Researching your family history

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  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,501 Championing

    This is my great grandfather born 1866

    He was a one leg running champion and a fishmonger – he was also a leading light in the Royal Antediluvian Order Of Buffaloes (a type of freemasons) – he was married twice, the second time at age 70 to a 30 year old girl…..

    He also stood for MP in his town but lost narrowly

    Here he is with some of his running medals

    one leg racer.jpg
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,576 Championing

    Oh wow it's great doing ancestry

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 2,124 Championing

    Im on my heritage

    I love history and family tree

    I've Got mine back to the 2nd century

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,576 Championing

    Wow @Amberpearl that's really good

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 2,124 Championing

    I've always been interested in history and ancestry

    It's fascinating

    All seemed poor

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 5,369 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Brilliant picture @Wibbles, what an interesting chap!

    That's amazing you've got back so far @Amberpearl! The earliest I've got is down to about the 1600s. We have some difficult surnames in my family so it's hard to trace past that point. It's so fascinating to find out where your family comes from.

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 2,124 Championing

    It's absolutely fascinating stuff

    Yes I can't believe how far back I got

    I've got a lot of French Americans and Australian in my tree

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,576 Championing

    it's amazing how many people travelled the world and settled, my family started in Scotland then went down to Newcastle. A lot branched out to different countries

  • Wilshyboy
    Wilshyboy Online Community Member Posts: 259 Empowering

    I recently started looking into my family history. I found a website called "Find a Grave," which has pictures of gravestones throughout the country. If you have a name, a rough idea of the dates you're looking for, and a possible location, this may help some of you in your searches.

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,576 Championing

    Find a grave is also owned by ancestry if you have a sub

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