschool class. We were a little late going to enrol so there were only 3 classes left with vacancies.
We didn´t fancy either Coastal Navigation or Creative Icing, so plumped for Tracing Your Family History.
Talk about addictive. We´re both still at it.

I have been researching my tree for 9 & 1/2 yrs now...I began when my last grandparent died...Oh how I wish I had started before as she could of told me alot about my paternal family....

Jules..

Since 2005 and my goodness what would I have done without the members of Genes. Elaine. :-D

I started in ernest sometime during June 2006 when my dads gave me his memoirs just before he died and since then I have spent so many hours on it sometimes 16hrs a day when I got a lead or ancestry was free ....

For awhile I lived and breathed it now ...it's just a hobby

I have been tracing my family tree on and off for nearly 20 years now.

I started after i found a name of an aunt that lived close by so i went looking for her and found her! That just made me curious about the rest of my family and things grew from there.

I was very lucky to get the pleasure of meeting my great grandfathers youngest sister who was 89 years young at the time i first met her.

I have found family in Canada and Australia! The journey continues!!

About 24 years but like to 'pad' out the names and have matched many with photos gathered up from various relatives. In exchange they received a copy of 'our' tree!

Today is my 52nd birthday - EEEEEK!

I wrote my first family tree enquiry when I was in my early teens. I didn't really do much more until my late 20's/early 30's after I got married. Then I used to use one of my week's leave to go over to Sutton Coldfield every day to the LDS Family History Centre. For several years at the same time I subscribed to the GRD - The National and Internation Genealogical Research Directory. Then the kids came along and I put it all away. Christmas 2007 or 8 I sat at the computer input a couple of names to see what came up under family history and here I am. I'd like to think that I'll progress slowly now rather than stop again.

Although I do create my tree on here, I'm happiest using pen and paper because I find it difficult to look at the computer screen for any length of time. I often cut and paste stuff and e-mail it to myself. I can look at printed pages no problem.

At the moment I'm going through all my notebooks transcribing individual family census entries into mini-trees. It really helps me to see the families much clearer.

xJ

happy birthday jillian :-D

I have been tracing my ancestors for about 5 years. I had always fancied doing it as mum and dad came from big families but I knew nothing about them as we moved from the area when I was aged 8/9. When I had mentioned it to mum when she was alive her reaction was 'what do you want to go delving into the past for' so I thought there must be a few cupboards of skeletons!!! I later found I had 56 first cousins, but only met 2 of them when I was little. The other reason was that I was interested was to see if certain family illnesses were inherited from any of my ancestors.

What Wend said struck a chord as I found Quakers on dad's side of the family in the 1700s and when I read about their beliefs I felt a real empathy with them.

I love it when I find a photo and hope lots more people take up FH so we can share photos.

me and my daughter was both doing the family tree
i was doning my side and she was doing her dads side so bothe tree mearge in to one and looks biger than it realy is

we started about 4/5 years ago now and it all sarted becouse of some think that i had heard when i was little i heard a family member say that my grandad isaac was a jew but we have not fant a line of them yet so im now thinking that. what i heard was not true

that will teach me for earwigging xx