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Anyone else got any.? Yesterday I was telling the family about my research into my elusive ?Irish greatgrandmother . Sister starts making comments and I just told her how hard it is to find Irish relatives. She`s done no research but criticIises mine---this isn`t the first time she`s done it!---TYPICAL TEACHER CRITICISING WORK !!!! Ros

The ones that are critical about my research, are the ones that want a print out of the family tree post haste :)) They think it's soooo easy......not! And.... when I ask them what there hobbies are they shut up, cos they haven't got any :)) Heather x

No one really criticises but they are not as interested as me----and it hurts!!!! May be your Sister is jealous that you have the time and she doesn't.

My darling (not) brother-in-law told me that I should concentrate on the living and not the dead. This is a man who has alienated every member of my family and whose children barely speak to him. The reactions of my family range from very interested to bored out of their wits. Susan

Hi Ros not many in my family are interested but thats their loss i enjoy doing it so i blow rasberries at them now lol Rosex

If she knew how much time --every night-. , effort and money I put into research --but I love doing it. My mother disbelieves what I find too. Ros

HI ROS, I PUT UP A THREAD THE OTHER DAY ABOUT GETTING EXCITED, DID YOU READ IT, I SUGGESTED, WE PM, EACH OTHER TO SHARE OUR ENTHUSIASM. PIPS XX

Yes , but they still want to know ---not how did you get the info? Ros

PIPS --DIDN`T SEE THAT ONE, Ros xxxx

ROS, I HAVE NOT FOUND ANY IRISH RELATIVES, BUT WE THOUGHT WE MAY HAVE HAD SOME, SO WE DID MAKE AN ATTEMPT, BUT FOUND A LOT OF THE RECORDS WERE DESTROYED. WHAT DO YOU DO TO OVERCOME THIS, CAN YOU DO ANYTHING ? PIPS XX

Ros, my Mum often tells me that something I have found is not true. When I tell her that I have proved it she is still sceptical. Susan

PIPS --I PAID FOR AN IRISH SEARCH --ONLY £12.50 BUT SHE WASN`T FOUND ALTHOUGH A COUSIN OF MY MUM`S SAYS SHE WAS BORN IN CO. MAYO .BUT THERE`S SOMEONE WITH SAME NAME IN ENGLAND --DO THEY BELIEVE IT IS RIGHT PERSON --NO. I`LL PLOUGH ON TILL I GET TO THE BOTTOM OF IT, Ros xxx

Susan , my Mum always said her brother died of TB MENINGITIS. When I got death cert it said brain tumour . Mum says --not right --but he was blind in one eye,. I think tumours etc weren`t spoken about in 1930`s Ros

DITTO TO ALL THE ABOVE I GET OH PLEASE WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW THANKS, NOT INTERESTED HOW CAN YOU NOT BE INTERESTED IN HOW YOU GOT HERE AS MUCH AS THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND MY INTEREST FOR THE LIFE OF ME I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY ARE NOT AT ALL INTERESTED IN WHO MADE THEM WHO THEY ARE KIND REGARDS TO ALL LARA FROM AUST.

My father told me that his mother had ovarian cancer and that she caught pneumonia in hospital and died of that. When I received her death certificate it stated that she had benign fibroids that had been removed but unfortunately she developed a pelvic infection that eventually killed her. Dad wouldn't believe me, he said that the family knew what had really killed her not a bit of paper. Susan

When I found a living relative of a man who supposedly died unmarried, and that living relative sent me all the certs AND a wedding photograph, showing the 'dead' man getting married, with his brothers in attendance, the rest of the family said the man in the photo must have been PRETENDING to be the dead man, lol. My brother does very little towards the research although we are supposed to be sharing the cost and the work, but he picks holes in everything I find and does his level best to disprove anything I come up with. OC

I HAVE A RELATIVE, WHO HAS FOUND PARTNERS FOR MY SINGLE MOTHERS. MARRIED MY SINGLE MOTHER, GAVE HER A FAMIL AND HOME, WHEN SHE IS STILL AT HOME WITH PARENTS AND CHILD ON THE CENSUS. GAVE ME HER BANNS DATE, A DATE THAT IS BEFORE HER FATHER WAS EVEN BORN GIVEN MY SISTER A HUSBAND, WHEN SHE DOESN'T HAVE ONE. AND WANTS TO SUBMIT THIS. WHAT CAN WE DO ? PIPS XX

OC. --what a laugh -pretending to be a dead man LOL, Ros

i just tell them to butt out

KEITH I WOULD LIKE TO SOMETIMES BUT IT HAS TAUGHT ME SOMETHING CHECK EVERYTHING FOR YOURSELF. I HAVE, TO SOMEONE, WHO WAS GIVEN INFO., TO PASS ON TO ME, BUT DIDN'T, BUT WOULD RING ME EVRY WEEK TO SAY.' I HAVE FOUND....DID YOU KNOW THIS ?.............CARRIED ON UNTIL THEY WERE CAUGHT OUT BY THE DONATER. PIPS XX